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MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Silverlight Video Players With Corey Schuman (Level 200)
White Papers In this webcast, the presenter, a Microsoft Silverlight expert, provides tips and tricks for building Silverlight video players, specifically what is needed to consider in areas like UI and streaming the video.
[December 23, 2008, 0:00]
Silverlight goes Linux with Moonlight 1.0
News The Linux-compatible version of Microsoft's Silverlight, a plug-in for playing rich web media, has been released as a public beta. It was first demonstrated in the middle of 2007, shortly after Microsoft announced Silverlight as its answer to Adobe...
[December 3, 2008, 15:19]
MSDN Webcast: Developer Series (Part 3 of 5): Silverlight 1.1 Events and APIs (Level 200)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn to code events and to work with Microsoft Silverlight version 1.1 client APIs in the third installment of this developer series.
[January 8, 2008, 0:01]
Silverlight 2 announced
Blog announced that we'll all be able to download Silverlight 2 tomorrow. Silverlight 2 will include the following features - cut straight from the press release, kids, with adjectives and unqualified hyperbole removed.
[October 13, 2008, 18:07]
The Silverlight Development System (
White Papers Microsoft Expression Studio and Microsoft Visual Studio provide tools that designers and developers can use to create cost-effective Silverlight-based applications. This webcast walks through the tools' features, and explains how the tools help...
[April 27, 2009, 1:21]
Microsoft set to announce Silverlight 2.0
News Microsoft has scheduled a conference call on Monday to announce, among other things, that it has completed version 2.0 of Silverlight, its rival to Adobe's Flash. A Microsoft representative declined to comment on the impending announcement, but a...
[October 13, 2008, 9:19]
Microsoft Silverlight coming to Nokia mobiles
News Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia smartphones later this year. The two companies on Tuesday at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference are scheduled to announce that Microsoft will write a version...
[March 4, 2008, 11:43]
MSDN Webcast: Create Your Own Media Player and Skin With Silverlight 2.0 (Level 100)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn how to make the most of templates with the Microsoft Expression Encoder and create very own video player with Microsoft Silverlight version 1.1. Why write the code when one can have it generated?
[March 24, 2008, 0:02]
Linux Silverlight implementation goes live
News Moonlight 1.0, the first open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich media technology, has gone live. Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash, allowing rich web content, such as animation and multimedia, to be played back...
[February 12, 2009, 12:09]
MSDN Webcast: Microsoft Silverlight 2 Overview (Level 200)
White Papers Microsoft Silverlight 2 provides a powerful platform for building the next generation of rich interactive applications on the Internet. The presenter of this webcast shows the programming model and tool that developers and designers can use to...
[April 2, 2009, 1:22]
Essential Silverlight: XAML Basics
White Papers However, there are some subtle differences: Silverlight does not support the full XAML format like WPF, but only a subset. XAML is an XML dialect, so the paper uses a lot of angle brackets throughout.
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
MSDN Webcast: Downloading Images Using the Silverlight Networking Stack (Level 100)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn how to download image files using Microsoft Silverlight version 1.1 and apply those images to an eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML) image object. The webcast explains how to complete this process...
[March 24, 2008, 0:02]
Silverlight open-source implementation released
News The Novell-led Mono project this week made the first, though incomplete, public release of Moonlight, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight, a browser plug-in that competes with products such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe...
[May 16, 2008, 13:14]
Flash vs Silverlight
Talkback how silverlight will capture the very broad user base as well as developer/designer base of flash? For instance, see this Online Flash Games site Will it be possible for Flashlight to make interactive applications like in this site which are made...
[May 16, 2007, 16:41]
Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight 'agenda'
News Companies building websites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned. Silverlight is a similar technology, launched by Microsoft last year.
[April 30, 2008, 11:51]
JW WMV Player Built with Silverlight
Downloads The JW WMV Player (built with Silverlight) is a simple, flexible player for displaying Windows Media video, audio and (live) streams on your website. While not yet as widely installed nor feature-rich as Flash, Silverlight is excellent for...
[February 5, 2009, 2:17]
Microsoft's Silverlight 3 goes into beta
News Microsoft has released a beta for the third version of Silverlight, its rich-media plug-in for web browsers. Silverlight 3 makes it possible for the first time to run Silverlight web applications outside the browser.
[March 19, 2009, 16:02]
Getting Started With Microsoft Silverlight 1.0
White Papers Microsoft Silverlight is the next-generation platform for accessing and delivering rich Internet applications. This webcast highlights the features of the Silverlight plug-in, which delivers the media-rich Web applications to the end users.
[April 27, 2009, 1:21]
Microsoft extends Silverlight beyond Windows
News Microsoft plans to extend its mainstream development tooling to Silverlight, its Flash challenger, and add support for dynamic languages. At the Mix07 web developer and designer conference, Microsoft executives said the company will allow .Net...
[May 1, 2007, 17:33]
Microsoft readies Silverlight release candidate
News Microsoft is set to release a string of web tools this week, including Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate and a second beta of Visual Studio 2008. Silverlight 1.0 is scheduled for final release in the autumn, and Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net...
[July 27, 2007, 16:42]
