So yesterday I posted on the newly arrived guidance examples for Prism 2.0, the Patterns and Practices guidance (announced here: http://blogs.msdn.com/blaine/archive/2009/03/25/vb-quickstarts-and-how-to-s-now-available-for-prism.aspx and her: http://blogs.msdn.com/bobbrum/archive/2009/03/24/composite-application-guidance-for-wpf-and-silverlight-now-in-vb-flavor.aspx)

The 2.0 version of Prism was an update which made changes to take the original WPF framework and provide best practices support for Silverlight. That guidance of course is associated with the Prism 2.0 which has an associated CodePlex site here: http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF/ The site not only provides valuable links associated with Prism but a forum for discussing specific issues.  

In addition to these new VB examples there is an update to the Silverlight Toolkit, the March 2009 release is enhanced with Visual Basic source code for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3. The Toolkit is a collection of controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle.

It includes full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for 18 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input, in addition to 11 professional themes. I’ve been assured that the team loves feedback so join the forums on Silverlight .NET and submit suggestions to their CodePlex site. 

Me I’m off to do a Silverlight addition to this site to demonstrate I can do some VB Silverlight… hopefully I’ll have it up and running in a few days.