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Great Silverlight 2 Demo: Healthcare Demonstrator

Congratulations to Martin Grayson and team for building one of the smartest Silverlight 2 demonstrations I've seen to date . I saw parts of this demo a month ago when I was in the UK, and I'm delighted it's now released. Whether or not you're involved Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:14 AM by tims | 16 Comments
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Silverlight UK User Group: Inaugural Meeting April 2nd

The jolly chaps at Conchango are setting up a user group in London to focus on Silverlight, and the first meeting is tomorrow! By chance I'm actually in the UK right now on something of a customer tour, so I plan to be there myself and give a bit of a Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 5:43 AM by tims | 2 Comments
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Uploading Silverlight 2 Content to Silverlight Streaming

Following on very nicely from my last post on deploying Silverlight content to your own production server , I'm pleased to announce that Silverlight Streaming has added full support for Silverlight 2 applications. As well as adding the basic support, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:24 PM by tims | 12 Comments

Configuring a Web Server to Host Silverlight Content

Deploying Silverlight content to a production web server is a pretty easy process. Despite occasional misconception, Silverlight doesn't require a Microsoft-based web server: Apache can host up Silverlight content just as happily as IIS. But there's one Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:11 PM by tims | 9 Comments

MIX08 Day 2 Keynote Live Blog

I'm going to be "live blogging" the Steve Ballmer keynote this afternoon at this URL. Keep this blog post bookmarked and start hitting "refresh" shortly after the keynote starts at 1pm Pacific / 9pm GMT. Or simply tune in to the webcast Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:37 AM by tims | 4 Comments

Registering for the AOL Mail Client

I mentioned yesterday that the Hard Rock memorabilia application was live already at http://memorabilia.hardrock.com . The AOL Silverlight-based mail client is not live yet, but they've just opened up their pre-registration site for testers who want to Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:27 AM by tims | 1 Comments

A Great Early Silverlight 2 Showcase: TextGlow

We're already starting to see some cool samples that use Silverlight 2 really effectively. Prior to MIX, we had a small private beta running to get some early feedback on the builds that we were producing, and a few folk made really good use of this time Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:40 AM by tims | 6 Comments

So You've Installed Silverlight 2 Beta 1: What Next?

OK, so you've got all the bits downloaded and installed on your machine. What's the best way to start to get familiar with everything we've added to Silverlight 2? Well, you could do worse than start with the thirty page hands-on lab that I spent part Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:57 PM by tims | 23 Comments

Download Links for MIX08 Announcements

Here's a consolidated list of all the key downloads you'll need to update your developer workstation to the latest and greatest technologies announced this morning: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 (x86) Windows Vista / Windows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:57 PM by tims | 24 Comments

MIX08 Keynote Live Blog

I'm going to try to keep up a live blog this morning through the keynote to provide folk with an Engadget-style blow-by-blow account of proceedings. Keep hitting refresh on this entry to see the latest news as it comes. 9:30am - Ray Ozzie is on stage Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:40 AM by tims | 20 Comments

MIX08 for Non-Attendees

At last, the mad rush is over. The run-up to a conference like MIX is always frantic: for me, the first three weeks in February involved a constant juggle of competing priorities. With the exception of one last-minute firedrill, the worst was over by Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 12:01 PM by tims | 13 Comments

Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?

I just wanted to clarify something that is hopefully already pretty well understood. As folk know, we released an alpha of Silverlight 1.1 at MIX, and there are lots of people who would love to use it even in its current form. It's great to see the excitement Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:30 PM by tims | 10 Comments

Silverlight 1.1 is Now Silverlight 2.0

It's been gratifying to see how much excitement there is out there about Silverlight. We've barely started the engines yet, but we've already had a number of big sites launch their first Silverlight experiences, and of course plenty of stuff underway Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:51 AM by tims | 64 Comments
 
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