It’s official! As of today Silverlight is now supported within Windows Media Center. Microsoft just announced the immediate availability of the Netflix service on Windows Media Center for Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate. Under the hood, this...

See how OriginDigital, partnering with Schematic, used Silverlight, Expression Blend and DeepZoomPix to create a unique user experience tool that integrates video and written materials for corporate PR and training uses. View this video as a WMV...

Add animation, navigation and interactivity to your projects without writing code. Developers are able to encapsulate pieces of interactivity into reusable Behaviors that can then be utilized within Expression Blend. A Behavior is added to an element...

Winning a Design Week award is similar to winning an Oscar, or Bafta, in the film world: it’s the ultimate recognition from your peers that you have produced something exciting and unique that engages beyond purely answering the words of the design...

Today is a big day for Enterprise media departments who want to migrate to Silverlight. At the Streaming Media East show in New York City this morning, Qumu, Inc., known as an innovator in rich media streaming video solutions for the enterprise, announced...

As part of its charter, NASA is tasked with providing public education on its work and programs. To that end, NASA teamed up with Microsoft to bring the public an up close and personal view of the International Space Station and a full scale model of...

Silverlight, take a bow. You just won best supporting role in NBC’s big win at the 30 th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards . NBC won an Emmy for its online coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics, in the category “Outstanding New Approaches Sports...

Yesterday, Microsoft and the New York Times released a New York Times Silverlight Kit ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/NYTimesSilverlight ) at the Enterprise Developer Conference in NYC. The kit makes it easier for designers and developers to use REST...

We’re excited to say that Miguel and team have made the Moonlight 2 Preview available today! For those that don’t know, Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight for Linux built by Novell. We’ve been working with them...

Why tramp around car lots in the heat or rain when you can check out geographic availability, price, and even customer ratings of your favorite vehicles on a single Web site? Kelley Blue Book is using Microsoft Silverlight to give consumers an easy interactive...

Where can you share--and find--design-related assets at Microsoft? Just a few weeks ago, we launched an easy answer to this dilemma. The Expression Gallery on the Expression Community site gives you a place to show off the projects you've been working...

The problem Creating a rich interactive application today is generally a time consuming and manual process with little opportunity to streamline and simplify the workflow across a team. Expression Blend 3 is tackling this problem and allowing UX specialists...

DeepZoomPix is an exciting technology demo to show what happens when design and some cool technology is applied to an increasingly common scenario: viewing large collections of photos online. We’ve all experienced it: someone sends you a link to their...

We have just returned from NAB 2009 where Silverlight 3 was revealed to the media world. Smooth Streaming, a feature of IIS Media Services that provides adaptive streaming media delivery to Silverlight, also made its debut. This is the third year I’ve...

Today, as many of you probably already saw, Facebook announced some new APIs to further open up access to the Facebook Stream through their new Open Streams API. Microsoft participated in their Developer event, where we began to outline and demonstrate...

This past week the entire Webby Awards platform, including The Webby People's Voice Awards voting system switched to Microsoft Silverlight. The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, and has been sponsored...

Where do I start? That is a great question. Depending on whether you prefer to think in code or work visually the answer to where you should start will be different. For developers already on the Microsoft platform this is an easier question to...

An obvious question and one you’d expect to get an off-the-shelf answer to, so when I set out to answer it I first looked to the myriad definitions already written and the formal positioning statements for Silverlight. I duly consulted the definitions...

Dr. Dobb’s Journal and the Microsoft Visual Studio team have teamed up to create Dr. Dobb’s Challenge Deuce , a competition with $10,000 in prizes. They’ve built a Silverlight game where Dr. Dobbs and his team of friends work together to solve several...

This past month has been whirl wind to say the least! I’m so excited and amazed to see the support of our customers and partners on the blogoshere congratulating us on the advancements we’ve made within Silverlight 3 at MIX last month. We’ve made big...

The final buzzer has sounded and the results are in! Online coverage of the tournament has been a huge success, providing an exceptional experience for fans and solid business results for CBS Sports. The headline numbers : 3.2 million unique visitors...

Today we saw that MLB went live with a video streaming solution that is built using Adobe Flash and the Swarmcast NexDef browser plug-in for their HD streaming video experience. It is an example of how you can deliver higher quality experiences on the...

Welcome to the inaugural Silverlight/UX team blog. My name is Chris Carper , and I am a Director on the Silverlight Business development team here at Microsoft. This is what we hope will be many Silverlight blog posts from those whose day to day jobs...

MySpace today announced the introduction of Silverlight into the MySpace Open Platform and together the companies will release an Open Source kit (available on CodePlex later this week) that makes it easy to design and develop OpenSocial applications...

I’d like to introduce myself and the new Silverlight blog where we will provide the latest and greatest information, commentary, and thinking for Silverlight. Here, you will get to hear from the folks who build and market the technology, find useful...