Scott Guthrie just announced the release of Silverlight 1.0! He’s written an excellent post on his blog about exactly what Silverlight is so I’ll just link to that rather than spilling my guts out again. The other key think to note is the announcement about Linux and that we are releasing a version of Silverlight…
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Partner TV goes Silverlight
I promised some changes to Partner TV, the first of which (if you don’t count a bit more text explaining the videos) I published last night which is a Silverlight player. This new enhancement brings cross-browser, cross-platform capability to Partner TV making it more inline with other video sharing websites. This is just phase one…
Windows Live Quick Apps – Mashup apps with source code
Steve Ballmer announced today two example apps that show off how to put the Live Services we have on offer to use. The apps “Contoso Bicycle Club” and “Contoso University” were developed by two UK Parters, AWS and Conchango in association with Microsoft UK. They incorporate many Live Services some of which are still in…
Learn Silverlight at Microsoft HQ this summer
Want to learn about Silverlight from the experts in Redmond? Tim Sneath has posted about a unique experience open to the public and is worth checking out! Hat tip to Mark for this! Technorati Tags: Silverlight
Nibble on this: Blend & Silverlight Tutorials
I rather like this site. Firstly, it shows a rather nice design that uses Silverlight and secondly the tutorials are bloody good. I like the way that the screenshots scale smoothly and also have nice transparencies – very sexy. I’ve no idea who has created this site by the way – if you know -…
Silverlight on Windows Mobile
Love it, love it, love it!!! Now, from Steve’s reports with the HTC Touch the serious drawback is the lack of keyboard so texting or writing email is a right royal pain in the backside (as I predicted). If there was going to be a killer Silverlight app for Windows Mobile and HTC Touch, it…
Rendering XPS in Silverlight
A partner I know is currently looking to render XPS and now a very clever chap inside Microsoft (via Mike Taulty) has been playing around with doing it in Silverlight. The app is very cool and has nice controls to boot. Bear in mind it’s just a proof of concept but you’ve got to admire…