This article gives a simple introduction to Silverlight Streaming that will allow you to turn your own video content into a Silverlight Streaming application ready for you to place on your website or blog using Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder to publish to your Silverlight Streaming account.

This article uses Expression Encoder 2 and the Silverlight Streaming Publishing Plugin for Expression Encoder 2.

The basic steps are:

• Encode and Upload to Silverlight Streaming
• Place Silverlight video on your Website

In this article I will show you how to use a combination of free tools and services to produce and host a high quality panorama. You will render this using Silverlight2 and display it geo-referenced on Virtual Earth. The combination of hosted storage and services from Windows Live gives us a powerful Rich Internet Application from a basic HTML page. The tools and services you will use are:

• Your digital camera
• Windows Live Photo Gallery
• Deep Zoom Composer
• Silverlight2
• Silverlight Streaming
• Virtual Earth

The final result below is made from eight photos taken of the Story Bridge in Brisbane, Australia at 6am.

Recently I was asked how to display Rich media (mainly video) in Sharepoint 2007 by our communications department. This shouldn't be too hard to do so time to whip up a quick demo/proof of concept to make sure that it in fact can be done, and what better way than to create a custom web part that embeds Microsoft's Silverlight.

Adding Silverlight to your web application is easy enough so it shouldn't be too difficult to do in Sharepoint 2007 either. There are a few different files that you will need in order to do this however, a couple of Javascript files, a XAML and of course your custom web part.

So kick off Visual Studio and lets get cracking.

Last week I posted about my interview with Angus Logan and Danny Thorpe and included the whole interview in the blog post by using Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live. But just what did I need to do to get that all working? Here I will show you.

Encoding with Expression Encoder

For this, you will need to install Expression Encoder to encode the mp3 and apply all the cool touches to it. For this, I didn't want to use any of the built in players that come with Encoder because they were all intended for videos, so I wanted one that was specifically for audio, so one quick search later took me to the Silverlight Audio Player. Download the most recent source code, and in the zip file you download will be a folder called "SilverlightAudioPlayer"; copy that folder into your %Program Files%\Microsoft Expression\Encoder 1.0\Templates\en\ folder (or whichever language you have installed). Now we can begin.