SilverlightShow: Silverlight Misc

Living with Live

0 comments / aggregated from Mike Taulty's Blog on May 04, 2008 (4 months ago) / original article

I've been trying to use Live Services a little this week and I've been struggling somewhat and it seems to mostly come down to URLs.

I've got a Silverlight app which plays some videos. I don't want the burden of hosting those videos though for either streaming or download.

So...I figure it'll be easy. I can;

Put the streamed videos onto Silverlight Streaming and stream them from there.
Put the zipped videos for download onto SkyDrive and let people download them from there.
Put the Silverlight application anywhere as it just needs to reach out to (1) and (2) above.

Installing Silverlight no longer requires a browser re-start… woohoo!!!

0 comments / aggregated from Jaime Rodriguez on May 03, 2008 (4 months ago) / original article

A few weeks ago I noticed changes in browser's behaviors…

1) My IE 7.0.6000 no longer prompts for Click To Activate :)

2) My firefox 2.0.0.13 no longer required a reboot after installing Silverlight … If you had not noticed, using silverlight.js on IE allowed you to instantiate silverlight plugin right after installing , but on other browsers it required a re-start…

I pinged Piotr, our deployment PM, asking if he was seeing the same and he upped it sharing that he had a way to instantiate silverlight on ANY PLATFORM and ANY browser WITH OUT requiring A RE-START… [call me a geek, but I was happy]..

Silverlight Debugging Challenge

0 comments / aggregated from Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek on May 01, 2008 (4 months ago) / original article

In about a week, I'll be posting a video on creating a form that responds to keyboard shortcuts (as an intro to a video on user controls).

This is also covered in the tutorial User Controls)

As a challenge to those of you who are already comfortable with styles and data-binding and who "don't need no stinkin' video" -- I've posted a broken version of the program for you to debug.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find the bug, and fix it.

Adobe to open FLV and SWF formats

0 comments / aggregated from theADOguy on May 01, 2008 (4 months ago) / original article

URL: http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/

In an interesting development that I can only assume means that Silverlight is having an impact on Adobe, they've decided to open and standardize their FLV and SWF formats so that anyone can build them. Not only are they opening the formats but also removing licensing fees for mobile platforms. Nice!

This is good news for Flash/Flex/AiR developers out there. In my opinion this also bodes well for Silverlight as it means that Adobe is taking the Microsoft platform as a serious competitor.

Using Corrina Barber's Silverlight 2 Control Skins

0 comments / aggregated from WynApse on May 01, 2008 (4 months ago) / original article

Last weekend, I decided to take time off from what I was supposed to be doing (shh... don't tell, ok?) ... and take a whack an an idea I have for extending one of the great Silverlight 2 control skins that Corrina Barber provided for us.

Not to take anything away from her work, but I'd like to use it as a jumping-off point to produce something of my own, and one of my ideas is a small rotation off one of hers.

So my idea was to:

1) Get something running, and

2) Make some modifications in Blend 2.5 using my prior knowledge of skinning.

Silverlight and Digital Rights Management (DRM)

0 comments / aggregated from The Business of Silverlight on May 01, 2008 (4 months ago) / original article

I have received several mails on integration of DRM with Silverlight. For those who missed it we announced our Silverlight PlayReady DRM support at NAB earlier this month (I blogged about these announces earlier) as well as integration with WideVine. These are by account two separate announcements and we are not using Widevine as our PlayReady DRM, but allowing partners to either use the Microsoft PlayReady DRM system or have partners like WideVine integrate directly with Silverlight.

Isolated Storage (Quota.dat)

0 comments / aggregated from .NET, Silverlight, and other ramblings (from the U on Apr 29, 2008 (4 months ago) / original article

In my previous article i discovered that Isolated Storage directories are worth 1Kb

As a follow onto this, i look into where your Isolated Storage quota is stored (there will be a screencast on this also, once i suss out my silverlight streaming issues).

So the first point of call is where is my Isolated Storage held on disk (XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Silverlight\is), (Vista: C:\users\ch3\appdata\locallow\Microsoft\Silverlight\is).

If we drill down that folder, we have a g folder, and an s folder.

Silverlight - The Song

0 comments / aggregated from Dan Wahlin's WebLog on Apr 28, 2008 (4 months ago) / original article

About 6 months ago my good friend Spike Xavier and I got together on a Saturday to work on a new song since we like to get away from programming now and then and mess around with music for fun. It'd been awhile since we released our last song titled No More DLL Hell and we decided that we needed to write a new song about one of our favorite new application frameworks....Silverlight. ...(read more)

Silverlight 2 - Build Controls!

0 comments / aggregated from Mike Taulty's Blog on Apr 28, 2008 (4 months ago) / original article

I've been building quite a bit of Silverlight 2 code and the one thing I'd pass on as a piece of advice is "Build Controls".

Even in situations where I've found myself thinking "Oh, this will just be a lump of XAML" I soon find that approach results in a spaghetti-mess of XAML quite quickly and the easiest way is to very quickly split things up in separate controls.

Ok, I know this isn't exactly radical advice :-) but it's something that I've noticed very quickly in building Silverlight code.

Where is my Astoria Client for Silverlight 2?

0 comments / aggregated from Andy's Blog on Apr 25, 2008 (4 months ago) / original article

According to this post from the Astoria Team Blog, it looks like we won't have a new Astoria (ADO.NET Data Services) client for Silverlight 2 until SL2 Beta 2 is released (perhaps May 2008?)

Many of the data demos for Silverlight 2 have so far used LINQ to SQL for the data access layer. These demos involve creating a LINQ to SQL data model (using a nice drag/drop editor), and then exposing that model through a web service by manually coding a WCF Web Service or .asmx Service.

Don't get me wrong, this is a pretty rapid development method...