Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 02-October-2011 to 08-October-2011

Today posting the last week’s news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. During last week (2nd October 2011 to 8th October 2011), we have submitted ~76 news links in SilverlightZone on different topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and LightSwitch.

 

It’s our effort to share the already available good content to you. As usual, this post will cover the Popular 5 Posts of last week and link towards daily news digest for your reference. Share us your thoughts and views about Silverlight-Zone.com. We are eager to hear something from you. Your continuous support matters to help the community grow.

 

Most Popular 5 Posts of the Week

Here comes the top 5 posts of the week. Top viewed posts were from: @dotMorten, S. Somasegar, @LBugnion, @Telerik and Mihail Mateev. Here is the list of the posts:

• WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 7 - Making WebRequests - by @dotMorten

  In Silverlight and WPF you are probably used to using WebClient to perform downloads. This is a simple class for doing download/upload strin...

   

• Visual Studio 11 Programming Language Advances - by S Somasegar

  At the BUILD conference in September, we unveiled developer previews of Visual Studio 11, Expression Blend 5, Team Foundation Server 11, and...

   

• MVVM Light Toolkit for Windows 8 (preview) - by @LBugnion

  I was very optimistic when I first saw Metro style apps coded in C# on Windows 8, because for the most part they are not much different than...

   

• Expense Tracker - Google Gadget using Telerik Silverlight controls - by @Telerik

  Expense Tracker is a powerful Google Gadget which allows you to keep track of your expenses. No sign-in to a remote desktop is required, and...

   

• Creating Bing Maps Tile-Layers in WP7 - by Mihail Mateev

  A few months ago I read a wonderful article by Johannes Kebeck “Creating Bing Maps Tile-Layers from SQL Server 2008 on the Fly” and DataConn...

Daily New Headline of the Week

Here comes the links of Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone. If you missed them earlier, here are the links:

• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 2nd October 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 3rd October 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 4th October 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 5th October 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 6th October 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 7th October 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 8th October 2011

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