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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.

Good news! The term for "Silverlight: Write and Win!" contest will be prolonged till 14th of February. This is due to some letters we received from people who have learned about the contest too late and who really want to participate in it. Although we have more than three articles, which make the contest valid, we decided to give a chance to all of you who put a lot of efforts and for one reason or another will be too late. So you will have two more weeks to write an application, control, game, library, tutorial or anything else you find interesting and valuable. You will find the rules for the contest here. You may also check the so far submitted articles to get an idea what you have to do. Two weeks might be enough time to write what you want but you better start your project now. Don’t hesitate too much! We have great prizes that will surely help you in your future work with Silverlight. Good luck!

If you have any questions or just want to share with us your comments about the contest, please contact us.

Steve Commisso has an article on consuming RESTful Web Services in Silverlight. His post is an extension of Rob Bagby's series on RESTful services. This step-by-step might be really helpful to you so don’t miss it.

We are proud to announce that today, 16^th of December 2008 is the official start of the Christmas edition of “Silverlight: Write and Win!” contest for articles about Silverlight. Check out the contest’s rules, prizes and guidelines.
 

This contest aims to provoke people like you - geeks and fans, developers and designers, to show us what you've learned, what you've made, what you know. And all this will be shared with the community. Thus, we all make the Silverlight community stronger and active.

This time all the submittals will be judged by jury with members: Adam Kinney, Chris Anderson, Dave Campbell, Emil Stoychev, Michael Sync, Shawn Wildermuth and Tim Heuer.

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.

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

Overview

In this article we’ll be looking at the concept of adding interactive Silverlight elements to existing Web pages to provide added rich features. We’ll be looking at creating an animated Silverlight panel which will slide in from the side of the browser window when a button is clicked.

The somewhat tricky bit is that we want the panel to lie on top on the normal HTML content of the page and when when the Silverlight UI is slid out we want to be able to interact with the HTML instead.

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

Introduction

Silverlight and Flash have many similarities. Both are browser plug-ins that enables web developers to build richer internet applications. You can choose to have Silverlight or Flash occupy the entire screen and build all off the application, or you can have Silverlight or Flash embedded as small islands on your HTML page.

When you decide to include Silverlight or Flash on your page there are many scenarios where you may want to enable the application to interact with the rest of your page. You may want to read data from the HTML page, or update certain HTML elements at runtime. Perhaps you are gradually enhancing an existing web application and need to leverage existing JavaScript code running on the page. In these scenarios you need to leverage the browser integration model supported by Silverlight or Flash to communicate between your application and the hosting HTML page.

In this tutorial I’ll walk you through the basics of browser integration, and how you can make Silverlight and Flash talk to each. The tutorial starts off with some basic examples of browser integration in Flash and Silverlight, and move on to show how to enable webcam support in Silverlight using Flash.

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

Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) that allows users to add modules to their sites for great flexibility. These modules are typically written in PHP and use drupal's API to connect themselves with the framework. Silverlight (version 2.0 and greater) is a cross-platform browser plugin that allows users to write managed .NET code for the back end and use XAML as the front end. Since silverlight is a browser application and drupal is a framework for hosting data in browsers there can be data that is shared between the two using HTTP as the transport. In this example, I have chosen to use XML-RPC as drupal uses xml-rpc natively and silverlight can easily take advantage of this.