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Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:46 PM

TimeCode Ranges from Windows Media Metadata

As a follow up to my previous post , I have updated the code to add the ability to extract SMPTE timecode ranges.    The WMMetadataReader class (in WMMetadataReader.h) now has a public method like below: System::Collections::Generic::List<SMPTETimeCodeRange^>^
Posted by jitghosh | 1 Comments
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:36 PM

2nd Edition of our Silverlight Recipes book is now available…

  Rob and I worked hard on updating this for SL 3. If you do happen to purchase it, please let us know if you like the format, the topics and any thoughts on how we can improve. We are about to start early work on the next edition for Silverlight
Posted by jitghosh | 2 Comments
Saturday, November 07, 2009 7:34 PM

Windows Media Metadata in Managed Code (and by extension - Silverlight)

I have encountered several inquiries about accessing the metadata embedded in Windows Media file headers from Silverlight. Unfortunately Silverlight does not expose this information out of the box. The only way you can access this is by utilizing the
Posted by jitghosh | 0 Comments
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:56 AM

IIS Media Services 3.0 Released!!

The IIS Media Services team just released the IIS Media Services 3.0 suite of technologies. This is pretty big release for us – with Live Smooth Streaming possibly being the coolest part of it. If you are watching the NBC Sunday Night Football on the
Posted by jitghosh | 1 Comments
Friday, July 10, 2009 1:25 PM

Silverlight 3 is now officially released!!

WooHoo!! Go read more about it in Scott’s blog here . I will be positing my own experiences and thoughts in the coming days.   Learn more and download at http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/   Enjoy!!
Posted by jitghosh | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:50 PM

Architect Council Webcasts

The Microsoft Patterns & Practices team, in collaboration with members of the Microsoft Developer Evangelism team (my uber team that is) is putting together a series of webcasts titled “Pragmatic Patterns for Architects” . I would vote “must attend”
Posted by jitghosh | 1 Comments
Monday, April 27, 2009 6:37 PM

MTV & Silverlight 3 at NAB 2009

NAB 2009 rocked !! It was exhausting working the booth, standing on my feet all day, talking to so many people over the course of four days, but it was so exciting at the same time. We showed many cool things at the Microsoft booth, including Silverlight
Posted by jitghosh | 4 Comments
Saturday, October 25, 2008 12:52 AM

Binding an embedded image using a value converter

Recently I needed to bind some embedded images to data templates. If you look at the Image type in Silverlight 2, you will see that it exposes a Source property of type ImageSource that can be set to the URI of an image either relative to the XAP, or
Posted by jitghosh | 1 Comments
Saturday, October 18, 2008 2:14 PM

Open position in our team..

Our team (Developer & Platform Evangelism for Communications, Media & Entertainment) is looking to hire a person in the role of a Platform Strategy Advisor. A PSA is a very exciting, highly visible, and influential role within the team and the
Posted by jitghosh | 1 Comments
Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:29 PM

Back to blogging - my book and other news…

I have been inconspicuously absent on blogosphere for a while now. For my handful readers – I hope you missed me :-). I am back to blogging and hope to put out some more interesting stuff for you guys in the coming weeks. First for exciting news. We are
Posted by jitghosh | 1 Comments
Friday, June 06, 2008 11:08 PM

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is now available !!

Woo - Hoo!! Navigate over to http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ to download the freshly minted beta 2 bits including the runtime, the SDK, and the Visual Studio 2008 tools for Silverlight 2 development. There is also a brand new version of Blend 2.5 preview
Posted by jitghosh | 2 Comments
Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:18 AM

Broken link to attachment fixed for previous post

Sone folks pointed that the code sample attachment in my previous post on the Async Multiple File Upload Control for Silverlight 2 was broken. I have fixed it in the post as well provided a link below to the code on my Windows Live SkyDrive. http://cid-60bb739cbf5d117b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/MultiFileUpload/MultiFileUpload.zip
Posted by jitghosh | 2 Comments
Friday, March 28, 2008 12:43 AM

Async Multi File Upload Control with Metadata support for Silverlight 2 (Beta 1)

By now a lot of you must be having a lot of fun of Silverlight 2 Beta 1. If you have not downloaded, installed and played with SL 2 Beta 1, I urge you do it right away - you are missing out!!! You can download SL2 here . I have been working on a number
Posted by jitghosh | 15 Comments
Monday, March 17, 2008 11:22 AM

Slides and Demos from Developer Days, March 13th in New York

I recently gave two presentations at one of our events in New York - one on WPF and one on Silverlight 2. A lot of folks asked me to make the slide decks and the code demos available. So here they are (zipped) - you can download them from my Windows Live
Posted by jitghosh | 3 Comments
Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:13 PM

WPF based Music CD Ripper

One of the WPF based projects I am working on right now needs some functionality to enable ripping music CD's a la Windows Media Player. I was digging into the various Windows Media SDK's as well as the Media Foundation stuff in Windows Vista to find
Posted by jitghosh | 7 Comments
Attachment(s): CDRipper.zip
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