Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 25-December-2011 to 31-December-2011

Here comes the “Weekly News Digest” of Silverlight-Zone.com during 25th December 2011 to 31st December 2011. During the week, we have submitted around 43 new posts to our portal by digging through the net.

In this post, find the popular 5 posts of the week, as well as popular 5 posts of the month. Also find the daily digest links at the end of the post.

We have also completed our 1 year today and the anniversary post is coming up shortly. Stay tuned to my blog for details.

Popular 5 Posts of the Week

Here comes the Popular 5 Posts of the week. In this week top ranked posts were from Matt Hidinger, Pieter De Rycke, @telerik, @mcnamaragio and @ColinEberhardt. Find the posts from them here:

• Real World WP7Dev Part 4: The Panorama - by Matt Hidinger

  This series is going to walk through building a polished, functioning Windows Phone app from start to finish. The app is called Realworld St...

   

• My Top Frameworks for WP7Dev - by Pieter De Rycke

  A couple of days ago, I have released the first version of my free open source WP7 application “Cloud Fox” to the windows phone market place...

   

• What's New in Telerik TeamPulse R3 2011 - by @telerik

  The final TeamPulse release for 2011 brings a number of great new features for people using TeamPulse to manage their Microsoft TFS projects...

   

• Silverlight slideshow with remote control & windows taskbar support - @mcnamaragio

  Native Extensions For Microsoft Silverlight is a collection of COM automation based runtime libraries and Silverlight libraries which allow ...

   

• A Metro Themed PowerPoint Template - by @ColinEberhardt

  Over the weekend I mentioned on Twitter that I had created a Metro-style PowerPoint template. There were a few requests to share, so hence t...

   

Most Popular Posts of the Month

It’s month end and hence adding the most popular posts of last month too. Here comes the popular posts of the month from @dotMorten, Major Nelson, Evan Hutnick, Mary Jo Foley and @ADefWebServer:

• Why Silverlight 5’s 3D is (almost) useless - by @dotMorten

  So Silverlight 5 finally hit the web this week, and there’s a lot of cool new features – some of which I’m very excited about, but probably ...

   

• Xbox Companion for WP7 coming December 6th - by Major Nelson

  If you read the press release put out earlier today, you probably saw the huge list of partners coming soon to Xbox 360 and may have missed ...

   

• Introducing Telerik Patterns & Practices for Silverlight and WPF - by Evan Hutnick

  If you’re like me and you enjoy reading developer controls documentation (who doesn’t?), you may have noticed a new addition to the online d...

   

• 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...

   

• An Advanced VisualStudio LightSwitch Application - by @ADefWebServer

  LightSwitch is a powerful application creator. However, at times you may need to have full control over the user interface, the program flow...

   

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 – 25th December 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 26th December 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 27th December 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 28th December 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 29th December 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 30th December 2011
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 31st December 2011

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