Silverlight 2

The Live Framework is a set of libraries and services for building connected applications that can reach millions of users. Live Mesh is a set of services for synchronizing user and application data between multiple devices and multiple people. This screencast provides an introduction to…

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering "Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond" held on January 15, 2009 in Reston, Va. Business-focused applications, sometimes referred to as Line Of Business (LOB)…

Moonlight/Silverlight 1.0 player!As I mentioned on Friday, the official streaming feed of Barak Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Committee will be using Silverlight 2. However, using managed code in the player leaves out Linux users of the Moonlight 1.0 beta, as well as PowerPC Mac users. We’ve…

Silverlight 2 has made its way onto 100 million consumer PCs and it has also been recently published to Microsoft Update for deployment across enterprises, reveals Scott Guthrie in a recent blog post. That means that 1 in 4 machines on the internet now have some version of Silverlight installed, he…

This video shows how a designer can have a large impact on the look and feel of an application without having to write a lot of code or interfering with the core logic of the application. To highlight this, Celso Gomes will re-style a basic Twitter application built in Silverlight using only his…

Many client technologies such as Silverlight 2 only support the HTTP Methods GET and POST.  However, you may want to follow a HI-REST architectural style when designing your RESTful APIs, taking advantage of additional HTTP methods such as PUT and DELETE.  In this screencast, Rob Bagby…

There's going to be some great stuff going on in the bookstore @ PDC -- including some book launchings, book signings and more. Anders Hejlsberg, who will be signing copies of the C# Programming Language on Monday, October 27 at 3:30 PM, will only be around for 30 minutes, and we're…

Last week we saw the release of Silverlight 2, the latest and greatest version of the browser plugin designed for rich media experiences on the web. Since that time, a number of related technologies have also been updated to work with Silverlight 2. These include the following: Deep Zoom…

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan talk about this week's developer news, including: - Windows 7 is the official name of the next release of Windows - Silverlight 2 RTWs (demo video), via Scott Guthrie's blog - Photosynth wins breakthrough award from Popular Mechanics, via…

Note: Due to the screen resolution, we recommend you watch this in full screen mode or download the video. Now that Silverlight 2 has released to the Web, we sat down with Scott Guthrie as he walks us through handcoding a basic Silverlight 2 application. You'll see the Silverlight eventing…