The Silverlight Blog
IIS Smooth Streaming with the Apple iPhone
At PDC09 two weeks ago, Scott Guthrie announced that the next release of IIS Media Services will...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 12/02/2009
Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3
Our second Silverlight podcast features an interview with James Clarke of the Expression Encoder...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 11/23/2009
Silverlight 4 Beta is Now Available
Today, at the PDC in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta,...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 11/18/2009
Silverlight Virtual Twilight Tour
In anticipation of the opening of the Twilight Saga: New Moon movie on November 20th, MSN has...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 11/17/2009
Chalk Talk Sessions at PDC
Be sure to check out the Chalk Talks in the Web Platform Pavilion at PDC this week. The team is...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 11/16/2009
Silverlight Podcast: IIS7 Media Services 3.0
Introducing the Silverlight Podcast series, which we’ll use to go deep on features and projects. In...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 11/16/2009
Mix and Blend: A Design Studio Using Silverlight
by Arturo Toledo, Sr. Product Manager, Silverlight Design Audience A few weeks ago I had the...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 11/12/2009
MSN Video is being re-launched in the U.S. as Bing Video powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming
We are excited to announce the re-launch of the MSN Video on www.bing.com/videos/browse. For the...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 11/11/2009
Announcing the Bing Maps Silverlight Control
Earlier today at TechEd Europe in Berlin, Germany we announced the launch of the Bing Maps...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 11/10/2009
Announcing the new Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform
Today, as part of our ongoing collaboration with Facebook, we released a very exciting new developer...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 11/09/2009
OWL and Billboard Launch Landmark Concert Series using Microsoft Silverlight
Our World Live (OWL), a music marketing and broadcasting company, is partnering with Billboard.com...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/29/2009
Eclipse Tools For Silverlight Now Available
The Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL) plug-in is an open source, cross-platform plug-in for...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/28/2009
Inserting a Silverlight Navigation and Slideshow into Your Web Page
Expression Web makes it faster and easier to create standards-based Web sites with rich Silverlight...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/27/2009
Accessible Media Player
Playing video in Silverlight is great, but what about viewers who have a hearing impairment? Not...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/26/2009
10 shortcuts worth discovering in Expression Blend 3
If your schedule is in anyway similar to mine you’ll probably be very familiar with this scenario. A...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/23/2009
UFC 104: Bringing Pay-Per-View to Online Users with Silverlight, Smooth Streaming, and PlayReady
Back in August we told you about how UFC.com used IIS Smooth Streaming for the UFC 102 pre-fight...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/23/2009
Announcing Convexion - A New PowerPoint-to-Silverlight Add-in
Electric Rain is excited to announce a new product called Convexion, a PowerPoint to Silverlight...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/20/2009
Big Spaceship delivers a beautiful Silverlight experience for Victoria’s Secret
Microsoft has recently had the pleasure of working with Big Spaceship to deliver the new...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/16/2009
Bell Canada uses Silverlight to offer “TV Everywhere” service
This week Bell Canada announced the availability of “TMN Online,” a service available through the...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/16/2009
Free Webinar: Delivering True HD via HTTP with Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming
Listen to media experts Jaime Miles of Level 3 Communications and Chris Knowlton of Microsoft talk...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/14/2009
Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards
We’ve been nominated in three categories for the 2009 Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards. There...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/13/2009
Adding Silverlight Video to Websites with Expression Web 3
Expression Web makes it faster and easier to create standards-based Web sites with rich Silverlight...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/12/2009
Innovative France 24 Silverlight Player
France 24, the French 24 hour news channel, has introduced a new Silverlight-based player that also...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/09/2009
Expression Encoder: Which edition is right for you?
Did you know that the single best way to get video encoded for Silverlight, or indeed your Zune for...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/09/2009
Live Smooth Streaming Now Released - IIS Media Services 3.0
If you’ve enjoyed live web broadcast events like Wimbledon and Sunday Night Football on NBCSports,...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/08/2009
Expression helps PING develop next-generation custom club-fitting application
PING, one of the best-known brands in golf equipment, was running out of time to deliver a prototype...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/08/2009
Silverlight-powered HealthVault portal launched on MSN
On October 1st,MSN released the beta of My Health Info, a new online service that helps people...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 10/03/2009
Starter Kits available for SketchFlow and Behaviors
SketchFlow was designed to enable you to rapidly create and iterate on application prototypes....
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 09/30/2009
Tell us what you think about Expression Blend 3
The Expression Team has been running a survey for the last few weeks looking to gather feedback as...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 09/29/2009
Beatles RockBand website wins coveted FWA “Site of the day” award – a first for Silverlight
September 29, 2009: Judges from the Website awards program and Web institution, the Favourite...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 09/29/2009
Introducing the WebsiteSpark Program for Web Developers and Designers
Today marks the officially launch of the WebsiteSpark Program, which provides Web developers and...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 09/24/2009
Intel and Microsoft Announce Collaboration to Provide Great Experiences for Atom
As a team we are committed to continuing to extend the platform and operating system support of...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 09/23/2009
Bing Visual Search powered by Silverlight
This morning (Sep 15 2009) at TechCrunch 50, Yusuf Mehdi showed Bing’s new Silverlight powered...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 09/14/2009
Sunday Night Football: Showtime!
Just a reminder that Thursday night is the kickoff of the NFL Sunday Night Football experience...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 09/09/2009
Silverlight Delivers Next Gen. Home Video Experience – Without the Disk!
Today Microsoft and Tesco, one of the world’s largest retailers, announced a collaboration to...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 09/09/2009
Join us at IBC2009 in Amsterdam!
IBC is one of the largest conferences and exhibitions for the electronic media industry and...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 09/08/2009
UFC 102 Live Weigh-In Tonight – Powered by Silverlight
It’s time! The Ultimate Fighting Championship #102 on August 29th will use Silverlight to...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 08/28/2009
Sunday Night Football - Powered by Silverlight
Today is a wildly exciting day for Silverlight and all football fans! NBC announced that this fall,...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 08/20/2009
Watch Dr. Richard Feynman making physics fun in Project Tuva, a Silverlight-based, rich media experience
Explore the natural laws of physics as explained by the brilliant and dynamic Dr. Richard Feynman in...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 07/17/2009
Watch us on ‘The Visual Kitchen’ to see all-new capabilities of Silverlight 3 and Expression 3
Join us in ‘The Visual Kitchen’ at seethelight.com to watch Microsoft Expression team members put...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 07/15/2009
Who's Using Expression? Stimulant
Stimulant worked with Microsoft and StepChange to create "MIXr", a Silverlight-based...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 07/15/2009
Take your ideas from concept to completion with Expression Blend 3
Expression Blend 3 revolutionizes the speed and efficiency you can take your ideas from concept to...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 07/15/2009
See the Light: Silverlight 3 & Expression 3 Launch
Today, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Microsoft is announcing the latest release of the Silverlight...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 07/10/2009
Announcing Expression Encoder 3
Expression Encoder 3 will be part of the Expression 3/Silverlight 3 launch on Friday. There are many...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 07/09/2009
Applying Effects to Bitmap Images using Expression Design
Learn how to work with bitmap images in Expression Design. In this video you will learn how to crop...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 07/08/2009
Who's Using Expression? Democratic National Convention Committee
When the Democratic National Convention Committee needed help with creating a live broadcast of...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 07/08/2009
Who's Using Expression? McCann Worldgroup
Learn how to work with bitmap images in Expression Design. In this video you will learn how to crop...
Author: Silverlight Team Date: 07/08/2009