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Looks like Vodafone has launched a Silverlight based video on demand service for the German market.

This is a nice, buttoned up, implementation of Silverlight.

The Microsoft Health CUI group had launched a new build of their Patient Journey Demonstrator. This is a Silverlight Dashboard demonstrating a rich user interface for healthcare providers.

The Microsoft Health Common User Interface Patient Journey Demonstrator is a vehicle for Microsoft thought leadership in state-of-the-art user experience for healthcare applications. It provides exemplar implementations of Microsoft Health CUI guidance on a Microsoft platform.

The latest release has some great new features and is worth checking out. Some highlights from this release include:

Clinical Noting using Health Language
This feature uses an innovative interface to aid in composing notes about patient history

Highlighting and Annotating Deep Zoom
This is an awesome feature. A healthcare provider can examine patient charts using DeepZoom and add annotations that act like bookmarks.

Help and Guidance

I’m sure there are many more that I’ve missed. The Microsoft Health CUI blog has more information.

Adam Kinney has published a new release of his excellent Xbox Friends Watch game card. The new version is built for Silverlight 2 and the supporting site allows customization. Gamers can choose from 3 predefined themes or completely customize the theme to fit their personal style.

The website for the Renault Laguna Coupe is full out Silverlight. Check it out at www.laguna-coupe.com. Nice clean design and great use of DeepZoom and Video.

Mark Dawson, the creator of Kit3D a 3D graphics engine written for Microsoft Silverlight, has ported the Photosynth viewer from Direct 3D to Silverlight. The Silverlight version of the application uses Deep Zoom for getting in tight and Kit3D for the spatial rendering.

You can visit this link to get a random collection in the Silverlight Viewer. Hint, press the T key to see the triangles used in the Affine Texture Mapping.

Tim Anderson has worked through his first Silverlight application using Live Mesh and Windows Azure.

He’s written a piece outlining his observations, it’s not all good, but not all bad either. Seems the most frustrating part has been just finding information. An interesting read and I’m sure you can relate if you’ve ever walked the bleeding edge.

Felix Wang has created an awesome Silverlight app called Mooncake that auto generates DeepZoom collections from your Flickr (or other) web galleries. It has a really slick interface, great transitions and nice attention to detail on everything from the menus to the loading animations. You can see an example collection on Felix’s blog.

I have 2 URL’s for Mooncake and am not sure why. This one is open http://mooncake.nxmix.com/ This one requires you to setup an account http://redmooncake.net/ and I think is the ‘real’ app.

Microsoft Live Labs announced Thumbtack yesterday. Thumbtack is a web application that enables you to collect snippets of information from a variety of sources then perform actions on them such as charting (Silverlight), and mapping. You also have the ability to share and collaborate on collections with friends.

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&#038;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:6a905d98-0332-4c3f-8b25-75737cd9b675&#038;showPlaylist=true&#038;from=msnvideo" target="_new" title="Thumbtack Introduction">Video: Thumbtack Introduction</a>

In this example I quickly copied some real estate listings, then applied a mapping widget to them. The mapping widget automatically found the addresses in the clippings and plotted them on the map. Nice.

Signin to use Thumbtack is easy with your Windows Live account.

For me, one of the most difficult aspects of making the jump from Flash to Silverlight/WPF was finding simple, to the point, tutorials to work from.

There are a few great resources out there now but at the time there was little information available, and what was out there assumed you already know a good deal about C# and .NET.

This made it very frustrating to get going because although I was proficient in AS2, I never really made the transition to AS3 before I dove into WPF and C#. Things that I could code up in AS2 in a matter of minutes became stumbling blocks along the way.

Recently a coworker let me borrow the book Foundation Expression Blend 2 by Victor Gaudioso.

If you’re new to WPF, or a Flash Developer making the difficult transition from ActionScript to XAML/C# this book will give you a great head start. Unlike some other books on the subject this one assumes little about your knowledge of WPF and C# and has a lot of simple tutorials that walk you through projects from end to end.

It seems like a lot books in this space are either written for developers or designers. This one hits that sweet spot in the middle and appeals to the technical designer, which is where a lot of Flash developers fall.

If I had found this when I was getting started it would have saved me a lot of time getting up to speed.

I was looking for a quick way to pass parameters into a Silverlight app this morning, something that’s very easy to do in Flash, but wasn’t so clear to me in Silverlight. A quick search turned up this timely post by Kirupa. Using Initialization Parameters in Silverlight