Silverlight 3 Features
On July 22nd, Microsoft® released the latest version of Expression® Studio, its collection of tools for graphics, UI and web designers. A key element in this suite is Expression Web 3, Microsoft's professional code editor for HTML and PHP developers. Various compelling new features in this release justified an update of a previous article on this topic. Learn more about what's new in Expression Web 3 today.
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Get in on all the excitement and see how Expression 3 and Silverlight 3 can help turn your vision, creativity, and energy into reality. Watch the launch keynote, check out the "Visual Kitchen" show for in-depth demos, and much more.
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This tutorial demonstrates how to include existing Silverlight content and streaming Silverlight content into a PHP web page.
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For a long time, collaboration between designers and developers has been a challenge. With developers not understanding much about graphical and user interface design and designers not knowing code requirements, there has always existed an unhealthy tension between the two. But now, thanks to Microsoft Silverlight, XAML, WPF and Expression Blend, the entire designer/developer dynamic is permanently changed for the better.
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Changing the designer-developer paradigm will only happen if there's something in it for both parties without the need to give up their favorite tools. We explore the state of designer-developer collaboration and what both sides need to do to advance the development process.
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Check out what this small creative team at a digital design, development and strategy agency is doing with Microsoft Silverlight in a Mac environment. This blog is never boring, that's for sure.
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Learn what's new in the latest release of Silverlight, directly from the source. Then download Silverlight 3 and give it a try!
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Silverlight 2 Features
Although most Windows® Presentation Format (WPF) and Microsoft® Silverlight™ applications are designed to cover widely differing scenarios, there are cases where it is desirable to use both technologies to create complimentary programs. In such cases it is, of course, advantageous to coordinate the construction of both applications in order to achieve both efficient development and long term maintainability.
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Microsoft® is taking interoperability seriously when it comes to Silverlight. Now, thanks to Microsoft and Soyatec, Eclipse developers will be able to create Microsoft Silverlight™ applications right in their favorite IDE.
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Historically, tracking how users interact with a RIA was almost never done. Adding the necessary analytic code to your RIA was usually an afterthought at best. But with Microsoft® Silverlight™, designers and developers have an easier time of building tracking information in any time during development.
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Join the new Front Runner for Innovate On User Experience program to build your Silverlight skills, receive UX consulting expertise, and access marketing benefits to quickly get your solution to market.
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Some developers have decried the lack of controls for Microsoft® Silverlight™. Now with the Silverlight Toolkit, developers have a plethora of controls to choose from for their applications.
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Efficient programming in Silverlight requires you to use the right tools. To get you up to speed on the latest Silverlight development tools, Cal Schrotenboer walks us through everything that comes with Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio.
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If you're a Python or Ruby fan, you may feel you're missing out on all the latest developments in Rich Internet Applications. With support for Python and Ruby in Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2, dynamic language developers now have easy access to the latest RIA technologies.
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Some of the most important new features in Microsoft's recently released Expression Web 2 involve enhanced support for PHP. Don't think this is just a half hearted effort to appeal to the Open Source web development crowd. Expression Web 2 supports PHP developers with a carefully constructed, feature full treatment which you should seriously consider for your PHP applications.
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If you know how to develop killer applications in Flash and have been wondering whether or not you could leverage your skills to create great Silverlight applications, you need to check out Project Rosetta. Filled with articles, tips and tricks, Project Rosetta will help you to develop applications in Silverlight utilizing the Flash skills you already know and love. Have a look at Project Rosetta today!
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Offering over 3,600 hours of video coverage, NBCOlympics.com is the largest online media event ever accomplished on the Web. Powered by Microsoft Silverlight, viewers can catch all the Olympic highlights they missed in high-definition. Check it out now!
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Video has long been the bane of developers for lack of hosting and bandwidth. But with Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming, almost anyone can get their videos online quickly, easily and for free.
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In its latest release alongside Silverlight 2 Beta 2, Deep Zoom Composer shifts to a more accessible XML format and offers better control of image quality. Those are just the latest improvements to a tool that's grown far more capable since its introduction back at MIX 08.
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With Silverlight 2 now having a go-live license, you can begin to take advantage of all of its managed code features. In this application and walkthrough we show you how to utilize both a database and XML for your Silverlight 2 application.
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Buttons and DataGrids get all the press, but Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 1 has more than new controls. Here are nine less-visible, "long-tail" technologies in the current beta, one of which may be the key to your next Silverlight application.
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With the proliferation of Rich Interactive Application (RIA) platform choices out there, you no longer have to take a one-size-fits-all approach to developing your next RIA application. Knowing the strengths (and weaknesses) of each platform can help you to decide the best RIA for your next application.
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You're not giving up Flash any time soon (and we don't blame you.) But if you could get your Flash application working in Silverlight, why wouldn't you? We show you the tools and techniques required to have your rockin' Flash application rolled for Silverlight.
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With the Symbian OS now supporting Microsoft Silverlight, mobile developers can bring new and exciting capabilities to handsets all over the globe. Find out why developers now need to make mobile devices a core part of their RIA development strategy.
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NiFTyTV.com has constructed a Silverlight-based solution that allows them to emulate on the Mac the end-user behavior of the NiFTyTV application, which runs natively on PCs. The independent nature of the Silverlight platform was a big draw for NiFTyTV. Silverlight is used as the component of the Mac version of NiFTyTV to decode and display Windows Media video streams. Check it out today by downloading the demo player.
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Think PHP developers don't need Silverlight? Think again. By dynamically generating XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language), PHP developers can buff their skills with some very cool Microsoft® Silverlight™ tricks, adding a whole new responsive visual element to their PHP pages. This walkthrough goes through the details of building a simple Silverlight app just using XAML code, JavaScript, and PHP.
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Want to get started with Silverlight and don't have a clue as to where your services should go? Have no fear. In this feature we'll walk you through setting up an account on Windows Live and getting your services hosted there, both for development and deployment.
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Silverlight 1 Features
A carbon calculator helps a user calculate his or her total carbon dioxide emissions for a year by taking into account the user's home energy, automobile mileage and travel habits, airline travel, and diet. Take a look behind the scenes at the design and development of a Silverlight-based carbon calculator application.
The previous version of the calculator was built using HTML with JavaScript and didn't meet CI's needs. The Microsoft Public Sector Developer group brought in AIS to upgrade the calculator to Silverlight and implement it as an application hosted and driven by SharePoint. The final Silverlight based calculator consumes JSON objects, serves up images and videos, tracks usage through HitBox, and provides Virtual Earth visualizations of carbon offset projects in Madagascar.
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With Microsoft's Popfly site, you can easily leverage AJAX and Silverlight to create powerful mashups in a matter of minutes. This short video in Silverlight highlights what you need to get started with Popfly.
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Waiting for Silverlight to deliver on its promise of delivering rich media experiences? Take your first steps with this tutorial on how to embed a Windows media file in your Silverlight application, control its playback, and create simple video effects.
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The basic Microsoft Silverlight project assumes that the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) file of the project defines a specific page of an application. However, a control project uses the XAML file to define the user interface (UI) for all general uses of that control. This topic describes how you can add files to a basic control project so that you can test the control.
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Find out where Silverlight is headed by adding managed code in addition to JavaScript and XAML.
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This QuickStart is similar to the the Silverlight 1.0 QuickStart, except that it focuses on using the designer tool Microsoft Expression Blend to create Silverlight graphics and UI rather than working directly in XAML code.
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The following QuickStart topics demonstrate how to create managed Silverlight-based applications using C# and Visual Basic. This content pertains to the Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 release.
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The advent of any new programming model generates a great deal of excitement, and the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is no exception. This powerful UI framework provides a plush set of controls to construct rich user experiences. The controls provided within this coding quiver will help you hit the mark for the majority of your UI targets.
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Silverlight opens the door for exciting new ways to provide more productive, engaging, and innovative experiences across multiple platforms. Excitingly, developers are able to leverage existing development skills to create these experiences.
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So, just what is Silverlight? In a nutshell, Silverlight is Microsoft's solution for creating next generation interactive content for the web. This article will guide you in using Silverlight to create a nifty little Vista gadget that helps you tune a guitar.
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The Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in enables developers to host Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), which feature animation, vector graphics, and video playback. Find out how to get started with Silverlight, and get a feel for how this new type of development works.
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You can build rich Silverlight controls without monolithic IDEs; all you need is a little JavaScript, Notepad, and your imagination.
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Get a hands-on introduction to the newest RIA technologies from Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun by building demo applications using AIR (Flex), Silverlight (CLR), and JavaFX.
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Find out how ASP.NET AJAX works, and how you can best apply it to your own web sites.
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