SilverlightShow for Dec 27-Jan 2, 2011

Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Dec 27-Jan 2, 2011.

The most visited news for last week is Mahesh Sabnis's post on how to use Prism in Silverlight 4. Among the top 5 news is also the announcement for SilverlightShow December Newsletter that you can now read online.

Here is SilverlightShow's weekly top 5:

Using Prism with Silverlight 4
"What's new in Silverlight 4 demo" app
Cinch - A Rich Full Featured WPF/SL MVVM Framework
SilverlightShow December Newsletter Now Online
Cracking a Microsoft contest or why Silverlight-WCF security is important

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