Beta 2 has been announced, and as you know from Tim’s post and Karen Corby’s, one of the big and wonderful additions to Beta 2 is a new model for skinning Silverlight controls.

This is so exciting, and so important, that my plan is to make it a central (but not quite exclusive) focus for the month of June.  The timing is good, because I just finished updating all the tutorials for Beta 2 (watch for them to be posted shortly after Beta 2 is available) and the one I did not update is #3 Styles and Templates. 

I chose not to update that one because the new model is so much better there was no point in fixing up a tutorial on typewriters when computers are about to land on your desk.

The Plan

During this month I’ll be releasing

• A new tutorial that covers Styles, Templates and the VSM in great detail
• How Do I videos on Styles, Templates, Visual State Manager, and tying it all together
• Multiple “digging deeper” blog posts and…
• June 18 - Round Buttons with Visual State Manager The first in my new series of Web casts unlike any I’ve tried before: much higher value, much more information, much more use of the medium.

This should just be a blast. 

So, sign up for the June 18 WebCast and don’t forget to join SLMicroBlog to be kept up to date.

Read the complete post at http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek/~3/304888708/visual-state-manager-month.aspx