Eric Griffin's Blog : SilverLight

Silverlight 2.0 is Here

ebgriffin1968 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:48:00 GMT

Go get it: http://www.silverlight.net

TextGlow

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

Silverlight Word 2007 document viewer on the Web. Kool

TextGlow

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

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 Bar Chart Tutorial

ebgriffin1968 — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:32:00 GMT

New Silverlight Tutorial by Adam Kinney with source code.

Silverlight 1.0 Bar Chart Tutorial

Silverlight XAML from Clip Art

ebgriffin1968 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:45:56 GMT

Nice article on how to convert graphics for use by Silverlight.

Converting Clip Art to Silverlight XAML

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

Silverlight Animation

ebgriffin1968 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:10:44 GMT

Dr. Dobbs Portal has a great article about Silverlight Animation. You can read it here.

Silverlight on the Library of Congress site

ebgriffin1968 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:08:15 GMT

Ryan Stewart at the ZDNet Blog highlights the use of Silverlight at the Library of Congress.
You can read more about it here.

Silverlight support added to MediaSite 4.3

ebgriffin1968 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:04:05 GMT

Sonic Foundry has announced that Mediasite 4.3 , a patented Webcasting and content management platform, has added support for Silverlight.

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.

New 3D Engine for Silverlight on Codeplex

ebgriffin1968 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:27:15 GMT

Kit3D is a 3D graphics engine written to work with Microsoft Silverlight. The library is currently written in JavaScript and supports 3D perspective projection and texture mapping. This library allows anyone to easily create 3D content for your Silverlight application.

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!