Monthly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 28 February 2011

Today we have completed 2nd month of our activity in Silverlight-Zone.com and got a huge nos. of responses from the community. In two months we crossed 30K+ visitors count which is pretty good. Audiences are mainly from United States, India and United Kingdom, followed by France and Germany. I will appreciate everyone's contribution towards this blog to make it a great success.

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In the home page we are trying to keep 50 posts for your reference. If you want to view the other posts, you can find them in our "Daily News Headline at Silverlight-Zone" at the right column of each page. Here is a list of our last 5 days news headline link:

Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone 28 February 2011 27 February 2011 26 February 2011 25 February 2011 24 February 2011

Popular 10 Posts of the Month - February 2011

• MEF Silverlight Control Extensions - at CodePlex

  The Mef Silverlight Control Extensions gives you a declarative way of implement control importing using MEF. Inspired by a project created ...

• Free Books on Windows Phone 7 Development - by Joey Devilla

  If you find yourself looking longingly at the Windows Phone 7 books at your local bookstore but are short on money to buy them, here are fou...

• Free Silverlight controls – yes, you heard right - by John-Daniel Trask

  I’m really pleased to announce that our free Silverlight controls now are live on the site and you can grab them here. We actually made thes...

• MVVM Light V4 preview (BL0014) release notes - by Laurant Bugnion

  I just pushed to Codeplex an update to the MVVM Light source code. This is an early preview containing some of the features that I want to r...

• Silverlight 5, HTML5 and WPF - by James Ashley

  Last Thursday, Microsoft Evangelists Glen Gordon and Joe Healy held an all-day Silverlight firestarter in Atlanta. It was a great event and...

• Must Have Windows Phone 7 Toolkits - by Greg Duncan

  Windows Phone 7 has been getting a good bit of press in last couple weeks (to say the least). Given the recent announcements, there's a good...

• Splash Screen in Silverlight 4 - by Asim Sajjad

  In this post I will show you how to create the custom splash screen for your Silverlight application. You have seen many software which use ...

• Test INotifyPropertyChanged Pattern implementations - by Bruno Marques

  Today, I'll cover a well known topic: different implementations of the INotifyPropertyChanged interface (henceforth referred to as INPC). It...

• Windows Phone 7 Sockets and File System Libraries - by Jeremiah

  I never got a chance to write a blog post about it because my last blog got too painful to even use. Here are two libraries that will only ...

• How To Create Outlook Appointments from a LightSwitch Application - by @BethMassi

  Last post I showed how to create email in a couple different ways, one of them being from the LightSwitch UI on the client side that used CO...

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