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In this Issue: Mark Monster, Colin Eberhardt, Andy Beaulieu, Stephen Price, Tim Heuer, Vibor Cipan, Koen Zwikstra, Jeff Prosise, Dan Wahlin, and David Poll.

Shoutouts:

I know I've congratulated a few of the new and re-awarded MVPs for January 1st, but Tim Heuer has the big list on his site, so I'll just give a link to Tim: January 2010 Silverlight MVPs

Jeff Blankenburg had a contest up on January 1st... obviously it's over, but it was fun to work through: Click The Button - The Contest

Jesse Liberty has a proof-of-concept video up: Video of the SLHVP First Release

Be sure to go to the MIX10 Open Call Entries site and vote... there are a LOT of the folks I aggregate entering that contest... good luck to everyone!

From SilverlightCream.com:

MeXperience – Step 1 – Idea + Prototype

Mark Monster has a post up about his idea for an interactive curricula vitae (that's resume to you)... so an idea, and a sketchflow prototype... let him know your thoughts.

My Mix10k entry - Old Skool demo - plus a few tips

Colin Eberhardt has his MIX10K entry up and is talking about the relaxed rules, what he's doing, and some times on squeezing your code into that space.

Using RIA Services Programmatically

Andy Beaulieu is discussing programmatically using WCF RIA Services and avoiding the whole DomainDataSource in the XAML thing.

DataGrid limitation

Stephen Price reports on a problem he had recently with the Silverlight DataGrid and attempting to display collections of collections. He's looking for opinions and suggestions.

RIA Services and relational data

Tim Heuer has a post up about a real-world example of a relational database and RIA Services. Read Tim's caution near the bottom, just above the link to download the sample.

WPF / Silverlight tutorial: Visibility property and binding

Vibor Cipan discusses and demonstrates binding to the Visibility property of UI elements, which works for both Silverlight and WPF.

Fonts and Silverlight

Koen Zwikstra is talking Fonts in his latest post, and who better than someone building a Document system in Silverlight? And when I say he's talking fonts, I mean all different types as in True Type, Open TYpe, etc. then font collections and obfuscated fonts and on and on... good stuff, Koen!

Silverlight 4's New Managed Extensibility Framework

Jeff Prosise has up a post on Silverlight 4B and MEF, and is discussing a downloadable project for "MEFDemo" that is an extensible Silverlight 4 image editor ... here's MEF put to use in a project in you can grab.

Using Autofac as an IoC Container in Silverlight Applications

Dan Wahlin has a post up discussion Dependency injection and demonstrating how it can save some problems for you, and is specifically using Autofac.

Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Authentication/Authorization in an INavigationContentLoader

David Poll has a post up in his series he's doing on INavigationContentLoader and is protecting access to pages based on the credentials of the user logged in.

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