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The new Multicast Plug-in for Silverlight, developed by Qumu in cooperation with Microsoft Corp., allows enterprises for the first time to deliver live video broadcasts via multicast across the network to thousands of Silverlight-based players simultaneously, using existing multicast streaming and network implementations. Today’s enterprise networks typically consist of Microsoft Windows Media streaming infrastructures, which includes the ability to multicast video streaming to Windows Media Players, and with Qumu Video Control Center, can scale to tens of thousands of supported clients simultaneously.

I have previously showed how to it manually here and then how to do it "automatically" using MEF here. Both these have some upsides. The custom solution is tiny from a download perspective and offers a lot of control. MEF on the other hand automates a few pieces of the solution, still offering a lot of manual control. The download size does however grow a lot compared to the benefits gained. So, so far, I would say that the custom way is the winner. At least as long as the requirements are as simple as they are in this case...

David Burela has a quick tutorial about creating add-ins in Expression Blend 3.

There isn’t much information available for creating Expression blend 3 addins. There is some information on creating blend 2 plugins, but the addin model has changed between versions.

Here I have given an overview of what is needed to setup your Visual studio environment, as well as sample code and a sample project to get you up and running.

As a follow-up to his Silverlight For WordPress plugin, Tim Heuer has deployed Mark Heath’s Silverlight Audio Player as a WordPress plugin. 

Thanks to Mark for changing his license to Ms-PL so that I could make this happen.  If you are a WordPress user and want to use Silverlight for audio playback, you use some WordPress macro language (in this case slaudio) and put it in.