Silverlight is here

Oh please, can somebody give me some extra time so I can play with this?  Thankfully we no longer have to call it by its codename, WPF/E, which I found impossible to remember.  Ryan Stewart has a great rundown of what this means and what else was announced at MIX.  There's even an alpha available for Macintosh.

Note that when you play back videos on this thing, you can right-click to use the WM "Fast" playback. Much, much better than Youtube.

Published 30 April 07 08:57 by sprague

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# kevin said on May 22, 2007 9:47 AM:

What will be the options for using Silverlight for delivering speech-recognition apps based on SAPI 5.1 or 5.3 via vb.net

# Kevin said on May 22, 2007 10:43 AM:

Posted a comment a few minutes ago. To rephrase it, will the system.speech namespace be available with Silverlight?

# sprague said on May 23, 2007 10:31 AM:

There's nothing special about speech (either to support or not support) for Silverlight.  If you can use .Net and the Windows SDK in Silverlight, you can use speech.  But distinguish between Silverlight, which is super light-weight and cross platform, and WPF, a framework based on .Net3.0. 

The NY Times newsreader is proof that speech will work with WPF:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2006/10/05/New-York-Times-Reader.aspx

I don't understand all the details -- that's why I wish I had a ton more time to look into it -- so you should direct questions to the Silverlight and WPF blogs.

 

 

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