So you want to use video on your website? Well there are a few options to consider and they all have their distinct advantages and disadvantages. The first thing that you need to understand is that the majority of people, those regular non-techie ones, use browsers that will need some form of plugin, or a [...]
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Last year July I wrote a blog post that listed some sites that use Silverlight to power rich application content. Twelve months later and I have found a few more cool ones, although the Hardrock Memorabilia site still remains my favourite. ShineDraw still remains a great site for checking out the same things done in [...]
What does it take to host Silverlight content on a site? Why would I want to publish Silverlight content on my website? Well, to host Silverlight content on a website that runs Apache is not the same as running .NET content on IIS. Its kinda obvious that .NET content cannot and will not run under [...]
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As I sit waiting for the Visual Studio Service Pack 1 ISO to finish downloading, I spent some time looking and reading about Silverlight and about C#. I have found one or two good websites, ones that I go to regularly to check for updated articles and source code. So three of my favourite Silverlight [...]
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I am busy with a Silverlight video player at the moment, and what is interesting to note and understand is that Silverlight is heavily event-driven, as is ASP.NET and a lot of the .NET framework. You can attach event handlers to almost any object, from mouse event handlers to click event handlers. Having asked that [...]
I had a brief glimpse of the Google phone and I must say its not a pretty phone when compared to the iPhone. The other interesting thing to note is that the iPhone does not support Flash or Silverlight at this stage and that Microsoft will be looking at putting Silverlight on the Google phone. [...]
I would be the first to admit that not a lot of people have heard or know about Silverlight, which is Microsoft’s rich internet plugin, which is an alternative to Adobe’s Flash. It is true that Flash has been around for a long time and that Silverlight will not dislodge Flash’s entrenched following and use. [...]
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So Silverlight has gone from Beta 2 to Release Candidate and this means that developer tools have to be updated again. This is a pain sometimes, but I guess it goes with liking to develop on a particular platform (.NET). You can read Scott Gu’s article here.
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Have you ever seen any of the Steve Ballmer videos on Youtube where he sells Windows? Well here is another one, but interestingly enough if you click through to the Windows I’m a PC Website you browse through a myriad of short video clips of people that say “I’m a PC”. This is Microsoft’s attempt [...]
I found a really cool Silverlight/Flash website that basically shows you how to do the same thing using both sets of technologies. The site is called Shine Draw. Its interesting to note that in all the projects the Silverlight projects’ file sizes were almost double in size.
