Content tagged with [silverlight] on DuncanMackenzie.net

Sidebar Gadgets for Channel 9, Channel 8 and more

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:32:00 GMT

We recently had Donovan West (LiveGadgets.net) build us a set of sidebar gadgets for Windows Vista. These gadgets use the RSS feeds from each site and let you see all of our new content as it gets posted, then (using Silverlight) you can even play our videos right there on your desktop.

You can check out the gadgets (for Channel 9, Mix, C8, Edge, and on10.net) by clicking on the appropriate image below:

New Xbox Friends Gadget released and a Silverlight Gamercard Generator

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:05:00 GMT

Adam Kinney, Silverlight dude and my colleague at work, has released an updated version of his Xbox Friends Watch gadget and a new standalone gamercard gadget for your website that uses Silverlight 2.0.

Ice Cube talking about Silverlight...

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:42:00 GMT

and the Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe feels the need to comment about it.

Let me summarize. Ice Cube is involved in an Internet video project and has chosen to use Silverlight, and you can watch an interview with him about it in Silverlight. (on a side note, I decided not to include the video into my post, even though the instructions to do so are right there in the original blog entry, because it is set to auto-start when someone visits the page and I think that is just downright rude :) )

The post is interesting, the video is interesting... but what is really interesting is the fun going on in the comments on that blog entry, including comments from Mike Downey of Adobe and Scott Barnes of Microsoft... fun stuff. The old 'if you have nothing nice to say...' rule probably should have been applied for both of them.

found via Mix Online

Silverlight based Sidebar Gadget showing your Xbox Friends

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:42:00 GMT

Awesome gadget from Adam Kinney, great information and a nice slick UI done in Silverlight.

Xbox Friends Watch - Get the Gadget!

Sampy explains how we built the Silverlight player for Channel 8

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:25:00 GMT

In an interview with Adam Kinney on Channel 9 today, Sampy goes over how the player works and why using the JavaScript and templates from Expression Media Encoder saved us a bunch of hassle

See this video on Channel 9!

We added a Silverlight player to Channel 8 today

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:49:00 GMT

We used a modified version of one of the templates that ships with Expression Media Encoder as our player... and channel 8 has become the first of our sites (which include Channel 9, Channel 10, VisitMix.com and more) to have a Silverlight video player on them. And, below here, you can see that player embedded into this blog post...

Note that I had to remove the 'scrubbing bar' due to some odd bug around releasing the mouse after scrubbing was completed... but we'll figure that out and get it back in as soon as we can. Check out the video above back in its home on C9.... check out the video from above on on Channel 8, and build your own player using those templates!

Added Silverlight Streaming support to Channel 9's forums

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:11:00 GMT

Continuing on in the same pattern as my last post, adding Soapbox support to C9's forums, Adam Kinney bugged me a bit and I went ahead and added support for Silverlight Streaming as well.

It will be interesting to see if (or more accurately, how long before) someone turns this to malicious purposes.

Overlaying HTML over Silverlight

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:48:00 GMT

In the new code that we are building for Channel 9, we have a few HTML popups here and there... floating divs for user info being one example. At the same time as we've been adding that feature, we also moved from using Windows Media Player to using Silverlight as our video player.

We ran into a bit of an issue though, in that our floating HTML was sitting under the Silverlight player, no matter what I did with the z-index of the two areas of the page.

That just wouldn't do, so I asked Adam Kinney (Silverlight Evangelist and former dev on the C9/C10 team) what to do. He pointed me to the 'isWindowless' property of the Silverlight object and that info, combined with this KB article about Windowless controls, was enough for me to figure out what to do.

Changing our player creation script to include this property solved the issue:

Silverlight.createObjectEx( { source: this.get_playerXaml(), 
parentElement: this.get_playerHost(), 
id:this._hostname, 
properties:{ width:'322', height:'296', 
version:'1.0', isWindowless:'true', 
inplaceInstallPrompt:'true'  }, 
events:{
onLoad:Function.createDelegate(
this, this._handleSilverlightPlayerLoad) }} );

producing a much nicer result...