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Silverlight Application – Animal Testing Breaks Hearts

Community Blogs — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:10:25 GMT

PETA and AIS just completed a great Silverlight 2 application for the Animal Testing Breaks Hearts campaign. Almost exactly two years ago, in time for the 7/7/7 Live Earth event, AIS created the first Silverlight managed code application ever to go live...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for July 02, 2009 -- #627

Community Blogs — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:56:48 GMT

In this Issue: Erik Mork ( 2 ), Michael Washington , Faisal ( 2 ), Andrej Tozon ( 2 ), and Jose Fajardo . I feel like I went through a time-warp or something because there is a flurry of SL out there right now. And a couple of folks are just flooding...(read more)

Erik Mork's Prism for Silverlight Resources

Community Blogs — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:25:36 GMT

URL : http://www.sparklingclient.com/prism-silverlight/ Erik Mork, Silverlight MVP, host of the SparkingClient Podcast and an instructor for The Silverlight Tour , has compiled a new set of Prism for Silverlight Resources . He recently completed a number...(read more)

Smooth streaming source

Community Blogs — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:02:42 GMT

this is a short one. A couple days ago I needed to create an adaptive streaming player. If you don't know what adaptive streaming is, its what Microsoft is marketing as smooth streaming , its a method by which a single movie is encoded into multiple bit...(read more)

Finding the Target of a Storyboard Timeline

Community Blogs — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:24:26 GMT

I noticed the other day that Storyboard has a SetTarget method, but it does not have a corresponding GetTarget method. So how can you find the target of a Timeline child? Fortunately, Storybard has a GetTargetName method, we can use this method to obtain...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for July 01, 2009 -- #626

Community Blogs — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:55:01 GMT

In this Issue: Cristian Merighi , Walt Ritscher , Al Pascual , Vijay , and Faisal ( 2 ). Shoutouts: The Mashooo folks have the winning entries up for their S Prize contest. I'd like to thank them for the honor of participating as a judge. I didn't look...(read more)

Sure Cure for the Blahs: MVP Re-Award!

Community Blogs — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:09:56 GMT

First congratulations to everyone else that got awarded or re-awarded today! The only one I'm aware of so far is John Stockton -- a first-time awardee in Silverlight -- very cool John! I'm sure Twitter is alive with all the info, but I can't get to it...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for June 30, 2009 -- #625

Community Blogs — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:26:23 GMT

In this Issue: Davide Zordan , Erik Mork ( 2 ), Walt Ritscher , Peter Bromberg , and Lee . Shoutouts: Are you up for showing off?? Tim Heuer has announced a Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000! ... and check that list of judges... wow :)...(read more)

Only Four Seats Left for Silverlight Tour Atlanta

Community Blogs — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:59:13 GMT

With nearly three weeks left, we are starting to run out of seats for the Silverlight Tour in Atlanta. This stop of the Tour will be the first using all Silverlight 3 materials. The seats are going quickly, get yours while they last. You can sign up on...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2009 -- #624

Community Blogs — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:05:08 GMT

In this Issue: Andrej Tozon ( 2 , 3 ), Jonathan van de Veen , Corey Schuman , and Al Pascual . Shoutouts: I'm with Jesse on this one: So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening! Remember when Mike Snow said he was writing a book on Silverlight Game...(read more)

YouTube video in Silverlight 3

Corey Schuman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:27:21 GMT

A while back I saw a post titled something like Displaying YouTube Videos in Silverlight. The implementation included a Windowless Silverlight application with a Flash video player on top. Video controls were implemented in Silverlight, and...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2009 -- #623

Community Blogs — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:25:25 GMT

In this Issue: Erik Mork , Colin Eberhardt , Nigel Sampson , and Alex Golesh . Shoutouts: Pavan Podila has a post up about a great-looking TreeMap he's done. He may post source later, I'll watch for it. Meanwhile read the post and watch the video. A SilverLight...(read more)

Phoenix Silverlight User Group Meeting July 1

Community Blogs — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:25:16 GMT

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group will be next Wednesday, July 1 at 6pm at Interface Technical Training in downtown Phoenix (Central and Thomas, NW corner). Steele Price will follow-up last month's excellent presentation...(read more)

My Sillveright-Prism Article is Live!

Community Blogs — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:53:37 GMT

URL : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd9430... The new MSDN Magazine is out and my article on creating composite Silverlight applications using Prism is finally available. If you're building large scale Silverlight applications and need to learn...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2009 -- #622

Community Blogs — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:26:57 GMT

In this Issue: Corey Schuman , and Pete Brown . Shoutouts: Jonathan van de Veen is working on a new project: The birth of CodeEmbed4Web . I'm looking forward to the post saying it's ready :) From SilverlightCream.com : ToggleButton Command for Prism Are...(read more)