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After the announcement of Silverlight 2 release, Microsoft has now announced the release of Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1 – a tool for harnessing the power of XAML, .NET framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and Silverlight 2 to deliver compelling user experiences for connected desktops and the web.

Microsoft today has released final bits of Silverlight 2 - one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of rich applications and media experiences through a Web browser.

Microsoft has today released Silverlight 2 RC0 to developers for testing purposes and to help them prepare their existing Silverlight 2 Beta 2 applications for the final bits which is expected to roll out at the end of this year.

Windows Live Video Messages (WLVM)is the latest service to be included in Microsoft’s web applications of Windows Live. It was opened to the general public on 9th, not too late after being announced. We decided to give it a spin and check out if this service is really worth using on a day to day basis or not.

Sending emails notifications from a contact or a feedback page of a website has become a standard feature of most sites around the web.
Today, I am going to show you how to create an ASP.NET Silverlight application which sends email. The main objective of this tutorial is to achieve this goal using a ASP.NET web [...]

Microsoft Silverlight has been on a roll! If you thought Beijing Olympics was the last sport for Microsoft’s challenger to the popular Adobe Flash, you were wrong. With just 36 days to go for the first ever Formula 1 race under lights in Singapore, Singtel has launched a Silverlight based “SingTel Grid Girls [...]

MSN/Windows Live team has silently updated their Silverlight based toolbar for Internet Explorer.
The new version is:
MSN Toolbar: 3.0.426.0
Application Version: 3.0.0619.0
With just three days left in Olympic games to start, this new version with Olympics tab is going to keep us all updated with what’s going on in & around the[...]

Microsoft and NBC are set to deliver the largest online broadcasting event in history for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Earlier this year Microsoft and NBC Universal announced plans to make NBCOlympics.com on MSN the official online home of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The partnership is expected to result in the largest [...]