Today, at the PDC in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta, just four months after bringing Silverlight 3 to market. With the help of several customers we showcased the new features that will enable developers to create the highest quality media and RIA applications

In anticipation of the opening of the Twilight Saga: New Moon movie on November 20th, MSN has created a Virtual Twilight Tour . Created entirely in Silverlight 3 - from the video player to the map interface - the Tour brings Forks, La Push, Port Angeles, and Volterra right to your computer so that you

Be sure to check out the Chalk Talks in the Web Platform Pavilion at PDC this week. The team is going to have a number of really great sessions in the Big Room at the Web Pavilion (located next to the Surface Lounge). Here's the full schedule: Schedule Title Description Speaker 11/17/09 11:00am What

Introducing the Silverlight Podcast series, which we’ll use to go deep on features and projects. In this first installment, Silverlight Senior Product Manager David Sayed and IIS Senior Program Manager Chris Knowlton talk about IIS7 Media Services 3.0, which powers Smooth Streaming. There are two

by Arturo Toledo , Sr. Product Manager, Silverlight Design Audience A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit Europe as part of the Microsoft REMIX Tour 2009 . REMIX is basically the little brother (or sister) event of Microsoft MIX – our annual event in Las Vegas during which we show all of our

We are excited to announce the re-launch of the MSN Video on www.bing.com/videos/browse . For the tens of Millions of MSN Video customers, this release delivers a vastly improved viewing experience with the help of Microsoft Silverlight. Users demand high quality video but also expect performance. They

Earlier today at TechEd Europe in Berlin, Germany we announced the launch of the Bing Maps Silverlight Control, the newest addition to the Bing Maps Platform. The Bing Maps Silverlight Control uses the power of Silverlight to provide a powerful and rich platform for building mapping and location-based

Today, as part of our ongoing collaboration with Facebook, we released a very exciting new developer resource: the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform ( http://www.microsoft.com/facebooksdk ). This SDK combines the power of Web, client and social technologies to enable millions of developers to transform

In August 2008 we were proud to be part of sports history and deliver a Summer Olympics online experience for fans everywhere. In partnership with NBC, the Silverlight and MSN teams are once again delivering on our commitment to providing the highest quality online video experience with live and on-demand

Our World Live (OWL), a music marketing and broadcasting company, is partnering with Billboard.com to bring music fans a new internet concert series . Billboardlive.com utilizes OWL's state-of-the-art technology, powered by Microsoft Silverlight to provide fans with five-camera angles, where the viewer

The Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL) plug-in is an open source, cross-platform plug-in for the Eclipse development environment that enables Eclipse developers to build Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Microsoft has collaborated with Soyatec, a France-based IT solutions provider

Expression Web makes it faster and easier to create standards-based Web sites with rich Silverlight content. With Expression Web 3, you can easily add Silverlight content, in this case from Expression Blend, to your Web sites. In this example, we’ll be adding a navigation menu bar and interactive slide

Playing video in Silverlight is great, but what about viewers who have a hearing impairment? Not important? The World Health Organization (WHO) would beg to differ. According to their 2005 estimates, “278 million people worldwide have moderate to profound hearing loss in both ears.” That’s almost 17

If your schedule is in anyway similar to mine you’ll probably be very familiar with this scenario. A new version of a tool that you use day in and day out is announced, packed with exciting new features and enhancements that you know will immediately make your day-to-day life easier. So you do

Back in August we told you about how UFC.com used IIS Smooth Streaming for the UFC 102 pre-fight weigh-ins. Building on the success of that, we’re excited to announce that this Saturday, October 24 th , UFC 104 will use Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming not only for the weigh-ins, but also for the

Electric Rain is excited to announce a new product called Convexion, a PowerPoint to Silverlight converter that’s aimed at both presenters and Silverlight designers and developers. This first-of-its-kind tool works as an add-in to PowerPoint and offers single-click export of any slideshow into a self

Microsoft has recently had the pleasure of working with Big Spaceship to deliver the new Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show . It’s always exciting working with agencies like Big Spaceship that like to push the creative envelope. For us the whole design and development process was fascinating, as Big Spaceship

This week Bell Canada announced the availability of “TMN Online,” a service available through the Bell TV Online portal that offers access to online content for subscribers of The Movie Network channel. Silverlight, along with ExtendMedia’s OpenCASE and PlayReady DRM, is being used for content management

Listen to media experts Jaime Miles of Level 3 Communications and Chris Knowlton of Microsoft talk about delivering True HD Video (1080p) over the Web on Thursday, October 15 th . Click here to register and learn why Smooth Streaming is the future of online media delivery! Hosted by StreamingMedia.com

We’ve been nominated in three categories for the 2009 Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards. There are 22 categories in all and run the gamut from content to technologies. You can enter your votes here . We’ve been nominated in the following categories: Best Streaming Innovation: Microsoft

Expression Web makes it faster and easier to create standards-based Web sites with rich Silverlight content. With Expression Web 3, you can easily add and encode Silverlight video for your websites. And you can also add Silverlight content from Expression Blend to websites with Expression Web 3. Inserting

France 24, the French 24 hour news channel, has introduced a new Silverlight-based player that also uses Smooth Streaming to deliver an innovative take on live news. You can check out the player and their blog post (in French.) Here’s the quick summary of the France 24 French blog post: “Imagine that

Did you know that the single best way to get video encoded for Silverlight, or indeed your Zune for that matter, is free? Yes that’s right, free. There is a version of Expression Encoder available for download from the Expression Website which has all the tools you need to prepare and encode your

If you’ve enjoyed live web broadcast events like Wimbledon and Sunday Night Football on NBCSports, the UEFA Super Cup on Canal+, and Roland Garros and the Tour de France on France Télévisions, then you’ve witnessed first-hand the power of our Smooth Streaming technology, giving

PING, one of the best-known brands in golf equipment, was running out of time to deliver a prototype of its next generation custom club fitting, specifying and ordering system at the Professional Golfers’ Merchandise Show in 2008. Find out how Expression Blend enabled Ping to beat its deadlines

Just when we thought spending summer days in the sand were behind us (at least here in Redmond), the AVP recently announced that they will use Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming to bring beach volleyball fans around the world live, SD and HD streaming video of pro beach volleyball matches. Using a

On October 1 st ,MSN released the beta of My Health Info , a new online service that helps people manage their health information on the Web. My Health Info is a unique service that offers people a variety of tools and widgets to upload, organize and monitor health information stored in their personal

SketchFlow was designed to enable you to rapidly create and iterate on application prototypes. Initially concentrating on the flow of the application UI you then bring the prototype to life through the use of sketch styled controls, easy to use transitions, sample data binding and if needed by utilizing

The Expression Team has been running a survey for the last few weeks looking to gather feedback as we start planning for the next version of Expression Blend. We want to make sure you’ve seen the survey and we don’t miss out on your valuable feedback! Feedback from the community is a very

September 29, 2009: Judges from the Website awards program and Web institution, the Favourite Website Awards (FWA) , chalked up another milestone for Silverlight, selecting the Xbox Beatles RockBand website to receive the coveted ‘Site of the Day’ award . Founded in 2000, the Favourite Website

Today marks the officially launch of the WebsiteSpark Program , which provides Web developers and designers access to Microsoft software and solutions, including Silverlight, as well as the training, support and, coming soon, market exposure to help great ideas get off the ground. The Microsoft Web Platform

As a team we are committed to continuing to extend the platform and operating system support of Silverlight to reach the broadest set of customers possible. Today, Intel announced at IDF (Intel Developer Forum) support for Silverlight 3 on their Atom-based devices. This collaboration is focused on enabling

This morning (Sep 15 2009) at TechCrunch 50 , Yusuf Mehdi showed Bing’s new Silverlight powered Visual Search experience. Visual Search is using images to help customers refine and complete common vertical search galleries such as shopping, travel, music, movies and sports faster. If you go to

Just a reminder that Thursday night is the kickoff of the NFL Sunday Night Football experience powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming on NBCSports.com and NFL.com. With a 720p HD broadcast feed, four additional feeds with switching, picture-in-picture, slo-mo, and pause functionality that put you

Today Microsoft and Tesco , one of the world’s largest retailers, announced a collaboration to use Silverlight to deliver the next generation of Home Video entertainment to consumers. Starting this Fall, customers who buy certain home video titles from Tesco stores in the UK will be able to download

IBC is one of the largest conferences and exhibitions for the electronic media industry and we’ll be there starting this Friday in Amsterdam! Today, in advance of the show, we made some announcements about Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming, including: · Plans to release Internet Information

It’s time! The Ultimate Fighting Championship #102 on August 29 th will use Silverlight to bring the fights to online viewers at http://www.ufc.com . While this in itself is great news, there will be an exciting addition to the coverage – the pre-fight weigh ins will be covered LIVE on Friday

Today is a wildly exciting day for Silverlight and all football fans! NBC announced that this fall, Silverlight together with IIS Smooth Streaming, will power full HD (720p) experiences for live delivery of all the NFL Sunday Night Football games this season. Wait until you see the unbelievable high

Explore the natural laws of physics as explained by the brilliant and dynamic Dr. Richard Feynman in his classic "Messenger Series" of lectures from 1964. Project Tuva is the Silverlight-based, interactive video experience, enhancing the lectures with fully searchable transcripts with captions

Join us in ‘The Visual Kitchen’ at seethelight.com to watch Microsoft Expression team members put the new Expression Studio 3 through its paces building content for Silverlight 3. Feast your eyes on this action-packed TV show as we demonstrate the new and fantastic things that can be done

Stimulant worked with Microsoft and StepChange to create "MIXr", a Silverlight-based application, in only 6 weeks using the Microsoft® Expression® suite. Who's Using Expression? Stimulant

Expression Blend 3 revolutionizes the speed and efficiency you can take your ideas from concept to completion on the Silverlight and .NET platforms. Concepts and ideas can live through the project end-to-end, reducing redundancy, enhancing creativity and delivering compelling applications that exceed

Today we announce the availability of Silverlight 3 and Microsoft Expression 3. With version 3, Silverlight rounds out a feature list that delivers innovation and benefits to key areas of rich internet applications, including: Support for true high definition video Improved line of business support,

Today, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Microsoft is announcing the latest release of the Silverlight browser plug-in and the upcoming availability of Expression 3 design tools. The live launch event is headlined by a keynote speech presented by S. Somasegar and Scott Guthrie. Together, they’re

Expression Encoder 3 will be part of the Expression 3/Silverlight 3 launch on Friday. There are many exciting new features in this release – way too many to go into in this short blog posting, so be sure to check out the detailed posting on the Expression Encoder Team Blog . Here are some highlights

When the Democratic National Convention Committe needed help with creating a live broadcast of video on the Web from the 2008 Convention, Microsoft turned to Vertigo. Using Silverlight, and Microsoft® Expression®, to launch the site in only 4 months, Vertigo developers created a site that handled

Learn how to work with bitmap images in Expression Design. In this video you will learn how to crop objects inside of photos and then apply effects to change the color or blur out these objects. Simple but powerful tricks to help you do anything you want with bitmap images. Applying Effects to Bitmap

Using high-definition video in Silverlight, and Microsoft Expression for web design, McCann Worldgroup created "The Server Unleashed" an online ad campaign to promote Windows Server 2008. Who's Using Expression? McCann Worldgroup

Today represents a significant moment in music history, as millions of eyes focus on one single event – the memorial of Michael Jackson, the King of Pop and one of the greatest entertainers in history. TV stations worldwide are covering this event in depth, but for those without access to the TV

Learn the simple recipe to design the look of a glassy button. It is a very simple process as you will discover and surprisingly easy to replicate even for the non-designer. Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design Click these links to download this video and/or the assets used in this video

In this Principles of Design Series video, Arturo Toledo of the Microsoft Expression team, shows how to design a full colored icon (a pencil). In fast-forward style you will see the artist take a simple shaped pencil icon turning it into a full colored, shaded and highlighted icon that you can use. Learn

Learn more about how to apply the right colors for your user interface. In this video you will experiment how to apply colors to a user interface. Learn more about color while exploring Expression Design. Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design Click these links to download this

Learn more about how to choose the right colors for your user interface. In this video from the Principles of Design Series by Arturo Toledo, you will learn a few techniques to pick colors that work well with each other. Choosing the right colors for your UI controls, UI in general, logos and icons is

Learn more about the point, line and form; elements of design (some theorists see them as principles of design). These elements are the foundation you can use to compose and design user interfaces. Explore these elements while exploring Expression Design. Principles of Design Series: Learning about Points

Can’t make it across the ocean to see The Championships, Wimbledon next week? Don’t worry, neither can we. But we’re not going to let a few thousand miles get in your way of still having an up-close and personal experience this year. NBC Sports and the All England Lawn Tennis Club announced

Learn more about Unity, a principle of design that will help you communicate visual cohesion in your user interface composition. Unity will help you communicate a single message even when using multiple objects. Learn more about Unity while exploring Expression Design. Principles of Design Series: Learning

In this video, part of the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, demonstrates the basics of designing icons. Icons are a way to abstract a real visual object into a usually smaller representation that preserves the essence of the original object. With Expression Design you can create beautiful

On Tuesday, June 22nd at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2009, Microsoft announced it will bring Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) recognized rich media technologies including Silverlight to Xbox LIVE within the next year. By extending support to technologies like Silverlight,

In this video, one of many in the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, shows how to create patterns (mosaic, tiles) with Expression Design. Watch and discover how easy it is to create your own patterns in Expression Design so you can then reuse in multiple illustrations as fills for objects, backgrounds

In this video from the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo of the Expression team at Microsoft, demonstrates Emphasis, a basic principle of design. Watch this video to learn more about the concept of Emphasis while using Expression Design. Principles of Design Series: Learning about Emphasis using

This Principles of Design Series video describes Symmetry and Asymmetry, two styles of composition you can use in your user interface design. Watch this video to learn more about these concepts while exploring Expression Design. There are 13 videos in this series. Check for the rest of the videos which

We’re always excited to announce new experiences on the Silverlight platform, but this one is particularly sweet: Photobucket has just launched their new Visual Search, powered by Silverlight and Windows Live. When Photobucket wanted to develop a new, compelling experience to allow its users to

How would you share the largest and most valuable collection of rock memorabilia with the world? Hard Rock, along with their worldwide marketing agency, Duncan/Channon , and Vertigo , a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, turned to Microsoft for inspiration. Working with the Silverlight and Expression

In this video, Arturo Toledo of the Microsoft Expression team talks about “Rhythm”, a principle of design that helps you define visual patterns that people will read to understand your composition and user interface layout. To learn more about Rhythm while exploring Expression Design click

Silverlight is bringing magazine memories back to life through Bondi Digital Publishing’s Cover to Cover . Starting with classic issues of Playboy and Rolling Stone , Cover to Cover features stunning quality and lets you browse and search decades of content that would otherwise be impossible to

This is the first in a series of 13 Principles of posts created by Arturo Toledo on the Expression team. In this video Arturo demonstrates Balance, a principle of design that will help you achieve harmony in your designs and compositions. Watch it to learn more about Balance while exploring Expression

Yesterday, the Country Music Association (CMA) and Microsoft teamed up at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville to bridge the divide between the country music world and the world of technology. Using Silverlight Deep Zoom, Microsoft and partner Firefly Logic built a rich and compelling user experience

France Télévisions partnered with Microsoft, Inlet Technologies and Level 3 Communications to broadcast the French International tennis tournament, held at Roland Garros from 24 May to 7 June 2009, live on the Web. This was the first ever application of Microsoft’s IIS7 Live Smooth

So what is Expression then? Well let’s start right off by saying that it isn’t Expressions plural, it’s Expression singular. Having made that clear, let me try to make equally clear what the Microsoft Expression brand is and more importantly how closely it ties in to Microsoft’s

What is SketchFlow? SketchFlow, new in Expression 3, enables you to quickly create prototypes that demonstrate UI flow, screen layout and application state transitions which can then be effectively presented to your client for immediate feedback. How does it help me? In today’s climate the ability

The upcoming version 3 of Microsoft® Expression® Web gives you new tools to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites faster and easier: built-in support for today’s Web standards, sophisticated CSS design capabilities, and visual diagnostic tools. With support for a range of scripting

See how OriginDigital, partnering with Schematic, used Silverlight, Expression Blend and DeepZoomPix to create a unique user experience tool that integrates video and written materials for corporate PR and training uses. Who's using Silverlight? Schematic

Using Silverlight, Expression Design, Expression Web, DeepZoomPix and Visual Studio, 2nd Factory in Tokyo created an application for Yahoo! Japan to track sites, images and video and photo assets by category. This tool allows Yahoo! Japan to compare content on their site to what is available on Google

Want to see what happened this year at MIX '09? Watch this video for a recap to see and hear what attendees and presenters had to say about the show. MIX '09 Overview Video

It’s official! As of today Silverlight is now supported within Windows Media Center. Microsoft just announced the immediate availability of the Netflix service on Windows Media Center for Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate. Under the hood, this is the same Silverlight-based service that users

When you really need to know if you won that eBay item, use the new auction item tracker tool created by eBay using Silverlight and Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8). This tool allows you to easily track all the items you are interested in as well as see which auctions you’ve won with a drag and drop

Add animation, navigation and interactivity to your projects without writing code. Developers are able to encapsulate pieces of interactivity into reusable Behaviors that can then be utilized within Expression Blend. A Behavior is added to an element through drag and drop then any attributes exposed

Winning a Design Week award is similar to winning an Oscar, or Bafta, in the film world: it’s the ultimate recognition from your peers that you have produced something exciting and unique that engages beyond purely answering the words of the design brief. This year the Expression Team was not only

Today is a big day for Enterprise media departments who want to migrate to Silverlight. At the Streaming Media East show in New York City this morning, Qumu, Inc., known as an innovator in rich media streaming video solutions for the enterprise, announced a new multicast capability for Silverlight. This

As part of its charter, NASA is tasked with providing public education on its work and programs. To that end, NASA teamed up with Microsoft to bring the public an up close and personal view of the International Space Station and a full scale model of the upcoming Mars Science Lab . Using the new Silverlight

Silverlight, take a bow. You just won best supporting role in NBC’s big win at the 30 th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards . NBC won an Emmy for its online coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics, in the category “Outstanding New Approaches Sports Event Coverage.” Their new approach was to

Yesterday, Microsoft and the New York Times released a New York Times Silverlight Kit ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/NYTimesSilverlight ) at the Enterprise Developer Conference in NYC. The kit makes it easier for designers and developers to use REST services to enhance their applications, with little

We’re excited to say that Miguel and team have made the Moonlight 2 Preview available today! For those that don’t know, Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight for Linux built by Novell. We’ve been working with them since Silverlight 1.0, and the milestone today is

Why tramp around car lots in the heat or rain when you can check out geographic availability, price, and even customer ratings of your favorite vehicles on a single Web site? Kelley Blue Book is using Microsoft Silverlight to give consumers an easy interactive car-finding experience with the Perfect

Where can you share--and find--design-related assets at Microsoft? Just a few weeks ago, we launched an easy answer to this dilemma. The Expression Gallery on the Expression Community site gives you a place to show off the projects you've been working on and get inspiration (and sometimes a helping hand

The problem Creating a rich interactive application today is generally a time consuming and manual process with little opportunity to streamline and simplify the workflow across a team. Expression Blend 3 is tackling this problem and allowing UX specialists to apply, experiment, and finesse the application’s

DeepZoomPix is an exciting technology demo to show what happens when design and some cool technology is applied to an increasingly common scenario: viewing large collections of photos online. We’ve all experienced it: someone sends you a link to their online photo gallery. You see a bunch of photos

We have just returned from NAB 2009 where Silverlight 3 was revealed to the media world. Smooth Streaming, a feature of IIS Media Services that provides adaptive streaming media delivery to Silverlight, also made its debut. This is the third year I’ve demonstrated Silverlight at NAB. For the first

Today, as many of you probably already saw, Facebook announced some new APIs to further open up access to the Facebook Stream through their new Open Streams API. Microsoft participated in their Developer event, where we began to outline and demonstrate several investments we’re making in the coming

This past week the entire Webby Awards platform, including The Webby People's Voice Awards voting system switched to Microsoft Silverlight. The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, and has been sponsored by Adobe, Nokia, and others in the past. This marks

Where do I start? That is a great question. Depending on whether you prefer to think in code or work visually the answer to where you should start will be different. For developers already on the Microsoft platform this is an easier question to answer. Silverlight is based on .NET, so that .NET goodness

An obvious question and one you’d expect to get an off-the-shelf answer to, so when I set out to answer it I first looked to the myriad definitions already written and the formal positioning statements for Silverlight. I duly consulted the definitions and, although technically accurate and informative

It’s simply a great feeling when you find a vibrant and interesting blog. The anticipation and promise of interesting posts, up to the minute news and tidbits of information is an intriguing and exciting proposition (well ok, maybe that’s just me!), but in the back of my mind there’s

Dr. Dobb’s Journal and the Microsoft Visual Studio team have teamed up to create Dr. Dobb’s Challenge Deuce , a competition with $10,000 in prizes. They’ve built a Silverlight game where Dr. Dobbs and his team of friends work together to solve several mysteries, collecting Visual Studio

This past month has been whirl wind to say the least! I’m so excited and amazed to see the support of our customers and partners on the blogoshere congratulating us on the advancements we’ve made within Silverlight 3 at MIX last month. We’ve made big leaps in video support by raising

The final buzzer has sounded and the results are in! Online coverage of the tournament has been a huge success, providing an exceptional experience for fans and solid business results for CBS Sports. The headline numbers : 3.2 million unique visitors (50%) using the High Quality Silverlight video player

Today we saw that MLB went live with a video streaming solution that is built using Adobe Flash and the Swarmcast NexDef browser plug-in for their HD streaming video experience. It is an example of how you can deliver higher quality experiences on the Web. It also highlights how users are willing to

Welcome to the inaugural Silverlight/UX team blog. My name is Chris Carper , and I am a Director on the Silverlight Business development team here at Microsoft. This is what we hope will be many Silverlight blog posts from those whose day to day jobs here at Microsoft is creating, marketing, and delivering

MySpace today announced the introduction of Silverlight into the MySpace Open Platform and together the companies will release an Open Source kit (available on CodePlex later this week) that makes it easy to design and develop OpenSocial applications using Silverlight that run on the MySpace Open Platform

I’d like to introduce myself and the new Silverlight blog where we will provide the latest and greatest information, commentary, and thinking for Silverlight. Here, you will get to hear from the folks who build and market the technology, find useful content, and have an open forum to provide feedback