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At the beginning of the year the Silverlight team asked our MVP group to identify the individuals within their group have done a lot for Silverlight community and that they would consider worthy of being named an ‘MVP of the year’ award.

First to be clear, ALL of our MVPs are top notch and all have contributed significantly to the Silverlight community both professionally and personally. 

Each quarter, new MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) candidates are awarded.  January 2010 is the first awards of the year and so I present the new/moved/re-awarded Silverlight specific MVPs.

The Silverlight MVP community is notorious at sharing information through blogs and Twitter. [...]

You can follow the entire group using this link: www.twitter.com/john_papa/SilverlightMVP.

At the last MVP summit in March, some of us were informed that a new MVP expertise had been created for Silverlight. They asked a small number of existing MVPs with strong Silverlight competency (including yours truly) if they would agree to switch to that new expertise.

1. Introduction

In the previous part of the article I described how to create a simple analog clock in Silverlight using pattern oriented approach. It was focused not so much on Silverlight but on the object oriented programming. In that part I will focus your attention on the process of improving the view (the clock face), making it much better and user-friendly. I will look at little more advance topics such as creating gradient brushes, creating custom figures, making transformations and of course adding movement and interactivity with animations.

So let’s roll up our sleeves and set to work.

1. Introduction

I have been trying to get myself up to speed with the latest Microsoft technologies and more specially .NET 3.5,VS.NET 2008 and Silverlight/WPF. So rather than just ‘playing’ I have set myself a little application to write: a simple analog Silverlight clock. It is extremely simple application that I have been able to complete the first version of it just for few days (working only in my spare time, if I had any). The target of that article is to introduce some basic concepts of programming in Silverlight, such as: drawing simple elements, using styles, making simple transformation, as well as introducing some of the most important and powerful approaches in object oriented programming.

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