In honor of today’s launch of Silverlight 3 and Blend 3 with Sketchflow, Lab49 has prepared some tutorials on Silverlight 3 and Blend3/SketchFlow.

UX: From Sketchflow to polished product
Ronald Lintag describes how to build a simple application, starting with Sketchflow through to a polished product.

Design time support for Prism-based Silverlight 3 applications
Scott Weinstein shows how when developing Prism applications and region controlled layouts, design-time views of the layouts are not available. By using a simple attached behavior, we show how to enable this much desired experience

Silverlight 3 – Pixel Shader Effects and 3D Projections:
Jeremy Kimball provides brief tour of the new visual special effects available with Silverlight 3, focusing primarily on 3D transformations using the PlaneProjection and new Pixel shader effects such as the Blur and DropShadow Effects.

Silverlight 3 – Easing made easier: Easing Functions Gallery
Kristie Weatherford shows how easing gives custom acceleration behaviors to animations that were less than straight-forward with Silverlight 2. The demo site is here. We put together a gallery that demonstrates the 11 new easing functions available with Silverlight 3.

Silverlight 3 – Out of the Browser:
Jeremy Kimball demonstrates one of the hot new features of Silverlight 3 is support for “Detached” or “Offline” operation, installing the application directly to the user’s desktop while retaining all of the security features of Silverlight. Converting an application to run in offline mode may seem daunting, but as long as you follow a few simple steps and adhere to a few restrictions, the transformation can be painless.

And more coming soon! Including…
Silverlight 3 and Prism
Design Time Data
State Transition Clarification
Prism / Dual Targeting
Importing Drawings

Stay tuned to http://www.lab49.com/insidethelab/tutorials for more updates.