This is the launch release of Blacklight.Silverlight. This release works for either Silverlight 2 RTW. The source code folder contains the following 3 projects:
- Blacklight.Silverlight.Controls: The main silverlight controls project.
- Blacklight.Silverlight.Demo: The showcase application.
- Blacklight.Sivlerlight.Web: The web project for hosting the demo application.

See the showcase here: http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/blacklight.silverlight/

Pre-requisites for Silverlight 2 RTW
To modify, compile and run the source code, you need Visual Studio 2008 + .NET 3.5 with the Siverlight 2 RTW tools and developer runtimes. You can get access to all the bits from here... http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/.

Using Blacklight with Expression Blend
To use the Blacklight controls in Blend, you need Blend 2 with SP1 installed. You can get these from the silverlight.net link above. Simply download the Binaries download, and add a reference to the Blacklight.Silverlight.Controls.dll in your Blend project.

CONTROLS AVAILABLE IN THIS RELEASE:

- AnimatedContentControl: a base class for content controls whos size and position can be animated using some helper methods.
(http://blogs.msdn.com/mgrayson/archive/2008/06/23/silverlight-2-samples-animating-controls.aspx)

- MediaPlayer: a simple media player I built for use on my blog.
(http://blogs.msdn.com/mgrayson/archive/2008/08/20/my-new-silverlight-media-player-for-my-blog.aspx)

- DragDockPanel / DragDockPanelHost: panel controls for creating a dashboard style layout.
(http://blogs.msdn.com/mgrayson/archive/2008/08/29/silverlight-2-samples-dragging-docking-expanding-panels-part-3.aspx)

- OuterGlowBorder: A border style control that draws an outer glow around the outside with properties to change the appearance.

- WebLink: A text block style control that underlines on hover, and navigates to a web Url.