Saturday, July 30, 2011

Adding Video into a Web Page Using Silverlight


Well, if you're a regular reader of blogs, you would have noticed that I recently posted some videos of Visual Studio and ASP.NET AJAX Silverlight-based. Many of you might want to download videos from Web pages, Web logs, sites, etc., and would ask where to download the video, such as to host it, etc. Also, some of you might be waiting to use the website Silverlight. Well, this post (inspired by my experience) will help you understand how it is possible to achieve both (both use the Silverlight video host web pages) together.

The first thing you need to download a video, video course. You can start recording a screen shot of a simple "how to" technical article or even a delicious recipe that you tried. You can record videos using the screen capture tool or can try it for free  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5691BA02-E496-465A-BBA9-B2F1182CDF24&displaylang=en

Once you are done with recording a decent size video (say of size 3-4 MB), you are all set to start publishing the video.

Video encoding for Windows Live Streaming using Expression Encoder


2. Open Expression Encoder, select "File - "Import" and chose the location where you have your recorded video

3. It shows the Imported Video under the Media Content section

4. Select Settings in the right and under Profile adjust the Video and Audio to reduce the size.  Typically anything more than 25MB is going to have issues when using Silverlight Streaming.  So adjust the settings accordingly.

5. Switch to the Output tab and under Job Output - Template - chose a template for the video.  I chose the Silverlight Template which looks cool.

6. Once you are done with the above, click Encode to encode the video file for streaming

7. The Encoded file is typically stored in Documents folder under Expression\Encoder folders.

8. A folder is created for every encoded video

9. When you navigate to this folder, you might find the following files

i. BasePlayer.js

ii. Default.html

iii. Your WMV Video file

iv. MicrosoftAjax.js

v. player.js

vi. player.xaml

vii. PlayerStrings.js

viii. project.csproj

ix. Silverlight.js

x. StartPlayer.js

10. We need to add a Manifest file to the above files.

11. Create a simple .txt file and rename it to manifest.xml.  Open it using any text editor and copy paste the following contents

1.0
StartWithParent
   MicrosoftAjax.js
   BasePlayer.js
   PlayerStrings.js
   player.js
   StartPlayer.js

Save this file

12. Secondly, you may not want the video to start playing automatically since it might be a little annoying for your visitors, particularly if there are more than a single video.  To avoid this, you can edit the StartPlayer.js file and navigate to the section where it says autoPlay.  It is set to true by default.  Change it to false. This would make the video play after users click on the same.

13. Once you are done with the above changes, select all the files mentioned above (contents of the folder for this particular video) and Zip them.  You would need to ignore the following files while zipping

i. Default.html

ii. Silverlight.js

iii. project.csproj file

14. The zipped file is what you would require to host your video

Silverlight Streaming





Silverlight Streaming is a free resource streaming services that Windows Live, you can accommodate up to 4 GB for free streaming videos and an innovative approach, because we take care of streaming and hosting party. All you need is a Silverlight player installed on the client side to make your video.

You can get a Silverlight Streaming account for free from http://silverlight.live.com  Once you create an account, visit the



Manage Applications section and select "Upload a Silverlight Application" link

You would require to provide a name which has no space (little annoying) without hyphen (even more annoying if you are used to using hyphens) and there after Browse to upload the zipped files.

Once you are able to upload the zip file successfully, you would get an URL with an iframe tag and the required properties.

Adding it to your website


 Well, all you have to do is to copy the iframe URL provided in the Silverlight Streaming site and paste it into your blog template (switching to HTML View) / website.

Thats it, you could see that your videos are playing powered by Silverlight Streaming.

Happy Silverlight Streaming !!!








Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Share Point 2010 Change Icon Favicon010

 You can change the favicon icon in SharePoint 2010 is much easier to SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 is much easier and more customizable. SharePoint 2010 is the latest version of Microsoft SharePoint.

Download Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010

Download  Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010  here 


http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26623
 

Edit Adobe PDF files with Document in SharePoint how?

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Saturday, July 16, 2011

2000, 2005 & 2008 Sql Server Version differences

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Change the "Document Information Panel" with InfoPath 2010 how?

This article will attempt to explain how we can use InfoPath 2010 to modify the document information panel from SharePoint content types.

In this example, create a custom content type called "DLX" my SharePoint site and collection of linked documents to a "shared documents" and to add some documents

Remove or Hide the Login as a User Different Options SharePoint

This article is useful for removing Log on as a user other than the top navigation.
Follow these steps to remove "login as another user"