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100 days to the Winter Olympic Games

It amazing that we are now (just) less that 100 days to the Olympic days. The new, interactive Silverlight player was recently launched on http://www.nbcolympics.com so its worth going there to see what is being planned by NBC. The site is going to broadcast Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 12:31 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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Get Me Off this Rock

I have just been checking out the latest Photosynth project on the NASA site. If you have kids, they are going to love this. You are able to zoom into a number of space stations, pan around and take a walking tour. This is all driven by silverlight and Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 6:41 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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How to build a great Silverlight Install User Experience

Laurence in the team published a blog this week which provide a lot of great advise for how you can build the best Silverlight installation experience for your website. This is based on quite a bit of research that was carried out during a number of large Read More...
Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 5:53 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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Who Likes Basketball?

Roger in the team just posted about the work he has been doing behind the scenes for the March Madness On Demand project with CBSSports . While there is a lots of great content that the viewers can see live, to ensure the correct level of quality for Read More...
Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 8:01 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Silverlight and the Inauguration

Nice to see that Silverlight is being used to stream live webcasts for the Inauguration. It started with the live stream of President-elect Barack Obama’s speaking in Baltimore’s War Memorial Plaza . Its great to see that so many sites are now starting Read More...
Posted Monday, January 19, 2009 4:31 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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Silverlight 2.0 Ships

Silverlight 2 shipped today. Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform browser plugin that enables rich media experiences and .NET (Rich Internet Applications) within the browser. Its also pretty small in size ( ~4.6MB) and takes only a few seconds to install Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:12 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Eclipse Tools for Silverlight

Busy day. A new open source project “Eclipse Tools for Silverlight” - http://www.eclipse4sl.org/ has just been announced. Full details can be found here. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-13Silverlight2PR.mspx . This will bring the Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 8:26 PM by neilhut | 4 Comments
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WPF Application Quality Guide

In light of the rapid adoption of the WPF and the continuous requests from partners and customers, yesterday the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) team release the third preliminary version of the “WPF Application Quality Guide”. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:19 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Worldwide Telescope from Microsoft Research

Keith Combs placed a very cool screencast on EDGE which shows a WorldWide Telescope application from Microsoft Research.  WorldWide Telescope - video demo and information Stars, Constellations, galaxies are all there. Very cool. You can check this Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:39 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit - May Preview

The .NET evangelism team just released a revision of the .NET 3.5 SP1 + Enhancements Training Kit, updated to reflect the changes in .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1. The May Preview release includes updated hands-on-labs as well as new presentations. The following Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:40 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
 
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