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           &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/geekswithblogs/lswS"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.silverlightcream.com/images/RSSImage.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;  &lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;Above the Fold:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" border="0"&gt;    &lt;tbody&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td style="font-weight:bold"&gt;Silverlight:&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;"FlickR Searching with Silverlight &amp;amp; Rx" &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="#20110811Mike Taulty"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mike Taulty&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td style="font-weight:bold"&gt;WP7:&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;"New Video – Windows Phone 7 Guide – Part 7 – Unlock apps in a locked emulator" &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="#20110811Den Delimarsky"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Den Delimarsky&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;   &lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;Shoutouts:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Michael Palermo&lt;/b&gt; has the latest up: &lt;a href="http://slnews.me/pspCgR"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Desert Mountain Developers for August 11&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;  &lt;b&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.silverlightcream.com"&gt;&lt;u&gt;SilverlightCream.com&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;dl&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110811Mike Taulty"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2011/08/11/flickr-searching-with-silverlight-amp-rx.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8543"&gt;&lt;u&gt;FlickR Searching with Silverlight &amp;amp; Rx &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mike Taulty&lt;/b&gt; posted a live demo and write-up on a FlickR search app he did in Silverlight using Rx&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110811Derik Whittaker"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2011/08/04/hey-why-is-my-viewmodellocator-not-being-called-when-creating-a-view.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8542"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Hey, why is my ViewModelLocator not being called when creating a view? &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;             &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Derik Whittaker&lt;/b&gt;'s latest post is on an error he picked up where his ViewModelLocator wasn't being called, and what was the culprit to this issue&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110811Den Delimarsky"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://dennisdel.com/?p=982" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8541"&gt;&lt;u&gt;New Video – Windows Phone 7 Guide – Part 7 – Unlock apps in a locked emulator&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Den Delimarsky&lt;/b&gt; backs up a post he had on this topic with a video demonstrating how to access system applications inside a locked emulator image&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110811Oscar Agreda"&gt;                 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://oscaragreda.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/template/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8540"&gt;&lt;u&gt;CodeSmith XAML Templates&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Oscar Agreda&lt;/b&gt; has a video tutorial up on producing some of your XAML from CodeSmith templates, including the templates he's using&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110811Morten Nielsen"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.sharpgis.net/post/2011/08/04/WPF-vs-Silverlight-Part-6-DebugWriteLine.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8538"&gt;&lt;u&gt;WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 6 - Debug.WriteLine&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;Continuing with &lt;b&gt;Morten Nielsen&lt;/b&gt;'s WPF vs Silverlight postings, this one is on the difference in doing Diagnostic WriteLine's between the two&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110811Morten Nielsen2"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.sharpgis.net/post/2011/08/04/WPF-vs-Silverlight-Part-7-Case-sensitivity.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8539"&gt;&lt;u&gt;WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 7 - Case sensitivity&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;In his next comparison, &lt;b&gt;Morten Nielsen&lt;/b&gt; is looking at the case sensitivity in XAML.&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay in the 'Light!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/SilverlightNews"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Twitter SilverlightNews&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/WynApse"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Twitter WynApse&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" /&gt;Silverlight  3&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/silverlight-4"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=silverlight-4" style="border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" /&gt;Silverlight 4&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/windowsphone"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=windowsphone" style="border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" /&gt;Windows  Phone&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/MIX10"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=MIX10" style="border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" /&gt;MIX10&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src="http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/aggbug/146503.aspx" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</description>      <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Campbell</creator>      <guid>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/11/146503.aspx</guid>      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:59:16 GMT</pubDate>      <comment xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/comments/146503.aspx</comment>      <comments>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/11/146503.aspx#feedback</comments>      <commentRss xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/comments/commentRss/146503.aspx</commentRss>      <ping xmlns="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/services/trackbacks/146503.aspx</ping>    </item>    <item>      <title>FlickR Searching with Silverlight &amp; Rx</title>      <link>http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2011/08/11/flickr-searching-with-silverlight-amp-rx.aspx</link>      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:28:40 GMT</pubDate>      <guid isPermaLink="false">c62f47b3-9054-4265-9c0c-549d811810c2:13979</guid>      <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">mtaulty</creator>      <comments xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">0</comments>      <wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=13979</wfw:commentRss>      <wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/commentapi.aspx?PostID=13979</wfw:comment>      <comments>http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2011/08/11/flickr-searching-with-silverlight-amp-rx.aspx#comments</comments>      <description>This one was just a side-product of something else that I was toying with but I’d made this little Silverlight screen that let me search FlickR; which you can run by clicking on the image above if you like ( it’s not too polished ) but I used the Reactive Extensions...(&lt;a href="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2011/08/11/flickr-searching-with-silverlight-amp-rx.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=13979" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description>      <category domain="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/tags/.NET/default.aspx">.NET</category>      <category domain="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/tags/C_2300_/default.aspx">C#</category>      <category domain="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/tags/Silverlight/default.aspx">Silverlight</category>      <category domain="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/tags/VisualStudio/default.aspx">VisualStudio</category>      <category domain="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/tags/Rx/default.aspx">Rx</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>I Get NuGet. You Get NuGet?</title>      <link>http://feeds.jeffhandley.com/~r/JeffHandley/~3/XW3DzAJH_0A/IGetNuGet-YouGetNuGet.aspx</link>      <description>&lt;h5&gt;Hello, my name is Jeff, and I am addicted to NuGet.&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I firmly believe NuGet is one of the best things to come out of Microsoft in a long time, or maybe ever.  NuGet has already transformed the way the RIA Services team releases software.  Now it’s starting to change the way we build our features.  I can envision lots of clever ways to utilize NuGet, but before going crazy, I want a sanity check.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;tl;dr: Should we go hog-wild with NuGet, or should we keep our focus on the MSI?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Releasing Software&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Starting at MIX11, the RIA Services team published a set of NuGet packages.  These packages contained features that have traditionally been included in our RiaServicesToolkit.msi, but NuGet allows us to break the single Toolkit up into several distinct pieces.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuget.org/List/Packages/RIAServices.Endpoints"&gt;RIAServices.Endpoints&lt;/a&gt; - Includes the SOAP and JSON endpoints &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuget.org/List/Packages/RIAServices.jQuery"&gt;RIAServices.jQuery&lt;/a&gt; - Includes the preview for our JavaScript/jQuery client &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuget.org/List/Packages/RIAServices.ViewModel"&gt;RIAServices.ViewModel&lt;/a&gt; - Silverlight ViewModel (MVVM) features &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuget.org/List/Packages/RIAServices.T4"&gt;RIAServices.T4&lt;/a&gt; - T4 Code Generation &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuget.org/List/Packages/RIAServices.WindowsAzure"&gt;RIAServices.WindowsAzure&lt;/a&gt; - TableDomainService for Windows Azure Table Storage support &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuget.org/List/Packages/RIAServices.EntityFramework"&gt;RIAServices.EntityFramework&lt;/a&gt; - DbDomainService for EntityFramework 4.1 support (including EF Code First)       &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;li&gt;Note - the EntityFramework June 2011 CTP is NOT supported&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;/ul&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuget.org/List/Packages/RIAServices.Toolkit.All"&gt;RIAServices.Toolkit.All&lt;/a&gt; - Includes all of the above NuGet packages except ViewModel - as that's the only Silverlight-targeted package and including it was causing problems for folks trying to apply the Toolkit.All package to a .NET project.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;All of these features can still be found in the RiaServicesToolkit.msi, in case you’d prefer to go that route.  The Toolkit MSI still contains a couple of features not available via NuGet.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Linq to Sql support (LinqToSqlDomainService) - This feature requires the addition of a registry key in order for the Domain Service Wizard (Add New Item… Domain Service) to recognize a Linq to Sql DataContext.  If there is demand for adding a NuGet package for this, we could do it and add the registry key using an Install.ps1 script, but I’d feel awfully dirty doing that. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;ASP.NET DomainDataSource and DomainValidator - These features require VS integration through design-time components, and there presently isn’t a good way to install these bits through NuGet.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;When we introduced the NuGet packages, we planned on always keeping the RiaServicesToolkit.msi and the NuGet packages in sync.  Needless to say this costs us extra time, but it allows developers to either install the MSI and get all of the Toolkit bits or reference the NuGet packages and get only the pieces they need.  We broke this rule when we introduced Entity Framework Code-First support though&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.  We first published RIAServices.EntityFramework as a NuGet package, without also updating the Toolkit.  That happened because we had other code in flux in the Toolkit that wasn’t ready to ship, but we wanted to get the EF Code First support out as soon as possible.  It was a piece of cake to publish one feature without having to publish everything.  For the August 2011 drop, we added that new feature into the Toolkit and refreshed everything.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1 &lt;/sup&gt;It was telling to me that the 2nd time publishing NuGet packages, we broke our rule of keeping them in sync with the MSI because shipping via NuGet was easier.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Building Features&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As we started building out RIA/JS, we targeted NuGet from the get-go.  Our RIAServices.jQuery package depends on jQuery, which allows our scripts to rely on jQuery without us having to ship jQuery or instruct developers on how to get it.  This is a brilliant (yet subtle) benefit.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The team is currently working on some new features that are all being factored for NuGet packages.  We could very well have put the features into existing assemblies in the Toolkit and refreshed the MSI.  Instead, we’re introducing new assemblies so that we can wrap NuGet packages around them and ship them standalone&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.  The MSI suffers a bit because it now has extra assemblies to include, and that means you add more references.  But it also gives us flexibility to release features individually, rather than waiting months for other (perhaps unrelated) features to be ready.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2 &lt;/sup&gt;We used to &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; hesitate when creating new assemblies.  Now it’s starting to feel like the default approach.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;I Get NuGet&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Especially with the RIA/JS work we’re doing, we’re thinking of using NuGet quite a bit.  Here are some ideas for how we could leverage this new tool.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Samples.&lt;/strong&gt;  I love how there’s an EntityFramework package and an EntityFramework.Sample package.  We can use this same approach for demonstrating how to use RIA Services with EF Code First and how to build an HTML/JavaScript client on top of your Domain Services.      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opt-In Features.&lt;/strong&gt; We’re already doing this with the RIAServices.T4 package.  When you want to turn and use a feature in your application, you just reference another package and everything gets set up for you.  Another example where we’re already doing this is with the RIAServices.Endpoints and RIAServices.jQuery packages.  RIAServices.Endpoints modifies your web.config to turn on the JSON and SOAP endpoints, and RIAServices.jQuery updates the JSON endpoint registration to transmit metadata.      &lt;br /&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;I can imagine breaking our product and toolkit up further than we have today. When we introduced Complex Type support in SP1, we were fearful that some applications might inadvertently get opted in to the feature when you expected the types to be excluded. Imagine a world where every new feature is opt-in by way of a NuGet package. We could stop worrying about accidentally breaking people when we add features that are on by default.      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tooling.&lt;/strong&gt;  RIAServices.EntityFramework added EF Code-First support at runtime, but it doesn’t have Domain Service Wizard support.  Soon after we published this package, &lt;a href="http://larud.net/blog/"&gt;Rudi Larno&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/rlarno"&gt;@rlarno&lt;/a&gt;) cranked out another package that added &lt;a href="http://larud.net/Blog/archive/2011/07/04/simple-wcf-ria-services-ef-4-1-scaffolding.aspx"&gt;scaffolding for your domain services&lt;/a&gt;.  What if the NuGet PowerShell command window became the primary way to do iterative development with RIA Services?&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I could go on and on with specifics, but those themes give you an idea of where I can see things going.  But this is where I want to stop and as you, am I taking this too far?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;You Get NuGet?&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Here are some specific questions I’d love to hear answers to.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Do you like having the WCF RIA Services Toolkit MSI, or could we dump it and just ship Toolkit features exclusively on NuGet?&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Should we start limiting what goes into the “product” MSI (RiaServices.msi) and favor NuGet packages for new product features?&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;What quality level do you expect from NuGet packages?&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;How would you like to see us differentiate preview-quality packages from fully baked packages?&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Do you prefer granular packages or monolithic ones, or a combination of the two?&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Is the PowerShell console a blocker for you? (Do you prefer windows and buttons in VS, or is a text-based console acceptable?)&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;What do you think of using NuGet for (temporarily) adding sample code to you project to help you learn a product or feature?&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;How do you know what NuGet packages to look for?  Do you already know the package exists, or are you searching NuGet for neat new things?&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Do you expect some package mash-ups to conflict and cause you pain, or do you expect every NuGet package to interact with every other NuGet package seamlessly?&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If you tell me I’m taking NuGet too far, then I won’t really accuse of you not getting NuGet.  Maybe I’m off my rocker.  That’s why I’m asking you.  Should we fully embrace NuGet and find clever ways to use it, or should we keep our focus on the MSI?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a4c3c35a-56d9-4db4-93de-1069957e18c0" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/RIAServices" rel="tag"&gt;RIAServices&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NuGet" rel="tag"&gt;NuGet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://jeffhandley.com/aggbug/273.aspx" width="1" height="1" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JeffHandley/~4/XW3DzAJH_0A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>      <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jeff Handley</creator>      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://jeffhandley.com/archive/2011/08/11/IGetNuGet-YouGetNuGet.aspx</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:28:25 GMT</pubDate>      <comments>http://jeffhandley.com/archive/2011/08/11/IGetNuGet-YouGetNuGet.aspx#feedback</comments>      <comments xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">15</comments>      <commentRss xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://jeffhandley.com/comments/commentRss/273.aspx</commentRss>      <origLink xmlns="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0">http://jeffhandley.com/archive/2011/08/11/IGetNuGet-YouGetNuGet.aspx</origLink>    </item>    <item>      <title>LinkedIn&amp;ndash;Time to Check Your Settings</title>      <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Yack</creator>      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:46:41 +0000</pubDate>      <link>http://blog.davidyack.com/journal/2011/8/11/linkedinndashtime-to-check-your-settings.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="false">154714:1437668:12481466</guid>      <description><![CDATA[<p>I’ve always in the past thought LinkedIn was a pretty stand up company, however recently some of their actions make you go hmmm…&#160; I came across this <a href="http://brandimpact.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/a-box-you-want-to-uncheck-on-linkedin/">post</a> talking about how LinkedIn now has options for if your picture can be used in advertising and e-mail preferences allow unsolicited e-mail from 3rd party.&#160; I thought for sure the post had to be wrong, I’ve always thought of LinkedIn as being above those games, but sure enough the post was accurate and my profile was enabled without my permission.&#160; So go now, and check your settings the post <a href="http://brandimpact.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/a-box-you-want-to-uncheck-on-linkedin/">here</a> has details on how to do it.</p>  <p>I’ve used Linked In’s premium service off and on before – in the past it used to be easy to shutoff if you decided you didn’t need it for a while.&#160; This last round after a few months of paying for it and not using it, I decided to turn it off again.&#160; They make it easy to charge your card for services, but there is no link to easily request it to be turned off that I could find.&#160; Ironically, I took advantage of the service to e-mail the Linked In CEO, who by morning made sure it got turned off.</p>  <p>Don’t get me wrong, I think Linked In has incredible value and if you aren’t on it, as long as they don’t keep playing games you should be there.&#160; Hey Linked In, I’m not sure who’s making these decisions, but clean up your act!</p>  <p>Update 8/11 – Linked In Posted the following to their blog in response to the reaction of the community of the changes - <a title="http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/08/11/social-ads-update/" href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/08/11/social-ads-update/">http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/08/11/social-ads-update/</a></p>]]></description>      <commentRss xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blog.davidyack.com/journal/rss-comments-entry-12481466.xml</commentRss>    </item>    <item>      <title>Silverlight Cream for August 10, 2011 -- #1129</title>      <link>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/10/146495.aspx</link>      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="tahoma"&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" border="0"&gt;    &lt;tbody&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td&gt;In this Issue:            &lt;a href="#20110810Morten Nielsen"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Morten Nielsen&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="#20110810Morten Nielsen2"&gt;&lt;u&gt;-2-&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;),            &lt;a href="#20110810Mike Gold"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mike Gold&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110810Jesse Liberty"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Jesse Liberty&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110810Derik Whittaker"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Derik Whittaker&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110810Den Delimarsky"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Den Delimarsky&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110810Austin Andrews"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Austin Andrews&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and           &lt;a href="#20110810Oscar Agreda"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Oscar Agreda&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/geekswithblogs/lswS"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.silverlightcream.com/images/RSSImage.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;  &lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;Above the Fold:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" border="0"&gt;    &lt;tbody&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td style="font-weight:bold"&gt;Silverlight:&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;"Silverlight MVVM Code Smith Templates" &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="#20110810Oscar Agreda"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Oscar Agreda&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td style="font-weight:bold"&gt;WP7:&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;"Working with a simple ViewModelLocator from MVVM-Light" &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="#20110810Mike Gold"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mike Gold&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;   &lt;b&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.silverlightcream.com"&gt;&lt;u&gt;SilverlightCream.com&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;dl&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110810Morten Nielsen"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.sharpgis.net/post/2011/08/04/WPF-vs-Silverlight-Part-4-Animations.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8536"&gt;&lt;u&gt;WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 4 - Animations&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;             &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;Part 4 of &lt;b&gt;Morten Nielsen&lt;/b&gt;'s WPF and Silverlight comparison yeields this post on Animations... the launching thereof to be exact&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110810Morten Nielsen2"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.sharpgis.net/post/2011/08/04/WPF-vs-Silverlight-Part-5-XAML-Control-Instantiation.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8537"&gt;&lt;u&gt;WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 5 - XAML Control Instantiation&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Morten Nielsen&lt;/b&gt;'s Part 5 is comparing the order of events and methods of control instantiation between WPF and Silverlight&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110810Mike Gold"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/articles/Working-with-a-simple-ViewModelLocator-from-MVVM-Lite" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8535"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Working with a simple ViewModelLocator from MVVM-Light&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mike Gold&lt;/b&gt; has a post at WindowsPhoneGeek on using the ViewModelLocator from MVV-Light in your WP7 app... what it brings to the table and how to use it&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110810Jesse Liberty"&gt;                 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://jesseliberty.com/2011/08/10/yet-another-podcastsilverlight-passion/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8534"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Yet Another Podcast–Silverlight Passion&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jesse Liberty&lt;/b&gt;'s latest Yet Another Podcast is available and he's chatting with Andrei Kashcha about Silverlight and his data visualization projects.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110810Derik Whittaker"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2011/07/24/using-sql-ce-on-wp7-mango-working-with-indexes.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8533"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Using SQL CE On WP7 Mango–Working with Indexes &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Derik Whittaker&lt;/b&gt;'s next post on SQL CE on WP7.1 is on his site.. and this one is all about using indexes on the database tables.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110810Den Delimarsky"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://dennisdel.com/?p=979" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8532"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Ringtones from existing content on WP7 – why can’t you do that?&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Den Delimarsky&lt;/b&gt; has an interesting post... sort of an anti-post... describing why you can't use existing content as a ringtone on a WP7&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110810Austin Andrews"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://templarian.com/2011/08/10/wp_icons_a_few_more/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8531"&gt;&lt;u&gt;WP7 Icons: A few More&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;It was just yesterday I posted about &lt;b&gt;Austin Andrews&lt;/b&gt;'s WP7 icons and how he was going to post more and hey, he posted more today!&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110810Oscar Agreda"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://oscaragreda.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/silverlight-mvvm-code-smith-templates/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8530"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Silverlight MVVM Code Smith Templates&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Oscar Agreda&lt;/b&gt; discusses a set of templates for CodeSmith that will create a full Silverlight Business Application basec on your Database Schemas&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay in the 'Light!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt; 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vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" /&gt;MIX10&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src="http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/aggbug/146495.aspx" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</description>      <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Campbell</creator>      <guid>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/10/146495.aspx</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:43:26 GMT</pubDate>      <comment xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/comments/146495.aspx</comment>      <comments>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/10/146495.aspx#feedback</comments>      <commentRss xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/comments/commentRss/146495.aspx</commentRss>      <ping xmlns="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/services/trackbacks/146495.aspx</ping>    </item>    <item>      <title>Yet Another Podcast–Silverlight Passion</title>      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek/~3/zFZYrxOeMpc/</link>      <comments>http://jesseliberty.com/2011/08/10/yet-another-podcastsilverlight-passion/#comments</comments>      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:03:11 +0000</pubDate>      <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jesse Liberty</creator>      <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>      <category><![CDATA[Podcast]]></category>      <category><![CDATA[Silverlight 5]]></category>      <category><![CDATA[YapCast]]></category>      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://jesseliberty.com/2011/08/10/yet-another-podcastsilverlight-passion/</guid>      <encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[Talking with Andrei Kashcha about his passion for Silverlight and the data visualization projects he has created.&#160; Amazon Books visualization Viva Mind-map visualization Lab 49 &#160; Listen &#124; Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST<br/><br/>For the complete article and hyperlinks, please visit my blog at http://JesseLiberty.com<div class="feedflare"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?a=zFZYrxOeMpc:p0wrVTdhGUg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?a=zFZYrxOeMpc:p0wrVTdhGUg:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?a=zFZYrxOeMpc:p0wrVTdhGUg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?i=zFZYrxOeMpc:p0wrVTdhGUg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?a=zFZYrxOeMpc:p0wrVTdhGUg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?i=zFZYrxOeMpc:p0wrVTdhGUg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?a=zFZYrxOeMpc:p0wrVTdhGUg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?i=zFZYrxOeMpc:p0wrVTdhGUg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?a=zFZYrxOeMpc:p0wrVTdhGUg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek/~4/zFZYrxOeMpc" height="1" width="1"/>]]></encoded>      <commentRss xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://jesseliberty.com/2011/08/10/yet-another-podcastsilverlight-passion/feed/</commentRss>      <comments xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">0</comments>      <enclosure url="http://jesseliberty.com/wp-content/media/Show46.mp3" length="13961297" type="audio/mpeg" />      <origLink xmlns="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0">http://jesseliberty.com/2011/08/10/yet-another-podcastsilverlight-passion/</origLink>    </item>    <item>      <title>Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2011 -- #1128</title>      <link>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/09/146487.aspx</link>      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="tahoma"&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" border="0"&gt;    &lt;tbody&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td&gt;In this Issue:        &lt;a href="#20110809Kunal Chowdhury"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Kunal Chowdhury&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,                 &lt;a href="#20110809Beth Massi"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Beth Massi&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="#20110809Beth Massi2"&gt;&lt;u&gt;-2-&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;),            &lt;a href="#20110809Gill Cleeren"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Gill Cleeren&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110809Rajat Jaiswal"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Rajat Jaiswal&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110809Mike Taulty"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mike Taulty&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110809Jesse Liberty"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Jesse Liberty&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110809Derik Whittaker"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Derik Whittaker&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110809Den Delimarsky"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Den Delimarsky&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110809Austin Andrews"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Austin Andrews&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and           &lt;a href="#20110809Oscar Agreda"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Oscar Agreda&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/geekswithblogs/lswS"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.silverlightcream.com/images/RSSImage.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;  &lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;Above the Fold:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" border="0"&gt;    &lt;tbody&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td style="font-weight:bold"&gt;Silverlight:&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;"How to Close Browser Window from Silverlight Application?" &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="#20110809Kunal Chowdhury"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Kunal Chowdhury&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td style="font-weight:bold"&gt;WP7:&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;"How to access blacklisted apps in the Windows Phone emulator ROM (with the locked BIN image)" &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="#20110809Den Delimarsky"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Den Delimarsky&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td style="font-weight:bold"&gt;LightSwitch:&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;"Getting Started with the LightSwitch Starter Kits" &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="#20110809Beth Massi"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Beth Massi&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;   &lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;Shoutouts:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Michael Palermo&lt;/b&gt;'s Desert Mountain Developers is out fresh today (as always): &lt;a href="http://slnews.me/pspCgR"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Desert Mountain Developers&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;  &lt;b&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.silverlightcream.com"&gt;&lt;u&gt;SilverlightCream.com&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;dl&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110809Kunal Chowdhury"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2011/08/how-to-close-browser-window-from.html" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8529"&gt;&lt;u&gt;How to Close Browser Window from Silverlight Application?&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Kunal Chowdhury&lt;/b&gt; talks about how to shut down the browser window and clear session details when your app shuts down to avoid security issues&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110809Beth Massi"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2011/08/01/getting-started-with-the-lightswitch-starter-kits.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8527"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Getting Started with the LightSwitch Starter Kits&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beth Massi&lt;/b&gt; announced the LightSwitch Starter Kits ... great looking project templates, and some other good LightSwitch links at the bottom of her post as well.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110809Beth Massi2"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2011/08/04/how-to-create-a-multi-column-auto-complete-drop-down-box-in-lightswitch.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8528"&gt;&lt;u&gt;How to Create a Multi-Column Auto-Complete Drop-down Box in LightSwitch&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;             &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beth Massi&lt;/b&gt;'s latest is this one on creating a multi-column combobox in LightSwitch, reading from a Lookup List... and that lookup list is the starting point for the post.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110809Gill Cleeren"&gt;                 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Looking-at-LightSwitch-Part-1.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8526"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch - Part 1&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gill Cleeren&lt;/b&gt; has posted the first of a series on LightSwitch at SilverlightShow.... looks like a good intro into what it is and how to get started.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110809Rajat Jaiswal"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://indiandotnet.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/create-silverlight-gallery-in-easy-steps-part-1/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8525"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Create Silverlight Gallery in easy steps part-1&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rajat Jaiswal&lt;/b&gt; starts with some basic layout and proceeds to build a picture gallery in Silverlight for his website... he picked 3 designs to discuss in this part 1 of a series&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110809Mike Taulty"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2011/08/09/rx-and-schedulers.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8524"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Rx and Schedulers &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mike Taulty&lt;/b&gt; ran himself into a problem with scheduling in Rx and figured it might be something useful to the rest of us... starting with how he got roped into it.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110809Jesse Liberty"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://jesseliberty.com/2011/08/08/dependency-properties/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8523"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Dependency Properties&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jesse Liberty&lt;/b&gt;'s latest in his Windows Phone series is on Dependency Properties... and starts from the beginning: Properties.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110809Derik Whittaker"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2011/07/23/using-sql-ce-on-wp7-mango-working-with-associations.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8522"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Using SQL CE On WP7 Mango–Working with Associations &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Derik Whittaker&lt;/b&gt; continues his SQL CE postings with this on adding additional tables and setting up relationships between them.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110809Den Delimarsky"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://dennisdel.com/?p=977" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8521"&gt;&lt;u&gt;How to access blacklisted apps in the Windows Phone emulator ROM (with the locked BIN image)&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;             &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Den Delimarsky&lt;/b&gt; found some very cool information out by digging around in the phone files... he describes how he got started and then gives a list of what he found.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110809Austin Andrews"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://templarian.com/2011/08/04/48_wp_icons/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8520"&gt;&lt;u&gt;48 Free WP7 Icons&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Austin Andrews&lt;/b&gt; has some free WP7 icons up... sounds like he's going to be posting some regularly&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110809Oscar Agreda"&gt;                 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://oscaragreda.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/the-view-model/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8519"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The View Model&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;Looking farther at &lt;b&gt;Oscar Agreda&lt;/b&gt;'s blog, I found this ViewModel article which has some explanation for the medlink project on CodePlex I posted last week.&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay in the 'Light!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt; 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vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" /&gt;MIX10&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src="http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/aggbug/146487.aspx" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</description>      <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Campbell</creator>      <guid>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/09/146487.aspx</guid>      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:05:57 GMT</pubDate>      <comment xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/comments/146487.aspx</comment>      <comments>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/09/146487.aspx#feedback</comments>      <commentRss xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/comments/commentRss/146487.aspx</commentRss>      <ping xmlns="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/services/trackbacks/146487.aspx</ping>    </item>    <item>      <title>Catching up on some flicks</title>      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek/~3/NTe8RdnrRKk/</link>      <comments>http://jesseliberty.com/2011/08/09/catching-up-on-some-flicks/#comments</comments>      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:29:59 +0000</pubDate>      <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jesse Liberty</creator>      <category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>      <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://jesseliberty.com/2011/08/09/catching-up-on-some-flicks/</guid>      <encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[It’s August and it’s hot, and it’s time for a few movie recommendations… I assume you’ve seen The Matrix and Memento.&#160; 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   &lt;tbody&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td&gt;In this Issue:        &lt;a href="#20110808Colin Eberhardt"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Colin Eberhardt&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,          &lt;a href="#20110808Ollie Riches"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Ollie Riches&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,                &lt;a href="#20110808Morten Nielsen"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Morten Nielsen&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="#20110808Morten Nielsen2"&gt;&lt;u&gt;-2-&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;),            &lt;a href="#20110808Mike Taulty"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mike Taulty&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110808Den Delimarsky"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Den Delimarsky&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110808Derik Whittaker"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Derik Whittaker&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110808Oscar Agreda"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Oscar Agreda&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110808Austin Andrews"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Austin Andrews&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,            &lt;a href="#20110808Manas Patnaik"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Manas Patnaik&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and               &lt;a href="#20110808Jesse Liberty"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Jesse Liberty&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="#20110808Jesse Liberty2"&gt;&lt;u&gt;-2-&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/geekswithblogs/lswS"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.silverlightcream.com/images/RSSImage.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;  &lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;Above the Fold:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" border="0"&gt;    &lt;tbody&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td style="font-weight:bold"&gt;Silverlight:&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;"Conditional CellTemplete controls at Runtime in Silverlight DataGrid" &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="#20110808Manas Patnaik"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Manas Patnaik&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td style="font-weight:bold"&gt;WP7:&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;"Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View Part Two" &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="#20110808Colin Eberhardt"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Colin Eberhardt&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;        &lt;tr&gt;            &lt;td style="font-weight:bold"&gt;Expression Design:&lt;/td&gt;            &lt;td&gt;"Tutorial: Creating an Icon" &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="#20110808Austin Andrews"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Austin Andrews&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;   &lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;Shoutouts:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;SilverlightShow&lt;/b&gt; has their top 5 from last week listed: &lt;a href="http://slnews.me/os3B4X"&gt;&lt;u&gt;SilverlightShow for August 1 - 7, 2011&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;  &lt;b&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.silverlightcream.com"&gt;&lt;u&gt;SilverlightCream.com&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;dl&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Colin Eberhardt"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.scottlogic.co.uk/blog/colin/2011/08/implementing-a-windows-phone-7-conversation-view-part-two/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8518"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View Part Two  &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Colin Eberhardt&lt;/b&gt;has a second part to his "Conversation View" application for WP7 up ... in this one he's styling the speech bubbles and scrolling the conversation.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Ollie Riches"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://awkwardcoder.blogspot.com/2011/08/wp7contrib-updated-version-of.html" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8517"&gt;&lt;u&gt;WP7Contrib: Updated version of SilverlightSerializer&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ollie Riches&lt;/b&gt; gives a nod at (and link) Mike Talbot's SilverlightSerializer post, then quickly enhances the Serializer in WP7Contrib&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Morten Nielsen"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.sharpgis.net/post/2011/08/04/WPF-vs-Silverlight-Part-2-XamlReader.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8515"&gt;&lt;u&gt;WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 2 - XamlReader&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;Continuing with &lt;b&gt;Morten Nielsen&lt;/b&gt;'s series on WPF vs Silverlight is this post about XamlReader and how to call it in both WPF and Silverlight&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Morten Nielsen2"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.sharpgis.net/post/2011/08/04/WPF-vs-Silverlight-Part-3-Creating-Bitmaps-Programmatically.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8516"&gt;&lt;u&gt;WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 3 - Creating Bitmaps Programmatically&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;             &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Morten Nielsen&lt;/b&gt; continues with a post on the programmatic creation of bitmaps and how that is done in both WPF and Silverlight&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Mike Taulty"&gt;                 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2011/08/08/silverlight-and-synchronous-network-calls.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8514"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Silverlight and Synchronous Network Calls &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mike Taulty&lt;/b&gt; reacts to a twitter post about Synchronous Network calls and UI Threads with this post discussing the issues and then going all the way into the Async CTP and Rx.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Den Delimarsky"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://dennisdel.com/?p=890" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8513"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Windows Phone 7 Guide [Video] – Part 6 – ISETool&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Den Delimarsky&lt;/b&gt; has a video tutorial up on using the ISO Explorer tool that you get with the WP7.1 SDK&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Derik Whittaker"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2011/07/21/using-sql-ce-on-wp7-mango-getting-started.aspx" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8512"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Using SQL CE on WP7 Mango–Getting Started&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Derik Whittaker&lt;/b&gt; has an introductory SQL CE post up, with an eye toward more in-depth posts coming up. If you're new to SQL CE, this looks like a great place to start&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Oscar Agreda"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://oscaragreda.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/adventure-works-in-silverlight/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8511"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Adventure Works in Silverlight&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;I blogged about &lt;b&gt;Oscar Agreda&lt;/b&gt; and his CodePlex offerings last week. I didn't know at the time that he also had a blog... here's his latest, with external links, screenshots, and code&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Austin Andrews"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://templarian.com/2011/08/06/tutorial_creating_an_icon/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8510"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Tutorial: Creating an Icon&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;Not necessarily Silverlight, but hey, everybody needs icons... &lt;b&gt;Austin Andrews&lt;/b&gt; has a very nice long Expression Design tutorial up for creating icons various ways.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Manas Patnaik"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://manaspatnaik.com/blog/index.php/technology/silverlight-4/conditional-celltemplete-control-at-runtime-in-silverlight-datagrid/867" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8509"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Conditional CellTemplete controls at Runtime in Silverlight DataGrid&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;             &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Manas Patnaik&lt;/b&gt; has a very cool IValueConverter post up demonstrating binding various types of things into the same column in a datagrid ... good pictures and listings plus a live demo... looks like the download link is disabled tho&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Jesse Liberty"&gt;                 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://jesseliberty.com/2011/08/01/location-servicesusing-the-emulator/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8507"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Location Services–Using the Emulator&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jesse Liberty&lt;/b&gt;'s talking about the ability to test location services with the emulator you now get in WP7.1 ... sample code goodness included.&lt;/dd&gt;    &lt;dt&gt;&lt;a name="20110808Jesse Liberty2"&gt;                &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="http://jesseliberty.com/2011/08/04/bing-maps-task/" href="http://www.silverlightcream.com/SilverlightCreamRedirect.aspx?LinkID=8508"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Bing Maps Task&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/dt&gt;    &lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jesse Liberty&lt;/b&gt; then has a post about the Bing Maps Task now available ... quick write-up on a cool topic&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay in the 'Light!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;hr width="50%" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/SilverlightNews"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Twitter SilverlightNews&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/WynApse"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Twitter WynApse&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.wynapse.com"&gt;&lt;u&gt;WynApse.com&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.wynapse.com/TaggedPosts.aspx"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Tagged Posts&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.silverlightcream.com"&gt;&lt;u&gt;SilverlightCream&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SilverlightCream/join"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Join me @ SilverlightCream&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.phoenixsilverlight.net"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Phoenix Silverlight User Group&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Technorati Tags:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Silverlight"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Silverlight" style="border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" /&gt;Silverlight&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/silverlight-3"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=silverlight-3" style="border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" /&gt;Silverlight  3&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/silverlight-4"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=silverlight-4" style="border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" /&gt;Silverlight 4&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/windowsphone"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=windowsphone" style="border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" /&gt;Windows  Phone&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/MIX10"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=MIX10" style="border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" /&gt;MIX10&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src="http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/aggbug/146471.aspx" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</description>      <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Campbell</creator>      <guid>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/08/146471.aspx</guid>      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:53:29 GMT</pubDate>      <comment xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/comments/146471.aspx</comment>      <comments>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/08/146471.aspx#feedback</comments>      <commentRss xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/comments/commentRss/146471.aspx</commentRss>      <ping xmlns="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/services/trackbacks/146471.aspx</ping>    </item>    <item>      <title>SilverlightShow for August 1 - 7, 2011</title>      <link>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/08/146470.aspx</link>      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="tahoma"&gt; Check out the Top Five most popular news at &lt;a href="http://www.silverlightshow.net/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;SilverlightShow&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 1 - 7, 2011.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="&amp;#xD;&amp;#xA;    http://www.silverlightshow.net/news/Free-Silverlight-Show-Webinar-Deep-DIVE-in-Silverlight-FIVE.aspx&amp;#xD;&amp;#xA;    "&gt;&lt;u&gt;   Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Deep-DIVE in Silverlight FIVE   &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="&amp;#xD;&amp;#xA;    http://www.silverlightshow.net/news/Silverlight-Menu4U.aspx&amp;#xD;&amp;#xA;    "&gt;&lt;u&gt;   Silverlight Menu4U   &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="&amp;#xD;&amp;#xA;    http://www.silverlightshow.net/news/7-reasons-to-be-a-Window-Phone-7-Developer.aspx&amp;#xD;&amp;#xA;    "&gt;&lt;u&gt;   7 reasons to be a Windows Phone 7 Developer   &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="&amp;#xD;&amp;#xA;    http://www.silverlightshow.net/news/WCF-RIA-Services-Toolkit-August-2011-And-Updated-NuGet-Packages-.aspx&amp;#xD;&amp;#xA;    "&gt;&lt;u&gt;   WCF RIA Services Toolkit (August 2011) - And Updated NuGet Packages   &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="&amp;#xD;&amp;#xA;    http://www.silverlightshow.net/news/KinectSDK-Windows-Phone-7-Mango.aspx&amp;#xD;&amp;#xA;    "&gt;&lt;u&gt;   KinectSDK + Windows Phone 7 Mango   &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Visit and bookmark &lt;a href="http://www.silverlightshow.net"&gt;&lt;u&gt;SilverlightShow&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stay in the 'Light&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src="http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/aggbug/146470.aspx" width="1" height="1" /&gt;</description>      <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Campbell</creator>      <guid>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/08/146470.aspx</guid>      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:05:49 GMT</pubDate>      <comment xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/comments/146470.aspx</comment>      <comments>http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/archive/2011/08/08/146470.aspx#feedback</comments>      <commentRss xmlns="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/comments/commentRss/146470.aspx</commentRss>      <ping xmlns="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/">http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/services/trackbacks/146470.aspx</ping>    </item>  </channel></rss>

