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In this Issue: Joseph Cooney, Matthias Shapiro, Ramani Sandeep, Andy Wigley(-2-), Chris Rouw, Michael Washington, Brian Noyes, Roger Peters, Sergey Barskiy, Timmy Kokke, and Phil Middlemiss.

Shoutout:

Koen Zwikstra announced Document Toolkit 2 Beta 2 available

Rob Eisenberg announced Caliburn v1.1 Released!

I missed this post by Andy Wigley of his material from TechEd: Programming Silverlight for Windows Embedded from .NET

I hope you didn't miss the release of the Silverlight PivotViewer Control today! Various posts have appeared about it. I'm going to list the first three that I saw... Pete Brown: Introducing the PivotViewer Control for Silverlight, Barak Cohen: Microsoft Silverlight PivotViewer is available, Data Visualization will never look the same, and Larry Larsen at Channel 9: Silverlight PivotViewer Now Available

Karsten Januszewski announced the a release: The Archivist Is Live!... gotta read it... this is tweetful :)

It appears that more congratulations are in order for the Telerik folks: Telerik Wins Microsoft Partner of the Year for Central and Eastern Europe

From SilverlightCream.com:

Virtualizing TreeView for Silverlight, with Diagrams

Joseph Cooney has a Silvelright post up on the LearnWPF.com site that discusses a Silverlight TreeView control based on the Silverlight ListBox that doesn't have the virtualization issues the other does.

Using WrapPanel and DockPanel in Windows Phone 7 With Blend

Would you like a WrapPanel or DockPanel in your WP7 app but don't want the 140K hit? Check out what Matthias Shapiro has provided... a light-weight solution for all of us :)

Code Interaction in Silverlight

Ramani Sandeep has a post up describing how to call back and forth from JS to Silverlight. If you're looking for some good examples... these should fit the bill.

Perst - a database for Windows Phone 7 Silverlight - Part 2

Looks like I completely missed part 2 of the Perst series by Andy Wigley. In this one, he shows how to program against the database. I'm sure we're all going to be familiar with that soon :)

Programming Silverlight for Windows Embedded from .NET – Part 2

I have a shoutout above by Andy Wigley that's his material from TechEd on this subject, and here's part 2 of his series on the Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools (WEST).

Using Silverlight in a User Control

My friend Chris Rouw planned on using Silverlight inside a plain ol' ascx user control, but hit a couple snags. Read what he figured out.

An ADO.NET Entity Framework / WCF 4.0 Version Of Silverlight CRUD

Michael Washington dug into EF/WCF and reworked a prior post using it. He reflects on the merits and benefits of having done so.

WCF RIA Services Part 3: Updating Data

Brian Noyes has part 3 of his RIA Services tutorial series posted at SilverlightShow. In this one, he starts off discussing Expression Trees and then gets into updating data... I think this tutorial may resolve a problem a friend of mine is having.

June's Grab Bag of Fun

Roger Peters AKA SmartyP has a 'grab bag' of stuff in this post... some WP7 landscape and yes folks it looks like a real phone to me too. He also has some VSM goodness tucked away about halfway down ... you can do it, just push scroll and get past that phone, ok?

First Stab at Reactive Framework

Sergey Barskiy is taking a look at Rx and reporting to all of us how it's going. He includes his code and also a good external link.

Custom Window Chrome

Timmy Kokke is discussing custom chrome for Silverlight 4 OOB apps... and he's discussing this in view of his SilverAmp project.

A Chrome and Glass Theme- Part 8

Phil Middlemiss continues his tour de force of building an awesome theme in Expression Blend with this tutorial on Radio Buttons.

Stay in the 'Light!

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