Monthly News Digest @SilverlightZone - April 2011

Silverlight-Zone.com completed it's 4th month with a huge posts on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, XAML etc. This month was the best month for those technologies. During the MIX11 event in this month Microsoft released it's first beta of Silverlight 5. They also released the Async CTP for Silverlight and WP7 and many more.

In this post I am going to share the best picks of the month as well as top links of the week. In this month top visited post was from Michael Crump where he demonstrated creating his own website using Silverlight. In this week the post from Abhishek Baxi received a huge hit where he listed out all Windows Phone developer resources. He called it as "Mother of all Lists".

Read out the whole post to find out the top links of the month and the week.

Most Popular Posts of the Month

From the stat of SilverlightZone, here I am publishing the most popular 5 posts of April 2011. In this month top viewed posts are from Michael Crump, James Mundy, Jeremy Alles, Silverlight Team and Kunal Chowdhury. Here comes the list:

• Building a personal website using Silverlight by @mbcrump

  I’ve always believed that as a developer you should always have a hobby project going on. I think a hobby project needs to contain at least ...

• Tutorial: Detecting and Adapting For WP7 Light and Dark Theme - by James Mundy (@mendzapp)

  One of the issues that causes problems for many first time Windows Phone 7 developers ( that includes me) is the users ability to change the...

• When enough ViewModel is enough - by Jeremy Alles (@japf)

  In the last few years, we’ve seen the WPF and Silverlight community embracing the MVVM methodology. As one of the early adopters of MVVM (on...

• Silverlight 5 Beta – available now! - by Silverlight Team (@Silverlight)

  On 13th April at the MIX11 conference, Scott Guthrie announced the immediate availability of the Silverlight 5 Beta. The Beta is a major s...

• Silverlight 5 Beta scheduled to Release during MIX11 - by Kunal Chowdhury (@kunal2383)

  Microsoft officially announced the expected release time for the Silverlight 5 Beta. Yes, it will be available next week during MIX11. This ...

Most Popular Posts of the Week

Here comes the most popular 5 posts of the week. Top links are from Abhishek Baxi, John Papa, Michael Crump, Jesse Liberty, Jeff Prosise. Find the list of the top links below:

• Mother of All Lists: Windows Phone Developer Resources - by Abhishek Baxi (@baxiabhishek)

  Finding all the information a Windows Phone developer needs to make great apps and games just got easier! Development documentation and con...

• Silverlight 5 3D Housebuilder Project Shown at MIX11 - by John Papa (@john_papa)

  I presented this application during the MIX11 Day 2 keynote to demonstrate the new 3D features in Silverlight 5 along with a few other new S...

• Best of FREE Frameworks, Tools and Controls for Windows Phone 7 by @mbcrump

  The list provided below is my “Best-Of” FREE Frameworks, Tools and Controls for Windows Phone 7. I have used everything listed below in an m...

• What’s Coming In Mango–Reminders - by Jesse Liberty (@jesseliberty)

  One of the very cool features coming in Mango is Reminders, and more generally, scheduled tasks. This allows you to set up a reminder and ...

• Using Custom Markup Extensions in Silverlight 5 - by Jeff Prosise (@jprosise)

  The first beta of Silverlight 5 was announced at MIX this week and is available for downloading. As such, I’ll be blogging about the new fea...

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