I'm pleased to announced that the Beta refresh release of the Silverlight Streaming publishing plug-in for Expression Encoder 2 is available for download right here.
This plug-in makes it very easy to manage your encoded Silverlight video experiences and publish them online using the Silverlight Streaming service, from within the Expression Encoder 2 application.
As well as adding support for Expression Encoder 2, the plug-in has a number of enhancements, and uses the latest Silverlight Streaming service API:
- File-by-file upload: There's no more need to package the files in a zip archive, and uploading file-by-file improves upload reliability and performance, while alleviating the risk of timeouts
- Better upload progress reporting
- Quota display that shows available/remaining online storage space
- Support for application republishing: you can replace or merge existing applications
- Several UI enhancements (e.g. resizable preview window, application list sorted in inverse date order, etc.)
Those of you who already know the SLS publishing plug-in for Expression Encoder 1 will no doubt love this one even more, and if you have never used the SLS publishing plug-in for Expression Encoder before, this is the perfect time to start. Enjoy!
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