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Microsoft launched a new Windows Forms and WPF Community site. There’s lots of good stuff there, Silverlight and WPF video tutorials, control galleries, downloadable WPF samples, forums and more. Worth a look.

This week MLB.com rolled out a Silverlight video player on some of their article pages.

I think it’s great that MLB adopted Silverlight so early after the RC1 player release. But I have to say that the implementation seems a little shotty to me. I had issues with the controls hanging when I was trying to Pause/Play the video and dragging the scrub bar is glitchy.

It also looks like they used bitmapped graphics on the control buttons which aren’t scaling well. Try comparing the article player to the full player to see what I mean.

I know, I know,.. it says “Beta” in the upper right corner and I do applaud MLB for adopting Silverlight. I just know they can do better, and I wouldn’t want anyone to think this is the best Silverlight has to offer. Hopefully they’ll get it tightened up soon.

Via - Mike Harsh’s Blog

Steve Clayton of Geek In Disguise has put together a nice collection of videos from the Microsoft WorldWide Partner Conference (WPC).

Topics include:

• Microsoft Surface
• Live Labs Photosynth (and SeaDragon)
• Windows Live for Windows Mobile
• Microsoft RoundTable
• Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM
• Microsoft Silverlight
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Automotive

This is a demo of the new product LiveStation, a live television broadcasting application built on Silverlight and currently in public beta. (still waiting on my invite)

There have been a lot of articles comparing LiveStation to Joost, which is not exactly apples to apples. The big differentiator for LiveStation is that it is peer-to-peer and is intended for live broadcasting, although it is also capable of delivering time shifted content as well.

This really shows off the power and flexibility of SilverLight and WPF for presentation. Once it goes 1.0 there are plans to port it to OSX and Windows Mobile.

LiveStation is a Microsoft Research project, and was built in partnership with the London company Skinkers.