The Brain Dump : Silverlight Streaming

Important Updates to Live Services!

benwilli — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:58:46 GMT

from the Live Services blog : Important Updates to Live Services

Starting September 8th, 2009 the Live Framework CTP (services, SDK & Tools) will be unavailable.

The Live Framework will be integrated into the next release of Windows Live. Stay tuned to dev.live.com for more details in the future.

There are a few other items but the people I’ve worked with over the past year likely are most affected by the Live Framework change.

Please see the whole article for details. Make sure any data you need that is currently in the Live Framework CTP (not Mesh, Live Mesh will remain available to end users and is not affected) needs to be copied because “Microsoft will not retain any data and/or solutions that are a part of the Live Framework CTP offering.”

Thanks again to everyone for your participation and feedback!

Silverlight Streaming updates

benwilli — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:55:23 GMT

1) One common request I have seen over and over both internally and externally is "How do I get a direct HTTP link to my video?" Well ask and ye shall receive. Just use the following format:

http://silverlight.services.live.com/accountId/fileSet/fileName.wmv

2) Plus a new robust, restartable video uploader. Have you ever tried to upload a large video only to have a network problem cause it to fail when it was 90% completed? No worries. Just resume and finish that last 10%!

Make money with Silverlight Streaming? Yes. Download it as a desktop app? No.

benwilli — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:49:36 GMT

The ads pilot is finally available for Silverlight Streaming. You can fill out the form to indicate interest in taking part in the program.

And it looks like they yanked the new deployment mechanism (HTAs) for SLS apps so they can address it properly in a cross-browser friendly manner later.

Silverlight Streaming update!

benwilli — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:33:19 GMT

Silverlight Streaming has had an update pushed out. You can read the details but the summary is

a new invocation method: link to an HTA package of your Silverlight app.
performance improvement for the accounts that use a large number of file sets
more liberal naming convention for applications (the better to use internationally, my dear)
some bug fixes

I may test out the perf changes. I have a Deep Zoom app which is a 40x40 tileset. I just need enough bandwidth to actually upload it!