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Silverlight Coding Contest
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A few days ago, ComponentArt started a Silverlight coding contest. If you submit your Silverlight applications for evaluation by the "Esteemed Panel of Judges" you can win a prize of $10,000 or get free licenses to ComponentArt products if you happen to be one of the two runner-up. Much more details available at the following sites:
- http://www.componentart.com/ - http://www.componentart.com/community/competition2009/ - http://www.componentart.com/BLOGS/miljan/archive/2009/06/22/10-000-for-the-best-silverlight-app.aspx
BTW--I'll be one of the esteemed judges :)
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DataForm Control in Silverlight 3
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Silverlight 3 comes with a new control—the DataForm control—through which you can design a view model around a data type in what actually results to be a specialization of the MVVM pattern. The DataForm control is also smart enough to analyze the public properties of its data source and generate some UI accordingly. The DataForm will use text boxes for string properties, check boxes for Booleans, and a date picker control for dates. If bound to a collection of objects, it will also display a navigation bar.
Read the full (part I of the) story on DotNetSlackers.com.