How would you share the largest and most valuable collection of rock memorabilia with the world? Hard Rock, along with their worldwide marketing agency, Duncan/Channon , and Vertigo , a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, turned to Microsoft for inspiration...

We’re partnering with Streamingmedia.com and Internap to deliver a webcast on enterprise video. Streaming video in the enterprise is an important but challenging area. Join Streaming Media’s Dan Rayburn, Microsoft’s Chris Knowlton, and Internap’s Peter...

Our second Silverlight podcast features an interview with James Clarke of the Expression Encoder team. Learn about how Encoder works, screen capture and its object model. There are two versions: Enhanced AAC file for iPod: click here Standard MP3 file...

Can’t make it across the ocean to see The Championships, Wimbledon next week? Don’t worry, neither can we. But we’re not going to let a few thousand miles get in your way of still having an up-close and personal experience this year. NBC Sports and the...

Major updates to the Project Rosetta site shipped today, including a new a series of Flash to Silverlight tutorials, an updated API Guide with a quick reference list and a full list of recommended tools, code samples and frameworks to download. Access...

IBC is one of the largest conferences and exhibitions for the electronic media industry and we’ll be there starting this Friday in Amsterdam! Today, in advance of the show, we made some announcements about Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming...

Expression Blend 3 revolutionizes the speed and efficiency you can take your ideas from concept to completion on the Silverlight and .NET platforms. Concepts and ideas can live through the project end-to-end, reducing redundancy, enhancing creativity...

Learn more about the point, line and form; elements of design (some theorists see them as principles of design). These elements are the foundation you can use to compose and design user interfaces. Explore these elements while exploring Expression Design...

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...

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...

Friday night kicked off the opening ceremonies of the XXI Games of the Winter Olympiad in Vancouver, British Columbia. This has ushered in a new era of internet based video experiences using Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming that will give viewers...

The first episodes of Silverlight TV are now available on Channel 9 . Go behind the scenes at Microsoft with John Papa and learn what the Silverlight product team is dreaming up next. See exclusive interviews with the Silverlight product team, watch how...

Using Silverlight, Expression Design, Expression Web, DeepZoomPix and Visual Studio, 2nd Factory in Tokyo created an application for Yahoo! Japan to track sites, images and video and photo assets by category. This tool allows Yahoo! Japan to compare content...

Listen to media experts Jaime Miles of Level 3 Communications and Chris Knowlton of Microsoft talk about delivering True HD Video (1080p) over the Web on Thursday, October 15 th . Click here to register and learn why Smooth Streaming is the future of...

In this video, Arturo Toledo of the Microsoft Expression team talks about “Rhythm”, a principle of design that helps you define visual patterns that people will read to understand your composition and user interface layout. To learn more about Rhythm...

With only one week until MIX10, we wanted to give you a heads-up on all the news coming out of the conference, and highlight some of the great Silverlight sessions that every developer should attend. For those of you that don’t know, MIX is Microsoft...

A couple of days ago we posted our 2009 Top 10 for Silverlight. One of the ways we came up with that list was by looking at traffic to this blog and which announcements received the most attention. During the process, we also discovered that many of you...

Learn more about Unity, a principle of design that will help you communicate visual cohesion in your user interface composition. Unity will help you communicate a single message even when using multiple objects. Learn more about Unity while exploring...

In this video from the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo of the Expression team at Microsoft, demonstrates Emphasis, a basic principle of design. Watch this video to learn more about the concept of Emphasis while using Expression Design. Principles...

Stimulant worked with Microsoft and StepChange to create "MIXr", a Silverlight-based application, in only 6 weeks using the Microsoft® Expression® suite.   Who's Using Expression? Stimulant

Want to see what happened this year at MIX '09? Watch this video for a recap to see and hear what attendees and presenters had to say about the show. [Linked Content No Longer Available] MIX '09 Overview Video

We kicked off MIX10 this morning to a packed house of designers and developers who are building the world’s most innovative consumer-facing and enterprise Web and desktop applications.  Attendees come from around the world and represent top web sites...

When the Democratic National Convention Committee needed help with creating a live broadcast of video on the Web from the 2008 Convention, Microsoft turned to Vertigo.  Using Silverlight, and  Microsoft® Expression®,  to launch the site...

Today, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Microsoft is announcing the latest release of the Silverlight browser plug-in and the upcoming availability of Expression 3 design tools. The live launch event is headlined by a keynote speech presented by S. Somasegar...

Learn how to work with bitmap images in Expression Design. In this video you will learn how to crop objects inside of photos and then apply effects to change the color or blur out these objects. Simple but powerful tricks to help you do anything you want...