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In this Issue: John Papa, Tau Sick, Rudi Grobler, David Anson, Tim Heuer, Pete Brown, Jesse Liberty, Brandon Watson, Scott Guthrie, and Miro Miroslavov.

Above the Fold:

Shoutouts:

Crocus Girl posted this contest from SilverlightShow: Announcing SilverlightShow 5-day Windows Phone 7 Quiz!

John Papa posted the materials that went along with his OOB brown-bag last week: Silverlight Out of Browser Presentation at ONETUG

If you have a day to give up, there is a pair of live meetings coming up next week: Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Advanced Topics - Part 1 ... check out the agenda and see if it fits your requirements

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight TV: Building a Bing Web and Image Search App for Windows Phone 7 Using Blend and Silverlight

John Papa has Kirupa Chinnathambi with him on today's Silverlight TV discussion Expression Blend and building a Bing web and image search for WP7

Why multitasking is missing on Windows Phone 7

Tau Sick has a post up discussing WP7 and Multitasking, and why or why not it's a desireable thing to have. He also includes some other things people have wanted.

Obfuscating Silverlight

Rudi Grobler has a post up on Obfuscating your Silverlight code ... if you feel a need to do so, he demonstrates doing so with Dotfuscator.

Announcing the first release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit!

David Anson

of course went the way of the toolkit as well with demo of the controls... don't forget to read his section entitled "Helpful Hints for Hopeful Heroes"

Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

Tim Heuer went the way of the toolkit and has examples up of all the new controls ... too cool... again tons of links and lots of information.

Visual Studio Tools for Windows Phone 7

Pete Brown has breaking changes, info about what's in the toolkit that we've all requested, and links.

Announcing the Windows Phone 7 Release, WP7 Silverlight Toolkit and XNA 4.0!

Jesse Liberty discusses breaking changes from the beta, XNA 4.0 and the toolkit, plus links to everything.

Windows Phone Developer Tools Are Final

Next in no particular order is Brandon Watson with his announcement from the Windows Phone Developer Blog. No fancy screenshots or code here, but tons of information and external links to great stuff.

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Released

The next few posts are all about the release today of the final WP7 bits. Each of these authors brings their own 'flavor' to the announcement. Scott Guthrie, of course, is first up with lots of good information, cross links to some I have and a ton of external links as well.

5+ Ways to Reduce your .Xap Size

Miro Miroslavov posts on the Telerik blog about something like 7 or 8 ways to decrease your xap size... lots of good common-sense ideas in there.

Stay in the 'Light!

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