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DeepZoomPix: bringing together Silverlight and Azure

Have you ever wondered how Silverlight could take advantage of the Azure platform? Well, we just released DeepZoomPix a fantastic photo sharing site that takes advantage of both these technologies to provide a truly innovative way of sharing your photos. Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:00 PM by pbarone | 4 Comments

Silverlight 3 Beta 1 now available (plus other stuff)

Today at the MIX 09 conference we announced the immediate availability of the Silverlight 3 Beta 1 SDK . First of all here are the all important URLs: Developers Runtime: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=143433 Silverlight 3 Tools Beta 1 for Visual Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:31 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments

Fireworks to XAML exporter

I used to use a lot Adobe Fireworks for web design work and actually always preferred it to Photoshop to create application mockups and page layouts (I am a big fan of vector graphics and grew up using Corel Draw A LOT). Now for the joy of all Fireworks Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:07 PM by pbarone | 2 Comments

Details on Silverlight 3 start emerging…

With the MIX 09 conference approaching soon, some details on Silverlight 3.0 start emerging after Scott Guthrie’s mention of what’s coming in the post he published back in November 2008 : “Silverlight 3 will include major media enhancements (including Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:25 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments
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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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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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PhizzPop Online Design Challenge 3

For those who don’t know, Phizzpop is an international web design and development competition run by Microsoft. Round three of the competition just kicked off and the challenge is to “Help Global Electronics raise awareness for its annual Run4Power 5K Read More...
Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 12:12 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments

A lot of Microsoft technologies at Barack Obama inauguration ceremony

Microsoft Silverlight has been selected by the Presidential Inaugural Committee as the technology to be used to stream the Barack Obama inauguration ceremony, as reported on their official website . And the CNN is launching a site called “ The Moment Read More...
Posted Monday, January 19, 2009 4:07 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments

Some new Silverlight goodness

With the new year a few new things are happening in the Silverlight world. Silverlight Controls Source Code As Seema Ramchandani (a PM on the Silverlight team) blogged, we released source code for the Silverlight 2 controls. This means you can download Read More...
Posted Friday, January 16, 2009 2:59 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments

Inspiration Tour: Silverlight Slides

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Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:42 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments

My Silverlight Demo Links

I (and my colleague Ed Dunhill ) are currently visiting a number of Universities in the UK delivering technology talks as part of the Inspiration Tour (more info on the planned date are available on Ed’s blog ). During the Silverlight session we show Read More...
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 12:52 AM by pbarone | 2 Comments

Silverlight 2 is a go

Last night the Silverlight team released the final version of Silverlight 2.0 (if you are interested, the official press release is here ). While I recommend you go to Tim Heuer’s post for full details about the new release, there are a few things I would Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:21 AM by pbarone | 0 Comments
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US Elections Democratic Convention: Powered by Silverlight

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Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:17 AM by pbarone | 1 Comments
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