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Here's some particularly amazing Silverlight examples found in the blogosphere. Also, be sure to check out the Silverlight Galleries and the Learn page.

Examples

The Silverlight Showcase - Check out this collection of sites and demos on silverlight.net.
Lee Brimelow's Microbe example includes a Silverlight City and a Flash ball living and working together via JavaScript.
Tafiti is an unusual way of looking at search, built on Silverlight and Windows Live Search.
Silverlight 1.0 Particle Experiment - A nice particle web created with Silverlight 1.0. Good example of the animations you can create without the client CLR.
The Bubblemark Animation Test - Alexey Gavrilov's near comprehensive list of benchmarks based entirely on a group of bubbles bouncing in a 3-D room. Examples in both JavaScript and CLR.
Channel 8 uses Silverlight to show its videos.
WynApse Silverlight Examples and Samples has a massive list of sample code and clever controls and animations in Silverlight.
50 Silverlight Applications - Tim Sneath has listed out 50 different Silverlight Applications. Insane.
Ink Recognition and Silverlight: A nice sample built with Silverlight showing the ink pen recognition support within Silverlight to enable tablet or mouse-based Google searches using a Silverlight application. A very cool mashup.
Silverlight Spy Tool: Silverlight Spy is a small WinForms application capable of inspecting Silverlight 1.0 applications. You can use it to navigate the XAML objects of a running Silverlight application, trace out messages from the application, and debug the application more easily.
Online JavaScript Silverlight Design Tutorials: Jeff's Web site has a bunch of cool tutorials for Silverlight 1.0 that show off how to achieve nice design effects with Silverlight.
New Halo 3 Video using Silverlight: The new Halo 3 preview video was recently posted to the web using Silverlight 1.0 to build a custom viewer and stream a HD version of it. Click here for a lower resolution version if you are on a slow network.
Sudoku for Silverlight: David Anson built a cool online sample using Silverlight that helps you play the popular Sudoku game. Useful for both Sudoku addicts and developers wanting to learn Silverlight.
Font Embedding and RSS data in Silverlight: Tim Heuer shows how you can create your own font type and embed it within your Silverlight 1.0 application. His application retrieves dynamic content from an RSS feed and uses the custom font to display it. You can run the finished application on-line here All of the text here is dynamic, not a screenshot.
Silverlight Drag and Drop JavaScript Framework: Roberto Hernandez-Pou describes how to implement a drag-and-drop mechanism for Silverlight 1.0 using JavaScript. This article is in both Spanish and English. Scroll down if you are looking for the English version.
Pascal Support for Silverlight: RemObjects Software now has a project template for Visual Studio 2008 that enables you to write Silverlight 1.1 .NET applications using Pascal. It is wild to see a screenshot of FireFox on the Mac running a Silverlight application that was written with a Pascal code-behind file in Visual Studio 2008.
View Source Reflector Tool for .NET Silverlight Apps: Ernie Booth has created a great add-on for Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector Tool. Ernie's tool allows you to point at a Silverlight application on the Web and then "View Source" the source code to see how it is built. Very useful when checking out how samples work.
Silverlight Toolbar Example: A nice sample from Vivek that describes how to create an animated toolbar where the buttons expand when you hover over them. You might also want to check out the "Office UI Ribbon" sample here to see how to build a really cool toolbar within the browser.