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Down time

Had to upgrage the server and cause the site along with:

http://www.TheSilverlightDirectory.com
http://www.TheWPFDirectory.com

to be down for about four hours today and just got back online with this site (the other two should be up within the next hour) a few minutes ago.

Silverlight RC2 on the way

Tim Sneath posted that a new update to Silverlight is coming Sunday night that he is calling RC2:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/08/01/silverlight-rc2-on-the-way-we-re-getting-close.aspx

Silverlight Sneakiness

Post about the new automatic updating feature in Silverlight:

http://shebanation.com/2007/08/01/silverlight-sneakiness/

Producing Silverlight Video on IronRuby at PADNUG

Trials producing a Silverlight video of John Lam on IronRuby:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SilverlightVideoOfJohnLamOnIronRubyAtPADNUG.aspx

Silverlight Resources

David Crow's list of Silverlight resources:

http://davidcrow.ca/article/1637/silverlight-resources

Silverlight:Better right-click

Post about recent Silverlight update that adds configuration options when you right click a Silverlight module:

http://www.orison.biz/blogs/chall3ng3r/?p=211

MS Named "Gold Sponsor" of AJAX World

Microsoft Named "Gold Sponsor" of AJAX World, Conference to Introduce Silverlight Track:

http://java.sys-con.com/read/410531.htm

Tribute to Ant Attack

Pavel Šavara app learning learning Silverlight -

Refresh version:

http://zamboch.blogspot.com/2007/07/update-for-sl-11a-refresh.html

http://zamboch.blogspot.com/2007/07/test.html

Silverlight vs Flash (Will this dribble ever end?)

The MossyBlog has something to say about it:

http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2007/08/02/silverlight-vs-flash-will-this-dribble-ever-end.aspx

Does ASP.NET Futures have a Go-Live license?

http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2007/08/01/does-the-asp-net-futures-have-a-go-live-license.aspx

Interacting Silverlight 1.0 RC with ActiveX Media Player

http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/2007/08/interacting-silverlight-10-and-activex.html

My own MIX'07 video player: using all the new stuff

Steve Marx has a post about an updated video play he built that uses all the new technology with VS 2008 B2:

http://smarx.com/posts/my-own-mix07-video-player-using-all-the-new-stuff.aspx

Tutorials at DesignWithSilverlight.com

This is a Silverligth driven site so you will need the latest build of Silverlight installed.  Two tutorials already there are a cool LCD Clock and a photo gallery viewer:

http://www.designwithsilverlight.com/

Silverlight 1.0 full Javascript Intellisense

This is a VS 2008 Beta 2 add-on (at CodePlex) will give you full Intellisense and debugging for Silverlight 1.0 inside JavaScript. Justin-Josef Angel [MVP] provides details and a webcast showing how to use and install this utility:

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/justinangel/archive/2007/08/01/Silverlight-1.0-full-Javascript-Intellisense.aspx

Follow the bicycle rider trhough London with Virtual Earth 3D

Angus Logan has a post with some screen shots of a Silverlight app at CodePlex.

http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2007/08/01/the-fun-never-ends-follow-the-bicycle-rider-through-london-with-virtual-earth-3d.aspx

MyComix updated for Silverlight 1.0 RC

Jeff Prosise has updated MyComix:

http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jprosise/archive/2007/07/31/mycomix-updated-for-silverlight-1-0-release-candidate.aspx

Video:Switching to WPF and Silverlight

Post at Silverlight Fan on how to switch your web applications to WPF and Silverlight:

http://www.silverlightfan.com/2007/07/31/silverlight-video-switching-to-wpf-and-silverlight/

Build your won Video stie using Silverlight, AJAX, etc

Another post at Silverlight Fan:

http://www.silverlightfan.com/2007/07/31/build-your-own-video-site-using-silverlight-ajax-ect/

Where did the Silverlight name come from?

Found a link to this post, but the server seemed to have troubles when I tried it, maybe it will be functional by the time you vist the link:

http://blog.seanalexander.com/2007/04/21/HowMicrosoftSilverlightWasNamedAndBrandedAndTuned.aspx

Visual Basic, Silveright and SEcondLife TODAY!

Brad Abrams post of meeting in SecondLife:

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/07/31/visual-basic-silverlight-and-secondlife-today.aspx

Updated Jelly Samples for Silverlight RC

Those great charts have been updated to RC version:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jstegman/archive/2007/07/31/updated-jelly-samples-for-the-silverlight-rc.aspx

How to embed Silverlight into almost any web page

Tim Sneath has a new post showing you how to use Silverlight on a web page using iframe:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/07/31/iframe-support-in-silverlight-streaming.aspx

Video about Orcas Beta 2 with Somasegar and Guthrie

Here is a video from July 26th about the new beta and what all is in it.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=329443

Get Started Building a Deeper Experience Across The Web

Article topics:

• An introduction to Silverlight and XAML


• Building a simple Silverlight app


• Generating Silverlight apps dynamically on the server


• Creating a XAML service

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/06/Silverlight/default.aspx

Silverilght More SEO Friendly than Flash?

Ryan Stewarts post talking about SEO and Silverlight:

http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=968

Silverlight SDK CHM not working on Vista?

If you have an issue with the help file (CHM) for the Silverlight SDK, you might check this out:

http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/archive/2007/07/30/silverlight-sdk-chm-not-working-on-vista.aspx

Enable vertical splilt view

While not directly related to Silverlight, those of us that are trying out Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 could find this handy, even more so if you have multiple or widescreen monitors:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/30/enabling-vertical-split-view-in-vs-2008.aspx

Adding closed captioning to Silverlight Video

Here is a way to add closed captioning to a Silverlight Video using Expression Media Encoder:

http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2007/07/31/screencast-adding-closed-captioning-to-video-using-expression-media-encoder-eme-and-silverlight.aspx

Upgrading your project to Silverlight Alpha 1.1 Refresh

Michael Scwarz has a post to help you upgrade your Silverlight projects:

http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2007/07/31/upgrading-your-project-to-silverlight-alpha-1-1-refresh.aspx

Unit Testing Silverlight with Selenium

Scott Hanselman has a post showing the how-to:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/UnitTestingSilverlightWithSelenium.aspx

Firefox, Silverlight, Services and ASP.NET Debugging

Issues debugging with error message:

The program ‘[x] WebDev.WebServer.EXE: Managed’ has exited with code 0 (0×0).

http://www.jeffongames.com/2007/07/firefox-silverlight-services-and-aspnet-debugging/

Silverlight Playground

"A small portable application to easily edit Silverlight projects. Silverlight Playground does not require to be installed but may run simply from an USB key."

http://www.codeplex.com/silverlight

More posts by LiquidBoy on the Silverlight 1.1 project

LiquidBoy's continued tutorial on keeps on impressing!  Be sure to check out the series:

http://advertboy.wordpress.com/tag/project-silverlight-11/

Is Microsoft Innovating?

There are people how like to always bash Microsoft and say they copy everyone else.  Since .NET came out, I personal feel Microsoft has proven they are building new technologies not just copies.

Here is a more recent post along those lines:

http://chrisbernard.blogs.com/design_thinking_digest/2007/06/is_microsoft_in.html

Controls and Control LIbraries for Silverlight

Chris Bowen's post indexing some of the available controls for Silverlight:

http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/07/30/controls-and-control-libraries-for-silverlight.aspx

Rotating Video Picture Board

This sample shows a video broke up into six boxes and rotate.  Another example of the power of Silverlight Video:

http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/2007/07/rotating-video-picture-board.html

VS 2008 WPF (Cider) Designer - First Impressions

http://briannoyes.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=595f9a93-4339-4895-b84a-5bfd7885f0c8

VS 2008 B2 JavaScript Intellisense bug..

Seems there is a bug in the registry with VS 2008 Beta 2 for the JavaScript Intellisense and Syntax highlighting:

http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2007/07/30/visual-studio-2008-beta-2-not-showing-your-javascript-intellisense-intellicode-syntax-highlighting.aspx

Geo-tagged Silverlight video sync'ed with Virtual Earth

This is pretty cool:

http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2007/07/24/how-to-build-geo-tagged-video-in-silverlight-streaming-and-sync-ing-a-virtual-earth-map.aspx

VS2008, .NET 3.5, Silverlight and ASP.NET Futures

Brad Abram's post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/07/27/vs2008-net-3-5-silverlight-and-asp-net-futures.aspx

Silverlight Video + Camtasia = Tricky

But doable..

http://www.intellectualhedonism.com/2007/07/24/SilverlightVideoCamtasiaTricky.aspx

Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight

Shawn Wildermuth chats with Richard and Carl about Silverlight at DotNetRocks!:

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=263

Silverlight Presentation Material

Laurent Duveau found some content to use when giving a presentation on Silverlight:

http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2007/07/25/silverlight-presentation-material.aspx

Update your Silverlight Streaming Apps

Good post about updating Silverlight apps and some that have been:

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/07/30/14167.aspx

VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 Releases Made Easy

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VS2008AndNET35Beta2ReleasesMadeEasy.aspx

Silverlight:Ah the pleasure of breaking changes..

http://geekswithblogs.net/lbugnion/archive/2007/07/29/Silverlight-Ah-the-pleasure-of-breaking-changes.aspx

6 Silverlight screencasts (MSDN Nuggets)

Mark Johnston has posted six Silverlight 1.1 videos:


* Streaming
* Linking Silverlight and ASP.NET Projects
* Debugging between Mac and Windows
* Using Ink
* Accessing HTML from managed code
* Silvererlight 1.1 Programming - Full Screen

Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh - Name Things :-)

Mike Taulty has several new posts, the first is:

http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2007/07/30/9553.aspx

Silverlight V1.1: Trying simple drag-and-drop capabiltiy

http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2007/07/27/9546.aspx

Loaded fires more than once

http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2007/07/26/9539.aspx

Changing the XAML page

And the last one from Mike Taulty a while back:

http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2007/07/25/9538.aspx

Khet - Multi-player game

Khet is a Silveright game in beta demo mode.  It allows two players to battle each other by using mirrors and other items to reflect a laser beam to kill the other player.

http://www.ascendingintegration.com/KhetDemo/

Beatbox wtih Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX

This is pretty cool but yet simple in use, another example of how fun Silverlight can be!

The blog post about it:

http://visitmix.com/Blogs/Joshua/sequencing-beats-with-silverlight-rc1/

And the Beatbox:

http://smarx.com/sample/smarxbeat/