karen corby’s fabulous blog
A couple folks on my team have recently started blogs. If you haven’t already, check it out!
David Poll (blog)
Jesse Bishop (blog)
Here’s a set of interesting Silverlight 4 links…
Bits & Tools
Resources
Other Product Team Members’ Blogs
Our Four Official Silverlight Bloggers
Thank you to everyone who came to my overview talk yesterday!
My session video has already been posted online. You can also download the deck here.
You can find online all the other Silverlight PDC session videos.
As promised, you’ll find the code for all the demos below (and links to run the app, where possible).
But first, a few thank yous….
I got help from a bunch of people on the Silverlight team while putting together the demos and content for this talk. So a big thank you to all of you! (And to Walter VonKoch on the IE team for help with the Windows RSS Feed Service apis.)
Also, a HUGE “shout out” to the Silverlight team. As I mention in the talk, we’ve shipped three versions of Silverlight in less than 2 years… and to follow that with a Beta of Silverlight 4 so soon afterwards… it’s just amazing. 
Here are the demos…
Scrapbook App
Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:
PDC Photobooth App
Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:
Classroom Proctor App
(Code)
Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:
Note: in order to run this application, you will need to set up a Silverlight Multicast Server. An example of a server can be found here. You can use the policy file found here.
FeedReader
Note: you must Right-Click to install this application.
Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:
As our VP ScottGu just announced in the PDC Keynote, Silverlight 4 Beta ships today! Get the bits here.
If you’re at PDC, I’ll be giving the Silverlight 4 Beta Overview session in an hour (CL01, 11:30am Hall F).
Here are some other great Silverlight PDC Talks!
BusinessWeek published an article on the top global brands this year.
It’s interesting to see who made this list – some of them are pretty obvious (e.g. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon). Others make total sense, but I probably wouldn’t have guessed them (e,g, Heinz, Burberry).
And it uses Silverlight!
Bing Visual Search enables you to search the web using images as your “keywords” (as opposed to well, word keywords). Check it out here.
Thanks to Joe for calling out the new Silverlight feature request tracker. Tim Heuer and Scott Barnes have set up this list up to help us get feedback from the community.
We’re definitely looking closely at this list! Please cast your votes.
Now using ChildWindow, Validation UI and more!
Go here to see the app and get the code.
Silverlight 3 is out in the wild!!
(team-signed poster in my office)
Links to all the good stuff:
Some of the new Silverlight 3 features include…
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* Added since Silverlight 3 Beta
On a personal note…. Around Mix, I took over the PM position in the Silverlight 3 Shipping Triad. It’s been an amazing (tiring, ridiculous, exhilarating) experience. So, a shout out to the SL3 Triad, the always awesome framework feature teams, and the Silverlight team as a whole. It’s been a privilege working with all of you.
This release was a special one for me.
Karen
p.s. If you read my blog, you know I’m on vacation right now. I made the call a few days ago to leave my laptop at home… So none of my SL3 Beta samples have been updated to RTW bits yet. But I promise to when I’m back in Seattle. In the meantime, enjoy playing with SL3!
Here are all the Silverlight 3 Beta links, if you’re interested in digging in.
As a callout: This is a developer beta release only! This means there is no “go-live” licensing available and the end-user runtime of Silverlight 3 is not available.
A full list of the new features can be found here.
If you’re curious, some of the new framework features inside of the core runtime are: