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Here’s another amazing premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift for our premium members. deVision is a complex WordPress theme that lets you create a business website in minutes. Showcase your company or product with clean and professional design without any programming skills.

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Featured Content Slider

Easliy add posts or/and pages to the content slider on the home page with a custom field called slider. The image in the slider can be linked to the post/page or open an image or even a video (Vimeo/Youtube) in a lightbox.

Advanced Widget Areas

The home page, the sidebar and the footer are easy-customizable through widgets. The sidebar and the footer are nested widgets areas. You can create sub widget areas for home page, category pages, single posts and static pages.

4 Color Schemes

deVision comes with 4 different color schemes. Please choose your preferred color between red, green, blue and grey. You can optionally display a jQuery style switcher on the front end to let your visitors select their color scheme.

Full Feature List

• WordPress 2.9 post thumbnails
• Comprehensive ThemeShift admin panel
• 4 color schemes (red, green, blue, grey)
• Optional jQuery style switcher on the front end
• deVision custom widgets (About, Comments, Features Box, Flickr, News, Newsletter, Search, Twitter)
• Nested widget sidebars (general, post, categories, page, home page)
• Customizable featured content slider (add posts or pages / open links or lightbox)
• Muli-level dropdown menu (optionally exclude home, pages and categories)
• Threaded comments
• Page templates (subpages, full width)
• deVision image gallery (attachments optionally open in lightbox)
• Fancy lightbox plugin built-in
• Search and comments form validation
• CSS styles for WP-PageNavi plugin – activate and you’re done (see plugin page)
• Included PSD files: logo.psd

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About ThemeShift

Themeshift is a WordPress theme shop operated by Simon Rimkus. His themes are beautifully designed and of the highest quality. You can also follow Themshift on twitter.

Interested in getting some first hand knowledge about SharePoint and all of it’s quirks, oddities, and secrets? We’re hosting not one, but *two* SharePoint Q&A sessions with the MVP crowd. Here’s the official blurb:

Do you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals? The SharePoint MVPs are the same people you see in the technical community as authors, speakers, user group leaders and answerers in the MSDN forums. By popular demand, we have brought these experts together as a collective group to answer your questions live. So please join us and bring on the questions! This chat will cover WSS, MOSS and the SharePoint 2010. Topics include setup and administration, design, development and general questions.

Here’s a rundown of the expected guests for the chats:

Agnes Molnar, Andrew Connell, Asif Rehmani, Becky Bertram, Me, Bryan Phillips, Chris O'Brien, Clayton Cobb, Dan Attis, Darrin Bishop, David Mann, Gary Lapointe, John Ross, Mike Oryzak, Muhanad Omar, Paul Stork, Randy Drisgill, Rob Bogue, Rob Foster, Shane Young, Spence Harbar.

Apologies for not linking to everyone’s blogs, I’m just not that ambitious tonight. Please note that not everyone listed here is guaranteed to make it to either chat and there may be additions/changes at the last minute so the names may change to protect the innocent.

The chat sessions will be held April 27th, 2010 at 4PM (PST) and April 28th at 9AM (PST). You can find out more details about the chats here or click here to add the April 27th event to your calendar, or click here to add the April 28th event (assuming your calendar software supports ICS files).

See you there!

Earlier this month Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010, the .NET Framework 4.0 (which includes ASP.NET 4.0), and new versions of their core programming languages: C# 4.0 and Visual Basic 10 (also referred to as Visual Basic 2010). Previously, the C# and Visual Basic programming languages were managed by two separate teams within Microsoft, which helps explain why features found in one language was not necessarily found in the other. For example, C# 3.0 introduced collection initializers, which enable developers to define the contents of a collection when declaring it; however, Visual Basic 9 did not support collection initializers. Conversely, Visual Basic has long supported optional parameters in methods, whereas C# did not.

Recently, Microsoft merged the Visual Basic and C# teams to help ensure that C# and Visual Basic grow together. As explained by Microsoft program manager Jonathan Aneja, "The intent is to make the languages advance together. When major functionality is introduced in one language, it should appear in the other as well. ... [T]hat any task you can do in one language should be as simple in the other." To this end, with version 4.0 C# now supports optional parameters and named arguments, two features that have long been part of Visual Basic's vernacular. And, likewise, Visual Basic has been updated to include a number of C# features that it was previously missing.

This article explores some of these new features that were added to Visual Basic 2010. Read on to learn more!
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This is very simple way to share chess puzzles with your friends. Design chess combination in Silverlight 4 and get URL to an image. Later the image can be used in blog, site and whatnot. 

Source code for the Silverlight part is available for download.