in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta, just four months after bringing Silverlight 3 to market. With the help of several customers we showcased the new features that will enable developers to create the highest quality media and RIA applications for the Web and desktop. These powerful new features offer .. more »

In anticipation of the opening of the movie on November 20th, MSN has created a - from the video player to the map interface - the Tour brings Forks, La Push, Port Angeles, and Volterra right to your computer so that you can see 16 of MSN built the Tour using control for location-based navigation. For the bells and whistles, helped to create the .. more »

Be sure to check out the Chalk Talks in the Web Platform Pavilion at PDC this week. The team is going to have a number of really great sessions in the Big Room at the Web Pavilion (located next to the Surface Lounge). What's New in IIS and the Microsoft Web Platform The Microsoft Web Platform is becoming an increasingly powerful set of technologies .. more »

Introducing the Silverlight Podcast series, which we’ll use to go deep on features and projects.  In this first installment, Silverlight Senior Product Manager David Sayed and IIS Senior Program Manager Chris Knowlton talk about IIS7 Media Services 3.0, which powers Smooth Streaming. There are two versions: ·         An enhanced podcast.. more »

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit Europe as part of the . REMIX is basically the little brother (or sister) event of Microsoft MIX our annual event in Las Vegas during which we show all of our latest and greatest technologies for web design and web development. It was an amazing experience to visit Brussels, Helsinki, Vienna and .. more »

We are excited to announce the re-launch of the MSN Video on .  For the tens of Millions of MSN Video customers, this release delivers a vastly improved viewing experience with the help of Microsoft Silverlight.  Users demand high quality video but also expect performance.  They want videos to load quickly, seek fast, and playback with no buf.. more »

One of the goals of Silverlight’s Visual State Manager technology is to let you do quite a bit of control customization without needing to use Blend’s Timeline, nor even having to know what a Storyboard is! Feel free to test-drive the Silverlight Button...(read more).. more »

in Berlin, Germany we announced the launch of the Bing Maps Silverlight Control, the newest addition to the Bing Maps Platform. The Bing Maps Silverlight Control uses the power of Silverlight to provide a powerful and rich platform for building mapping and location-based applications. The control provides a new level of performance in terms of .. more »

Today, as part of our ongoing collaboration with Facebook, we released a very exciting new developer resource: the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform ( ). This SDK combines the power of Web, client and social technologies to enable millions of developers to transform their imagination into next generation application experiences. We look forward .. more »

In August 2008 we were proud to be part of sports history and deliver a Summer Olympics online experience for fans everywhere. In partnership with NBC, the Silverlight and teams are once again delivering on our commitment to providing the highest quality online video experience with live and on-demand HD (720p) coverage of the XXI Olympic Winter .. more »

Our World Live (OWL), a music marketing and broadcasting company, is partnering with Billboard.com to bring music fans a new internet concert series . Billboardlive.com utilizes OWL's state-of-the-art technology, powered by Microsoft Silverlight to provide fans with five-camera angles, where the viewer becomes the director for the ultimate .. more »

The Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL) plug-in is an open source, cross-platform plug-in for the Eclipse development environment that enables Eclipse developers to build Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).  Microsoft has collaborated with Soyatec, a France-based IT solutions provider, to develop the Eclipse4SL project in Oc.. more »

Preview in Browser. Depending on which browser you are using and your security settings, you may need to allow the browser to run the Silverlight content. The Silverlight content will appear in the top half of your page as an animated slide show as well as an interactive navigation bar. For more information on how to add Silverlight content to your .. more »

Playing video in Silverlight is great, but what about viewers who have a hearing impairment? Not important? The World Health Organization (WHO) would beg to differ. According to their 2005 estimates, 278 million people worldwide have moderate to profound hearing loss in both ears. Thats almost 17% of the So you should really think about how to .. more »

If your schedule is in anyway similar to mine youll probably be very familiar with this scenario. A new version of a tool that you use day in and day out is announced, packed with exciting new features and enhancements that you know will immediately make your day-to-day life easier. So you do what we all do; diligently set aside sometime to really .. more »

Back in August we told you about how UFC.com used IIS Smooth Streaming for the UFC 102 pre-fight weigh-ins. Building on the success of that, were excited to announce that this Saturday, October 24 For the UFC 102 weigh-ins, the Smooth Streaming content looked great even though the maximum stream bitrate was 1.5Mbps. For UFC 104 were pumping it up .. more »

Electric Rain is excited to announce a new product called Convexion, a PowerPoint to Silverlight converter thats aimed at both presenters and Silverlight designers and developers. This first-of-its-kind tool works as an add-in to PowerPoint and offers single-click export of any slideshow into a self-contained .XAP file, or with the Convexion Pro .. more »

Summary: Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Beta is being discontinued and will eventually be taken down. A new Windows Azure™-based hosting and delivery service will be launched by the end of 2009, though this is not a direct replacement...(read more).. more »

Microsoft has recently had the pleasure of working with Big Spaceship to deliver the new Victorias Secret Fashion Show Its always exciting working with agencies like Big Spaceship that like to push the creative envelope. For us the whole design and development process was fascinating, as Big Spaceship didnt have any previous experience with .. more »

This week Bell Canada announced the availability of “TMN Online,” a service available through the Bell TV Online portal that offers access to online content for subscribers of The Movie Network channel.  Silverlight, along with ExtendMedia’s OpenCASE and PlayReady DRM, is being used for content management.  TMN Online is the first service in North.. more »