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The application ranked second is EcoLight! Its author Levente Mihály, who showed interactively the difficulty of generating power for each type of lights, gets a pass for MIX10 event, and Developer License for Telerik RadControls for Silverlight and WPF.

The winner in the Community Vote is Biodiversity 2010! The author Cigdem Patlak, who presented the value of diverse eco-systems in our life, gets a trip to MIX10 in Las Vegas, including pass and 3 nights stay at Mandalay Bay Hotel, and Developer License for Telerik RadControls for Silverlight.

All contest participants will receive a SilverlightShow Limited Edition t-shirt.

Congratulations to the winners! Expect interviews with them soon on SilverlightShow.net.

Thanks to our judges for helping us with this contest! Thanks to everyone who participated, voted and supported us in this contest! We'll keep posting on SilverlightShow.net more green initiatives, and even more challenging contests!

The Community Voting for SilverlightShow Eco Contest is over!

The judges are still discussing the Grand Prize winner and first runner-up! Stay tuned to find out who are the best two applications according to our 5-member judge team!

The winners from the Judge selection and Community vote will be announced on February 18th, 2010.

Hi Silverlighters,

We are proud to announce that Thomas Kirchmair has joined the team of authors writing for SilverlightShow.net. This means that you are going to see more often articles written by him. For those of you who are not familiar with Thomas' work, we have to mention that he won the second place in the Third edition of the Write and Win contest.

Thomas lives in Vienna (Austria), he is the owner of kir informatics and works as a freelance consultant, developer and trainer for Microsoft .NET technologies. Thomas holds several certifications like MCSD, MCTS, and MCT. He is known with his fascinating seminars and his free-spirited way of looking at and solving problems.

"Especially WPF and Silverlight are giving me now the possibilities I need for developing user interfaces the customer accepts in his first moment!"

Here is a list with all articles written by Thomas for SilverlightShow:

1. The invisible Silverlight Application – The local DropDownList-Cache – 2nd place Write and Win III
2. The Silverlight BlockText Control

His future articles are going to be on the following topics:

• SL 3 Beta 1 LOB-RIA Sample – DVD Movie Database – Part 1
• SL 3 Beta 1 LOB-RIA Sample – DVD Movie Database – Part 2
• SL 3 Beta 1 LOB-RIA Sample – DVD Movie Database – Part 3
• SL 3 Beta 1 LOB-RIA Sample – DVD Movie Database – Part 4
• Improving serverside Database search by local caching

Thomas, thank you once again for doing this and good luck with the articles. We know you will write them perfectly!

Sincerely Yours
SilverlightShow Team