Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 27-November-2011 to 03-December-2011

Here is the post on Weekly News Digest at Silverlight-Zone.com. During the week (27th November 2011 to 3rd December 2011), we have submitted ~65 new article links collected from different blog feeds. The posts were on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch and WinRT Metro.

In this post, find the top 5 posts of the week, also sharing the most popular 5 posts of the month near to the end of the post. On regular basis, sharing the daily news digests links at the end. We had a news on the release of Silverlight 5, which didn’t happen last month. Read more to find out all the popular links.

Top 5 Posts of the Week

Here comes the top 5 posts of the week, viewed by a huge people. Top viewed posts are from PubSec, Mary Jo Foley, @ganshani, Visual Studio Team and Paul Thompson.

• AWESOME WP7 Power Tool - by PubSec

  This is an awesome tool for side-loading apps to the emulator/device. You absolutely will love it. It offers a lot more functionality than t...

   

• Microsoft: No Silverlight 5 release in November - by Mary Jo Foley

  Microsoft didn’t make its own deadline of releasing to the Web version 5 of Silverlight. And there’s still no word as to when and if the Sof...

   

• Silverlight Best Practices (Part 1 of 4) - by @ganshani

  I have been working on Designing and Development of Rich UI applications on Silverlight, and Windows Phone platforms and high performing app...

   

• First look at Windows Simulator - by Visual Studio Team

  Many friends of mine have been asking me what my team is working on these days. I finally have an opportunity to share with all of you the r...

   

• Why we’re switching from Flash to Silverlight…by Paul Thompson

  Change is always tricky. Not many of us like it, it can be unsettling, and most of us would prefer things to stay just as they are. Unfortun...

   

Post Popular Posts of the Month

Here is the list of very popular posts of the month. Top positions are occupied by Mike James, John Callaham, @identitymine, @debug_mode and Chris Love. The major topics were on “Future of Silverlight”. Read those here:

• Silverlight 5 - the end of the line - by Mike James

  Silverlight has been under threat for the past twelve months from at best FUD and at worst an attempt on its life. Version 5 is due to be re...

   

• Rumor: Microsoft to shut down Silverlight after version 5 - by John Callaham

  Microsoft has developed its Silverlight web browser plug-in software tool as a competitor to Adobe's Flash tools. But is Microsoft getting r...

   

• Is the Future of Silverlight Coming to an End? - by @identitymine

  A while back, I wrote a blog about Windows 8 and the Future of Silverlight, and today I would like to talk a little bit about the future of ...

   

• WP7 Video Tutorials - by @debug_mode

  Find Video series below and all articles on Windows Phone 7 here: - How to work with System Tray Progress Indicator in Windows Phone 7 ...

   

• The Death of Flash and Silverlight - by Chris Love

  This week there has been news that Silverlight 5 might just be the last version of the technology that never really seemed to get any real t...

   

Daily News Digests of the Week

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

• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 27th November 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 28th November 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 29th November 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 30th November 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 01st December 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 02nd December 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 03rd December 2011

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