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Halo 3 Launched!

Halo 3 has officially hit the streets! Besides the game itself, check out the supporting info on the web, which happens to be implemented in Silverlight: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/halo3.aspx Having been out of the loop on the whole Halo series Read More...
Posted Monday, September 24, 2007 11:15 AM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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Halo 3 Promo Videos Running on Silverlight Streaming

The promotional campaign for the new Halo 3 FPS has begun with a series of in-game and thematic live action videos. High-def 2mbps videos are here: http://halo3.msn.com/videosHD.aspx Lower bandwidth versions of the same are here: http://halo3.msn.com/videos.aspx Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:32 AM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

MSN's The Podium 08 - Built On Silverlight

MSN just launched The Podium '08 as part of their 2008 US Presidential election coverage. The Podium '08 brings together data on presidential candidates for voters and election followers to explore by topic and compare candidates head to head on specific Read More...
Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 4:54 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments

ZeroGravity: Casual Gaming in Silverlight

Looks like the folks at terralever are going full-bore on Silverlight : They've implemented a delightfully addictive puzzle game called ZeroGravity using the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha runtime. Check it out! It'll be interesting to see how long before my #5 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:35 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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A Cross-Domain Silverlight Channel 9 VideoRSS Player

Last week Kevin Ledley, keeper of the dev.live.com content, asked me for a bit of help to get a Silverlight video player working. He wanted to "borrow" the cool scrolling video list and video player from our sister site, msdn2.microsoft.com and set it Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:26 AM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

Hosting Silverlight On A Server That Won't Host .JS Files

Torontonian " wavesmash " has been tinkering with getting a Silverlight app up and running on his Blogger blog. Silverlight Streaming got him most of the way there, but he found the recommended pattern of placing the Silverlight control construction in Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:10 PM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

Silverlight XPS Document Reader Proof-Of-Concept

Delay started out poking around in the XPS document format. Before he could stop himself, he had an XPS document reader implemented in Silverlight ! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:38 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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Popfly: Mashups Made Easy

Today John Montgomery 's NPT team launched Microsoft Popfly , a web-based development environment for building web applications with little or no code. John shares some background and history on his blog , but what you really ought to see first is the Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 2:05 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

AOL Building on Silverlight

Mashable.com noted a small point that I had missed during the MIX07 madness: AOL's Social Mail Gadget due out in mid-May, is being built on Silverlight . Cool! Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 10:41 AM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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Hello World with Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming

I've been tinkering with Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming and thought I'd share some of my discoveries and pointers. Silverlight is designed to dovetail into a traditional HTML+JavaScript web app. Your web page loads a Silverlight.js file and constructs Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:46 PM by dthorpe | 22 Comments

Installing Silverlight 1.1 Alpha SDK

If you set out to install the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha SDK and installed all the additional recommended (but not required) bits such as Visual Studio Orcas and ASP.NET Future , you won't see this problem so you can stop reading now. If you're a minimalist Read More...
Posted Friday, May 04, 2007 5:15 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
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MIX07: Extending the Browser Programming Model with Silverlight

Silverlight implements isolated local storage on the client. Currently in the Alpha, the storage is limited to 1MB per web application and is keyed to the full URL of the XAML/HTML page. That means for this alpha release, two pages that are part of the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:34 AM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

MIX07: Silverlight Supports Dynamic Languages (Iron Ruby, Iron Python, JavaScript)

Josh Holmes has a great summary of the Ray Ozzie / Scott Guthrie keynote yesterday. Towards the end of his post, Josh notes with shock & awe that Silverlight not only includes a .NET CLR execution environment, but also the Dynamic Language Runtime Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:17 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments

MIX07: Social Mixing

I bumped into Anders Hejlsberg in the speaker's lounge this afternoon just before my 4:30 presentation. He was at Mix to talk about LINQ , and probably on hand to provide Silverlight air cover. He asked how things were going now that I had a full year Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 11:12 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

MIX07 Keynote: Silverlight With Cross-Platform .NET Runtime

Soundbyte streams from the MIX07 keynote, live and raw: Ray Ozzie on platforms, emergence of rich web apps doesn't mean stand-alone client apps are going away. Some apps are best viewed as services with client component, other apps are best viewed as Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 12:21 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments
 
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