SilverlightShow for Sept 26

Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for September 26 - October 02, 2011.

Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week:

The Top 10 Over-Engineering Mistakes in Silverlight Applications
Recording of yesterday's webinar 'WCF RIA POCO Domain Services' available online
Developers get MORE with Windows Phone 7.5
Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap
Silverlight 5 P-Invoke: Using Kinect SDK from Silverlight

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