OK, so not strictly a Microsoft announcement, but definitely of interest following the official release of Silverlight 2 last week.

SilverlightContrib is a collection of open source Silverlight controls and API enhancements. The CodePlex page is here. This latest release is Silverlight 2 compatible.

There is also a demo site showing off the controls. Our favourite is the Cool Menu

We don’t cover all the open source projects out there (there’s thousands) but we do like to promote some of them from time to time.