Brian Goldfarb's Blog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/bgold/feed.xml Drinking from the firehose Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:17:33 GMT en-US hourly 1 New official Silverlight Blog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/bgold/new-official-silverlight-blog Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:29:20 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bgold/2009/03/22/new-official-silverlight-blog/ earlier this week, as part of MIX09, we launched an official Silverlight team blog.   Subscribe now!  We’ll push out new technical content, videos, and use it as a venue to respond to critical industry events that require our voice.  You can use it as a direct conduit to us and the team with feedback (both good and bad!).


We’ll cover our entire UX platform including Expression Studio with a focus on  Expression Blend (and the newly announced SkethFlow functionality which has had rave reviews), Silverlight, Visual Studio, and anything else we think is important.

 

Spread the news – https://team.silverlight.net/

I kicked us off with this post:  https://team.silverlight.net/announcements/introducing-the-new-silverlight-blog/

]]> Off to MIX https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/bgold/off-to-mix Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:03:50 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bgold/2009/03/14/off-to-mix/ MIX is here, I hop on a plane to vegas in 16 hours.  See you there – it is going to be *awesome*

]]> CBS Chooses Silverlight for March Madness https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/bgold/cbs-chooses-silverlight-for-march-madness Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:24:23 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bgold/2009/02/17/cbs-chooses-silverlight-for-march-madness/ As a huge Duke Basketball fan this win is particularly gratifying :)  a few great articles below

 

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/61563

https://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/silverlight-to-power-2009-ncaa-march-madness.ars

 

https://search.live.com/news/results.aspx?q=silverlight+cbs&form=QBNR

]]> More IIS7 goodness: Application Request Routing (ARR) https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/bgold/more-iis7-goodness-application-request-routing-arr Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:20:30 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bgold/2009/02/17/more-iis7-goodness-application-request-routing-arr/ Application Request Routing (ARR) v1 released today! The ARR feature is a free IIS7 extension that extends the Web server UI and runtime to:

· Achieve high availability and scalability.

· Enable elastic scalability for shared hosters.

· Dynamically load balance web requests (to be used in conjunction with existing load balancers)

ARR enables the following scenarios

· Easily add server capacity as the demand for their web application increases 

· Seamlessly deploy or upgrade web applications without downtime

· Shared hosters can offer elastic scalability and change the business model based on resource consumption

More details at https://www.iis.net/extensions/ApplicationRequestRouting

]]> MIX09 – Register by Feb 27 and save $300 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/bgold/mix09-register-by-feb-27-and-save-300 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:49:31 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bgold/2009/02/17/mix09-register-by-feb-27-and-save-300/ MIX09 is going to be amazing.  I can’t give away the details, but as the keynote owner for Scott Guthrie (as I have been every year, it’s a glorious job to be the man behind the curtain :)) and I can tell you this year is on track to be the best ever.

We will be bringing to market some amazing technology, setting the stage for the future of our Web and RIA technologies, showing off the great work of many of our amazing partners, and so much more.   I know times are tough, but if you can swing it or tell a friend do it.

To help with costs, 3rd night’s on us now :)

https://visitmix.com/News/Free-Third-Night-at-The-Venetian

 

Let me know if you have any questions!  or feedback on what you want to see in the day 1 keynote :)

]]> Microsoft Web Platform Installer Release Candidate – Now works with XP and Windows 2003! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/bgold/microsoft-web-platform-installer-release-candidate-now-works-with-xp-and-windows-2003 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:37:57 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bgold/2008/11/25/microsoft-web-platform-installer-release-candidate-now-works-with-xp-and-windows-2003/ I'm going to blatantly steal Bill Staples words since they were so good :)

 

"I’m excited to announce the availability of the Release Candidate version of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI). 

Web PI is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including IIS, ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server, along with a lot of cool IIS extensions like URL rewrite and ASP.NET MVC.

Web PI offers a simple experience for downloading and installing the entire stack through a single installer to help you obtain the software you need to build and run a complete Web solution on the Microsoft Web platform, whether you are using Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008.

Run Web PI to get started and then run it again anytime to check for new extensions to the platform.  Every time Web PI is run it checks online to ensure the most current versions and new additions to the Microsoft Web Platform are downloaded.  Give Web PI a try today!"

]]> MSN Germany with Silverlight wins IPTV Award 2008 - coolness https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/bgold/msn-germany-with-silverlight-wins-iptv-award-2008-coolness Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:02:30 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bgold/2008/11/17/msn-germany-with-silverlight-wins-iptv-award-2008-coolness/ I just heard some great news from Europe: MSN Germany received the “IPTV Award 2008” for technical innovation for their brand new Social Video Mashup MSN ClipClub TV. The solution was built by Axinom, a German Microsoft partner. 

In a highly competitive environment, where there are strong video, social, and chat options, MSN created a solution that combines different products: Clip Club TV connects existing MSN video content to the functionality of Windows Live Messenger in an innovative Silverlight 2 interface - this is the first Live Messenger UI built with Silverlight 2 that I'm aware of. Combined technologies and services are worth more than the sum of their parts.

https://clipclub.video.msn.de

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“IPTV Award 2008” competition is huge and one of the most prestigious IPTV awards in Europe sponsored by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as well as the IPTV Forum and, among others, Deutsche Bank and Universal Publishing.

Almost 200 entries have been invited for the: promising business models, outstanding creativity and design, exciting content, innovative technology and audience award in cooperation with one of Germanys largest TV Guides ‘TV Movie’.

Congrats to MSN, ClipClub TV and Axiom for winning and being part of a pretty elite group of folks!

]]> Give us feedback on Silverlight 2! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/bgold/give-us-feedback-on-silverlight-2 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:56:14 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bgold/2008/11/17/give-us-feedback-on-silverlight-2/  
My team pulled this together, help them pick your brain!
Give us feedback on Silverlight 2

We’ve put together a short survey to help us improve our Silverlight features and API. Spend 15 minutes and tell us what is good and bad about Silverlight so far.

]]> Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/bgold/styling-a-silverlight-twitter-application-with-expression-blend-2 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:32:48 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bgold/2008/11/15/styling-a-silverlight-twitter-application-with-expression-blend-2/ We've done some amazing work with Expression Blend 2 for designers and now with the final release of Silverlight 2 you can really see how it all comes together.  I was talking with Celso Gomes and Peter Blois a few weeks ago about how we could demonstrate this and it culminated in a great video and blog post that Scott Guthrie just put up.

Check it out here and let me know what you think!

 

https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/14/styling-a-silverlight-twitter-application-with-expression-blend-2.aspx]]> >Play 2008 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/bgold/play-2008 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:29:51 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bgold/2008/11/15/play-2008/ I'm speaking at >Play this year.  The show actually started earlier this morning, but heading over in the afternoon.  If you are around, say hello :) Should be a fun one!

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