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Silverlight 3 Is Key to Experiencing XXI Olympic Winter Games in Full HD

Microsoft’s alternative to Adobe Flash has “qualified” for yet another edition of the Olympic Games, after being positioned at the core of NBC’s online coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The third major version of Silverlight will be critical to kicking up a notch the web-based u...

9 November 2009
07:12 GMT

Build a Silverlight 3 Website with Expression Blend 3 StarterKit

Microsoft issued the third major release of its Adobe Flash alternative in mid-2009, and developers have already had sufficient time to familiarize themselves with the technology. However, there are always devs that need a helping hand, whether they are just starting off or for any other justified reason. The Re...

3 November 2009
06:32 GMT

Silverlight 3 Toolkit Updated for Visual Studio 2010

The fifth edition of the Silverlight Toolkit is currently live and available for download via Microsoft’s open-source project repository, CodePlex. The latest release of the Silverlight Toolkit is focused on Silverlight 3, and brings to the table enhancements designed to tailor the bits to the most recent relea...

21 October 2009
06:40 GMT

Silverlight 4 Beta Documentation Already in the Works

Microsoft is moving onward with the development of Silverlight, the technology designed to rival Adobe Flash. Having offered version 3 of Silverlight earlier this year, the Redmond company is now focusing on the upcoming iteration, which will most probably be offered in 2010, taking into consideration the yearly deli...

7 October 2009
05:35 GMT

Migrate Visual Basic 6.0 Apps to Azure, Silverlight 3

Companies that are looking for solutions to easily migrate legacy Visual Basic 6.0 applications into the Cloud should have a look at what ArtinSoft and Gizmox have to offer. The two companies announced a partnership designed to put together a range of migration services designed to help customers upgrade Visual Basic...

8 September 2009
10:12 GMT

Silverlight 3 SDK Updated

Microsoft has updated the resources available for developers, set up to streamline building applications based on the latest iteration of Silverlight. At the end of August 2009, the Redmond-based company kicked up a notch Silverlight 3, and accompanied the refresh with an update to the Silverlight 3 Software Developm...

7 September 2009
05:41 GMT

Download Silverlight 3 GDR 2 Build 3.0.40818

Microsoft has made available for download a fresh release of its alternative to Adobe Flash. In this regard, the Redmond-based company introduced earlier this week the second update to the RTW (release to web) version of Silverlight 3. Users that want to keep all apps on their machine up to date are now able to downl...

4 September 2009
08:10 GMT

IE8 and Silverlight 3 Added to Windows Embedded POSReady 2009

Microsoft is catalyzing the evolution of its Windows Embedded for Point of Service platform with the addition of two new features. Fact is that both Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 3 have been available for Windows client operating systems for quite some time, but both applications are only now coming to Windows ...

3 September 2009
11:28 GMT

Deep Zoom Composer, the First Final Version Available for Download

Concomitantly with the launch of Expression Studio 3, and following the release to web of Silverlight 3, Microsoft has launched the first final version of the Deep Zoom Composer. The solution is designed to allow users to prepare digital images for the Deep Zoom feature in Silverlight 2 and 3. July 22nd marks the ava...

23 July 2009
11:04 GMT

Download Silverlight 3 Offline CHM

Microsoft has made available for download the documentation associated with its latest iteration of Silverlight. The Silverlight 3 Offline Documentation, up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center, brings to the table content necessary for developers leveraging the version 3 of the Redmond company's alternat...

22 July 2009
04:44 GMT

Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on Windows 7

Microsoft Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is a self-explanatory label; nonetheless, the solution is an add-on for the first service pack of Visual Studio 2008, allowing developers to put together applications based on the latest version of Silverlight. The Redmond company indicated that the Silverlight...

20 July 2009
07:47 GMT

Silverlight 3 Deep Zoom Composer Update Labeled Release Candidate

The latest update introduced to a tool Microsoft is providing to end users and developers to build content for the Deep Zoom capabilities of Silverlight 3 is labeled Release Candidate. On July 9th, 2009, the Redmond company made available for download a fresh release of the Deep Zoom Composer. At the start of this we...

14 July 2009
10:01 GMT

Download Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC

Concomitantly with the availability of the third major release of Silverlight, Microsoft also announced the launch of Expression 3, its development and design environment and solutions. Expression Studio 3 brings to the table the following components: Expression Blend 3, SketchFlow, Expression Web 3, Expression Encod...

13 July 2009
09:52 GMT

Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight 3 Is Live

July 10th was synonymous with the release to web of Silverlight 3, the latest iteration of Microsoft's alternative to Adobe Flash technology. And, as it is now tradition in Redmond, Silverlight 3 was accompanied by the launch of a tool designed to allow digital images to be tailored for the technology's uni...

10 July 2009
12:01 GMT

Download Silverlight 3 RTW (3.0.40624.0)

Microsoft released the successor of Silverlight 2 for Windows and Mac OS X to web one day ahead of the official launch, set for July 10, 2009. Users are already able to download Silverlight 3 RTW, full build string 3.0.40624.0, and take web-based rich application experiences to the next level. In this regard, Silverl...

10 July 2009
03:08 GMT

Silverlight 3 Drops July 10, 2009

The wait for the next iteration of Silverlight is almost over, Microsoft has officially confirmed. The Redmond company has indicated that Silverlight 3 will be released on July 10, 2009, a tad over a month from now. In this context, the software giant has managed to take its alternative to Adobe Flash from version 2 ...

29 May 2009
09:04 GMT

Silverlight for Linux Evolves to Version 2.0

Novell continues to trail Microsoft with its own implementation of Silverlight for the Linux open-source operating system. While the Redmond company has released Silverlight 2 RTW in 2008, and since then moved onward to the first Beta of Silverlight 3 in March 2009, Novell is just now starting to offer a preview of M...

6 May 2009
08:56 GMT

Silverlight 3 Expands from the Browser to Windows and Mac OS X

With the third version of Silverlight, now available for download in Beta, Microsoft has taken its technology, positioned as a rival to Adobe Flash, beyond the boundaries of the browser. In this context, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, .NET Developer Platform, revealed during his keynote address at MIX09 the...

20 March 2009
10:28 GMT

Silverlight to Stream the Next Olympics Fully in HD

It looks like by any measure Silverlight (Silverlight 3 Beta now available) has become a 'mascot' of the Olympic Games. Last year, NBC used Microsoft's alternative to Adobe Flash to take the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing online. Come next year, Silverlight has already qualified to the 2010 Winter Olymp...

19 March 2009
10:58 GMT

Expression Blend 3 Preview for Vista SP1 and XP SP3

On the opening day at MIX09 Microsoft released not only the first Beta of Silverlight 3, but also a preview version of Expression Blend 3. With support for Vista RTM and SP1 and Windows XP SP2 and later, Expression Blend 3 Preview is already available for download. The fact that the solution was released in concordan...

18 March 2009
16:11 GMT

Download Silverlight 3 Beta

Silverlight has moved up to the next step in its evolution. As the company's Internet-centric MIX09 conference debuts in Las Vegas at the time of this article, the first taste of Silverlight 3 is available for download. Silverlight 3 is offered in Beta development stage and is designed to deliver a number of enh...

18 March 2009
13:30 GMT

Download Silverlight 2 GDR1 Upgrade for Silverlight 2 RTW

Microsoft released Silverlight 2 in mid-October 2008 and, five months later, an upgrade is available for download. Hundreds of millions of downloads later, users have the opportunity to update Silverlight 2 to the latest version available. In this regard, Silverlight 2 GDR 1 is now available as the successor of Silve...

20 February 2009
03:09 GMT

Microsoft to Deliver a Taste of Silverlight 3 in March 2009

In October 2008, Microsoft shipped the gold version of Silverlight 2, and the company moved onward with the development of its Flash killer. With Adobe having announced earlier this month that it accounted for record installations of Flash 10, revealing that the latest release of the technology was already deployed o...

2 February 2009
10:26 GMT

Deep Zoom Is Coming to Silverlight for Linux

Deep Zoom, a feature based on technology developed by Microsoft, which allows for unprecedented zooming and panning capabilities of online images, is coming to Silverlight on Linux. Moonlight, the open source implementation of Silverlight for Linux and Unix, will support Deep Zoom starting with Build Alpha of version...

24 November 2008
13:11 GMT

Microsoft Accepting Input on Silverlight 3 Features

In mid-October Microsoft made available for download the RTW (release to web) Build of Silverlight 2, and now the company is already looking forward to the next iteration of its Adobe Flash killer. Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Platform, revealed that Silverlight 3 was planned for ava...

24 November 2008
07:23 GMT

Silverlight 3 in 2009

 Having made available for download version 2 of its Adobe Flash killer, Microsoft is already moving onward to the next iteration. Silverlight 2 was released to web in mid-October 2008, and, for next year, Microsoft is cooking the third release of what it is defining as a cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-...

18 November 2008
14:31 GMT


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