Here is your chance to really learn about Silverlight and WPF. Lynda.com has published 4.5 hours of Silverlight training videos to get you started - presented by Mike Harsh from Microsoft's Silverlight team.
You can also find several hours of training video at the official Silverlight learning site, and you can see 20 hours WPF training video over at MIX University.
Two weeks ago, I went down to Hollywood to meet with a very exciting team who is creating a TV experience on the web using Silverlight. Musician/Actor Ice Cube and his team talk about the web site in a short video that I recorded at Ice Cube's CubeVision Production Company office. If you watch the video, you'll see my boss Carlos McKinley there wearing the white shirt. Here's the video clip that I uploaded to video.msn.com.
Google is taking the Facebook approach with a $10 million developer challenge. Waiting for Mono + C# instead of this java stuff...
In the Android Developer Challenge I, the 50 most promising entries received by March 3 will each receive a $25,000 award to fund further development. Those selected will then be eligible for even greater recognition via ten $275,000 awards and ten $100,000 awards.
The Android Developer Challenge will award $10 million to developers who build great apps for Android. Learn more!
Three questions to ask when building any app...
To recap
- Can my mom use it?
- Listen but you don't have to do everything someone asks
- If you need to have a complex object / interface, make an simple wrapper for it too
I gotta get a tablet pc...
To summarize the steps:
1) Create a note in Windows Journal
2) Convert note to Silverlight app
3) Upload to Silverlight Streaming service
4) Insert IFrame into blog
Stefan Wick's Weblog : Ink blogging - using Windows Journal and Silverlight Streaming!
Question Two:
I hear they are going to start using Silverlight for their Lectures?
Ken Arbogast-Wilson: The college turned 100 in 2006, and we had a year or high-profile events that necessitated web video, both on-demand and live streaming for several lectures and a three-day conference. In spite of settling on using windows media multiple bit rate streaming for these events, we also created quicktime versions for audience members with Macs. Lets just say we spent a lot of time encoding last year. I started dabbling in Silverlight video just recently, and by using Expression Encoder, I was able to create a cross-platform video with its own player that would execute right in the web page.
use expression encoder for creating silverlight media applications? want to put them on silveright streaming? frustrated perhaps that you have to create a zip file with manifests and such? look no further!
james clarke writes about a feature just added to expression encoder (via a download) where you can now add 'publish to silverlight streaming' after your encoding job is completed. w00t!
you'll need to get the encoder plugin (assuming you have encoder first) and just install that. the post on james' site walks you through the steps, but it is a no brainer. i'd previously written about customizing your own encoder templates as well and making them a part of the encoder selection options for output. good thing is that those custom templates are just like any other and they are supported for this plugin as well. in fact, one of my last posts that used silverlight streaming was uploaded by this tool, using a custom template as well. very cool, very fast to get up and running using someone else's bandwidth (and for free) :-).
Pumpkin Card - Silverlight demo with code
- tagged animation, demo, Silverlight
After enjoying the China Moon Festival Card, I wanted to try my hand at creating a holiday card with Silverlight. I've also been looking for the opportunity to dive into vertex animation which is a big part of this demo. I also wanted to add sound but the animation took a bit more time than I had planned for. Enjoy and have a great Halloween!
Pumpkin Card - Silverlight demo with code | Adam Kinney, Silverlight Surfer
In my previous Silverlight Closed Captioning screencast here, I showed you how to use Expression Encoder to import Closed Captioning information to produce a solution without writing a line of code. What if you store your Closed Captioning information in an external data source (database, SAMI file, XML file, etc.) and want to keep it there? Do you have to reprocess all of your videos using Expression Encoder? Of course not, but you do have to write some code:). In this screencast, I show you how to use Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to solve this problem.
You can view the screencast here.
You’ve probably heard about “Sirius” recently and wondering what it is. Yes, we recently announced in our October 2007 newsletter about our forthcoming WebUI project, codenamed “Sirius”. In fact we have mentioned about this codename earlier in our 2008 R1 Product Roadmap. So what’s all “Sirius” about?
Source: Introducing WebUI codename “Sirius” « Intersoft Solutions Corporate Blog
Fake Bruce Chizen blasts Fake Steve Jobs.
I mean, come on! Try doing some research before you go and blast Adobe. I don't care how much you like Silverlight. I just can't see it passing Flash in terms of market penetration, which is over 99.1%. Yeah, 99.1% of Internet connected computers on Windows, Mac, Linux and others have Flash. And the only holdouts are people like you and Microsoft fanboys. Oh, and people who still have DOS or Windows 3.11 (but they shouldn't count).
Source: The Secret Diary of Bruce Chizen
The Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guide is available for download now. We gave the white paper a trial run ourselves when Microsoft IT used SMS to deploy Silverlight internally. Download it and send it to your systems administrator today - it's worth their time to read.
Source: Tim Sneath
Easy Way To Upload Silverlight Apps To Windows Live
Back when I wrote about adding a Silverlight Streaming app to your blog, I showed you how to add the Silverlight app to your SLS account at http://silverlight.live.com/. Well, now there is an addon for Expression Encoder (thanks Angus) that will allow you to upload your app straight to your account from within Encoder itself.
Simply download the addon from Microsoft Downloads and install it. Go through the steps as stated before but this time, you will see an extra section in Encoder:
Easy Way To Upload Silverlight Apps To Windows Live - LiveSide - Developer Blog
