Silverlight 2

Silverlight is arguably the biggest shift in web technologies in the last decade.  But is Silverlight ready for prime time business applications?   In this code-focused talk, you will learn how platform features like visual states, animations, isolated storage, data templates and…

KnowledgeLake develops document imaging, document capture and workflow products and solutions for SharePoint.  KnowledgeLake's suite of products extend SharePoint into a comprehensive ECM solution that enables businesses to reduce shipping costs, streamline operations and achieve regulatory…

It started as a conversation about "crowd sourcing" images that people have already tagged as New Zealand to construct a demo from our shipping Silverlight 2 technology. I spent 3 days building a "demo-ware" prototype and presented it during a keynote  slot…

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…

You probably caught the news about the availability of the newest version of the Silverlight plugin: Silverlight2. Thanks to some high profile efforts, like the Microsoft-NBC partnership on the Olympics website for example, Silverlight is now installed on 1 in 4 of PCs worldwide. If you haven’t…

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…

Are you a developer looking to build a Silverlight application using the New York Times API? Well, now you can. The New York Times Silverlight Kit has just become an Open Source project distributed under the MS-PL license. If you’re not familiar with what this kit does, it’s something that you can…

Starting today, you don’t have to download any software to your PC to enjoy what Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope has to offer – it’s now available online as a web application! This is good news for folks running non-Windows operating systems who were previously unable to use this amazing…

Vocês lembram o Deep Zoom? Ele é uma das novas funcionalidades do Silverlight 2 (ainda em beta) e, na minha opinião, é algo realmente impressionante. Quando eu explico o que é o Deep Zoom para as pessoas, eu o descrevo como uma terceira dimensão adicionada à navegação na Web. O Deep Zoom…

The first public release canditate (RCo) for Silverlight 2 is now available for download by developers. While anyone can install it, the main goal is for developers to make sure they aren't hit by any breaking changes for Silverlight 2 RTM so they can fix any issues. No one will be auto-updated to…