Silverlight TV 52: In this week’s episode of SLTV, John sits down with Kyle McClellan of the WCF RIA Services team and responds to top questions from the RIA Services forums. Kyle runs through various scenarios and provides great guidance on how...

Silverlight TV 51: In this week’s episode of SLTV, John sits down with Saurabh Pant of the WCF RIA Services team and responds to some of the most common issues customers encounter when deploying WCF RIA Services. Saurabh runs through various scenarios...

In this week’s episode of Silverlight TV, John Papa sits down with Dan Wahlin, of Wahlin Consulting and Silverlight consultant Corey Schuman, to discuss an eleven lab series Corey and Dan put together for the Silverlight Firestarter . The series...

The Silverlight team continues to grow and has several exciting new development positions available. Come join our unique team at Microsoft and help us develop core features for Silverlight. Our team has a great passion for delivering quality with the...

For me, 2010 will remain in history as the year when Silverlight really went mobile. Sure we had seen some early experiments, but this time Microsoft went full scale: Silverlight is the platform of choice to develop applications on Windows Phone 7. The...

Silverlight TV 53: In this week’s episode of SLTV, John Papa talks with Corporate Vice President, Scott Guthrie, about his upcoming keynote “Future of Silverlight Starts Now” at the Silverlight Firestarter . The Silverlight Firestarter at Microsoft Campus...

On December 2 nd Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of .Net Developer platform, will unveil the future of Silverlight in his keynote at the free Silverlight Firestarter event. The event will be streamed live from Microsoft’s Redmond HQ, kicking...

Microsoft’s SQL team just announced a new business intelligence tool built entirely on Silverlight codenamed Project “Crescent”. Project Crescent allows business users to manage data and show information in a truly innovative and...

Ever run into problems when deploying RIA Services for your LOB apps? Saurabh Pant of the WCF RIA Services team walks through solving common issues when deploying WCF RIA Services in real time in the latest episode of Silverlight TV with John Papa. Saurabh...

[This blog post is from Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools Division at Microsoft] Last week, we held our PDC conference on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. We also streamed it online using Silverlight (with both live and on-demand...

As in 2009, in 2010 both IIS Smooth Streaming and Expression Encoder are Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards finalists . With votes cast by over 7,000 voters, each of these Microsoft offerings has made it to the top 3 of categories “Encoding...

Today you can watch John Papa 's PDC 2010 session titled “ Kung Fu Silverlight: Tips and Architectural Patterns and Practices ." Here is the summary of the session: Learn about the rewards of using RIA Services together with development patterns...

Building great applications, that’s the goal we all aim for. Apps that are fluid and beautiful, easy to use, robust, well architected, and above all delight our users. The release of the RTM versions of the Windows Phone Developer Tools on September...

Watch this video as John Papa sits down with Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP at Microsoft, to discuss the state of Silverlight. Scott discusses the impact of Silverlight in applications including Windows Phone 7, the history of releases, and what his favorite...

MSN Russia recently launched a Silverlight based Music channel in collaboration with world famous music and pop culture magazine, Billboard. The new site allows music lovers to read news, play tracks and watch music videos from thousands of artists. Browsing...

On November 16th, fans of Hip Hop Artist JAY-Z will be able to explore the inspiration behind his music and art when the life-in-lyrics book, DECODED is published. But if that’s too long to wait, they can access all the pages of DECODED exclusively, today...

You may remember that we showed the world’s first 1080p live 3D web stream last month at IBC in Amsterdam. This demo used NVIDIA’s 3D Vision system , which works with 120Hz displays and consists of active shutter glasses and an infra-red emitter. Now...

After you enjoy PDC10 , continue the experience with the Silverlight Firestarter! What is the Silverlight Firestarter? - An Event: A one day, global, live streamed and on demand event keynoted by Scott Guthrie - Training: New self-paced labs...

Silverlight Media Framework 2.2 is now available and includes full support for Windows Phone 7! The open source Silverlight Media Framework (SMF) enables developers to quickly deploy a robust, scalable, customizable player for IIS Smooth Streaming...

Microsoft has long been involved with the United Nations and one of the latest examples is a site for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that lets you explore how they’ve brought relief to millions of refugees worldwide. Powered...

How hard do you think it would be to increase your pitch to win ratio by 70% ? Anvil Digital , has done just that since introducing SketchFlow , a prototyping tool, to their workflow. An interactive SketchFlow prototype really helped to engage prospective...

Football season is back and viewers in the United States can enjoy better than ever online coverage of the NFL with NBC’s Sunday Night Football Extra coverage. Last year, NBC used Silverlight with IIS Smooth Streaming to deliver a truly innovative online...

We participated in OnHollywood at USC’s Entertainment Technology Center last week in sunny Los Angeles, California where it reached a sweltering 103F (40C). But the atmosphere at the conference was even hotter with leaders from the entertainment industry...

If you're interested in live streaming, be sure to check out this step-by-step guide to creating your very own Live Smooth Streaming event using Expression Encoder courtesy of the Expression Encoder blog .

IBC is finally over for another year and it was a really good one with almost 50,000 attendees – the second highest number in its history. Here’s the wrap from the team on the ground… This was a really exciting IBC for the Microsoft...