Creating your own custom Silverlight Media Player using Expression Media Encoder & Blend

Show how to reuse the code generated by Expression Media Encoder and then create your own “custom” Silverlight Media Player!

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Silverlight & AJAX interaction

By Tim Heuer

Updating Silverlight DOM after calling the AJAX proxy

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Silverlight – The Beginning

Get Started

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Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 – Mac or Windows

Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha September Refresh – Mac or Windows

Developer Tools

The latest Visual Studio

Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (July 2007) This release includes Silverlight controls for ASP.NET.

Designer Tools

Expression Blend 2 September Preview

Expression Encoder

Expression Design

Software Development Kits

Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 Software Development Kit

Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Software Development Kit Alpha September Refresh

Visit the Quickstarts to create your first application.
Download a sample from the gallery.
Have a question? Visit Forums.
Read the documentation.
Stay informed, subscribe to RSS.

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QuickStarts

The Silverlight QuickStart documentation consists of three categories of topics:

• Silverlight 1.0 QuickStarts
  Topics that cover development using JavaScript.

• Silverlight QuickStart Using Microsoft Expression Blend
  Topics that cover using Microsoft Expression Blend to create Silverlight applications. A free trial of Blend is available..

• Silverlight 1.1 Alpha QuickStarts
  Topics that cover managed development using a subset of the .NET Framework.

Silverlight Development and ASP.NET Futures

Developers may especially find the new ASP.NET Media and XAML controls, which can be used to play various types of media files and add XAML markup within ASP.NET applications, of interest.

• ASP.NET AJAX site

• ASP.NET Futures (July 2007)

• The ASP.NET Media Control

• The ASP.NET XAML Control

See Also

• Silverlight Documentation on MSDN

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Whitepapers

Getting Started with Silverlight
This white paper provides a high-level overview into Silverlight and how it fits into the development stack for the next generation of Web applications.
Silverlight Architecture Overview
This white paper provides a high-level overview of the Silverlight architecture and how it fits into the Microsoft offering for building next-generation Web applications. Also, this white paper provides an architectural review of the Silverlight technology.
Using Silverlight and RSS with ASP.NET
Learn how to use Microsoft Silverlight and RSS through ASP.NET to create a simple hero bar that is easily customizable and regenerated.

SILVERLIGHT MEDIA

These white papers provide an overview of the Video and Media capabilities of Silverlight.

Embeddable Video with Silverlight
Learn how to use Silverlight to build a service that can embed video on a blog (or any other Web page), where all you need is an iFrame to the URL that contains your service.
Using Silverlight to Build a Hero Bar
Learn how to use Microsoft Silverlight and RSS through ASP.NET to create a simple hero bar that is easily customizable and regenerated.
Media and Entertainment Content Distribution on the Web
Windows Media technologies and the upcoming rich media client platform with Silverlight bring great improvements to the challenges of delivering content on the Web. This whitepaper discusses rich media scenarios and improvements.

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Silverlight & HTML DOM interaction Screencast

By Tim Heuer

 

Using Javascript to manipulate HTML & Silverlight elements.

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