Blogging while watching the Creating Rich, Dynamic User Interfaces with Silverlight 2 Controls. As I sit in my 2nd session of the day I have HI hopes for it to be a "Rim Rocker". Funny note all three of my sessions yesterday recommended going to this one today. They kept talking about Karen Corby.

Bio from her site - http://scorbs.com/work
"Karen Corby: the 8 sentence bio.
Born in Pusan, S. Korea. Flown to MN to meet Mom, Dad, & (eventually) little bro. Grew up in SoCal. Nicknamed scorbs by childhood pal. Studied at Stanford. Moved to Seattle to be a PM at MS. Likes travel, reading, hiking, philosophy, photography, and gossip magazines. Loves mac & cheese."

Talked briefly with her she in short is a "Big Brain" type of person.

Main topics and Random related notes: 

• Silverlight 2 USER CONTROLS (DataGrid, Button, Textbox out of the box)I can now build a website 
• Introduction to the Parts Model
• Sliverlight 2 has brought Styles & Templates to the client
• A Silverlight "page" is a UserControl in Silver 2
• Expressions Blend (beta) doesnt handeling skinning very well. Will do better when released.
• Expressions Blend (beta) does a good job now creating Custom User Controls (this is important for look & feel)
• Property triggers will not be implemented in Silverlight 2

 Please Check out Laurent's notes on this meeting they are very detailed:
http://geekswithblogs.net/lbugnion/archive/2008/03/06/mix08-session-creating-rich-dynamic-user-interfaces-with-silverlight-2.aspx