Bing Videos… Are you Kidding Me?!?!?!?

So there is nothing technical about this post, but I found it interesting. I have been a big supporter of Microsoft Silverlight, but I do find it a bit frustrating when I find out they don’t use their own technologies internally. Check this post out, it points out how Microsoft uses Flash for their Bing videos rather than Silverlight!

Now, when you click on the video, you are taken to a Silverlight player where you can view the entire clip, but why the use of Flash for the preview? Why not Silverlight? What was the technical challenge that caused them to go with Flash?

http://geekygab.blogspot.com/2010/07/bing-videos-are-you-kidding-me.html

 

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Get Local Time Zone

Here’s a quick post on how to get the local time zone in your Silverlight Applications. You need to use the System.TimeZoneInfo class to get this information. This simple call will give you your local time zone.

TimeZoneInfo.Local.StandardName

If you have a DateTime value you want to convert to local time, just call the ToLocalTime method on it and that should do it. You can also use the ToUniversalTime method on it to convert it to UTC time.

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