SilverlightShow for Jan 10-16, 2011

Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for Jan 10-16, 2011.

The news on the upcoming two SilverlightShow webinars in February topped the weekly SilverlightShow news ranking. Dan Moyer's post on Visual Studio LightSwitch, just like SilverlightShow article series on LightSwitch, also got quite a lot of interest.

Here's SilverlightShow top 5 news for last week:

Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Querying and Updating Data From Silverlight Clients with WCF RIA Services
Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Building Line-of-business Applications with Silverlight and WCF Data Services
Why Visual Studio LightSwitch will be a Win
25% discount on all Microsoft books from Packt
How To: Gentle Animate A Magnify Effect

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