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Creating Smart Playlists in Windows Media Player

Posted on March 31, 2008. Filed under: microsoft, smart playlist, windows media player |

A “Smart  Playlist” is a type of playlist that changes automatically according to criteria you have specified. In Windows Media Player it is called an “Auto Playlist”.
I know that this feature exists in almost every media player but in Windows Media Player this feature is not clearly visible and many people don’t even know anything [...]

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Using Silverlight with Ruby on Rails

Posted on March 26, 2008. Filed under: C#, adobe, crud, flex, microsoft, mxml, rails, ruby, ruby on rails, silverlight, xaml |

In this post I will be showing a really simple example of creating a Silverlight frontend for a Rails backend. This is what I think will be a three part series comparing Silverlight with Flex.
The steps will be:

Creating a Rails application.
Creating a frontend for it in silverlight.
Creating a frontend for it [...]

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Silverlight 2.0 Beta-1 now available, version 1.0 ported to Nokia mobiles

Posted on March 5, 2008. Filed under: expression blend, microsoft, nokia, silverlight, user interface, xaml |

Microsoft has just released highly anticipated first beta of Silverlight here. The development tools for visual  studio 2008 can be downloaded from here. Tutorials are also available on the same site.
This link reports that Silverlight is now also available on the Nokia mobile devices (specifically S60 on Symbian OS, as well as for Series 40 [...]

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