This long awaited feature is now live in production!! Regardless of how a WMV file ends up in Silverlight Streaming: whether you upload it via the API or using the admin web site, or whether you use the "Manage Applications" scenario or the "Manage Videos" scenario, you will now be able to reference WMV files hosted in Silverlight Streaming using an HTTP permalink.

It is no longer necessary to pass streaming:/accountId/fileSet/fileName.wmv as initParams to your Silverlight application, you can directly point to the WMV file in Silverlight Streaming using the following HTTP permalink: http://silverlight.services.live.com/accountId/fileSet/fileName.wmv, where:

• accountId is your Silverlight Streaming account ID; check the Manage Account page to find it
• fileSet is the folder name where your video file is stored; you can see the list of folders in your Silverlight Streaming account in the Manage Videos page
• fileName.wmv is the video file name

This new HTTP endpoint is directly available for you to copy/paste directly in the Video Properties page.