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• Uploading Silverlight 2 Content to Silverlight Streaming

  Following on very nicely from my last post on deploying Silverlight content to your own production server , I'm pleased to announce that Silverlight Streaming has added full support for Silverlight 2 applications. As well as adding the basic support, the team have put a lot of work into simplifying the process of uploading and validating your application. Here's a basic walkthrough: Create your Silverlight 2 application using Visual Studio or Expression Blend, do all the usual test / debug steps, etc. Create a manifest file named manifest.xml, that describes how you want the control to be hosted. Here's a simple sample you can use as a template: < SilverlightApp > < version > 2.0 </ version > < source > PopTheBubble.xap </ source > < width > 400 </ width > < height > 300 </ height > < background > white </ background > < isWindowless > false </ isWindowless > </ SilverlightApp > Zip your application .xap and manifest.xml files together into one file. Go to silverlight.live.com and upload the application. You're done! Now you can embed the resulting content in any web page with an iframe or the sample code provided. As a small example, here's a mini-game called PopTheBubble that you can learn to build by following the Silverlight 2 fundamentals hands-on lab . Click on as many bubbles as you can before the timer runs out - have fun! Posted Mar 18 2008, 06:24 PM by Tim Sneath Filed under: Silverlight, silverlight streaming, lab, silverlight 2

• So You've Installed Silverlight 2 Beta 1: What Next?

  OK, so you've got all the bits downloaded and installed on your machine. What's the best way to start to get familiar with everything we've added to Silverlight 2? Well, you could do worse than start with the thirty page hands-on lab that I spent part of last week frantically working on! This lab takes you through the various steps of creating and packaging an application, figuring out layout and controls, all the way through to creating a mini-game using Silverlight 2. It's a good lab to get familiar with XAML, Expression and the new Visual Studio tools. Once you're done with that lab, there are a number of others that you can go through to add depth to your knowledge, written by Adam and Laurence . Download them here . And if even that isn't enough for you, there are some tutorials here that Jesse Liberty has been working on. Hopefully that's plenty to get you up and running for now! Posted Mar 05 2008, 12:57 PM by Tim Sneath Filed under: Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, lab, tutorial, training

• MIX08 for Non-Attendees

  At last, the mad rush is over. The run-up to a conference like MIX is always frantic: for me, the first three weeks in February involved a constant juggle of competing priorities. With the exception of one last-minute firedrill, the worst was over by late Friday afternoon. Now it's the calm before the storm; it's too late to fix bugs, to rewrite labs, to rearrange the schedule! Instead, it's a perfect time to write a few blog entries. I'm looking forward to meeting a number of you at the event (do stop me and say hi if you see me!), but I know that the vast majority of folk reading this aren't able to join us in Las Vegas for various reasons. It's therefore my goal over the next few days to relay as many of the highlights as schedule permits. So what's worth looking out for over the next day or two? Firstly, if you haven't seen Scott Guthrie's blog over the last week, you should check out his two most recent posts on Silverlight 2. I never understood how Scott managed to write such in-depth blogs at the same time as running half of DevDiv, but I've finally discovered his hidden secret and it's time for me to reveal it to the world. Scott actually has an identical twin brother named alterScott and the two of them work shifts. alterScott works the night shift - when Scott goes to bed, alterScott is burning the midnight oil constructing lengthy tutorials on Silverlight 2 and Expression Blend . You'll never see alterScott in public - he's painfully shy and is also very pale since he never sees the daylight. But I snuck into building 42 early one morning and managed to take a quick photo of him before security forcibly removed me. Anyway, just on the off-chance that we decided to release a build of Silverlight 2 this week, you could do a lot worse than to work through alterScott's tutorials if you want to quickly get up to speed. Secondly, the real Scott will be sharing tomorrow's MIX keynote with Ray Ozzie and Dean Hachamovitch (GM for Internet Explorer). If you're into web development at all, that keynote is going to be required viewing - we've got lots of new announcements, some great demos, and one or two surprises. You can watch the keynote live at 9:30am Pacific / 5:30pm GMT by clicking on one of the following three streams: 750kbps , 300kbps , 100kbps . Thirdly, if any of the breakout sessions or panels take your fancy, you'll be able to view them online within 24 hours of each session... Posted Mar 03 2008, 12:01 PM by Tim Sneath Filed under: Expression, Silverlight, mix08, humor, silverlight 2.0, lab, screencast