A daily Deal aggregator

Currently working on a daily deal aggregator prototype in silverlight.

Silverlight Logging using Firebug Console

I am working on posting logs to firebug console from silverlight app.

Option 1 :
use HTML bridging + console.log = Logs in firebug console.

Looking for other better ways for silent logging.

Update : Option 2 : Make a new extension method on string

I will post the prototype code once i am done.

Silverlight Recipes Series

Starting from today i will be posting a " Problem-Solution " series related to different silverlight areas.

Silverlight smooth streaming & RCE

Short time back , I studied a bit about Smooth streaming.As part of it, I learnt about Silverlight RCE and related technologies.

Sharing a few bookmarks here

SMF
http://smf.codeplex.com/

MSAF
http://msaf.codeplex.com/

Smooth Streaming Client
http://www.iis.net/download/SmoothClient

Smoth Streaming SDK
http://www.iis.net/download/SmoothFormatSDK

IIS Media services :
http://www.iis.net/overview/IntegratedMediaPlatform

Smooth Streaming Plugin
http://www.iis.net/download/SmoothStreaming

A very good experiment here

http://blogs.southworks.net/ejadib/2010/07/27/rough-cut-editor-rce-and-iis-transform-manager-best-friends/


Other important links :

http://alexzambelli.com/blog/2009/02/10/smooth-streaming-architecture/

http://blogs.southworks.net/geoff/2010/08/14/x264-encoding-with-iis-transform-manager/

http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2009/11/22/patching-silverlight-media-framework-to-work-with-mp4wmv-files/

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/02/10/extending-silverlight-media-framework.aspx

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/InstallingAndSettingUpAndEncodingForIIS7SmoothStreamingAndSilverlight.aspx


http://maxim.fridental.de/2009/02/25/progressive-download-cpu-consumption/


http://sharovatov.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/silverlight-smooth-streaming-and-http/


http://blogs.iis.net/jboch/archive/2009/02/19/smooth-streaming-questions-we-ve-got-answers.aspx


http://alexzambelli.com/blog/2008/12/17/a-brief-history-of-multi-bitrate-streaming/


http://blogs.southworks.net/ejadib/2010/07/16/quick-tip-accurate-seeks-on-the-smooth-streaming-media-element-ssme/


http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/857/encode-and-deliver-on-demand-smooth-streams-with-iis-transform-manager-and-iis-media-services-4/

http://chris.59north.com/post/Playing-Smooth-Streaming-videos-in-Silverlight.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/giuseppeguerrasio/archive/2009/05/15/move-forward-internet-video-streaming-iis7-media-service-and-smooth-streaming.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff646972.aspx

http://www.l-exp.com/m/feed/show/917255

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/synergist/archive/2010/01/22/scrubbing-with-thumbnails-with-the-smf-player.aspx

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/02/10/extending-silverlight-media-framework.aspx

http://silverlightfeeds.com/post/1678/Using_Silverlight_Media_Framework_for_simple_playback.aspx

http://kevinrohling.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/social-smurf-a-social-media-plugin-for-smf/

http://jesseliberty.com/2009/12/17/extending-the-smf-for-the-hvp/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek+%28Jesse+Liberty+-+Silverlight+Geek%29


http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2009/11/22/patching-silverlight-media-framework-to-work-with-mp4wmv-files/

http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/slhvp/

http://jesseliberty.com/2009/11/15/the-silverlight-hvp-spec/

Upgrading..

I am currently working on upgrading our outlook 2007 add-on to outlook 2010.Thinking of making this add-on an open source project and post it to sourceforge. :) Sravan are you hearing ?

RD's

Sample black chrome button