Today I’ll talk about SMEWA (Silverlight Mesh Enabled Web Application) creation. To create one (as for today) you need to be a member of Live Framework CTP. Invite to this CTP could be received through Microsoft Connect site. After receiving the invitation key and redeeming it you will be able to download Live Framework SDK and Tools for Visual Studio and at Azure Services Developer Portal create new project – Live Framework CTP After installing the Live Framework Tools for Visual Studio you will...

Today I’ve been asked by colleague how to inject and execute JavaScript functionality from Silverlight application to the HTML DOM of hosting page. Well, things are pretty easy. First we need to get JavaScript from somewhere. In colleague's case it was an embedded resource, in my sample I’ll use TextBox to accept the script code. Also I’ll accept function name and parameters from UI. From here we have two approaches: to Eval the function code or to create “Script” element dynamically. First approach...

Lately I'm getting a lot of questions what could be done with Silverlight in in terms of work with streaming media. Today I'll show what could be done. I've built very simple media player based on MediaElement object and prepared some stream to use in my application. The major focus of this post it to briefly show what could be done with stream in Silverlight and not how specifically do it. I'll be glad to answer any specific questions there will be any. First about the stream. I've...

As promised, here short video from our Tech-Ed 2008 session setup... I've shot this at ~6:10, while trying to make whole stuff blend together :) Second part - in Tamir 's blog. Enjoy, Alex

Tech-Ed 2008 Israel is over, and I'd like to thanks Microsoft for making it happen. I'd also like to thanks all, who was on my and Tamir 's "show". I hope that all attendees enjoy watching it like we enjoyed making it! Don't forget the survey ;) Also, great thanks to Tamir ! Stay tuned on videos of how we put all this session together - hope it will here in day or two.   UPDATE #1: My video already posted here UPDATE #2: Tamir's video already posted here  ...