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April 2007 - Posts

Silverlight Streaming is Now Live

Head over to silverlight.live.com to create yourself a Silverlight Streaming account key and begin uploading your Silverlight applications and media. Silverlight Streaming allows you to upload up to 4GB of media content, with videos of up to ten minutes Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 11:08 AM by tims | 18 Comments

Expression Media Encoder

Download a free trial version here ... Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 10:49 AM by tims | 1 Comments

WPF Momentum Video

For the last few months, I've been featuring a portfolio of great WPF applications that have shipped since we launched WPF. We turned some of those, plus a bunch of new ones, into a keynote "anthem" video that Ray Ozzie just showed. I thought I'd upload Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 10:27 AM by tims | 11 Comments
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Silverlight Screencasts

To coincide with the launch of the Silverlight 1.0 Beta, my team has been working hard on a great series of intermediate-level screencasts on Silverlight that are just hitting the wires now. Each video is about five minutes in length, and covers a "how Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 9:54 AM by tims | 30 Comments

Keeping Track of MIX

Our flagship conference for web designers and developers, MIX , starts today in Las Vegas. This event is unlike any other Microsoft conference, with a fascinating mix of internal and external speakers even including a few that are openly hostile towards Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 8:28 AM by tims | 8 Comments
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Our First WPF End-To-End Reference Sample: Family.Show

The first three days of next week are going to be crammed full of announcements as MIX gets under way (click the hyperlink above to view the virtual conference site, where you'll be able to keep up-to-date on everything that's going on). In any big week Read More...
Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 5:15 PM by tims | 20 Comments
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How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

I'm sure some readers will be interested in the decision making process that we went through to arrive at the name of Silverlight for our new web runtime platform. It was a tough choice; we know that WPF/E was much loved by the community and that acronyms Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:10 PM by tims | 37 Comments
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Silverlight Redux: Listening to Feedback...

Although it was great to see that my post on Silverlight got picked up in a few places (in particular, Digg and TechMeme ), it certainly generated a lot of feedback in the comments section! I hope that after reading the comments, you'll at least give Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 6:38 PM by tims | 23 Comments
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Introducing Expression Media Encoder

It's been a busy day of announcements! Amidst the hubbub of the introduction of Silverlight, complete with industry pundits drooling with glee at the thought of a titanic clash between Adobe and Microsoft, we also announced a key new media utility as Read More...
Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 5:22 PM by tims | 3 Comments

Introducing Microsoft Silverlight

It is with tremendous pleasure that I can reveal Microsoft Silverlight : our next-generation, cross-platform, cross-browser web client runtime. Silverlight (previously codenamed "WPF/E") is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich media experiences Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:10 PM by tims | 181 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #15: Microsoft Indexing Service

[Update: Happy April Fool's Day, everyone! For the avoidance of doubt, this was a hoax...] At the start of a new month, it's time for me to unveil a stunning example of how WPF can be used not just for dynamic, immersive user experiences, but also for Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 01, 2007 8:20 AM by tims | 20 Comments
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