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Silverlight 3 + Blend 3 on July 10!

Yep, it seems Microsoft has moved the launch to July 10 of this year.  What about a Release Candidate?

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/05/silverlight-3-and-expression-studio-3-launching-july-10.ars

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2912

Can I wrtie a WPF+Silverlight app?

"I believe the story is much better when it comes to writing a single application with both a Silverlight and a WPF face. It helps enormously that they share the same presentation philosophy, the same UI specification language (XAML), the same client-side execution model, and many of the same components." [more]

http://neverindoubtnet.blogspot.com/2009/05/can-i-write-wpfsilverlight-app.html

Controlling a character with mouse in SL

"Here’s a problem I had recently with a Silverlight game I’m developing. It’s a top-down 2D game, and I want the character to be controlled by the mouse, and I want it to be rotated to face the direction the mouse is moving." [more]

http://www.arguingwithmyself.com/archives/131-controlling-a-character-with-the-mouse-in-silverlight