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TextGlow

ebgriffin1968 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:04:19 GMT

Silverlight Word 2007 document viewer on the Web. Kool

Silverlight at the MIX08 Conference

ebgriffin1968 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:02:14 GMT

Can't go to Mix? It's sold out. But

Watch the MIX08 keynotes streamed live real time over the internet on Wednesday, March 5th 9:30 AM - 12:00PM Pacific Time and Thursday, March 6th 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Pacific Time by clicking on one of the following three streams: 750kbps, 300kbps, 100kbps.

View MIX08 sessions posted 24 hours after they happen at the conference.

Take a class at MIX University

Subscribe to MIX RSS Feed

MIX08 Conference - March 5-7, 2008

Free Software for Students at Microsoft DreamSpark

ebgriffin1968 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:49:54 GMT

No Express editions here. We're talking Professional versions. Know a student? Are you a student? Go find out more about DeamSpark

Microsoft DreamSpark

Silverlight Video Streaming Solution with Source Code

ebgriffin1968 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:26:25 GMT

Quality code up on CodePlex called Video.Show.

Here is the description of what you get:

Designed to get you up and running quickly with minimal setup and configuration

All video is hosted at Silverlight Streaming, which gives you 4GB storage and 700 Kbps bandwidth via Microsoft's worldwide Content Delivery Network

Comments are time-based and are synchronized with video playback

Demonstrates a data layer built using Linq To Sql

Broad media format support (avi,mp4,asf,mpeg,dvr-ms,mpg,m2v,ts,m4v,vob,mov, and wmv) via Expression Encoder

Leverages the AJAX Control Toolkit to add animations and interactivity

Encoding properties are configurable via standard Expression Encoder job file

Cross broswer (IE 6 and 7, Firefox 2, and Safari 3)

Open source and designed with a webservice architecture

Video.Show - Home

Silverlight Search Site keeps getting better

ebgriffin1968 — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:37:50 GMT

I was just playing around with Tafiti ( the Silverlight Search Front end). If you haven't checked it out do so. I especially like the Tree view of search results. Nice!

Kool Silverlight Waldseemüller Maps at Library of Congress

ebgriffin1968 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:21:58 GMT

Just kicking around the LOC site that I mentioned in an earlier post. Check out the live Silverlight Map at the library of congress.

Waldseemüller Maps

Popfly Goes Public Beta!

ebgriffin1968 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:41:54 GMT

Steve Ballmer will announce the Popfly Public open beta today at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco.

That's right. It's here. Popfly is now opened up to the masses.

Go sign up now and create your first Mashup in 30 seconds.

I have another announcement coming shortly. Stay tuned.

VectorForm: More Silverlight Demos With Source Code!

ebgriffin1968 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:13:00 GMT

VectorForm has several kool Silverlight demos available for you to check out and download.

Of course I wouldn't be mentioning it if the source wasn't included.

Dr. Dobbs Silverlight FlipBook with Source!

ebgriffin1968 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:55:23 GMT

Dr. Dobb's famous program Flipbook has been ported over to Silverlight. The best think about it is they are giving away the entire source code!

Oh Yeah! Go get it!

Dr. Popper Silverlight Game with Source Code!

ebgriffin1968 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:54:00 GMT

Cool game called Dr. Popper is available in Silverlight.

And you know I wouldn't be mentioning it if it didn't have the source code!

Here is the game.

Here is the game code.

Silverlight Physics Engine on CodePlex

ebgriffin1968 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:41:42 GMT

The Farseer Physics Engine is an easy to use 2D physics engine designed for Microsoft’s XNA and Silverlight platforms. The Farseer Physics Engine focuses on simplicity, useful features, and enabling the creation of fun, dynamic games.

Go get it here.

More Silverlight Code from Tim Heuer

ebgriffin1968 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:58:52 GMT

I read Tim Heuer's blog for great insights and of course great code. He recently posted a great article that has to do with RSS and JSON. The sample is all Silverlight.

You can read about it and get the source code here.

See what Silverlight can do: tafiti

ebgriffin1968 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:52:51 GMT

I been playing around tafiti. It's all Silverlight and is a hint of things to come.

3D Modeling tool for Silverlight

ebgriffin1968 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:16:26 GMT

If you are into 3D and you are into Silverlight then I have the tool for you.

Breeze Designer is kool and a little rough. But what do you expect from cutting edge stuff.

Silverlight Tetris with Source Code

ebgriffin1968 — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:21:00 GMT

Like I've said before. I love to learn from games.

Check out the classic game Tetris created by Jose Luis Quintero Mendez created with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. Here's the code:Silverlight Tetris source code .

Nice