Thursday, February 18, 2010

Vancouver Olympics – How’d We Do That?

Vancouver Olympics – How’d We Do That?

Vancouver Olympics – How’d We Do That?

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 01:03 PM PST

We've talked about the great new features of the Vancouver Olympics Silverlight based video and photo viewers, talked about the all of the content available in full HD quality, and talked about how Silverlight is being used in innovative ways to help...( read more )...(read more)

Microsoft Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming bring Winter Olympics to Europe in HD on the Web

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 12:18 PM PST

Exciting news for those of you living in Europe. Eurosport, one Europe's premier sports broadcasting networks, is delivering the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games to thousands of web viewers across 39 countries. Eurosport subscribers can enjoy a stunning high...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight MVPs of the Year (2009)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 11:35 AM PST

This week at Microsoft we are hosting roughly 1,300 of our top community experts around the world in various technical competencies. For Silverlight , we have about 80% of our group in attendance from all over the world. At the beginning of the year the...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight MVPs of the Year (2009)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 11:35 AM PST

This week at Microsoft we are hosting roughly 1,300 of our top community experts around the world in various technical competencies. For Silverlight , we have about 80% of our group in attendance from all over the world. At the beginning of the year the Read More......(read more)

Silverlight MVP of the year

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 10:10 AM PST

Here is a quick news from the MVP summit in Redmond. Things here are amazing, with a lot of good news (that will be made public at MIX, so in the mean time I cannot say anything more about it, except that it is awesome). The summit is, amongst other things...( read more )...(read more)

John Papa and I discuss the MIX10K winners on SilverlightTV

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 09:48 AM PST

If you haven't seen the new show SilverlightTV and you want to keep up to date with the latest in the Silverlight world, you are missing out. Episodes from the past covered: 3 Steps to MEF – Export, Import, Compose Perspectives on Flash and Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for February 18, 2010 -- #800

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 09:35 AM PST

For Issue 800, Brian Henderson (@brian_henderson) suggested I do a best of, so I used the tagging that Michael Washington and I put in a year ago here at the Summit, and have produced a 'Top 25'. From SilverlightCream.com : Number 01, Julien Frelat: Quake...( read more )...(read more)

Episode #5 - Jesse Liberty on Silverlight Hyper Video

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 05:33 AM PST

Episode #5 - Jesse Liberty on Silverlight Hyper Video In this episode The Misfit Geek talks with Sr. PM, Jesse Liberty about his Open Source Video Player Project with a Social Networking Twist . Resources ...... Silverlight web site Jesse's blog The Silverlight HyperVideo Platform site The Silverlight Media Framework site The Managed Extensibility site Links to MiniTutorials on the HVP Links to Minitutorials and videos To Catch Jesse at MIX 2010 : Look for this guy ! If you are interested in advertising, have suggestions, or advice.... Please CLICK HERE and send them to me. Download Now ! Subscribe Via RSS ... Play Now ! ' /> Click to Play With Flash Read More......(read more)

MIX 10K Challenge Winners

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 03:05 AM PST

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In episode 9 John thwarts Adam's futile attempt to take over Silverlight TV.  No … actually John and Adam have way too much fun as the Continuum Show meets Silverlight TV as John...( read more )...(read more)

Prepping for Silverlight Bootcamp at MIX10

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 11:54 PM PST

In just under a month MIX10 will kick off with a day of workshops. One of these workshops is a Silverlight Bootcamp that both I and Mike Taulty will be presenting at. Mike is a fantastic presenter and has some great content on Silverlight. I can't wait...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 3 Glossy Button Style Collection

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 11:11 PM PST

I designed a very nice Silverlight 3 Glossy Button Style and created 6 different color themes. Pure XAML built with Microsoft Expression Blend 3. Ready to use as Button Styles in your projects. Download the sourcecode at the Expression Gallery. Best regards...( read more )...(read more)

The Weekly Source Code 50 - A little on "A generic error occurred in GDI+" and trouble generating images on with ASP.NET

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 12:27 AM PST

I got a nice little Yellow Screen of Death (YSOD) error on some code running under IIS that worked fine when running on the VS Developer Web Server. The error was "A generic error occurred in GDI+" and you know that if an error is generic, it's sure in the heck not specific. My little application takes an overhead map that's stored in a local file, does some calculations from user input and draws an X on the map, then returns the resulting dynamically generated image. There's basically three ways to do images on the server side. Use Native APIs and Interop, which only works in full trust, use System.Drawing, which " isn't supported " or use WPF on the server side, which also, ahem, isn't officially supported...(read more)

Silverlight Deployment Troubleshooting Guide

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 01:41 PM PST

After helping a few customers with Silverlight install issues, I think it may be helpful to publish a Silverlight deployment troubleshooting guide and keep it up-to-date, so here you go. Troubleshooting Steps Is Silverlight installed? on Windows, make...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Deployment Troubleshooting Guide

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 01:41 PM PST

After helping a few customers with Silverlight install issues, I think it may be helpful to publish a Silverlight deployment troubleshooting guide and keep it up-to-date, so here you go. Troubleshooting Steps Is Silverlight installed? on Windows, make Read More......(read more)
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