Jit Ghosh's WebLog

TimeCode Ranges from Windows Media Metadata

jitghosh — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:46:23 GMT

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^>^...(read more)

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

jitghosh — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:36:50 GMT

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...(read more)

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

jitghosh — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:34:00 GMT

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...(read more)

IIS Media Services 3.0 Released!!

jitghosh — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:56:12 GMT

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...(read more)

Silverlight 3 is now officially released!!

jitghosh — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:25:49 GMT

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!!...(read more)

Architect Council Webcasts

jitghosh — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:50:11 GMT

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”...(read more)

MTV & Silverlight 3 at NAB 2009

jitghosh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:37:02 GMT

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...(read more)

Binding an embedded image using a value converter

jitghosh — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:52:35 GMT

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...(read more)

Open position in our team..

jitghosh — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:14:39 GMT

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...(read more)

Back to blogging - my book and other news…

jitghosh — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:29:11 GMT

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...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is now available !!

jitghosh — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:08:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Broken link to attachment fixed for previous post

jitghosh — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:18:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

jitghosh — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:43:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

jitghosh — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:22:15 GMT

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...(read more)

WPF based Music CD Ripper

jitghosh — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:13:00 GMT

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...(read more)