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• Silverlight in the UK and Ireland...

  Sorry - I temporarily fell off the blogging wagon. It's tough to keep it going - there's always new stuff to blog about, but finding the time to write and polish is more challenging. It's been a busy month with all the follow-up from MIX, a brief vacation, preparation for a European tour and lots of planning for our next financial year - it's a weak excuse, but I just got out of the rhythm. Anyway, I've got a whole heap of cool material queued up now and ready to post, so I'll start to push that out over the next few days. Anyway, I'm now in Europe for a couple of weeks, talking to customers and presenting Silverlight at a few different events. As I write this, I'm in Madrid, presenting at a local MIX-style event (given my background, there's a certain irony in that today my session was competing against the WPF session in the same time slot for developers). On Thursday June 7th, I'm in Dublin speaking at the Irish Microsoft Technologies Conference . I'll be delivering two sessions there, Read More... Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 2:00 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: events, silverlight, mix07

• Silverlight Streaming is Now Live

  Head over to silverlight.live.com to create yourself a Silverlight Streaming account key and begin uploading your Silverlight applications and media. Silverlight Streaming allows you to upload up to 4GB of media content, with videos of up to ten minutes in length. The storage is "in the cloud" and files are globally cached. Here's a rough and raw walkthrough of how you can use it: Grab yourself the trial edition of Expression Media Encoder ; Take a video and encode it - make sure you go to the Output tab and choose a player template; At the end of the encode process, you should have a directory that contains the media file, some XAML and JavaScript files and any thumbnails that you've specified through the Markers tool-window. You'll need to remove any .html, .aspx, .media, .csproj or .config files from the output directory. You won't need these for the Silverlight Streaming service. Then you'll want to add a manifest that describes the Silverlight application; for a default player from Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 2:08 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: silverlight, mix07, silverlight streaming, Windows Live, media encoder

• Expression Media Encoder

  Download a free trial version here ... Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 1:49 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: Expression, silverlight, mix07, media encoder

• WPF Momentum Video

  For the last few months, I've been featuring a portfolio of great WPF applications that have shipped since we launched WPF. We turned some of those, plus a bunch of new ones, into a keynote "anthem" video that Ray Ozzie just showed. I thought I'd upload it to the Silverlight Streaming service for ease of distribution and so that you see all those cool WPF applications one more time. Check it out here... Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 1:27 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, silverlight, mix07, silverlight streaming

• Silverlight Screencasts

  To coincide with the launch of the Silverlight 1.0 Beta, my team has been working hard on a great series of intermediate-level screencasts on Silverlight that are just hitting the wires now. Each video is about five minutes in length, and covers a "how to" topic. Using Silverlight Brushes for Color, Gradient and Video Using the Silverlight Downloader Object Basic Keyboard Input with Silverlight Adding Ink Support to a Silverlight-based Application 2D Geometries in Silverlight Building Video Overlays with Silverlight Creating a Video Scrubbing Control with Silverlight Using Silverlight for Full Screen Experiences Silverlight Event Handling with JavaScript Animating and Clipping Video with Silverlight Creating Vector Art for Silverlight with Expression Blend Animating Vector Art for Silverlight with Expression Blend Part I Animating Vector Art for Silverlight with Expression Blend Part II Animating Raster Art for Silverlight with Expression Blend Using Expression Blend to Control Silverlight Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 12:54 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: screencast, silverlight, mix07

• Meet Silverlight

  Today at the Mix 07 conference, Microsoft is announcing a couple preview releases of Silverlight . Silverlight v1.0 Beta is the next in series to the two community technology previews (CTPs) released with the codename "WPF/E". Silverlight v1.1 Alpha is a sneak peek at some future functionality. While it is unusual to have two separate pre-release trains for a product, we believe that there's nothing like real code and real samples to demonstrate our feature set, roadmap and intent. The team has been aggressively cranking out code, delivering key features with tight deadlines. Please download the builds, play with them, build apps and tell us what you think. Here's an incomplete list of new features or enhancements in Silverlight 1.0 Beta: VideoBrush - Used to paint shapes and text with video content. WMS streaming support Media markers / script command support Playlist support (ASX subset) Improved video playback smoothness Cleaned-up animation model Animations now go in a Canvas.Resources Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 11:42 AM from Even a chimp can write code | 0 Comments Filed under: wpf/e, silverlight, mix07