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Joshua Allen |
Mar 17th @ 7:22 PM
Check out this footage from the MIX08 keynote; a mobile social networking application built in Silverlight by Stimulant and StepChange. You can also see an interview with the guys from Stimulant, or check out StepChange's OpenSpace presentation.
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Joshua Allen |
Mar 17th @ 7:09 PM
The NBC Olympics demo was a highlight of the MIX08 keynote; an incredible media-viewing experience built in Silverlight. Here is the footage from the keynote. You can also see an interview with Perkins Miller talking about their solution here.
Posted By:
Joshua Allen |
Mar 17th @ 7:06 PM
DoubleClick demonstrates integration between Silverlight and their ad-tracking platform, in this clip from the MIX08 keynote.
Posted By:
Joshua Allen |
Mar 17th @ 6:59 PM
Here is the MIX08 keynote footage of AOL's mail client in Silverlight. You can see an interview with the AOL folks here, or watch the breakout session where they describe their lessons learned.
Posted By:
Joshua Allen |
Mar 17th @ 6:58 PM
Here is the footage from Aston Martin's MIX08 keynote, showing the end-to-end experience from computer to auto with Silverlight. You can also see an interview with Aston and their agency, Splendid, here.
Posted By:
drobbins |
Mar 12th @ 3:28 PM
Silverlight 2 is going to allow designers and developers to reuse their existing skills to create Rich Internet Applications. This video shows how Silverlight 2 could be used to build financial applications that go beyond the typical HTML-based applications common on the web today.
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drobbins |
Mar 12th @ 2:20 PM
In this Open Space session, Patrico Jutard of Three Melons gives a demo of their Silverlight game engine. Watch the video to see some of the possiblities for developing casual internet games using Silverlight.
Posted By:
Joshua Allen |
Mar 9th @ 12:28 PM
DigiTurk is the first and only fully digital satellite television provider in Turkey. In addition to satellite TV for millions of customers in Turkey, they publish magazines and run DigiWeb portal. Like many other magazing publishers, DigiTurk saw value in using Silverlight to provide a richer reading experience. But they took the idea a step further, and built a tool which can be used by any magazine publisher to create Silverlight-based magazines.
Tim Sneath sat down with the team from DigiTurk to get a demo and hear about how they built this cool solution.
Posted By:
drobbins |
Mar 7th @ 11:49 AM
Vertigo goes over their Slide.Show Silverlight application. They talk about how they built it, where its used and how to customize it for your own needs.
Slide.Show is an open source project available on codeplex.com.
Posted By:
Brian Keller |
Mar 7th @ 10:11 AM
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Silverlight and Web Analytics
Speakers: Aaron Fossum; Bret Grinslade; Michael Scherotter; William Garrison
Description: Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) and media players built with Microsoft Silverlight are easily integrated with web analytics services like WebTrends On Demand, Omniture SiteCatalyst, and Microsoft AdCenter Analytics. In this panel, you will learn from experts at each of these companies about the different ways that Web analytics services collect data about web usage behavior and allow businesses to measure how web sites perform against business goals. Each panelist will discuss how to incorporate their company's web analytics services into Silverlight applications and then take advantage of the separation between the design in XAML and code in JavaScript to do effective A/B testing.
Posted By:
Brian Keller |
Mar 7th @ 10:11 AM
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Real World Design: Working with Silverlight and WPF in the Design Studio
Speakers: Beau Ambur (Metaliq); Chip Aubry (Tribal); Chris Bernard (MODERATOR); Jeffrey McLean (projekt202); Nathan Dunlap (Identity Mine); Rich Weston (Neudesic)
Description: Silverlight and WPF represent a new way for designers and developers work together. But what happens in a professional practice that's focused more on employing designers than developers and using Macs versus PCs for much of their daily design work? Join us as we find out how practitioners from companies like Tribal, Projekt202, Metaliq and Identity Mine discuss the learning curves and the workflow that they adapted with their visual designers and rich interactive developers to get up to speed with Expression Studio, XAML and Silverlight. You'll hear the unvarnished truth about the challenges and rewards of how Silverlight is enabling the digital design practice.
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Joshua Allen |
Mar 6th @ 4:49 PM
Some time ago, we announced that NBC would be using Silverlight to broadcast the Olympics to the web. Now, for the first time, NBC is showing what the application looks like -- and it is beautiful! Nishant interviewed Perkins Miller of NBC about the application, and got an exclusive demo -- this is all working code as shown in the keynote.
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Joshua Allen |
Mar 6th @ 9:30 AM
One of the surprises in the keynote was the announcement that Move Networks would be using Silverlight. Move powers the streaming media for some of the biggest broadcasters, and tend to be rather pragmatic about technology.
I sat down with Greg and asked him what business drivers led Move Networks to engage with Microsoft, and what potential gains they anticipate from this partnership. You might be surprised at his answers -- user experience, rather than bit-twiddling, is where the business value comes from.
Posted By:
Joshua Allen |
Mar 6th @ 9:04 AM
From NBC to AOL, Nokia to Move Networks, the broad range of spotlight Silverlight applications attest to how much maturity the platform has gained since being launched last year.
Accessibility has been something of a weak spot in Silverlight 1.0; with only very basic support for alt tags and default actions. It hasn't been all bad, since this led developers to use Silverlight with "Plain Old Semantic HTML" in a progressive enhancement pattern -- which will continue to be useful in some scenarios going forward. But the range of options for accessible development increases substantially with Silverlight 2.
In this interview and demonstration, Mark Rideout explains the new accessibility enhancements in Silverlight 2; from support for controls and tabbing to support for (UI Automation) UIA.
Posted By:
drobbins |
Mar 5th @ 11:30 PM
In this video Peter Laudati interviews Chris Love and Rob Zelt on what their reactions were to the MIX 2008 Keynote. They cover the changes to Internet Explorer 8 and the new innovations in Silverlight 2.
Some of the impressive additions to Internet Explorer include WebSlices and Acitivites. Rob was impressed by Deep Zoom in Silverlight 2.
Posted By:
Brian Keller |
Mar 5th @ 7:55 PM
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Day 1 Keynote
Speakers: Ray Ozzie, Scott Guthrie, Dean Hachamovitch
Description: The Day 1 keynote highlighted Microsoft's newest Web tools and technologies, including the release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, Silverlight 2 Beta, Expression Studio 2 Beta and a preview of SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the stage to share his vision for how Web developers and designers can deliver seamless connected experiences across the continuum of Web applications, rich clients and mobile devices. Ozzie was joined onstage by Scott Guthrie, who discussed advances in Silverlight and Expression Studio that bridge the developer/designer workflow and provide a common development model, making it easier to deliver richer, more interactive Web experiences. Also on stage was Dean Hachamovitch, who demonstrated Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, highlighting new features and functionality. Demonstrating their support for Silverlight, customers and partners also took part in the keynote, including AOL, Aston Martin, Cirque du Soleil, DoubleClick, Hard Rock, Move Networks and NBCOlympics.com on MSN.
Posted By:
Brian Keller |
Mar 5th @ 1:12 PM
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Using Microsoft Silverlight for Creating Rich Mobile User Experiences
Speakers: Giorgio Sardo
Description: Come learn how use Microsoft Silverlight for Mobile to build rich mobile experiences including best patterns and practices, fluid and intuitive navigation, smart content organization, small form factor and cross-device support. This session also covers how to use tools like Microsoft Expression Blend to move beyond size considerations to create create stunning and meaningful vector-based graphics applications.
Posted By:
Brian Keller |
Mar 5th @ 12:15 PM
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Hard Rock: Behind the Music with Deep Zoom
Speakers: Scott Stanfield
Description: Come see how Deep Zoom was used to turn the world's best collection of rock-and-roll memorabilia into a unique web experience. This session covers how this new Microsoft Silverlight 2 feature makes it possible to efficiently browse and zoom images, and how to create 200M pixel images. Learn how to tune Deep Zoom performance, particularly with thousands of image tiles comprising gigabytes of content, how to address design and UI challenges related to accessing an infinite canvas, and much more.
Posted By:
Brian Keller |
Mar 5th @ 12:00 PM
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Mobile Devices and Microsoft Silverlight: A Primer on the New Technology
Speakers: Amit Chopra; David Kline
Description: Be one the first in the industry to get a sneak peek on what's lined up for Microsoft Silverlight on Devices. This session showcases some early Silverlight Mobile Applications and shares a roadmap and release plans for Silverlight for Devices.
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Joshua Allen |
Mar 5th @ 11:22 AM
Browse through thousands of pieces of Rock-n-Roll memorabilia in the Hard Rock collection! Hard Rock just launched the Hard Rock Memorabilia site using Silverlight 2 "Deep Zoom" technology, allowing you to zoom in seamlessly and see incredible detail like fingerprints and photographer's reflections on the pieces in the collection.
We interviewed the crew that built this experience, including the Duncan of Duncan/Channon, Hard Rock, and Scott Stansfield of Vertigo. Watch the video to hear how Hard Rock approaches branding, and how they designed and built this amazing web site.
To see the complete demo footage from the keynote, click here.
Posted By:
drobbins |
Mar 3rd @ 9:05 PM
On Tuesday at 6pm in the Sandbox, we will be featuring three Silverlight applications that recently won the European Silverlight Challenge. The challenge was a contest put on by the International .NET Association (INETA)and the top three winners were awarded tickets to MIX.
Stop by after 6pm to see the winners demonstrate their applications and describe how they were built.
Posted By:
Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Serving Applications with Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live
Speakers: Remy Pairault
Description: Learn how to use Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live to deploy and serve Microsoft Silverlight content and applications quickly and easily at scale.
Posted By:
Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Adding Instant Messaging to Any Site
Speakers: Keiji Kanazawa; Nikhil Kothari
Description: Learn how your web site visitors can engage with Windows Live Messenger users by taking advantage of the Windows Live Messenger control and library. This session covers how to code with the Messenger Library in JavaScript or C# (using Script#), and we also show how you can drive Microsoft Silverlight UI with the Messenger Library.
Posted By:
Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Encoding Video for Microsoft Silverlight Delivery Scenarios
Speakers: Ben Waggoner
Description: Learn how to optimize your video encoding quality regardless or the specific distribution and infrastucture approaches you use. Detailed scenarios will cover optimizing video encoding quality for progressive download, streaming, self-hosting, Windows Live Silverlight Streaming, and third-party content delivery networks (CDNs).
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Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Integrating Media in Silverlight Applications
Speakers: Ed Maia
Description: Come learn how to incorporate media into Microsoft Silverlight applications including video playback capabilities and programmatic control of the media display. Also learn about the new content protection features of Silverlight, including the proper workflow for implementing content protection and integrity.
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Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Silverlight and Advertising
Speakers: Mark Kapczynski, Dan Penn, Michael Scherotter, Eric Schmidt, Jon Tabak (Panache), Alex Thompson (EyeWonder)
Description: Come learn how advertisers, vendors, and publishers are using Microsoft Silverlight to create amazing rich media and monetize in-stream video ads. This session covers popular topics including packaging content for ad servers, Silverlight and Flash co-existence, using Microsoft Expression Encoder to create innovative in-stream experiences, time- vs. frame-based tracking, and more.
Posted By:
Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Nerd + Art: Ten Code Snippets to Empower Your Inner Artist
Speakers: Robby Ingebretsen, Nathan Dunlap
Description: Learn how to increase what a designer can do with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight 2 using our designer's code "toolbox”10 simple concepts that will give you an edge when making your best ideas a reality. We share the code, teach you how to use it and introduce the concepts behind it.
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Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Microsoft Silverlight and Dynamic Languages
Speakers: Jimmy Schementi, John Lam
Description: Learn how the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) works in Silverlight. Includes an introduction to Microsoft Silverlight for Python and Ruby programmers.
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Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Unlocking the Creative Genome - XAML
Speakers: Arturo Toledo, Dante Gagne
Description: Come learn how to be a better and more creative designer with Silverlight and WPF by unlocking the power of XAML.
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Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2, Part 1
Speakers: Joe Stegman; Mike Harsh
Description: Learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio to create applications, how to create UI using XAML markup and code, how to build a custom control, how to retrieve data from a Web service, and how to manipulate data with XML and LINQ. (Part 1 of 2)
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Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2, Part 2
Speakers: Joe Stegman; Mike Harsh
Description: Learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio to create applications, how to create UI using XAML markup and code, how to build a custom control, how to retrieve data from a Web service, and how to manipulate data with XML and LINQ. (Part 2 of 2)
Posted By:
Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Lighting Up Your AJAX Applications with Silverlight
Speakers: Stefan Schackow; Chung Webster
Description: Come learn how to integrate Microsoft Silverlight with existing AJAX applications, including using Silverlight to add powerful new functionality like true background processing and local storage. Also learn about new ASP.NET server controls that make it easy to add XAML and media content to web pages..
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Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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The Business of Microsoft Silverlight
Speakers: Danny Riddell
Description: This session discusses the business aspects of Microsoft Silverlight, including how to ramp up an agency to be ready for Silverlight and how to pitch Silverlight to your clients. Learn how to optimize current workflow, ramp up a team, and achieve a return on Silverlight investments. Learn how the differences between Silverlight 1.0 and 2 affect business and staffing strategy.
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Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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From Flash to Silverlight: A Rosetta Stone
Speakers: Rick Barazza
Description: Come learn how Cynergy Systems has been translating skills in Flash/Flex development to Microsoft Silverlight 2 with an eye for great design. Learn how to create custom animation techniques, apply popular Flash tricks to Silverlight, and more.
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Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Silverlight as a Gaming Platform
Speakers: Joel Neubeck, Scott McAndrew
Description: Come learn how Microsoft Silverlight was used to create Tunnel Trouble, an online game built using Silverlight 2. This session covers concepts of using Silverlight technologies and tools to build game boards, animations, collision logic, game loop logic, integrating media into game play as well as integrating with web services and being more efficient with managed code.
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Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Silverlight on a LAMP Site for Media: UVNTV.com
Speakers: DJ Pooh, Rick Freeman, Luke Conner
Description: UVNTV.com is a LAMP site (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) that is using Windows Media servers to recreate a TV experience on the web using Microsoft Silverlight. They chose to use Silverlight becuase of the higher quality they were getting out of WMV/VC-1 than Flash's On2 codec. The team explains how and why they changed their site to use Silverlight from Flash.
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Brian Keller |
Mar 3rd @ 2:50 AM
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Building AOL's High Performance, Enterprise Wide Mail Application With Silverlight 2
Speakers: Eric Hoffm