Entries Tagged 'Silverlight' ↓

Do JavaSctipt and Google Chrome pose a threat to Silverlight?

ZDNet Australia has a piece on the Google and Mozilla implementations of JavaScript and it’s potential effect on Silverlight

I think that the next 18 months we’re going to see a 100 to 1,000 fold speed increase in JavaScript as Google and the guys at Mozilla are going to kick us all in the arse and make our JavaScript jittered

Scott Hanselman speaking at Tech.Ed

Silverlight babes and Formula 1, everybody wins!

Silverlight Grid Girl
The SingTel Singapore Grand Prix is running a promotion called the SingTel Grid Girls.

In this Silverlight application you choose from one of 20 Grid Girls then complete a quiz to get your compatibility match. If you’re not a match you see a video of her looking disappointed, make a match and you get a special little prize.

Not too shabby.
Silverlight Grid Girl

Developing a Silverlight application that sends email

Arafat Tehsin at Redmond Pie has put together a tutorial on creating an ASP.NET Silverlight application that sends email.
Silverlight email application

SmarterStats using Silverlight charting

SmarterStats4.x Silverlight ChartingSmarterTools has released SmarterStats 4.x, the latest version of it’s web analytics tool. This release uses Silverlight for dynamic charting.

There is also a free edition available which allows you to run reporting on 1 site.

The Mojave Experiment gets a Silverlight makeover

Looks like Microsoft has relaunched the Mojave Experiment website with a Silverlight front end. Initially the site was built in Flash, presumably to get as much exposure as possible when it first went live. Maybe now that the Olympics are over they feel the Silverlight plugin has enough penetration to switch to Silverlight.
mojave experiment
The UI is nice and utilizes WPF’s DeepZoom to navigate the video windows.

Is it me or are the video playback controls a little hard to use though? If I inadvertently click in a video area the video restarts from the beginning, and the lack of a scrub bar makes this a little annoying.

Interfoft’s Siruis Silverlight Interface Components

Intersoft has launched an showcase for their upcoming Silverlight Interface Component Library. The demo site is very well put together and the concepts are well executed. Features include CoverFlow browsing and FishEye menus.
Silverlight Interface
Silverlight Interface
We love to see new Silverlight/WPF components and really appreciate their efforts. I just have one big problem with the demo site.

Explore the next generation User Interface for Silverlight 2.0. Indulge yourself with elegant navigation and brand-new UX concept. …

ORLY? Seems I’ve seen these “brand-new UX concepts” someplace before.
Sad MAC

BBC using DeepZoom

The BBC is using DeepZoom on the website promoting Radio 1’s Big Weekend. The Silverlight application arranges user submitted photos in a MultiScaleImage control.
BBC DeepZoom silverlight

LineRider game in Silverlight 2

LineRider Silverlight GameCynergy Systems, Inc. released a Silverlight 2 version fo their game Line Rider. These line type games are always simple and addictive. Go kill some time.

New MSN Toolbar using Silverlight

The new MSN toolbar is built in Silverlight. Check it out, it’s pretty nice.
msn toolbar

Deep Zoom Obama

Deep Zoom Obama is a gigapixel portrait of Barack Obama comprised of 12,000 images uploaded by Obama supporters. I’m not sure what the point is, other than the obvious show off of tech and raise to a little dough.
deep zoom obama

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