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It’s been a while since I updated the blog, so I will take this opportunity to bring everyone up to speed on the more recent Microsoft Media Platform product updates: November 9, 2011 Player Framework version 1.0 for HTML5 is released to Codeplex...
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The newly released Microsoft Media Platform Content Manager pulls together an end-to-end video workflow that allows you to create live streaming events, transcode on-demand content, manage and publish video, edit video, and insert mid-roll advertisements...
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At the Streaming Media East show next week, we are holding two half-day workshops on Monday, May 9 th , entitled " Upgrading From Windows Media to The Next Generation Microsoft Media Platform " and " Using SharePoint for Video Delivery...
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Silverlight 5 Beta introduces a new ICustomTypeProvider interface that enables data binding to objects the structure of which cannot be known until runtime. This is a common problem when you work with data in any format from databases to metadata or XML...
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In case you missed the great Open Source and related Interop news that came out of Microsoft's annual MIX conference which was held in Las Vegas this week, here's a recap. Scott Guthrie, a Corporate Vice President in the Microsoft Developer Division...
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Happy Silverlight 5 Beta day! The biggest additions to Silverlight 5 are certainly the support for GPU accelerated video and 3D graphics and the SDK team has been hard at work trying to get samples and documentation together for today. If you're a...
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Join Microsoft, Adobe, Highwinds, and Conviva for a free Master Class webcast on Live Webcasting. Going beyond production values and product descriptions, this session gets into the "how-to" of delivering cost-effective high quality live events...
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The excellent DevConnections conference will be held in Florida later this month (March 27th to 30th). DevConnections features multiple concurrent tracks – including ASP.NET Connections, Silverlight Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server...
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Hey Silverlight people! So I just uploaded a video that takes you from from zero to an Azure-hosted, push notification-sending web service and an accompanying phone app in 19 minutes. 1) Do you want to see how to send/receive every kind of Push Notification...
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If you are new to IIS Media Services and Smooth Streaming, IIS.net/media is the website for you. However, finding relevant technology and deployment information on IIS.net can be somewhat cumbersome since it’s a wiki-styled site and a lot of the...
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It’s been too long since my last post, so I thought I’d get warmed up and back into blogging form by posting something about recent releases on the Microsoft media platform. After PDC 2010 in November which focused on new web technologies...
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When you add a WCF service reference to a Silverlight Application, it generates the ServiceReference.ClientConfig file where the URL of the WCF endpoint is defined. When you add the WCF service reference on a development computer, the endpoint URL is...
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Today at the Silverlight FireStarter event we unveiled the next release of Silverlight. Silverlight 5 adds significant new features and capabilities, and enables developers to create premium media experiences and deliver rich applications across browsers...
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On December 2nd we are holding a free, all-day event focused on Silverlight. You can attend it either in person on the Microsoft campus (where you’ll get to network with a bunch of Silverlight experts, and meet the product team), or watch it streamed...
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Earlier this year I posted on Installing and Setting Up and Encoding for IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight . The general idea was to show folks that it's actually pretty easy to setup Smooth Streaming for Silverlight. Of course, not everyone...