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Scott's in Redmond this week and chats with developer Damian Edwards about "Razor," IIS Express, SQL 4 Compact Edition and VS2010 Tooling. ScottGu recently announced all of these cool new developer tools, and folks at Microsoft are actively working on integration with Visual…

Live Smooth StreamingLots is going on at MIX, so as not to overwhelm with too many posts, I’ll try to triple-dip on this one. First, as part of Scott Guthrie’s keynote yesterday (now with transcript), we announced that live streaming is coming for Smooth Streaming. The key advantages of Smooth…

…and the Big Buck Bunny sample up on SmoothHD.com that I described the encoding process for is now available for download. John Bocharov has a tutorial up showing how to use the content with the new Smooth Streaming Beta for IIS7. Among other things, it shows the nice WebDAV integration between…

Sometimes I blog to make it easy for me to find a URL later. This is one of those times. We’ve published a new whitepaper at Streamingmedia.com, the “Silverlight Migration Guide: Upgrading Your Windows Media Player Online Experiences.” It’s written by long-time Windows Media and Silverlight…

The Microsoft Web Platform has just been launched and is available for download now from www.microsoft.com/web – the same site we recently featured here not too long ago. In addition to articles about web development and design, the website now also features a “Downloads” section, which is where…

One of the best parts of my job at Microsoft is when I can put aside the video strategy stuff and do some real-world hands-on video compression encoding for a project. My friends on the IIS team asked me to encode their new tutorials for Silverlight playback, and I thought it was a great project to…

In part one of this two-part interview, Scott Guthrie gives a preview of the technology that will be discussed at MIX.  Scott talks about IIS 7.0 for developers, how they've improved hosting scalability, improvements to configuration management and deployment with the recent release of Web…

A general manager within Microsoft’s developer division, Scott Guthrie chats about his upcoming keynote at MIX07 with Rory Blyth from Channel 9. Scott talks about why MIX is such a unique Microsoft conference, what his team is up to on the web technologies front including WPF/E, what’s so special…