The Silverlight Blog

IIS Media Services to Include a Version of PlayReady DRM for HTTP Streaming

Some big news today for customers who are interested in easy to use, robust content protection for...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 05/11/2010

MDI uses Silverlight to add a ‘Wow’ factor to Business Apps

If you’ve been to the doctor recently and dealt with filling out forms, you likely know the...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 05/07/2010

Microsoft releases Silverlight-powered Windows Intune beta

Microsoft recently released a beta of Windows Intune, a Silverlight powered Web console for midsize...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 04/26/2010

Silverlight Powered Emmy Nominated Sunday Night Football

This NFL season, NBC thrilled football fans by broadcasting Sunday Night Football on 2 screens –...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 04/19/2010

Demos not to miss next week at NAB: 3D video in Silverlight! 1080p H.264 running on a Netbook!

Yesterday we announced our news for NAB next week in Las Vegas. Today we wanted to point out some...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 04/09/2010

Windows Phone 7 Demo Apps from MIX10

If you've been searching for the Windows Phone 7 Series demo apps that were shown during the MIX10...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/31/2010

Designing a Microsoft Silverlight Powered Cannon for Windows Phone 7 Series

By: Peter VanRysdam, Chief Marketing Officer at 352 Media Group, shares his experience developing...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/31/2010

Bing Maps releases a new Silverlight powered Twitter Maps application

On March 12th, the Bing Maps team released another exciting application that brings tweets to their...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/24/2010

New Seesmic applications on Silverlight 4 and on Windows Phone

A few months ago, at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, in Ray Ozzie's keynote,...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/16/2010

Recap of MIX10 Day 1

We kicked off MIX10 this morning to a packed house of designers and developers who are building the...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/15/2010

Start preparing for the Silverlight Pivot control now

At MIX10 we just announced that Pivot, a new data visualization technology first demonstrated at PDC...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/15/2010

Microsoft User Experience Kit launched today at SXSW

Today at SXSW, of which Microsoft Silverlight is a major sponsor of the Interactive Festival,...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/12/2010

The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework is releasing at MIX 2010

Effective Rich Internet Applications are everyone’s goal. To measure this effectiveness, developers...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/11/2010

Win a trip to see the launch of the Mars Rover in NASA’s Pathfinder Innovation Challenge

At the PDC last year, you may have seen that NASA and Microsoft made a number of announcements. New...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/11/2010

Silverlight @ #MIX10 – The Next Web Now

With only one week until MIX10, we wanted to give you a heads-up on all the news coming out of the...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/08/2010

Big update for the Project Rosetta site today

Major updates to the Project Rosetta site shipped today, including a new a series of Flash to...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/03/2010

Digital Rapids New 3.2 Upgrade Reaches New Heights in IIS Smooth Streaming Performance

Digital Rapids – a leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 03/03/2010

Celebrating the Year of the Tiger

February 14th marked the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Tiger. In commemoration, Flora and...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 02/17/2010

Developing the world’s first interactive Silverlight banner: Metia’s perspective

January 2010 saw the launch the new Mass Effect 2 game, and EA Games in the UK wanted to mirror the...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 02/04/2010

Announcing the First User Interface (UI) Components for Silverlight 4

Telerik Corporation, a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF controls and...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 01/27/2010

Be one of the first to get the Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook!

Test the Silverlight 4 developer preview application for Facebook which combines the many compelling...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 01/25/2010

Jordan Brand Leverages Silverlight to Invigorate and Find Enthusiasts

Jordan Brand, a division of Nike, Inc., is celebrating its 25-year anniversary during NBA All-Star...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 01/25/2010

Silverlight TV airs on Channel 9

The first episodes of Silverlight TV are now available on Channel 9. Go behind the scenes at...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 01/18/2010

IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit Beta 2 released

Today the IIS team released a Beta 2 of the IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, allowing...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 01/15/2010

What You Wanted to Know: Top “How to” Posts of 2009

A couple of days ago we posted our 2009 Top 10 for Silverlight. One of the ways we came up with that...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 01/13/2010

Free Blend Training With Silverlight Design Days

Adam Kinney, a technical evangelist here at Microsoft, will be hitting the road in a few days to...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 01/12/2010

Silverlight Podcast: Accessibility with Silverlight

After a short break, our third Silverlight podcast is now available. This podcast features Sean...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 01/06/2010

Catch Alicia Keys Live from the Apollo this Thursday, 1/7, 6pm PST – Powered by Microsoft Silverlight

You’re invited to watch Alicia Keys perform live this Thursday, January 7, at 6pm PST. For more...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 01/06/2010

Help Silverlight win a 2009 Crunchie for Best Technology Achievement

Microsoft Silverlight has been nominated for a 2009 Crunchie award in the category of “Best...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 01/04/2010

Happy Holiday Season and Happy New Year from the Silverlight team

Share some of the holiday spirit with your friends and family with this interactive customizable...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 12/30/2009

Microsoft Silverlight Support Policy is Available

Many businesses rely on Microsoft Silverlight to run their business and consumer applications. Until...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 12/30/2009

Maximum TV Launches Silverlight-based Spanish Language TV Site

Maximum TV has just launched a Spanish language TV station on the web using Silverlight, IIS Smooth...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 12/29/2009

Case Study - TwittZure Silverlight Twitter Client on Azure

Schematic used the engaging rich internet application of Silverlight 3 and the responsiveness of...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 12/23/2009

Limited Time Expression Holiday Promotion in the US

For a limited time in the United States (promotion ends January 8th), there is a 30% off discount on...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 12/22/2009

Moonlight 2 is now available

We are pleased to announce the availability of Moonlight 2, an open source Linux implementation of...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 12/17/2009

Silverlight-powered Virtual DVD now available from Tesco

In September, we announced that Microsoft and Tesco intended to collaborate and use Silverlight to...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 12/16/2009

Silverlight for Point Of Sale (POS) applications

Silverlight provides an ideal platform for developing and deploying modern business applications,...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 12/10/2009

Streaming Media Webinar with Microsoft and Internap on Enterprise Video

We’re partnering with Streamingmedia.com and Internap to deliver a webcast on enterprise video....

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 12/08/2009

Inserting Silverlight DeepZoom images into your Web page

An Overview of Deep Zoom Technology Deep Zoom Composer is a free application that creates either...

Author: Silverlight Team Date: 12/04/2009

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