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MSPress releases Silverlight 2 book

Mohan Sharma (mohansharma) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:51:03 GMT

Microsoft Press has released good introductory book for Silverlight 2. More details on Amazon page. Product Description Get a jump on the next release of Silverlight with early insights from a Technical Evangelist on the Microsoft Silverlight team. This guide describes how you can simplify the development and deployment of rich interactive applications (RIAs) by using Silverlight 2 tools with Microsoft Visual Studio�® 2008 and the Microsoft .NET Framework. RIAs are Web applications with the features and functionality of full desktop applications. Processing tasks are performed on the client, but data is stored on the server. With Silverlight, RIAs install quickly via a small, on-demand plug-in. This book demonstrates how you can easily use existing skills and tools to deliver next-generation user interfaces and media experiences. You ll discover how to begin building different types of Silverlight-based solutions, generate Silverlight applications dynamically on the server, create an XAML service, and more. The ...

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Microsoft bags huge distribution deal with HP. Live Search browser defaults, custom toolbar based on Microsoft Silverlight.

Mohan Sharma (mohansharma) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:43:29 GMT

2009 consumer PCs from HP will get Silverlight based Live Search toolbar. Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has won a key distribution deal with HP, the world's largest PC manufacturer, to install a Live Search-enabled toolbar on all HP consumer PCs planned to ship in the United States and Canada, beginning in January 2009. As part of this deal, the default search engine setting in the browser on all HP consumer PCs will also be set to Microsoft Live Search."This agreement with HP is a strategic indicator of our increased focus on securing broad-scale distribution for Live Search," said Kevin Johnson, president of the Platforms & Services Division at Microsoft. "This is the most significant distribution deal for Live Search that Microsoft has ever done, and we are very pleased to be partnering with HP to help bring Live Search to millions of consumers across North America."Microsoft is bu...

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New York Times RSS Reader is using Silverlight and it rocks!

Mohan Sharma (mohansharma) — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:18:27 GMT

(danceimage 1) New York Times's new RSS Reader is built using Silverlight technology. It's slick and works flawlessly. Reading news on Times Reader is a sheer delight. There is plenty of instruction on FAQ page to understand how it works. This blog attachment has the Mac version of Times Reader. From NYT FAQ page: How do I install Times Reader for the Mac? The Mac Times Reader installer will take about a minute to complete. The installer will direct you to a web install of Microsoft Silverlight, a required plug-in. What is Silverlight? Double click on the Times Reader.pkg file to start the installation process.Click the Continue and Agree buttons until you get to the Silverlight installation page. If you do not have Silverlight already installed you will be given a button to click. This will launch a browser window to the Microsoft website Silverlight installation page.Click the install now button. The Silverlight package wi...

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Internet Explorer 8 introduces WebSlices. Share your content from within page

Mohan Sharma (mohansharma) — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:56:50 GMT

Browsers have been slow in catching up with social media. Built in sharing options have been limited so far. Internet Explorer 8, which is still in beta, attempts to change that with new feature called Webslices. IE 8 site describes WebSlices in these terms - Users commonly visit many websites several times a day to check for updates. The introduction of RSS feeds can make this experience easier for users, although RSS feeds requires a nontrivial amount of work on behalf of the developer.WebSlices is a new feature for websites that enables users to subscribe to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds in that users can subscribe to them and receive update notificatio...

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Silverlight Resources

Mohan Sharma (mohansharma) — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:07:16 GMT

Good resource list. Add to this if you can. via Mike Snows Silverlight Blog by mike.snow on 5/5/08 The following is my list of Silverlight Resources including blogs, tutorials and m...

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WPF 3.5 SP1 Beta release results in WPF Week on Channel 9

Mohan Sharma (mohansharma) — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:06:10 GMT

In case you missed the action. All the links in one place. via Adam Kinney, Continuum Explorer by Adam Kinney on 5/12/08 With the release of WPF 3.5 SP1 Beta, many have written comprehensive text on the subject: Introducing the Third Major Release of Windows Presentation Foundation - Tim Sneath Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta - Scott Guthrie VS2008 and .Net 3.5 SP1 Beta - Should You Fear This Release? - Scott Hanselman I was given the task of telling the story via videos posted on Channel 9. After drafting Dr. Sneath to aid with a few of the interviews and a fair bit of editing, we've come up with another round of WPF Week on Channel 9. Pleas...

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It's Silverlight show time in Hollywood

Mohan Sharma (mohansharma) — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:08:32 GMT

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First public release of Moonlight, supporting Silverlight 1.0 on Linux is out !!

Mohan Sharma (mohansharma) — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:34:55 GMT

Icaza, Vice president of developer relations at Novell and head of the Mono project, announced on his blog the first public release of Moonlight. No-media codecs supported, but easy to install: head to http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight and click on the cute installer for Moonlight. This currently hosts builds for Linux x86 and x86-64 for Firefox. Source-code compilation, but you can optionally compile FFMpeg codecs yourself. To do this, download our moon-0.6.tar.bz2. And ...

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Building enterprise Silverlight application - lessons learned

Mohan Sharma (mohansharma) — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:27:02 GMT

Silverlight continues to make steady progress. These two tutorials are handy if you want ...

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[DOC] Introduction to Silverlight

Mohan Sharma (mohansharma) — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:09:16 GMT

Introduction t...

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