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SilverlightShow Newsletter - Issue #2 (2010 April)



We would like to share with SilverlightShow community that CompletIT - the company behind SilverlightShow - has become Microsoft Featured Silverlight Partner for March 2010. We are happy to receive this recognition as a result from our Silverlight experience, and our continuous efforts to facilitate the adoption of Silverlight for line-of-business applications.

Two years ago we founded SilverlightShow to create a community where sharing of experience is welcome, appreciated and encouraged. We did our best to turn SilverlightShow into a portal offering only hot, high-quality content.

We would like to thank all of you for your contribution to making SilverlightShow one of the most popular portals for Silverlight resources. Without your active participation in the discussions, article and news authoring, SilverlightShow and CompletIT wouldn't have achieved their recognition and popularity. We will keep investing our efforts in making SilverlightShow portal better, even more content-rich, and of course - more Silverlight. Look forward to the portal's new Silverlight look!



MIX10 in Las Vegas has just ended. The reflections on the event and discussions on news announced there, however, will keep being a hot topic over the next few months.

What were the most impressive news announced, best lectures and demos, most useful social events - find out from SilverlightShow live reporter (and photographer) at the event Cigdem Patlak.

MIX10 Review >>


Andrej Tozon is the next Featured Author we would like to introduce to SilverlightShow community. Having authored 5 articles already, all on quite hot topics, Andrej is one of the most active contributors to posting quality content on SilverlightShow. Andrej's articles are fresh, entertaining, with provoking titles and colorful examples.

Meet Andrej >>


CompletIT has recently released its new corporate website, done entirely in Silverlight. What were the challenges faced by the management and development team - find out from CompletIT CTO and Development Lead on the project.

Read the Case Study >>


With Silverlight becoming a growing Line-Of- Business platform, it is increasingly being used to build data-driven business applications.
The new book Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook by Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx (expected to be released end of April) introduces the concepts needed to create data-rich business applications - from the creation of a Silverlight application, to displaying data in the Silverlight application and upgrading your existing applications to use Silverlight.
Learn more on the book in SilverlightShow new book section!

Exclusive to SilverlightShow community: order the book with 20% discount! Enter code SShow20Net at checkout. Shipping to USA, Europe, UK, some Asian countries is free.



Windows Phone 7 has been a hot topic ever since the announcements made at MIX10 in Vegas.

In his recent article Zoltan Arvai reviews how Push Notifications in Windows Phone 7 are used to simulate parallel-ish behavior.

Go to Article >>


The Silverlight Tour is a four-day intensive course on Silverlight 4. Through lessons, demonstrations and hands-on labs, you will learn and experience the ins and outs of design, development and server-side programming with Silverlight. The workshop covers Expression Blend and Visual Studio, architecting Silverlight solutions, communication with servers, creation of Dynamic XAML content and more.