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Build a Silverlight media player
Hands on Going for gold
Microsoft's deal with US media giant NBC Universal to stream this summer's Olympic Games online using Silverlight represents a major demonstration of the potential of Microsoft's emerging browser-based runtime and streaming service. In keeping with the news, and following on from my earlier introduction to Silverlight, I wanted …
Get started with Silverlight
Hands on A time to shine
There has been much hype and more than a little confusion during the last year or so surrounding Microsoft Silverlight. Is it a Flash killer? Is it a designer tool or a developer tool? Surely it's for streaming videos? Is it a cross platform, browser-based version of Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR)? Microsoft will go …

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