Updating Silverlight.js
silverlight.net - I’m hoping this post will help explain a few things with regard to Silverlight detection scripts that some sites may be using. This is related to the silverlight.js Javascript file that was deployed with a lot of Silverlight 1.0 applications/sites and...(
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Zen Presentation
silverlight.net - Another in a series of ruminations about how to Present Silverlight . One of the brighter Silverlight coders and MVPs asked me tonight “what is all this about your changing how you present at conferences and web casts.” In answering him, I realized...(
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Silverlight Streaming ads pilot program has launched
Silverlight Streaming Dev.Live -
The Silverlight Streaming ads pilot program has launched and is live in production!
A couple of weeks ago, we successfully launched the SLS ads trial (see previous references below). This means that for the very first time, we have opened up a Windows Live service to breadth developers to enable them to use the Microsoft adCenter Publisher platform. There is real US Dollar revenue associated to this pilot program. It is currently available in the US only, to people who can fill in a W9 form.
This pilot program allows you to upload video content to Silverlight Streaming and play it back with contextual ads relevant to the playback experience, based on keywords you provide at video upload time, or configure later on in the video properties. The selected participants will become adCenter Publisher account holders seamlessly, as the account provisioning into the ads platform is done directly when they decide to enable ads in their SLS-based video playback experience. This will allow them to login directly directly to https://beta.pubcenter.microsoft.com.
We are still accepting participants, so if you think this is for you, register on the web interest form, we'll process the pool of participants for the second batch of invites to the ads trial program shortly.
Previous references to the SLS ads trial program on this blog: March 26 blog post | April 29 blog post
Flash news – Camtasia Tip
silverlight.net - I will come back to this but want to get it out fast. If you are using Camtasia (wonderful product) to create your screen captures and you do a lot of editing (especially zooms and call outs and cuts) you run the risk of overloading the project and causing...(
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Loving the South African Developer Community
silverlight.net - I just got back from South Africa and I am happy to report that the .NET Developer community is very strong there. User's Group Meetings in in Johannesburg and Cape Town User group meeting in Johannesburg - thanks for setting...(
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Tip of the Day #14 – How to Right Click on a Silverlight Application.
silverlight.net - You may have noticed that right clicking on a Silverlight application brings up the following context menu and configuration dialog: Context Menu: Configuration Dialog: So what if you want to use right click in your application? While right click functionality...(
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Community Credit – Cool Idea, Cool Site.
silverlight.net - David Silverlight (isn’t that the second best name you’ve ever heard?) runs Community Credit whose slogan is “We give stupid prizes to smart people.” The idea is to recognize and reward folks for participating in the geek community, and he...(
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Line Rider rides on Silverlight 2
silverlight.net - One of probably the coolest casual ‘games’ I’ve ever seen is Line Rider . It’s a fun game, but really gets exciting when you have an artist behind it. Basically it’s a blank canvas for you to draw a route for the main character to hop on his sled and...(
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Tip of the Day #13 - How to Get an Images Dimensions in Silverlight.
silverlight.net - Since Silverlight is based upon an asynchronized model, getting an image width and height immediately after loading it is not possible. However, you can monitor its download progress and obtain the image dimensions once the progress has reached 100%....(
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Silverlight community controls contest
silverlight.net - I suspect we’ll be seeing more of these efforts for Silverlight and I love it. In fact, INETA will be sponsoring the 2008 INETA Silverlight Challenge soon , so you should sign up for more information about that as well. But until then… But until then...(
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