Web Development Strategy @ Microsoft : ASP.NET / PHP / Silverlight / Java / UX : MIX07

Introducing Silverlight 1.0 Book is now available...

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:14:18 GMT

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight My First Silverlight book: Introducing Silverlight 1.0 is now available. I have to say that I am very proud of this book, and I think it is the best book that I have written. It goes through Silverlight...(read more)

Silverlight: Font Embedding

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:32:12 GMT

There's some great stuff been put together by Slyi on his blog around subsetting and embedding fonts. You've all been asking me lots of questions about it, but he answers it better than I ever could! Check it out at: http://wpf-e.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2B248D261D0E0035!122.entry...(read more)

Silverlight article in MSDN Magazine

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:22:31 GMT

MSDN Magazine's June 2007 issue will be carrying my Silverlight article. You can read it online here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/06/Silverlight/

There are a few more in the hopper. Enjoy!

Silverlight and Beijing 2008 Olympics

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:35:47 GMT

I've been working on a project involving Silverlight and the Beijing 2008 olympics. We demonstrated this at MIX 07, and the session is online here: http://sessions.visitmix.com/default.asp?event=1011&session=2010,2011&pid=XB005&disc=&id=1557&year=2007&search=XB005

We also had a hilarious video interview with the Channel9 / On10 folks. You can see it here:

Silverlight Install Modes

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Wed, 09 May 2007 01:27:00 GMT

Did you know that there are two install modes for Silverlight -- inplace installation (aka 'Direct') and indirect installation.

When you build your site or application using Silverlight, you can use the 'inplaceInstallPrompt' property in your call to Sys.Silverlight.createObject and set it to true or false.

Here's an example:

function createSilverlight()
{  
    Sys.Silverlight.createObject(
        "plugin.xaml",                      // Source property value.
        parentElement,                      // DOM reference to hosting DIV tag.
        "myControl",                        // Unique control id value.
        {                                   // Control properties.
            width:'1024',                   // Width of rectangular region of control in pixels.
            height:'530',                   // Height of rectangular region of control in pixels.
            inplaceInstallPrompt:false,     // Determines whether to display in-place install prompt if invalid version detected.
            background:'white',             // Background color of control.
            isWindowless:'false',           // Determines whether to display control in Windowless mode.
            framerate:'24',                 // MaxFrameRate property value.
            version:'0.9'                   // Control version to use.
        },
        {
            onError:null,                   // OnError property value -- event handler function name.
            onLoad:null                     // OnLoad property value -- event handler function name.
        },
        null);                              // Context value -- event handler function name.
}

This will create a banner icon for Silverlight that looks like this:

Clicking on this banner will take your users to http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight where they can download and install the Silverlight runtime.

Alternatively you can have a direct install experience, by setting the inplaceInstallPrompt property to 'true'. This will result in a different banner, that looks like this:

As you can see this contains a Silverlight license agreement, which you agree to by using this banner to download the Silverlight runtime.

In this case, your users will start downloading the Silverlight runtime as soon as they click the banner, instead of being directed to the http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight site first.

Super Tuesday

lmoroney@microsoft.com — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:32:00 GMT

Tuesday at MIX07 has been phenomenal!

My session this morning on Silverlight and the 2008 Olympics went very well, we tag teamed 4 speakers from 4 companies who had three different primary languages, but it all went smoothly. We had huge inflatable versions of a couple of the 'Fuwa' mascots who ended up stopping traffic for people to take photos!

Then, the AOL team showed their email gadget application, and it was a stop the lights demo -- absolutely amazing. It was great to work with these guys (albeit a little) in getting it ready.

Now I'm sitting in Robbie Bach's keynote and am super excited that he's just shown the Hong Kong Disney gadget that I've worked closely with e-Crusade and Hong Kong Disney on -- it's a beautiful thing :)

Looking forward to more at MIX tonight with the PURE nightclub....