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November 2008 - Posts

Microsoft Web Platform Installer Release Candidate – Now works with XP and Windows 2003!

Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:37 PM by bgold
I'm going to blatantly steal Bill Staples words since they were so good :)   "I’m excited to announce the availability of the Release Candidate version of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI).  Web PI is a free tool that Read More...
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MSN Germany with Silverlight wins IPTV Award 2008 - coolness

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 7:02 PM by bgold
I just heard some great news from Europe: MSN Germany received the “IPTV Award 2008” for technical innovation for their brand new Social Video Mashup MSN ClipClub TV . The solution was built by Axinom , a German Microsoft partner.  In Read More...
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Give us feedback on Silverlight 2!

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 12:56 PM by bgold
  My team pulled this together, help them pick your brain! Give us feedback on Silverlight 2 We’ve put together a short survey to help us improve our Silverlight features and API. Spend 15 minutes and tell us what is good and bad about Silverlight Read More...
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Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2

Posted Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:32 AM by bgold
We've done some amazing work with Expression Blend 2 for designers and now with the final release of Silverlight 2 you can really see how it all comes together.  I was talking with Celso Gomes and Peter Blois a few weeks ago about how we could demonstrate Read More...
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>Play 2008

Posted Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:29 AM by bgold
I'm speaking at > Play this year.  The show actually started earlier this morning, but heading over in the afternoon.  If you are around, say hello :) Should be a fun one! Read More...
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IIS7 Extensions - URLRewrite and more

Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:09 PM by bgold
http://www.iis.net/extensions The team just launched a new redesigned extensions page to make it even easier to find all the great out of band features you can get and install into IIS7.  The newest downloads are URL Rewrite Module , Microsoft Web Read More...
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How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 for .NET

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2008 5:19 PM by bgold
I have been exchanging mail with Bill Konrad about how we can improve the Facebook Developer Toolkit work that we put together. It's been a popular, skunkworks project to help make it easier to target Facebook development using .NET. He put together this Read More...
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BizSpark is here -- easy access to Software, Support, and Visibility for startups

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:48 PM by bgold
Today, we announced BizSpark , a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage software Startups.  This is an awesome program that is really going to change the way startups evaluate technology usage.  Choosing Microsoft, Read More...
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MUST SEE: MSNBC Election 2008 Electoral Map

Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 6:09 PM by bgold
If you watch MSNBC and have ever seen Chuck Todd of MSNBC and his Surface applications for predicting the US Presidential Elections and wished you could do the same thing?  Well now you can, with this awesome new application from MSNBC (built with Read More...
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Silverlight + IIS Smooth Streaming is WOW

Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 11:45 AM by bgold
On Tuesday last week we announced a partnership with Akamai to deliver a solution for some of the most amazing video solution son the Web. Silverlight was designed to provide built-in support for Adaptive Streaming solutions and is fully extensible so Read More...
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Silverlight Toolkit - Already 10k downloads!

Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 11:18 AM by bgold
We announced this awesome toolkit with the RTM of Silverlight 2 and shipped the first drop at PDC, just a few days ago. Well, we crossed the 10k downloads barrier just after 6pm last night (happy Hhalloween) and are close to 11k this morning. Shawn Burke Read More...
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