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Mashooo.com is proud to announce the first ever, world open, Silverlight game development contest.

It is an open "no holds barred" style competition, meaning that people from around the world are free to participate and there are no theme limitations. Just bring your talent and zest for Silverlight game development and show the world what you can do.

The third edition of "Silverlight: Write and Win!" contest ended and today is the judgment day. Our jury with members Adam Kinney, Chris Anderson, Dave Campbell, Emil Stoychev, Michael Sync, Shawn Wildermuth and Tim Heuer carefully read each article and nominated the winners.

And the winners are:

1st  Build an Image HotSpot Designer in Silverlight by Damon Payne

Damon will enjoy the Telerik Premium Collection for .NET, ComponentOne Studio For Silverlight, Divelements SandDock for Silverlight and $100 in Amazon Gift certificate.

2nd  The invisible Silverlight Application – The local DropDownList-Cache by Thomas Kirchmair

Thomas will take Telerik RadControls for Silverlight and WPF, Divelements SandDock for Silverlight and $100 in Amazon Gift certificate.

3rd  Custom Animations in Silverlight by Gozzo Smith

And Gozzo will receive Telerik RadControls for Silverlight, Divelements SandDock for Silverlight and $100 in Amazon Gift certificate.

Congratulations to the winners! and thanks to all participants for their cool articles.

In today's time of financial crisis, you have the chance to enjoy twice: 1st, by making your own cool Silverlight game and 2nd, by submit it to the Server Quest contest to win some cash.

And the prices are:

• First Place $5,000
• Second Place $3,500
• Third Place $1,500

You have more than 2 months left - the end date is 30 April, 2009, so take the latest Silverlight Tools and set your creativity free.

All the entries will be reviewed by a panel of judges and up to eighteen entries will be selected as finalists. Then, the finalists will be posted on-line where all silverlighters can rate them. Following the Voting Period, a judging committee will re-review all finalist entries and will select the three winners.

Unfortunately, only US citizens are eligible to participate.

See the official contest rules here and register here.

Adam Kinney just published the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of TCSWeekly. The videos cover a lot of wonderful stories, so make sure you'll watch them.

   TCSWeekly 004 - amazing visuals and one monster MVVM article

   TCSWeekly 005 - a UX Pattern Explorer and more Designer-ready content

   TCSWeekly 006 - Silverlight is fizzing along with Moonlight and Contests

Congratulations Adam!

The winter edition of "Silverlight: Write and Win!" Contest finished and now the jury with members Adam Kinney, Chris Anderson, Dave Campbell, Emil Stoychev, Michael Sync, Shawn Wildermuth and Tim Heuer has to decide who will take the great prizes. The results will be ready at the beginning of the next week, so be patient.

“Silverlight: Write and Win!” Christmas Edition contest is going to its end. Today is the last day to submit your application, control, game, library or tutorial. There are great prizes prepared for the three best articles and it will be a shame to miss your chance to win one of them. If you decide to participate be sure that you have read the contest submission guidelines. You may also check the so far submitted articles.

Note: This article is submitted by Pencho Popadiyn for Silverlight: Write and Win contest.Thanks a lot, Pencho! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.

1. Introduction

In the previous article I showed you how Silverlight and the Model – View – Presenter pattern (MVP) can interact with each other. Today I decided to move on ahead in the world of Object Oriented Programming and to present you another big player on scene – the Model – View – Controller (MVC) pattern. Actually the MVC is a MVP’s ancestor, and I think it must be studied first, but that is another topic. Before I start, I want to mention that the purpose of that article is not to compare both of the “brothers”, but to present you the world through the MVC eyes.

Note: This article is submitted by Chris Anderson for Silverlight: Write and Win contest. Thanks a lot, Chris! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.

“It is time to vote now! Please, choose your favorite articles and enter your vote by going to contest page. Thank you!„

Introduction

Silverlight is one of the major new technologies from Microsoft near release and will potentially have a huge impact on the Microsoft development community. Developers are rapidly looking to Silverlight to solve major challenges and limitations as posed by existing technologies (such as Windows Forms and ASP.NET). WPF uptake has been lukewarm at best, however the similarities it has with Silverlight could very well give it the kick it needs. Silverlight, after starting it's life with the code name of WPF/E (WPF Everywhere) has been some time in the making but the version we've all been waiting for (version 2, containing a subset of the .NET Framework allowing developers to write client side code in their favourite .NET language rather than just Javascript which was the only option in version 1 of Silverlight) is finally nearing completion.