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February 2009 - Posts

Expression Media 2 Service Pack 2 just released

Expression Media is one of the components of the Expression Suite and allows you to manage all kind of media files, organise and share them. We just released the Service Pack 2 which is available via Windows Update and Mac Autoupdate and also at the following Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:53 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments

Silverlight Insight event for UK Academics

We (the Microsoft Academic Team in the UK) are arranging an event targeted to Academics in Universities and Design Schools in the UK. Silverlight Insight is a one-day event designed to give attendees a solid understanding of the Silverlight 2 platform Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:39 PM by pbarone | 6 Comments
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Whitepaper: Silverlight Migration Guide

Windows Media technologies have been used for a long time to deliver audio and video content over the Internet and in private Intranet because of several factors such as low infrastructure costs, high scalability, digital rights management and very high Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:34 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments

Creating games with Silverlight

Nikola Mihaylov, a Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft working on the WPF/Silverlight tools for Visual Studio, just published a document called “ Anatomy of a Silverlight Game ” on how to create games in Silverlight . Here is how Nikola describes Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:35 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments
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Whitepaper published: How to setup a XNA Lab

I have been sitting on this for a while but I think it is worth publishing anyway… Our colleagues in the US published a whitepaper on how to set up a XNA lab called “ Implementation Strategies for Microsoft XNA Game Development in Academic Laboratory Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:14 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments
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UK Universities on Twitter

As those who read this blog probably realised, I am quite addicted to Twitter and think it is a really useful service to connect to interesting people worldwide. Especially those interested in Software and the software industry should really take a look Read More...
Posted Friday, February 20, 2009 2:52 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments
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Silverlight update for developers

As posted earlier , we just released an update for Silverlight . Anyway the update available on the most publicized resource, only works for the standard player and not for the developers version that gets installed with the Silverlight tools for Visual Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:27 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments
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The history of Microsoft

Not exactly breaking news here but I find this worth mentioning anyway… The guys at Channel 9 started a series of videos about the History of Microsoft . In their own words “Welcome to The History of Microsoft .  A video series that gives you a rare Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:45 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments
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New Silverlight stuff

Today (as announced by Tim Sneath ) the Silverlight team released an update for the plug in which is available here . The official version number is Silverlight 2 GDR 1 (2.0.40115.0) (and in case you are wondering, GDR stands for General Distribution Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009 1:28 PM by pbarone | 2 Comments
 
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