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Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition. One of the projects that goes to the finals of the competition is made by the Bulgarian team MindPoint and is called Envision. It represents a system for interactive elementary education. You can see a short video of the project here.

If you like the idea of MindPoint don't hesitate and give them a hand by voting at http://peopleschoice.imaginecup.com/default.aspx.

The team of SilverlightShow is proud to announce that our colleague Emil Stoychev is now one of those lucky guys who could name themselves "a Microsoft Silverlight MVP"! Find out more about Emil's work and interests in his MVP profile. Congratulations, Emil! You really deserved this award with your hard work!

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Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities.

In Part 3 of his series Faisal adds some code in the btnLogin’s Click event and created a StyledSearchTextBox and template for the search buttons. In Part 4 he shows you how to create CardsUI.

In the second part I showed you how to create LoginWindow. In this part of the NikeClone series I will add some code in the btnLogin click event handler In SoccerItemList which we created in the first part of this series and how to create a StylesSearchText UI and Templated search buttons which will be used for searching.

Pete Brown turns your attention to one great Silverlight 2 application for the Animal Testing Breaks Hearts campaign that PETA and AIS just completed.

For this application, PETA supplied all the comps in Adobe Illustrator format and AIS converted the assets into Silverlight. Tad Van Fleet took the heart images and others and imported them into Blend 3 using the new Illustrator import function, and created the appropriate Xaml. A team consisting of Jim Jackson, Tad Van Fleet and Tom Snider with contractual work and a little oversight from me, put together the complete application, including the database, WCF services, server-side image generation for embedding, and of course the Silverlight client - all in just two calendar weeks.

In this article Timmy Kokke explains in detail how to style a TreeView control in Silverlight 3 using the Silverlight Toolkit and Expression Blend 3. He covers topics like Sample Data and Hierarchical Data Templates.

Today I would like to show you how to style a TreeView control in Silverlight using Expression Blend 3. The TreeView is a control to visualize hierarchical data structures. The TreeView control isn’t part of the standard Silverlight 2 or 3 download, but can be downloaded from http://www.codeplex.com/silverlight.

In this 7th part of the Countdown to Silverlight 3 series Andrej Tozon presents another powerful Silverlight 3 feature - Navigation. Here is a list with Andrej's previous posts from the series:

• Countdown to Silverlight 3 #1: Out of Browser applications
• Countdown to Silverlight 3 #2: Setting styles
• Countdown to Silverlight 3 #3: Merged resource dictionaries
• Countdown to Silverlight 3 #4: Element binding
• Countdown to Silverlight 3 #5: ChildWindow (Modal, Non-modal, Templated)
• Countdown to Silverlight 3 #6: System colors

The concept is very simple: provide a space on your main page, which you’ll later fill with custom content – pages. You’ll be able to navigate through these pages (by using browser’s Forward/Back buttons, directly access them and even provide custom parameters.

Bob Thomson announces that another mapping application named Summer Cabinet Map 2009 has just gone live.

While the DWQR Map we published earlier in the week was more about the presentation and dissemination of information – pretty much a one way flow - the Summer Cabinet Map is much more about trying to engage with a community and provide an online destination where the distribution of information can become the start point for a conversation with users.

In this post Erik Mork explains how to find, download and build Prism for Silverlight.

Prism is amazing. It was pretty much made by geniuses.  Unfortunately, it’s kind of hard to figure out 1) where to download it and 2) what to do with it after you’ve downloaded it.  This is a guide that shows you how to get up and running with Silverlight Prism.

In the first installment of this article Walt Ritscher showed some techniques for implementing circular animations. The trek continues in this installment where he shows you how to arrange elements evenly about the perimeter of a circle and how to recreate the Silverlight loading animation.

The Expression Blend designer makes it easy to arrange items around the perimeter of a circle. Arranging shapes in this fashion is a common UI pattern.

As Prism becomes one of the hottest topics in Silverlight, Erik Mork decided to provide the top 10 things that he thinks every developer should know about Prism.

1. Prism is a collection of libraries for implementing best-practices in Silverlight

Now, Prism actually contains more than just the libraries (it also has source code, examples, quickstarts and excellent documentation), but the key thing is that Prism is a tool for creating testable/maintainable applications.[...]