Real Rapid Application Development for RIA: Silverlight 4 Beta available for download
Wow, this is really an awesome release, Silverlight 4 Beta is real RAD for RIA. Check out the official silverlight.net site to download the new stuff with full Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 support (it’s a developer release, so no go-live license at this time): Silverlight 4 Beta Get Started As usually, Tim Heuer has an amazing and detailed post with many examples: read it

Multi-Touch gesture recognition in Silverlight 3
In this article, Jesse Bishop illustrates how to receive and interpret multi-touch input and translate these events into standard gestures, source code available!

.NET RIA Services: the place to start
Just a quick shout-out to post a new section of the silverlight.net site which contains all the necessary resources to start with .NET RIA Services: Enjoy Rapid Application Development for R

My Twitter Lists
Twitter has just enabled a new feature named “Lists” which permits to organize in categories the people you are following and make their tweets available to others. In this way it’s very simple to navigate the various subjects, follow the lists created by other people and subscribe to them. I’ve tried this new functionality and created my own lists about Silverlight-related stuff, feel free to subscribe here if you find useful: http://twitter.com/davidezordan/lists

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and updated Silverlight Toolkit available
Lot of news this week! Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 are now available for download here, Jeff Beehler has posted some useful info about this “go live” release. The new Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release is also available on Codeplex fe