Microsoft Academic Search Powered by Silverlight

Try it out here: http://www.academic.research.microsoft.com/

Its an awesome resource for Computer Science Students.

Change Your Facebook Look/Theme

Telerik f!acedeck is a Silverlight-based, client application for Facebook. This product, formerly known as “Microsoft Client for Facebook Beta,” is now available with the name Telerik f!acedeck and is being offered as a free tool by Telerik. Install Telerik f!acedeck and enjoy the unforgettable user experience that the application provides.

All you need in order to install Telerik f!acedeck is Silverlight 4. Download it here and to download facedeck visit www.facedeck.telerik.com

Tweet search - one code, three mobile platforms (wp7, monodroid, monotouch) (via Sigurd Snørteland)

Interesting article..

Here is the presentation and the source code from the speech I held at the Norwegian .Net User Group last wednesday. tweet search 'tweet search' is a mobile twitter search app written in c# for Windows Phone 7, iPhone and Android. All three apps share the same twitter search code, but they have custom gui code (WP7=Silverlight, iPhone=MonoTouch, Android=MonoDroid). Go to the bottom off this article to find links to the source code & presentat … Read More

via Sigurd Snørteland

Silverlight Future Revealed ? ?

Future of silverlight event is scheduled for December-3. Here is the two interesting job posts..

Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: United States, WA, Redmond
Job ID: 739404 29796
Product: Microsoft Silverlight
Division: Server & Tools Business

Silverlight is a fast paced, fun and winning team that ships yearly and is making serious inroads in the marketplace. Come join one of the best team's at Microsoft and take your work to the next level by helping us deliver ground breaking graphics, and UI advances.
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, developer platform that is based on XAML and already running on Windows, Mac, set-top-boxes and Windows Phones. Numerous industry partners are already using Silverlight to deliver high end and cutting edge internet and mobile experiences to millions of users, including Netflix, NBC Olympics, Seesmic, Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter. Microsoft teams such as Bing Maps, Sql reporting services, Office Communicator are already using Silverlight and many more will be in the future.
As a developer you will be responsible for delivering features for several upcoming devices and shipping devices like the Windows Phone.
Candidates must have 5+ years of professional development experience in C++ and a willingness to work on new operating systems and languages.

Apply

Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: United States, WA, Redmond
Job ID: 740317 29869
Product: Microsoft Silverlight
Division: Server & Tools Business

Silverlight is looking to hire motivated developers with a passion for creating ground breaking multiscreen platform experiences now targeting the XBOX.
Silverlight is a fast paced, fun and winning team that ships yearly and is making serious inroads in the marketplace. It is a cross-browser, cross-platform, developer platform that is based on XAML and already running on Windows, Mac, set-top-boxes and Windows Phones. Numerous industry partners are already using Silverlight to deliver high end and cutting edge internet and mobile experiences to millions of users, including Netflix, NBC Olympics, Seesmic, Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter. Microsoft teams such as Sql reporting services, Office Communicator are already using Silverlight and many more will be in the future.
One of the unique things about our team is how closely we partner with customers to make them successful with our technology - whether it’s one of the thousands of applications developed for Windows Phone 7, social network applications such as Seesmic, or powering the largest premium internet movie service through Netflix. With our next wave of releases we are looking to increase by an order of magnitude our usage, customer base and reach.
As a developer you will be responsible for delivering features for Silverlight on the XBOX as part of the next wave.
Candidates must have 5+ years of professional development experience in C++ and a willingness to work on new operating systems and languages.

Apply

Only scott Guthrie knows what he is going to reveal on that day..

Project Crescent–A New Business Intelligence Tool

Microsoft’s SQL team just announced a new business intelligence tool built entirely on Silverlight codenamed Project “Crescent”.

Project Crescent allows business users to manage data and show information in a truly innovative and exciting way, allowing people to visualize, interact and report on data using highly interactive visualizations, animations and smart querying and present and share insights with others in the organization through rich storyboard presentation capabilities.

Crescent’s most exciting features is its integration with PowerPoint. Through a feature called Storyboarding, users can embed reports in PowerPoint and manipulate the live data during a presentation. 

Source: Silverlight Blog