Entries from September 2007 ↓

David Tesar has posted a Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guide in word format for download.

This guide is intended for any organization who would like to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Silverlight in their environment.

Looks like the Comedy network has made the switch to Silverlight Video

Microsoft has put the official Halo 3 game manual online using Silverlight.

Microsoft launched a Halo branded version of Tafiti last week. The move is a promotion for next week’s release of that highly-anticipated game.

This re-skin comes complete with a complete with a “Halo Search Macro” that returns, you guessed it,…

SYS-CON, one of the first streaming video sites on the internet, plans to move from Adobe Flash video to Silverlight.

We are more confident to make the switch and convinced to go with a superior Microsoft technology at this time.

File this under better late than never. The Microsoft Expression Blend 2 September Preview is available for download.

Pavan Podila put together a nice overview on how to create balloon popups in WPF.

The source code is available for download here.

Electric Rain has released Harmony™, a Flash SWF-to-XAML Converter.

Electric Rain claims Harmony will convert SWF files to WPF and Silverlight based XAML. Sound to good to be true? Give it a try and let us know how it works.

Ryan Stewart at ZDNet has put together a great statistical analysis of the current job market trends for Flex, Silverlight, javafx, laszlo and WPF.

Adobe Flex has had a good head start but it is encouraging to see this sharp rise in Silverlight jobs since April.

Kevin Hoffman writes that he caught a reporter on an entertainment show going on about the Emmy Awards using Silverlight as their official streaming platform.

He says the reporter then went on to give a 30 second canned speech about the benefits of Silverlight rich video streaming technology.

Kevin then goes on a bit of a tare about the ethics of Microsoft buying their way into the Emmys.

I feel insulted and demeaned that Microsoft would flat-out buy their way into this situation.

How is this any different than P-Ditty drinking a Pepsi on camera? Welcome to marketing in the 21’st century Kevin.