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• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - More on the asp:MediaPlayer Control

  A screencast demonstrating the use of some of the rich features of the ASP.NET MediaPlayer control such as chaptering, closed caption support and markers. Share this post: Read More... Posted Oct 03 2008, 08:13 AM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - The asp:MediaPlayer Control

  An introduction to the MediaPlayer ASP.NET server control that allows you to embed a rich Silverlight media player in an aspx page. Share this post: Read More... Posted Oct 03 2008, 08:12 AM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Handling Media Events

  The MediaElement exposes a number of useful events so you can react to changes in media state and markers in the video stream. In this screencast we take a look at some of these events and how to handle them. Share this post: Read More... Posted Oct 03 2008, 08:11 AM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Embedding Video and Audio

  How to embed video and audio content in your Silverlight 2 application with the MediaElement control. Share this post: Read More... Posted Oct 03 2008, 08:10 AM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - The asp:Silverlight Control

  A screencast describing the <asp:Silverlight> control, an ASP.NET server control making it really simple to host Silverlight content. This control ships in the Silverlight 2 SDK. Share this post: Read More... Posted Oct 03 2008, 08:05 AM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Insert/Update/Delete with the DataGrid

  The DataGrid provides an editable, spreadsheet-like surface for your data - here we take a look at how we can do insert, update and delete with the grid. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 02:15 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Getting Started with the DataGrid

  The DataGrid is one of the more complex controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and lends itself towards line-of-business applications. Here we take a look at getting started in using it to display data. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 02:15 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Embedding Custom Fonts

  Adding your own fonts to your application can make a real difference to its appeal and Silverlight makes it easy - we cover it off in less than 3 minutes! Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 02:15 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Multiple Threads with BackgroundWorker

  Silverlight has the capability to run code on background threads and provides the BackgroundWorker class in order to make that simpler to program. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 02:14 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Loading Media at Runtime

  A common requirement is to load images or videos at runtime - here we take a look at how you can easily do that. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 02:14 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Dynamically Loading Assemblies/Code

  It can be useful to be able to dynamically load assemblies from the web in order to factor the application or add additional code at runtime. Here we look at how we can start doing that. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 02:14 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Reading/Writing XML

  Reading and writing of XML in Silverlight is done with the LINQ to XML API. Here, we take a quick look at how you go about XML access in Silverlight. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 02:14 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Displaying a Custom Splash Screen

  If your XAP is large, the download time might be long and you need something to show the user whilst it's happening - create a custom XAML based splash screen. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 01:22 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Passing Parameters from your Web Page

  How to receive parameters into your application from its instantiation on the containing web page. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 01:22 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Evaluating JavaScript from .NET Code

  .NET code in Silverlight can evaluate dynamic pieces of Javascript code against the surrounding HTML environment. A very quick look here at what method to call to make this magic happen. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 01:21 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Handling HTML Events in .NET Code

  Events fired in the HTML DOM ( such as onclick from a button ) can be handled easily by .NET code inside the Silverlight Plug-In. A quick example... Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 01:21 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Handling .NET Events in JavaScript

  Events that fire in .NET code can be handled by Javascript functions, including events that carry with them structured data types. This video walks through how we do that. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 01:21 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Calling .NET from JavaScript

  Javascript code can call into .NET functions in order to make use of .NET functionality or to manipulate Silverlight content. Here, we look at passing and returning both simple and complex types to .NET from JS. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 01:21 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Calling JavaScript from .NET

  .NET code can call into Javascript functions including making calls that require parameters and return values of complex type. This video shows how it's done. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 01:20 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - .NET Code Modifying HTML

  .NET Silverlight code can access the HTML DOM of the page that is hosting the Silverlight plug-in and manipulate the content that it finds there. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 01:20 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Using Isolated Storage Quotas

  Once you've seen isolated storage, you'll need to know how much quota space each application gets and what you can do to go about changing that. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 01:20 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Using Isolated Storage

  A Silverlight application can securely store data isolated per-application, per-user on the local machine - here we look at how that works. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 01:19 PM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - File Dialogs and User Files

  A Silverlight application can read files from the user and prompt them with the file dialog (in a secure way) to select which files the application can access. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 09:06 AM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Using Sockets

  The lowest level mechanism for communicating back to the site-of-origin is to use Sockets which allow full duplex comms. Here we take a quick look at getting started. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 09:06 AM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB

• Silverlight - Calling HTTPS Web Services

  There are limitations for calling web services over HTTPS in Beta 2. Here, we look at what we can do with respect to calling web services over HTTPS. Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 09:05 AM by screencasts - Channel 9 Filed under: Silverlight, UK, UKDevTeam, en-GB