Usually behind the camera, Michael Scherotter sat down with Hip Hop icon Ice Cube before he was scheduled to perform at a free live concert streamed to his new UVNTV.com site using Silverlight for high-quality video. Michael asked Cube questions about the intersection of technology with music, hip-hop and celebrity. »

This video, from 352 Media's senior developer and resident Silverlight expert, explores the main features of Silverlight 2 beta 2. »

Adjusting images in video relative to each other is a task ideally suited to clipping masks. In this 30 second mini-demo, developer Justin Whitney shows you how easy it is to create a clipping mask for video using Microsoft's Expression Blend 2. »

Creating fading controls for Microsoft Silverlight is easy with Expression Design and Expression Blend 2. In part one of this 30 second mini-demo series, developer Justin Whitney walks us through how to get started by creating a XAML asset. »

In part two of this 30 second mini-demo series, developer Justin Whitney continues to walks us through the process of creating fading controls. This part looks at what it takes to create a timeline for the fade which determines how long the fade event will last. »

In part three of this 30 second mini-demo series, developer Justin Whitney continues to walks us through the process of creating fading controls. This part looks at how to create a fade in on the timeline. The process is the same for the fade out which normally happens at the end of a timeline. »

In the final part of this 30 second mini-demo series, developer Justin Whitney shows how to add an event to a fading control which allows a fade to happen on a particular mouse event. After watching this video you will have learned all the steps necessary to create a fading control for your Silverlight application. »