Web Slices

Microsoft's Sean Seibel works with the top agencies in the world, helping them to take advantage of Microsoft technologies in the work they do. This is an interview with Ed Starr from BMF Media and Frances Calandra from Vectorform, sharing insights on partnering with Microsoft in building IE8…

Digital Agency of the Decade, R/GA (www.rga.com), has launched multiple IE8 Web Slices both externally and internally. Externally R/GA uses an IE8 Web Slice to allow users to have toolbar access to their breaking news, while internally R/GA uses Web Slices for business intelligence.In this video,…

Today users can access rich information and services while they are browsing a site; it's not a trivial task to expose this content to the same users when they are not on that site. The goal of this Web Application Toolkit is to leverage the new features in Internet Explorer 8 (Web Slices,…

The MSN Korean team has added a new Silverlight Photo viewer on their main site.  Its nice and subtle and rotates time-based or by mouse hover, bu there are two interesting details. First, they "localized" the Silverlight install experience. In Korea, people are…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the top developer news including: - Windows 7 Release Candidate available to MSDN & TechNet Subscribers - Brian Keller - Install Windows 7 RC on a Virtual PC - Karsten Januszewski & Tim Aidlin : Glimmer app lets you easily build…

Giorgio Sardo put together a Swine Flu Updates Web Slice which provides the latest information on the recent international concern in a handy Web Slice format. Get a step-by-step walkthrough on the creation of the web slice in this post on Giorgio's blog.

The rapid spread of the H1N1 flu virus is obviously a source of concern across the world. To offer an easy way to stay up to date, we’ve just released a new web slice for Internet Explorer 8 that offers the latest updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.…

A much more rational response to the growing H1N1 flu (epi/pan)demic than totally freaking out is to install the IE8 Swine Flu Web Slice. This will give you the latest information straight from the CDC as it breaks. If you still want to freak out after that, well at least you are informed.

There are plenty of new things to talk about with Internet Explorer 8, and no time like the present since it’s officially released! In this screencast, we begin with a tour of the new consumer features from the relatively minor of tab groups and improved zooming through the major with tab process…

Web Slices are a new IE8 feature that allows users to subscribe to some parts of a web page and receive updates automatically. In this screen cast, Zhiming Xue (Dr. “Z”), Microsoft Architect Evangelist, demonstrates through two simple examples how developers can easily create web…