The EvNet dev team has updated the Channel 9 beta and you can tell they've put in a lot of work and they're excited about their work. Duncan's post about the beta even includes a video which involves a homage to HALO 3 using 9 guys. Unfortunately here at the DevCamp the bandwidth is a bi…
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Let this day, or more accurately late last night, be known as the day of inline streaming media freedom for Channel 9. No longer is the streaming media restricted to a Windows and IE combination. Now if you open up a video page in Firefox, you are not restricted to the little butto…
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I just posted a video on Channel 9 of my interview with Mike Sampson, the tallest member of the EvNet dev team. Other than collecting LEGOs and adding them to his desk collection, he also spends a lot of time in the media pipeline for the EvNet sites which include Channel 8, 9 and 10 and MIX…
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If you're like me and enjoying Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, you may notice that the Silverlight templates included with the Silverlight Tools for VS2008 are focused on the 1.1 alpha. This is great, but what if you dig Silverlight 1.0 and still want to use the latest and greatest f…
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The SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco was a fun time and hopefully we all learned a lot. It was very useful to hear the stories from people and their initial dive into Silverlight. The DevCamp was also a good primer for a sequel, which is exactly what's happening this weekend. This Fri…
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Tafiti is now donning a fancy HALO skin, showing that we (Microsoft) are just as excited about the upcoming release of HALO 3 as the rest of you who have pre-ordered the game and planning to take September 25th off of work. Unfortunately there is no treeview which would have been very in…
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The ZamDes user group just had their first meeting and I found this in their slides: Impressive. Most impressive.
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Filipe Fortes released a preview of Sistr, a script which will scan your html and provide a rich custom font overlay if you have Silverlight installed. Very cool. You can check out the side by side demo here. Not only is it nice to have font choices other than the base web fonts, but this a…
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Channel 8, Channel 9's younger sibling, is now sporting a shiny new Silverlight-based media player. Nice job, EvNet Dev team! I've been listening to the progress of the team as they were putting this together, specifically One-Note Enthusiast Mike Sampson. The player was based on the base…
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I had the opportunity to interview one of the interesting people I met at the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco this weekend (full DevCamp recap here). Tyler Ballance works for Slide.com, the group behind popular Facebook Apps like FunWall and Top Friends. He knows a lot about Mono, Pyth…
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I had a great time this weekend at the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco. I had never before been to a DevCamp, BarCamp or any other type of camp that happens indoors. The casual yet academic atmosphere was well set and provided for by our hosts Kurt Brockett, Kevin Marshall and Anand …
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I mentioned earlier I would be attending the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco (which starts tomorrow, I'm coming to see you Jeff Atwood! Ok not just you but I felt like pointing). Well in two weeks, there will be another SilverlightDevCamp held in Chicago (9/28 - 9/29). I…
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Rory and I filmed a very serious video covering my two and a half years on the Channel 9 team. We delve into such topics as wakeboards, triceratops and great-grand bosses. The door in which I use to exit is not just a regular door. First its metaphorical, second its a revol…
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In recent conversations the topic of interoperability between Flash and Silverlight has come up. Even though you may be interested in using Silverlight in some situations you may not want to rewrite existing Flash components just yet. Smartly both integrate well with JavaScript so …
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Telerik has released a game where you get to "add your weight to help the new Q2 release come up". You sign in with your Telerik account, choose your weight and jump on the lift. My interpretation is that the game aspect comes in where you can reach out and try and get more people on the lif…
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Silverlight 1.0 has been released and along with that a nice surprise announcement that Microsoft will officially be working with Novell on Moonlight. A lot have posts have already been written heralding the news: Official Press Release Sean Alexander Scott Hanselman Scott Guthrie - a meaty po…
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Last Thursday I attended Brad Abrams' presentation about Silverlight on Visual Studio island in Second Life. The experience was unique including a variety of attendees (top hats, wings, horns, etc.) a flying presenter and vertically stacked screens. Tim Heuer was not too impressed and due…
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A few days ago Duncan added support for embedding Soapbox videos into a post in the Channel 9 forums using this simple BBCode style tag: [soapbox video="(soapbox video id)"] Very nice and simple. And as he mentions in his next post, I bugged him about adding a tag for Silverlight Streaming App…
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