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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

MIX 10: Silverlight 4 Business Applications

Wednesday, Mar 17 — Microsoft Weblogs

Another talk, another blog post. As you can see, my blog posts are like my babies? in the fact that they apparently take 9 ....

Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight

Wednesday, Mar 17 — John Papa

At MIX10 this week it was announced that you can develop Windows Phone 7 apps using Sil....

Two Silverlight TV Episodes on Silverlight for Windows Phone

Wednesday, Mar 17 — Mike Marsh

I sat down with John Papa to record two Silverlight for Windows Phone videos at MIX. Check them out: Silver....

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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.