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10 New Additions in the Silverlight Showcase!

Wednesday, Mar 17

10 great additions have been added to the Silverlight Showcase. Sample the DiabloX Bing Search engine, try out the SilveOS - Silverlight based operatin....

Silverlight 4 Release Candidate and Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools!

Monday, Mar 15

A new release candidate of Silverlight 4 is now live along with updat....

New Additions in the Community Samples Gallery

Wednesday, Mar 03

Cool new Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 Beta samples have been added into the Community Samples Gallery! Check out the newest Silverlight 4 Beta samp....

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Blogs

Stepping outside the browser with Silverlight 4

Thursday, Mar 18 — Ashish Shetty

Thanks to all those who attended the talk "CL10 - Stepping outside the browser with Silverlight 4" at the Mix 2010 confe....

Two samples from today's MIX talk

Thursday, Mar 18 — Silverlight Web Services Team

Thanks to the folks who attended my talk at MIX 2010 today. As promised, I'm posting the two samples I showed. I'll post an update whe....

Confessions of a ListBox groupie [Using IValueConverter to create a grouped list of items simply and flexibly]

Thursday, Mar 18 — David Anson

A customer recently asked how to implement a simple "grou....

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Videos

Custom Window Chrome and Events

Presented by Tim Heuer (24:20)

Learn how to work with creating custom window 'chrome' for out-of-browser applications and integrate with new Window APIs when running out-of-browser.