In this week’s episode , Corrina continues the Design Tips miniseries by sharing her insights on how to create tiles and splash screens for Windows Phone applications. She walks through the process of creating an icon in Expression Design and how to make...

What is SketchFlow? SketchFlow, new in Expression 3, enables you to quickly create prototypes that demonstrate UI flow, screen layout and application state transitions which can then be effectively presented to your client for immediate feedback. How...

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...

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...

A quick note to let you know about that if you’re in Europe anytime between now and June 6, you can enjoy the 2010 French Open tennis championships live and on-demand on the Web via Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming. In France, check out the France...

In August 2008 we were proud to be part of sports history and deliver a Summer Olympics online experience for fans everywhere. In partnership with NBC, the Silverlight and MSN teams are once again delivering on our commitment to providing the highest...

Updated Saturday September 11th 2010 at 11am CET. IBC (International Broadcasting Conference) takes place every September in Amsterdam and is one of the most important events for broadcast and media professionals. We're live here in the Digital...

Silverlight provides an ideal platform for developing and deploying modern business applications, including critical Point of Sale (POS) applications. The ChristophDotNet blog provides a nice introduction of how Silverlight can be used in a POS environment...

From time to time we get asked about Silverlight support for various codecs. The codecs change (today we’re getting some questions regarding WebM/VP8) but our answer is consistent regardless of the individual codec: We are strongly committed...

Schematic used the engaging rich internet application of Silverlight 3 and the responsiveness of Windows Azure cloud platform to build a cutting edge Twitter application, the recently released Beta version of Twittzure. TwittZure enables users to access...

In 2000, Brazil based New Age Software launched its ERP application and received disappointing feedback from customers about how the front-end was time consuming to install and the interface was difficult to learn and operate. As a result, New Age Software...

We are proud to announce that Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 is now available for download. LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create high-quality Silverlight business applications for the desktop and the cloud. If you are new to Visual...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Microsoft Regional Director Brian Noyes presents 'WCF RIA Services Validation'. In this recorded webinar Brian discusses the following topics: Quick review of the update process of WCF RIA Services...

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...

By: Peter VanRysdam, Chief Marketing Officer at 352 Media Group, shares his experience developing for Windows Phone 7 Series using the Silverlight platform. Earlier this month, thousands of MIX10 attendees, and countless more who watched online, got...

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...

Effective Rich Internet Applications are everyone’s goal. To measure this effectiveness, developers and designer need to instrument the application and collect data about the ways users interact with them. Often instrumentation is being done after the...

Yesterday we announced our news for NAB next week in Las Vegas. Today we wanted to point out some other cool experiences to check out in Las Vegas. First we are showing the industry’s most exciting demo of live 3D HD streaming using IIS Smooth Streaming...

If you're building Silverlight 4 applications then you've more than likely heard the term "commanding" used at a talk, in a forum or in talking with a WPF or Silverlight developer. What is commanding and why should you care about it? In a nutshell...

Silverlight TV 68: In this week’s episode of SLTV, Paul Stubbs, of Sharepoint Sideshow , joins John to discuss some new features the Sharepoint team have released for Visual Studio to make Silverlight development easier. Paul walks through the new...

This NFL season, NBC thrilled football fans by broadcasting Sunday Night Football on 2 screens – television and online. And now, as a result of this great work, Sunday Night Football Extra and NBC Sports have been nominated for a 2010 Sports Emmy® Nomination...

Halo: Reach is here, and a new official Halo site has also been released using a well-orchestrated combination of Silverlight and HTML. Silverlight allows Microsoft Game Studios to bring an experience to the web that is on brand and offers a familiar...

Silverlight Webinar: In this episode of Silverlight Show, Microsoft Regional Director Gill Cleeren presents 'Switch or no switch: Can I build my business apps in LightSwitch?' In this recorded webinar Gill discusses how to build professional LOB applications...

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...

This morning (Sep 15 2009) at TechCrunch 50 , Yusuf Mehdi showed Bing’s new Silverlight powered Visual Search experience. Visual Search is using images to help customers refine and complete common vertical search galleries such as shopping, travel...