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For anyone that is having trouble Peter Schotman of interApps has created a basic skin to help people understand skinning within the latest version of DotNetNuke 5.0. 

It is a basic skin from looking at the zip file.  It has the Manifest file for use with DNN 5.0 and contains two skin files and 4 containers within the setup file.

It does not make use of the new widgets in the skin files, but the files are ascx files and not the html/xml combination files that some people are used. It does give a good base for the Manifest file though.

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For anyone having trouble trying to find an SDK that they know Microsoft ships have a look at the following it may provide and answer for you in your search.

Microsoft SDKs

BlogEngine.NET has released a theme pack that is compatible with the version 1.4 and 1.4.5. 

The theme pack contains themes designed and created by the community, and they have been brought together as a downloadable theme pack.  Janko has compiled them together for the community to use.

Download the BlogEngine.NET theme pack here.