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Customize MSDN Flash | Unsubscribe Volume 14, Number 7 | March 29, 2010     Top Stories     Download the Windows Phone Training Kit Windows Phone 7 Series promises to be an amazing personal mobile phone with innovations in user interface and functionality, as well as a great development platform on which you can quickly and easily build games and applications. Join Us for the Virtual Launch of Visual Studio 2010! Visual Studio 2010 launches in two weeks, and you can either join the global launch live in Las Vegas or join us at the virtual launch event. And if you still haven't tried Visual Studio 2010, go download the release candidate today. Your Featured Content Learn to Develop Business Applications on Silverlight Channel 9 is offering a free Silverlight 4 Training Kit. The training kit includes a white paper explaining all of the new Silverlight 4 features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and an 8-unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4. Learn to work with sandboxed out-of-browser features, the new RichTextBox control, MEF, WCF RIA Services, and much more! You Couldn't Make It to MIX10 - but You Can Watch Online Watch the keynotes and sessions. Explore the software that powers the Windows Phone 7 Series; learn about next-generation Web applications with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 and Internet Explorer 9; discover the future of Web design, user experience, and more. DirectX 11 in Windows 7 This video shows a code example of using a DirectX 11 API for animation. See the whole series Windows 7 in 7 Minutes! (Part 1) and get short, code-focused videos where you'll see how to take advantage of the great new features in Windows 7. Also, check out the msdev YouTube channel.   Building a Next-Generation Web Application with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 and jQuery A talk about building Agile Zen, a lean project management application. Plus: Microsoft will contribute to the development of the jQuery JavaScript library, and an ASP.NET MVC case study on Jwaala's online banking solution. Download the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office (RTM) The Open XML SDK 2.0 simplifies the task of manipulating Open XML packages and the underlying Open XML schema elements within a package. The Open XML API encapsulates many common tasks that developers perform on Open XML packages, so you can perform complex operations with just a few lines of code. Download the RTM version or view it online. Building Document Generation Systems from Templates with Word 2010 and Word 2007 Document generation systems are one of the most compelling uses of Open XML WordprocessingML. This article contains guidance for this scenario and links to MSDN articles and blog posts.     Silverlight 4 Will Launch at DevConnections in Vegas! Scott Guthrie will launch Silverlight 4 at the DevConnections/ASP.NET and Silverlight Conference in Las Vegas on April 12 - 14. And this event is the global launch of not just Silverlight 4, but also Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0! In other words, it's the perfect place to dive into Silverlight 4 and how it's supported in Visual Studio 2010 - not to mention all the improvements in ASP.NET 4.0, AJAX, and MVC 2.     For MSDN Subscribers New Software Available for Download • Internet Explorer 8 for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 • Dynamics GP 10.0 Service Pack 4 Installation Guide     Register for Tech·Ed North America 2010 June 7 - 10, New Orleans, LA Find out why Microsoft MVPs attend Tech·Ed North America and why they think you should too. 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