Anyone that has been working with the standard set of controls for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has been exposed to the concept of template binding and how VisualStateManager (VSM) controls state.   In this example I will build a templated control  to learn how to use VSM, template binding and the ContentControl base class. 
The control [...]

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In my ongoing quest to work with Silverlight 2 I embarked on building my own video player using the standard MediaElement and a few of the new System Controls (ToggleButon, Slider and Button). My goal was to build a video player using no custom user controls, but instead leveraging controls styles and templates.  Here is [...]

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