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In this Issue: Bart Czernicki, Tim Greenfield, Andrea Boschin(-2-), AfricanGeek, Fredrik Normén, Ian Griffiths, Christian Schormann, Pete Brown, Jeff Handley, Brad Abrams, and Tim Heuer.

Shoutout:

At the beginning of MIX10, Brad Abrams reported Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW

From SilverlightCream.com:

Using the Bing Maps Silverlight control on the Windows Phone 7

Bart Czernicki has a very cool BingMaps and WP7 tutorial up... you're going to want to bookmark this one for sure! Code included and external links... thanks Bart!

Silverlight Rx DataClient within MVVM

Tim Greenfield has a great post up about Rx and MVVM with Silverlight 3. Lots of good insight into Rx and interesting code bits.

SilverVNC - a VNC Viewer with Silverlight 4.0 RC

Andrea Boschin digs into Silverlight 4 RC and it's full-trust on sockets and builds an implementation of RFB protocol... give it a try and give Andrea some feedback.

Chromeless Window for OOB applications in Silverlight 4.0 RC

Andrea Boschin also has a post up on investigating the OOB no-chrome features in SL4RC.

Windows Phone 7 and WCF

AfricanGeek has his latest video tutorial up and it's on WCF and WP7... I've got a feeling we're all going to have to get our arms around this.

Some steps for moving WCF RIA Services Preveiw to the RC version

Fredrik Normén details his steps in transitioning to the RC version of RIA Services.

Silverlight Business Apps: Module 8.5 - The Value of MEF with Silverlight

Ian Griffiths has a video tutorial up at Channel 9 on MEF and Silverlight, posted by John Papa

Introducing Blend 4 – For Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone

Christian Schormann has an early MIX10 post up about te new features in Expression Blend with regard to Silverlight, WPF, and WP7.

Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application

Pete Brown has his first post up on building a WP7 app with the MIX10 bits.

Lookups in DataGrid and DataForm with RIA Services

Jeff Handley elaborates on a post by someone else about using lookup data in the DataGrid and DataForm with RIA Services

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template

Brad Abrams is starting a series highlighting the key features of Silverlight 4 and RIA with the new releases. He has a post up Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Index, including links and source. Then in this first post of the series, he introduces the Business Application Template.

Custom Window Chrome and Events

Watch a tutorial video by Tim Heuer on creating custom chrome for OOB apps.

Stay in the 'Light!

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With a big dose of reality, I walked into this place this morning and found out "yeah, I really do write .NET web apps and MS Access for a living" :( ... but it pays the bills and I've gotten *way* used to eating 3 times a day :)

MIX10 was great, although the buzz didn't seem as big as MIX09, and I'm not sure why. It also seemed like a different crowd and other folks I talked to agreed with that.

Of course now I can outwardly admit that the "Windows Phone 7 Series" is programmed with Silverlight ... how cool is that? I've been biting my tongue about that info for over a month!

I cloistered myself in Ballroom A for the week, not counting the Keynotes. That's where the phone sessions were located. I tried to collect the full set, but ended up bailing on the last one because it was ending at the time that MIX10 was ending, and I hadn't spent a whole lot of time in 'The Commons'.

I met a bunch of folks I've blogged about, or exchanged email with, and that's always fun. Renewed associations with folks I only see once or twice a year and way too long a list and don't want to mention some and leave off others...

I did have an opportunity to meet Charles Petzold... wow that was interesting... I got into Windows development through Charles' Programming Windows 3.1 book 'back in the day' ... couldn't find anyone at Honeywell wanted to join my journey, so it was just me and 'Chuck' :) ... read every word of that book more than once... all marked up, tags sticking out of it. And now he's writing a WP7 book ... gotta get it: Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7 Series (DRAFT Preview)

I went through my Big List-o-Blogs^TM last night and it took over 2 hours because of all the new content since MIX10. I've got 90 posts tagged as of 9PM on 3/21. If everybody stopped right now, it would take me 9 days to push what I have now, so you'll have to be patient!

I had another event on Thursday that was *extremely* tiring, so I ended up staying over another night. I drove back into the strip on Friday morning to try to find a non-cheesy souvenir for my wife, and didn't find much. Then I went to Blueberry Hill restaurant for 3 eggs, 3 strips of bacon, and 3 awesome potato pancakes. Check them out if you have time! And then hit the road.

In case anyone is wondering, the 2-1/2 hour drive I took across Hoover Dam on Sunday afternoon only took 30 minutes on Friday afternoon... that was a more normal trip!

I thoroughly enjoyed the time I spent with everyone. Thanks to John Papa and his crew for the great Insider's party on Monday night... the Blues Brothers were a fun surprise and they did a good job! And the swag was great... thanks to all the contributors for a fun evening at their expense!

All I can say is stay tuned, go to live.visitmix.com/videos and watch everything, get the phone tools, start working... everything's different and everything's fun... jump in, it's all Silverlight!

Stay in the 'Light!

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