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Weekend Hacks - Cool Links For Silverlight, CLR, VS2010




About Week End Hacks - Most weekends I do some digging around new and emerging technology and geek stuff. I do this by picking the links I bookmarked, or by going through the tweets I Favorited in Twitter.



Links I explored this weekend.

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