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Silverlight 5 has just been released and it’s a couple of weeks before Christmas, so what would be than to start a new blog series on the “12 Days of Silverlight”?  This series is an introduction to some of the new Silverlight 5 features that I find interesting.  This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it’s some of my favorites.

So without further rambling….

On the first day of Silverlight, the team delivered to me… native multi-window support.

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This is a continuation of some of my favorite features in the new Silverlight 5 release.  Since it’s right before Christmas, I decided to do a 12 Days of Silverlight, so feel free to try and put the post to song if you would like (just make sure you YouTube it).  If you haven’t downloaded the new release, you can find it on the Silverlight download page. So….

On the second day of Silverlight, the team delivered to me… a DataContextChanged event.

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On to the third part of my 12 Days of Silverlight series.  This one is probably one of my favorite features of Silverlight 5.  It has already saved me several  hours of work and is something you should look into…

On the third day of Silverlight, the team delivered to me… Databinding debugging.

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So it’s day four, and we are moving right along with the 12 Days of Silverlight series.  There has been a lot of text changes added to Silverlight 5 to help address some layout needs that have been expressed.  So I thought we would take a look at one of these additions today.

On the fourth day of Silverlight, the team delivered to me… linked and multi-column text.

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Welcome back campers for the 5th installment in my 12 Days of Silverlight series on some of the new features of Silverlight 5. So without further ado…

On the fifth day of Silverlight, the team delivered to me… text improvements.

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So here we are rounding out the half way mark of our 12 Days of Silverlight series.  I’ve had a lot of fun writing the series so far and have had a lot of good feedback on it as well.  Looking at the date, it looks like I should get the series wrapped up right before Christmas.  Good timing…

On the sixth day of Silverlight, the team delivered to me… binding in style setters.

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Here we are at lucky number 7 of our 12 Days of Silverlight series.  I thought I would continue on with the binding theme. I know by now you are singing the 12 days of Silverlight every time you see one of these posts.  I’m tempted to try and put together a YouTube video contest on it.  Hmm…

On the seventh day of Silverlight, the team delivered to me… ancestor relative source binding.

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On the home stretch.  I’ve had some great feedback from everyone and I do appreciate it.  Going to be close to bring the series to an end before the 25th, but it will get there.  So…

On the eighth day of Silverlight, the team delivered to me… vector printing.

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Only a couple of days left before Christmas and I’m busy wrapping up a few more posts to put them under the tree.  This one is another favorite of mine.

On the ninth day of Silverlight, the team delivered to me… implicit data templates.

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Time flies.  I took a week off for Christmas and the next thing I know it’s been a few weeks.  The good news is I’ve gotten a new project off of the ground and can’t wait to start talking about it.

So where were we?  That’s right, the 10th day.  I’ve received a lot of great feedback from folks and I wanted to thank everyone for all of the comments.

On the tenth day of Silverlight the team delivered to me… better O/S integration.

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