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Laurent Bugnion about the #PDC08 Talk: Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and the Microsoft .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code, Developing for Microsoft Surface and the Keynote( Part 1, Part 2).

Peter Himschoot with a post about the the Future of C# (4.0) and the session of Anders Hejlsberg.

Mike Ormond shares his notes from the PDC08 session "ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap" by Scott Hunter.

While book signing at the PDC08 Laurence Moroney finds some time to blog about what's happening there and share the highlights with us . Check out his post called "Without Apps, there’d be Gaps" to learn more.

Karen Corby made a list of the Silverlight-focused PDC sessions.

Read original post by Saijo George at 1800PocketPC

In a recent case study where 2 Windows Phone developers implemented the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 and Google’s AdMob SDK on a 50/50 rotation to see which one provides a higher yield in their Windows Phone Game , Microsoft Advertising was the clear winner with 71% higher yield and produced greater overall Gross Revenue earnings and fill rate.

So will Flash 10.1 come with Windows Phone 7 out the gate? We're not holding our breath. But here's another idea why Adobe is now putting the above writing on their site: this is just Adobe continuing the public-spat with Apple by showing all the other mobile OSs that will be supporting Flash at some point.

Braulio Diez has posted a great SketchFlow Tutorial along with several useful videos on the same subject.

Sketchflow is a great tool for prototyping, that’s great for designers, but… for developers? of course !!!
In this article we are going to step through Sketchflow functionality from the point of view of a developer.
To check how Sketchflow works we will:

• Simulate the startup of simple project: a  local community web site, that will hold news / events / members plus and admin area.
• Insert video snippets in between the article to show how to perform certain operations using Sketchflow

Bilal Haidar explains the Silverlight error "The remote server returned an error: NotFound."

While working on a Silverlight application and you face such exception: "The remote server returned an error: NotFound." You should check this blog post: Silverlight and WCF Essentials - Fiddler.

Koen Zwikstra has posted the source code for his version of a Silverlight XPS viewer for Silverlight 2 and now you may download it and use it for whatever you want.

The ideal candidate for such exercise are data forms, where user can enter different kinds of information - text, numbers, check marks, etc. Imagine a scenario, where each data form field would be presented as a separate ListBox item… no matter of what data type that field is.