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