From no screencast host to ready to embed in a blog post in 7 simple steps with Silverlight Streaming

Guy Burstein on MSDN - How To: Host Your Screencasts on Silverlight Streaming

“Are you familiar with Silverlight Streaming? If you’re not here is a good reason to start using it. Generally, Silverlight Streaming lets you host Silverlight applications on Microsoft servers for free. With some of the latest updates to this service, you can now upload and host your videos. If you are recording screeencasts as I do, this post can be very useful for you. In this post I will show how to create a new Silverlight Streaming Account, upload a new video and embed it into an HTML page.

You can check out the blog post I have posted with the embedded video.

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Nice… 10GB of free Silverlight, and thereby screencast, hosting. Plus if you want to start playing with Silverlight, but have no place to host it (because say your blog host limits what you can upload) then Silverlight Streaming is the place for you too.

Don’t let the “Streaming” title throw you. This free service is meant to host your Silverlight applications as well as streamed media…