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• Introducing Video.Show: A Silverlight Reference-quality Sample

  One of the favorite things about my job is being able to share really cool new content with you all, and so today is a good day to end the week on! Since we completed the Family.Show WPF reference sample, we've been working away in partnership with a great developer team from Vertigo Software on a Silverlight video scenario, and today is the day when we get to open it up to the developer community in the form of a first public beta. Video.Show is an end-to-end solution that provides a reference-quality sample for user-generated video content sites. Taking advantage of all of our latest technologies: .NET Framework 3.5 , ASP.NET AJAX , LINQ , Silverlight , Expression Encoder and Silverlight Streaming , Video.Show provides support for uploading, encoding, tagging, viewing and commenting on videos. Since not many people are building video sites like YouTube that have millions of videos, we've optimized the experience for sites with tens to thousands of videos. The version published today is Read More... Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 8:41 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: tools, Expression, Sample, visual studio, silverlight, media, RIA, silverlight streaming, media encoder, orcas

• Silverlight 1.0 RC1 is Here!

  As indicated in a previous post , we're homing in on the launch of Silverlight 1.0, and today marks another milestone with the launch of the first release candidate. Since the beta we released at MIX, we've fixed approximately 2000 bugs and work items and we're now feature complete with the final JavaScript-based API. This version of the runtime is vastly more stable than the beta release: our stress test runs show improvements of two or three orders of magnitude in many cases, and the product demonstrates the polish one might expect from a near-final release. Along with the 1.0 RC1 release, we've also refreshed the 1.1 bits. We've not exposed any significant changes in the .NET extensions, but the 1.1 "alpha refresh" includes the same core runtime as 1.0 RC1. A note on installation: if you have the beta release on your machine, there's no need to uninstall - simply run the RC1 installer and it will overwrite the existing binaries on your machine. Here's the runtime itself: Silverlight Read More... Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 3:00 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: Expression, visual studio, silverlight, media encoder, blend

• Programming HTML with C#

  In my last post , I promised to provide a more detailed technical explanation of how you can use the .NET capabilities of Silverlight with HTML, allowing full access to the HTML DOM from managed code as well as providing a means for client-side JavaScript to call into a .NET library. All the magic necessary to accomplish this is contained in a new .NET namespace introduced with Silverlight 1.1, called System.Windows.Browser. Here you'll find a number of classes that enable you to manipulate the DOM, in particular HtmlPage (representing the parent browser); HtmlDocument (the root element of the DOM) and HtmlElement (for manipulating the individual elements within a page). Using these methods, it's possible to create an HTML page where all the underlying code logic is written in a language like C# without having to write so much as an event handler in JavaScript. Let's walk through the process. I'm going to assume that you've got a machine already set up with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1 (previously Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:24 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: Sample, visual studio, silverlight, RIA