SilverlightShow for 20-26 Dec 2010

Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for last week (20 - 26 Dec 2010).

The most popular news for last week is Ryan Alford's solution on handling an error in Silverlight 4 when using Entity Framework 4, followed by Jeremy Likness' video on building an RSS Feed Reader in Silverlight.

Here is SilverlightShow's weekly top 5:

Silverlight 4 - Productivity Power Tools and EF4
A Silverlight MVVM Feed Reader from Scratch in 30 Minutes
Resizable Grid Using Thumb Controls
A Simplified Grid Markup for Silverlight and WPF
Announcing the Winner of Telerik Silverlight controls in SilverlightShow Post-webinar Survey

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