Well their website for their IT Pro/Developer event is anyway! Check it out here!  Way retro! Nice work guys. http://www.puertadeenlace.net/run09/ Oh and check out the Silverlight version of Windows 7 too…

They were saying at Web 2.0 that Obama won the election because of the web.   Well, there was probably a bit more to it than that but it certainly helped.  Being in San Fran on election nice was quite special and walking around at 8pm PST when it was announced he had it in the bag, I witnessed...

One of the last PC games I remember playing was Quake 2 – I know I know, it’s been a while.  The wizards over at http://www.innoveware.com/ have converted this classic into Silverlight – amazing! Oh yeah and now they want to know what you want them to work on next!

The Hard Rock site just got a revamp with more items – there are now 500 items!  There’s also a nice widget to embed that you can embed in your own site!  Check the bad boy out for yourself: Hard Rock Memorabilia site If you’re a flash guru and want to use your skills in Silverlight find out...

One of the most common things we get asked about is how designers and developers can take their Flash skills and apply them to Silverlight.  We’ve been listening to you and have come out with “Project Rosetta” – a website and set of tutorials that shows you how you can take advantage of their existing...

Cool workshops event in NYC being run by my colleagues state side in New York: Overview of Silverlight & WPF Designer developer workflow using XAML Expression Studio to craft Silverlight and WPF User Experiences Styling and Skinning Data Binding Using Visual Studio to hook up Silverlight on the front...

Came across this cool article on eWeek about the online coverage by NBC of the Olympics powered by Microsoft Silverlight , there are some pretty mind-boggling statistics about the use throughput of data and the number of downloads of the plugin.  Here are some numbers from the first four days that...

Interesting little project this one, created from over 12,000 thumbnails of photos uploaded by supporters Obama’s campaign created this image. Check out their page here . Deep Zoom is the technology included in Silverlight 2.0 that allows you to create a smooth zooming experience into high resolution...

Announcements aplenty at TechEd 2008 in Orlando today.  Somasegar's been writing about his keynote with Bill Gates and Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is shipping this week with a go-live license for production! This means you can legally land apps in production even though it's beta code - I guess this helps...

The interop momentum is growing now with news of the release of Moonlight which is in a nutshell Silverlight for Linux allowing designers and developers to create rich experiences and applications once and land them on Windows and now Linux.  Moonlight is being developed by the guys behind Project...

Loving the work from the team in the UK on this demo app to show off Microsoft's Common User Interface for healthcare applications based in Silverlight 2.  Follow the demo guides and it'll take you through all the key aspects of the app. Check it out here . Congrats to Martin Grayson and the team...

By "enterprise" I of course mean "business".  Many partners have asked me over the past couple of months about best tactics to manage the deployment of Silverlight effectively within their businesses.  Tim Sneath has posted a nice article about to do this in the best way...

One of the technologies announced at Mix 08 this year was Deep Zoom as part of Silverlight 2.  It allows you to zoom into incredible amounts of detail in high resolution photos and cleverly only brings back the amount of data you need based on your current view and zoom level.  This allows...

T5M (The 5th Medium) is an online magazine that merges the worlds of print and video in a very rich way.  It's a good example of how we see Silverlight being used in the future too with a combination of Ajax being used for some parts of the UI and Silverlight for others.  It's the video experience...

Via the LiveSide guys , I came across this neat video of software that allows users to zoom smoothly around photos and get more detail in a really rich way. This technology is based upon Silverlight and uses a technology called Seadragon which we first saw in Photosynth . This is going to provide a completely...

Now those who know me well will be familiar with my love for three sports; Golf, Basketball and Football (the beautiful game that is, not American Football). My days of jumpers for goal posts and kicking a ball round a park are long since gone, but I do play basketball and golf very regularly. I was...

Woah been a busy past couple of weeks.  Been doing Windows Server 2008 events up and down the country and moved apartment so been up to my eyeballs!  Although I didn't move far it was fairly stressful and I'm now left with a weekend of unpacking.  Oh and joy, there was no BT phone line...

Just wanted to let you know that the Silverlight Streaming SDK has up-sticks and wandered on over to the MSDN under the Windows Live node . The SDK includes a nice primer as to what Silverlight Streaming really is and also the architecture. Part of this features information about the content delivery...

I blogged about the IBC 2007 conference the other day and James Clarke just posted a very nice demo of Interactive Media Manager (IMM) today which looks extremely sexy with AJAX, Silverlight and SharePoint. The ability to have rich editing capabilities within the browser is very interesting indeed and...

Jon Harris (Expression demigod), following the announcement about Silverlight 1.0 Release is demoing Silverlight and Expression at IBC 2007 this year and as well as showing off Silverlight, Microsoft made some other announcements that are very interesting if you are in the internet/rich media side of...

Scott Guthrie just announced the release of Silverlight 1.0! He's written an excellent post on his blog about exactly what Silverlight is so I'll just link to that rather than spilling my guts out again. The other key think to note is the announcement about Linux and that we are releasing a version of...

I promised some changes to Partner TV , the first of which (if you don't count a bit more text explaining the videos) I published last night which is a Silverlight player. This new enhancement brings cross-browser, cross-platform capability to Partner TV making it more inline with other video sharing...

Steve Ballmer announced today two example apps that show off how to put the Live Services we have on offer to use. The apps "Contoso Bicycle Club" and "Contoso University" were developed by two UK Parters, AWS and Conchango in association with Microsoft UK. They incorporate many Live Services some of...

Want to learn about Silverlight from the experts in Redmond? Tim Sneath has posted about a unique experience open to the public and is worth checking out! Hat tip to Mark for this! Technorati Tags: Silverlight

I rather like this site . Firstly, it shows a rather nice design that uses Silverlight and secondly the tutorials are bloody good. I like the way that the screenshots scale smoothly and also have nice transparencies - very sexy. I've no idea who has created this site by the way - if you know - drop me...