Silverlight Cream for April 15, 2009 -- #571

In this Issue: Chris Anderson, Jesse Liberty, Al Pascual, and dzineblog.

Shoutout:

Shawn Wildermuth is doing an MSDN GeekSpeak on Silverlight 3: MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: What's New in Silverlight 3

From:

Chris Anderson has his latest LOB installment up at SilverlightShow. He's talking Design today and has lots of external links.

Jesse Liberty has a jump-start up for what he's now calling "ViKi"... or Video Wiki... this looks like it's going to be great fun!

Al Pascual has a quick post up on debugging Silverlight WebServices, in case you're in need:)

Speaking of design and links... I found this dzineblog post by way of Frank La Vigne, and looks like not only a good blog to follow, but they've got an awesome list of other blogs too!Twitter SilverlightNews | | | | | | | | | | |

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