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Customize MSDN Flash | Unsubscribe Volume 14, Number 22 | October 25, 2010     Top Stories     Free eBook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Still using Visual Studio 2008? Oops, you said 2005? Maybe 2003? We're pleased to announce another free offering from Microsoft Press (336 pages). 31 Days of Windows Phone 7 Jeff Blankenburg is posting every day in October on Windows Phone 7 development. Check the topics he has covered so far. Watch PDC10, Live from the Redmond Campus, October 28 and 29 Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is sold out, but you can still participate via the live broadcast, starting at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time. Also: Attend a Microsoft PDC near you. Your Featured Content MVVM Light Toolkit for Silverlight and WPF The MVVM Light Toolkit is a set of components helping people to get started with the Model-View-ViewModel pattern in Silverlight and WPF. It is a light and pragmatic framework that contains only the essential components needed. Enterprise Library Integration Pack for Silverlight - What Do You Want to See in It? What are the top five features from Enterprise Library 5.0 which you, as a Silverlight line-of-business (LOB) app developer, could have benefited from if only they were available on the Silverlight platform today? Tell us your opinion before November 1, 2010. What the Heck Is Joomla!? Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS) that enables you to build websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease of use and extensibility, have made Joomla! the most popular website software available. Introduction to the Windows Threadpool The Windows Kernel team regularly receives feedback that the Win32 Threadpool API is complex and that there is a need for better examples. To improve this situation, they offer here three wrapper C++ classes which provide the following: queuing work items, associating callbacks with events, and timer functionality. You can directly use these wrapper classes or look at the source to understand how to use the Threadpool APIs. Monetize Your Windows Phone 7 Apps Maximize your advertising revenue on your Windows Phone 7 application. To get started, download the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 and register your WP7 app using Microsoft Advertising's Solution for Windows Phone 7.   Sandboxed JavaScript Natives: Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too Since their inception, popular frameworks such as ExtJS, MooTools, and Prototype have customized JavaScript by augmenting the prototypes of natives. Despite its advantages, the extension of global natives introduces several complications. Silverlight Firestarter December 2, 2010 Following October's PDC, this is the developer event for Silverlight. It's a global event open to all developers through online participation. We have seating for 400 attendees in Building 33 in the main Microsoft campus in Redmond. Register to attend in person or online. Why Not Turn Your Mobile App Ideas into Money Makers? Prior to your submitting an app to Marketplace (and telling all your friends and family to download it!), you will need to register as a developer and create an account. As Marketplace is currently open for early access app submissions and by invitation only to registered developers, you'll not want to wait to register. If you're ready to upload an app, be sure to understand the application requirements and policies for apps and games submission. SharePoint Enterprise Search Developer Training Explore a series of hands-on labs, presentations, and videos that demonstrate how to enable high-end enterprise search with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. 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