Silverlight Quickstarts

The Silverlight Quickstarts are now available...

Silverlight everywhere?

Miguel de Icaza seems to be very keen on the idea of creating a version of Silverlight on Mono.

Mix Sessions

All the Sessions at Mix are available to download.

Jasper

Another one!

Jasper sounds a bit like Ruby on Rails. Convention over configuration, RAD database applications...

Astoria

What is Astoria?

Getting started with Silverlight Streaming

Following Tim Sneath's post on Getting started with Silverlight Streaming.

I downloaded Expression Media Encoder and encoded a short video. The video I imported was not widescreen, so I had to resize it. It had something like a coloured barcode effect down the right hand side after being imported into Media Encoder.

After encoding, it opened a browser to view the results... and wanted to install Silverlight. That's a bit odd, since I already have it installed. Then it wanted to restart, reporting Error 3010, "Silverlight installed successfully, but needs to restart"...

I followed the rest of Tim's instructions and soon had my video uploaded to Silverlight.live.com and available to play on my own web page.

The Expression Media Encoder trial version has a 180 day licence.

Mix announcements

The Mix07 keynote.

"Today we announced that Silverlight is not only a great media platform; it is cross-platform .NET."... Silverlight on Channel9

Silverlight Streaming. A free account, with 4GB of space where you can upload Silverlight applications.

There are a lot of Silverlight screencasts on Channel9 too.

Silverlight quickstart coming soon

The Silverlight SDK and QuickStart will be available April 30th.