The Visual State Manager is on a very short list of features that exist on Silverlight today but do not exist on Desktop WPF. This short screencast introduces the Visual State Manager and illustrates the value it adds to the Silverlight platform. It shows how the Visual State Manager can be used in control templates as well as full application screens. John Gossman from the WPF team blogged that the Visual State Manager will be added to WPF in the future. He has not indicated when an officially supported

A screencast demonstrating the use of some of the rich features of the ASP.NET MediaPlayer control such as chaptering, closed caption support and markers.

An introduction to the MediaPlayer ASP.NET server control that allows you to embed a rich Silverlight media player in an aspx page.

The MediaElement exposes a number of useful events so you can react to changes in media state and markers in the video stream. In this screencast we take a look at some of these events and how to handle them.

How to embed video and audio content in your Silverlight 2 application with the MediaElement control.

A screencast describing the <asp:Silverlight> control, an ASP.NET server control making it really simple to host Silverlight content. This control ships in the Silverlight 2 SDK.

This Week on Channel 9, Brian Keller is joined by Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger to cover this week's news, including: - What's the deal with the new Windows ads with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld? (0:36 - 1:10) - Windows Movie Maker joins Windows Live, adds Soapbox/YouTube uploading via LiveSide (1:10 - 2:20) - Windows Live Photo Gallery to add facial recognition to tag people in photos via LiveSide (2:20 - 4:23) - New Zune Software update adds ability to purchase songs via FM tuner, and channels

Project Rosetta is a site dedicated to helping designers and developers build applications in Silverlight while taking advantage of skills they already know. In this interview, I caught up with Rick Barraza , the author of the first article entitled From Flash to Silverlight , to talk about the article, the world of the Interactive Media Design and reckless creativity.

In this screencast, we'll see how to build a Silverlight 2 control that connects and displays data from Dynamics CRM. There are a variety of ways you can connect a Silverlight client to CRM. In this screencast, we're using a proxy approach by having a WCF service sitting in between Silverlight control and CRM web services. You can download the code for this screencast here . Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/ for more code samples and related screencasts.

Eric Schmidt drops by to tell stories about the NBCOlympics.com site launch and answer a few questions from the viewers. Why is it US Only? Where is the FullScreen mode? How does the streaming work? Why choose to run on a beta? Will we see the same coverage in upcoming Olympics?