Flash

When you go to watch a Channel 9 video, there is a lot of magic that happens to get you to the right format of video for your device and browser. Essentially though, you can end up watching videos on our site in one of a few different ways: HTML 5 with H264 video (MP4): If your browser supports HTML…

Another week of fun filled debates and conversations. Please share your thoughts on these stories and anything else you think Laura & Paul need to know... First Place at SXSW Interactive [02:16] Flash for all [06:42] Cross Platform is the Future [10:08] Office 365 free for students  [17:43]…

Today's project helps meld to different worlds, Flash and the Kinect. Yep, you can develope AIR applications that integrate with the Kinect with this extension (oh and the source for the extension is available too)... AIRKinect 2.2 – now with open-source native codeIt’s been 3 months since the…

Listen in as Victor Gaudioso, Solutions Advocate for Creative Net Design, chats with Tim Huckaby, Founder of InterKnowlogy, about his experience with Silverlight development coming from an Adobe Flash background and training resources to check out.About VictorVictor, a Microsoft Expression Blend…

Have you ever wondered about the production that goes into all the graphics that are shown during your favorite sporting events? Chyron is the industry leader in all aspects of providing graphics for TV programming. Jim Cirone sits down with Jeff Wolski, Sumit Sahni and Daniel Kim from…

Adobe just announced that their latest version of Flash supports InPrivate Browsing, according to a post on the IEBlog. This new update, version 10.1, now creates something called “Flash Cookies,” small files similar to browser cookies but created by Flash instead. With these Flash cookies,…

Mike Downey (Principal Evangelist) shares his experiences with Flash, Flex and Air and discusses how they compare with Silverlight's offerrings. Hear Mike, a former Flash evangelist for 9 years before coming to Microsoft last year, discuss his decision to switch to Silverlight and what incredible…

The biggest news from last week in the Microsoft Client World is tied to the biggest news of January, possibly of the year 2009. If you haven't already heard it echoed on twitter and blogs, last week the Presidential Inauguration Committee announced the event will be streamed in Silverlight.  If…

The race to enable embedded web content on mobile devices is a serious one, as clearly none of us enthusiasts will be happy until Youtube videos and Myspace music players are available at all times. Enter Skyfire and their browser for just about any WM5/6 device, which uses some server-side voodoo…

Jesse Warden (dot Kizz-ohm) was recently in town to meet with Bill Gates and the Silverlight team. Jesse is well-known for helping people fuse hardcore coding and Flash design. Between the lively and top-secret internal meetings, Nishant grabbed a camera and asked Jesse to share some of his…