Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Telerik Windows Phone Evangelist Evan Hutnick explains how you can start utilizing the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 in your mobile Silverlight applications today. See how the RadAnimation...

Silverlight TV 62: In this week’s episode of SLTV, the Silverlight 5 Triad joins John on Silverlight TV to discuss their Silverlight 5 roles, some ways they receive feedback from customers, how they interact with each other, and to talk about some...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Microsoft Regional Director Brian Noyes presents ‘Querying & Updating Data from Silverlight Clients with WCF RIA Services'. In this recorded webinar Brian discusses the following topics...

The Silverlight team is pleased to announce that the Silverlight 4 GDR3 is now live on Microsoft Update and Microsoft.com . Users will get the update when performing update scans over the coming weeks and all install redirections from websites that feature...

Silverlight provides several different options for validating data. In this post, Dan Wahlin focuses on one of the options related to IDataErrorInfo and shows how the interface can be implemented by classes to support validation and allow Silverlight...

Are you still using Windows Media Encoder? Are you unfamiliar with Microsoft’s next generation media technologies? If so, then please join us for a Streaming Media webinar, “Migrating from Windows Media Encoder to Expression Encoder,”...

Enterprise video is increasingly being recognized by industry experts, such as Gartner, as an important strategic technology. Accordingly, the Expression Encoder and IIS Media Services Team attended the new Business Video Expo, part of ITEXPO East 2011...

The Mono® Project, an open-source initiative sponsored by Novell, announced the preview availability of Moonlight™ 4, an open source Linux implementation of Silverlight. The release gives Firefox and Google Chrome users on Linux access to the...

Microsoft MVP Kunal Chowdhury provides step-by step instruction on how to pin/unpin any Windows application to the Windows 7 taskbar directly from a Silverlight 4 out-of-browser application. Read Full Post: Interoperability with Windows 7 Taskbar using...

Silverlight TV 61: Thinking about writing a touch intensive Windows Phone 7 application? In this week’s episode of SLTV, David Kelley of Wirestone shares his experience in creating rich experiences with Silverlight. David has been involved with...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Microsoft Regional Director Gill Cleeren presents ‘Build a Silverlight 4 Application end-to-end’. In this recorded webinar Gill discusses the following topics: Building the...

OData (Open Data Protocol) is a web protocol for querying and updating data build upon web technologies such as HTTP, AtomPub and JSON. OData can be used to expose and access data from a several types of data sources. This post will show how to expose...

Silverlight TV 60: Did you ever want to write a game with Silverlight for Windows Phone 7? In this week’s episode of SLTV, Ryan Plemons, Senior Developer with Terralever , shares his journey in optimizing the Silverlight based Zero Gravity game...

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) is a pattern that is popular in Silverlight applications because it specifically addresses the power of data-binding and allows for a clean separation between presentation and business logic. There is a common misconception...

Expression Encoder 4 Pro is a streamlined video production tool that enables you to focus your time and energy on enhancing, encoding and delivering your on-demand or live video content at higher quality with less effort. Expression Encoder Pro supports...

Silverlight TV 59: Ever wonder what goes into making Silverlight? In this week’s episode of SLTV, John Papa goes behind the scenes with some folks who are responsible for testing and getting the Silverlight bits out to the public. Andy Rivas, Program...

Although Silverlight provides a great framework for building Line of Business applications, business processes often require HTML content, SSRS reports or PDF documents to be integrated into an application. In this post you’ll learn about different...

On December 14, 2010, Paramount Digital Entertainment announced that it will release ten enhanced movie “Apps” of Paramount Pictures films exclusively for Windows® Phone 7, built using Microsoft Silverlight technology. In addition to a full film, the...

Silverlight TV 58: New Windows Phone 7 applications are being uploaded to the marketplace all the time. But is your application standing out? In this week’s episode of SLTV, John and Corrina Black kick off a new Silverlight TV mini series called...

Native Extensions 1.0 for Microsoft Silverlight (NESL) is a new toolkit that contains a set of Silverlight libraries that enable Silverlight 4 out-of-browser applications to interact with cool Windows 7 features: · Take advantage of sensors...

Silverlight TV 57: Application performance is a hot topic, and for good reason. User Experience is hugely important, but if your app is slow then everything degrades, including UX. In this week’s episode of SLTV, John talks to the Silverlight team...

Today, InfoWorld published its Technology of the Year Awards naming Silverlight 4 “Best Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform”! Other Microsoft winners include Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 for Best IDE and SharePoint 2010 for Best Collaboration...

Silverlight TV 56: In this week’s episode of SLTV, John sits down with Saurabh Pant of the WCF RIA Services team and discusses the story of RIA Services and Azure. Saurabh walks through the scenarios in which Azure and RIA Service make sense together...

For the Silverlight team, 2010 was a year when lots of hard work came to fruition. We launched Silverlight v4, announced 5, went mobile, went social and delivered transformative media experiences around the world. Here’s our list of Top 10 Silverlight...

Silverlight TV 55: In this week’s episode of SLTV, John welcomes Dave Campbell. Dave, a Silverlight MVP and creator of Silverlight Cream , recently published his 1000th Silverlight Cream post, calling out the best and most interesting Silverlight...