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Happy Halloween from the Silverlight team (and Archetype)
One of our favorite Vendors, Archetype ( http://www.archetype-inc.com ) created this great Silverlight based Haloween greeting card. You can carve your own pumpkin and send to your friends. Try it, it is great (and is hosted on Azure ): http://halloween.cloudapp.net/pumpkin/02a97183-d2c3-4b5f-a692-75c23da1370 Read More...
It is fun on the Surface
just wanted to update you that the redesign of http://surface.com is now complete, offering a better experience for customers and partners. What you’ll find: Improved layout and navigation with lots of Silverlight based content Showcase of top deployments Read More...
Our friends at contentmaster launched a new Silverlight sample site at http://www.silverlighttoys.com.
Andy Yeckel and Umesh Patel own this. Try it out. It has samples ( http://www.silverlighttoys.com/Samples.aspx ) and Tutorials ( http://www.silverlighttoys.com/Tutorials.aspx ) Sample code never hurts. Barak Read More...
Why don't you try a nice Silverlight game on Facebook?
Our dear friends in Plexipixel have created a nice Silverlight based game on Facebook. It is called Roshamboom! ( http://apps.facebook.com/roshamboom ). Roshamboom! is inspired by David C. Lovelace’s extreme rock-paper-scissors concept called RPS-101. Read More...
Want to drive more users to use your Silverlight powered web app? This one is for you.
The Silverlight Installation Experience White Paper and Sample code is now published on Microsoft’s Download Center . This paper provides an insight into the mechanism of authoring and designing a proper installation experience for Silverlight applications Read More...
Silverlight Advertizing Creation Kit is now available
The Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit (SACK) is now available for download . The SACK is targeting designers and ad creation agencies and discusses several aspects of creating ads using Silverlight. Step-by-step instructions are provided throughout Read More...
Silverlight 3 beta is here with some oomph
This week at MIX we revealed a beta version of Silverlight 3. This version addresses many asks we heard from you from your Silverlight 2 experience. There are tons of new things (in a package simiar in size): Media Smooth streamign suppot (working with Read More...
Emergence of social networks for kids with Silverlight
In my last business trip I had the pleasure to meet the leaders of a small company that is betting big on Silverlight. Shidonni is a collaborative that is targeting kids between the ages of 4-8 (way lower than other social networking sites) and is encouraging Read More...
Happy New 2009
The year had just began and it is time to share some electronic greeting cards the design agencies we work with created, please share with your freinds and family. Read More...
View a sneak peak into the X-Files trailer with Silverlight
Here it is: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/trailers/x-files/default.htm Read More...
Silverligth 2 beta 2 is available today
As announced earlier this week in TechEd, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available today. Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has many new features and enhancement over beta 1. These include the following: · UI Framework : Beta 2 includes improvements in animation support, Read More...
MSN Toolbar is live and kicking
A team of trail blaziers from MSN released last week the new MSN toolbar. This is the first commercial native Win32 application that uses Silverlight as its rendering engine. The chose Silverlight because of two reasons: Small memory footprint : MSN toolbar Read More...
Installing Silverlight became much easier OR Piotr is a hero
If you recall, until now when you installed Silverlight using the SDK Silverlight.js file, you could refresh the IE to view the content but needed to restart Firefox and Safari. Well, thanks to Piotr from our setup team, things have changed dramatically. Read More...
New Microsoft.com video portal available
Video is becoming more and more relevant format to convey information these days. Microsoft released today a new beta video portal that is a single repository of videos that Microsoft creates for various purposes (marketing, education, training and more). Read More...
Tafiti is now powered by more Windows Live services
At MIX we released an update to the Tafiti projects that integrates more Windows Live services in it (specifically, presence and P2P messenger APIs that allow one to share search favorites with buddies). You can find the new Tafiti site here: http://tafiti.mslivelabs.com/Default.aspx Read More...
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