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Earlier this year we announced Windows Azure Media Services . Windows Azure Media Services is a cloud-based PaaS solution that enables you to efficiently build and deliver media solutions to customers. It offers a bunch of ready-to-use services that enable the fast ingestion, encoding, format-conversion, storage, content protection, and streaming (both live and on-demand) of video. Windows Azure Media Services can be used to deliver solutions to any device or client - including HTML5, Silverlight, Flash, Windows 8, iPads, iPhones, Android, Xbox, and Windows Phone devices. Windows Azure Media Services and the London 2012 Olympics Over the last few weeks, Windows Azure Media Services was used to deliver live and on-demand video streaming...
One of the great features of Visual Studio, that’s been around for a while is snippets. Frankly, I should build more of these because I use them *so* often. I find them so useful I thought I’d share them here, either for you to use or to template into ones of your own. Firs t,when building templated controls I write this a lot: [TemplatePart(Name = ElementContent, Type = typeof (FrameworkElement))] And it’s not just that, I then have to create a constant to define “ElementContent” and then usually load that value into a member variable as part of OnApplyTemplate. So I built a snippet that builds this stuff out for me, resulting in this: [TemplatePart(Name = ElementContent, Type = typeof (FrameworkElement))] //private...
Introducing AgFx One of the things we’ve spent a fair amount of time on is working with various application writers, helping them build great Windows Phone 7 applications. Many of the top applications that you’ll find on Windows Phone 7 devices today spent some time in a debugger on my desktop, or Jeff’s , or another one of the folks around here. In doing this process, we saw a lot of common trouble spots for developers looking to write Windows Phone 7 applications and as I started to think more about the problem. I thought the same thing I always think: “hmmmm, how can I build a framework that will make these things easy for the developer so they can worry about other stuff!” And so it was born, and I’m currently...
The excellent DevConnections conference will be held in Florida later this month (March 27th to 30th). DevConnections features multiple concurrent tracks – including ASP.NET Connections, Silverlight Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Connections, and SharePoint Connections. I’ll be doing a keynote on the first day, and there will be dozens of fantastic talks that week by some of the best presenters in the .NET community. You can learn more about the conference here . I highly recommend the conference – and hope to meet up with some of you there! Scott P.S. Use the discount code “DevCon1” to save $200 when registering. Read More...
Today at the Silverlight FireStarter event we unveiled the next release of Silverlight. Silverlight 5 adds significant new features and capabilities, and enables developers to create premium media experiences and deliver rich applications across browsers, desktops and devices. In my keynote this morning we demonstrated a number of them, and highlighted both the developer productivity Silverlight 5 provides and the great new user experiences it enables. You can watch my keynote here . A Silverlight 5 beta will be available in the first half of next year, and the final release will ship in the second half of 2011. Premium Media Experiences We are seeing great adoption of Silverlight for premium media solutions. In the last few months we’ve seen...
On December 2nd we are holding a free, all-day event focused on Silverlight. You can attend it either in person on the Microsoft campus (where you’ll get to network with a bunch of Silverlight experts, and meet the product team), or watch it streamed live online. The all-day event includes a ton of great content and presentations focused on Silverlight development. It includes a bunch of self-paced labs and walkthrough videos that enable developers that are new to Silverlight to follow along. It also includes great presentations that will teach new tricks to advanced of Silverlight developers. Most of the talks during the day will be focused on business application scenarios. My Future of Silverlight Keynote I’ll...
Over the last week there has been a lot of confusion/concern about Silverlight that occurred from an interview given at the PDC conference last week. A few days ago Bob Muglia (President of our Server and Tools Division) posted a blog post on the Silverlight Team blog that helped clarify what he said in the interview that caused the controversy. You can read his post here . Three of the things that he explicitly said in the interview (and which were reported in the article - but unfortunately lost in the public reaction to it) were: Silverlight is very important and strategic to Microsoft. We’re working hard on the next release of Silverlight, and it will continue to be cross-browser and cross-platform, and run on Windows and Mac...
I’m pleased to announce that today we shipped the final release of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. You can download them here . What is Included? The Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools package includes everything you need to write awesome applications and games for Windows Phone 7. All of the tools included in it are absolutely free . The following is installed with the download: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone – Free edition of VS 2010 for Phone development. Express Blend 4 for Windows Phone – Free version of Blend for Windows Phone 7 Development. Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 – Rich framework for building great applications for Windows Phone 7. XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone 7 – Rich framework that enables...
Earlier today we shipped the beta of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. You can download them here . What is included in the Windows Phone Developer Tools The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta includes: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone – a new free, express edition of Visual Studio 2010 Express Blend for Windows Phone – a new free, edition of Blend focused on Windows Phone 7 development Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone 7 Integrated with the development tools is a phone emulator that enables you to easily develop and test Windows Phone 7 applications on your laptop or desktop machine – without requiring a phone device. It is hardware accelerated, supports multi-touch events on multi...
When I posted my RIA Services and Authentication post earlier in the week (which I highly recommend checking out first if you haven't), the first comments/tweets I saw indicated people also want to see roles working in the application. So I decided to add this bit of functionality, both in the Book Club application and the supporting functionality in the RIAEssentials framework, so you can use it easily in your own applications as well. From a scenario perspective, what I am going to do is require an Admin role to browse and add book club members. Adding and Using Roles The first step is to update the AuthenticationService implementation I showed earlier to add roles into the authentication process. It only requires quite literally a couple...
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