Entries from October 2007 ↓

Matthew David has a brief review of his experience encoding Silverlight Video with Microsoft Expression Encoder

Novera Consulting brings us a beautifully designed Silverlight application, the Silverlight 1.0 - Election 2008 Demo.

Start here by selecting your party. Once inside the application pulls in biographies, images, links, feeds, fund raising statistics and nomination percentages per candidate.

The app has some nice interaction models when choosing candidates and switching parties. There’s also a Microsoft Live Earth mashup where you can see where the candidates are stopping on the campaign trails.

The Election 2008 demo application is the result of having a lot of fun with this new technology. The best part about Silverlight is that it fits so well with other technologies such as ASP.NET, Microsoft AJAX, and Virtual Earth. Along the way we even discovered a love for JavaScript! The real beauty of Silverlight is that it provides an easy platform for developing new and interesting UI ‘gadgets’, and allows you to redefine how users interact with your application. It will be a lot of fun to see what kind of apps are created in the years to come.

They say the source code will be available for download soon so check back. We’ll keep you posted when it is.

Seems like each time I happen on a Silverlight the quality is getting better and better.

Vector Studio, a vector drawing program built on WPF / Silverlight.

Vector Studio is a vector drawing program which can run inside of a browser or as an installed windows application.

With an integrated logo symbol designer we provide the perfect tool for producing quick and easy logos for use in your business.

…Sorry I haven’t been able to post much lately. I’ve been very busy on several projects for MS

Microsoft Office Online is offering a free WPF application that enables printing of your Outlook calendar in various views.

Once installed the application will be available in your start menu under Office tools.

The application is not completely refined, but it does offer some nice layout options. This is a nice example of a WPF application that integrates into Microsoft Outlook.

Microsoft is offering free video streaming over at silverlight.live.com

Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™ is a companion service for Silverlight that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale rich media as part of their Silverlight applications.

Nikhil Kothari has put together an interesting post on how to setup Google Analytics to detect an log the installed version of Silverlight that your visitors are using.

thirteen23 has posted a beautiful application prototype called CINE.VIEW which allows you to browse and manage your Netflix queue. While you’re on their site don’t miss their other portfolio pieces. Nice work guys.

Here’s a look at the current Google Search trends for WPF, Silverlight, Flex and Air.

It’s a little tough to make a direct comparison with the rather generic product names Adobe is using, but it does hint at the momentum that Silverlight (shown in blue) is seeing at the moment.