Awesome service but it is coming to an end apparently.
Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Beta is being discontinued and will eventually be taken down
I’ve been using that service since it started and really enjoyed it.
Was easy to create WMV webcasts, upload them, then create Silverlight wrappers for ASP.NET sites.
What to do now? Well some Developers have mentioned using Channel 9. Great idea.
When I mentioned this to DiscountASP.NET concerning our free technical webcasts they were shocked. I’m guessing many of you are also.
The great news is DiscountASP.NET stepped up to the plate and created their own IIS7 Silverlight Smooth Streaming server!
Including the IIS7 Media pack!
What a team…Microsoft and Gold Partner DiscountASP.NET
Discount offer: Sign-up with DiscountASP.NET use this code and get 6 months free: WISEMX
Once you’re in I’ll offer free technical support in the forums and on Twitter
All the best,
Mark Wisecarver
November 12
You have been asking for it, and it is finally available; a .NET 4.0 beta hosting sandbox!
Signup is easy, just go to the DiscountASP.NET labs page and follow the link.
The number of accounts on the .NET 4.0 beta server are strictly limited, so if you are interested you should sign up today. This is a public beta, so you do not have to be a current DiscountASP.NET customer to take advantage of the offer. We are including MS SQL2008 space in the sandbox space so you have the opportunity to thoroughly test drive the latest .NET features.
In their press release for the new Visual Studio and .NET Framework, "Microsoft described the next release through the following five focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM)."
What? Boy, I don't know, but "inspiring developer delight" sounds good to me. If you are interested in democratizing emerging breakthroughs and trends and riding waves you should probably get on board as well.
Sandbox? Waves? See you at the beach! Or better yet, at http://labs.discountasp.net.
Michael Phillips
DiscountASP.NET