MICROSOFT web DEV resources …

All those guys who feel that the clicks and the interfaces of the MS are good and has something to do with the development in the web should go to the link — this link provides the base of various technologies in the redmond specially developed fro the audio and visual effects in the web. Well for the fact there are various developer site . My series of blogs shall now cover various developer forums and links tht could come handy to the nerds of low grade to the avant grade.Though the MS fellows are good at everything the interface of the MSDN is very dissmal and not of the kind that could have been from MS .The microsoft site has been done very neatly and attractively . The MSDN should not be that heavy but atleast it could have been better , MS carries the burden of carrying the image of the masterand so it can’t afford to be relaxed for anything of it . Love it or hate it the MS has altogehter different place in the computing histroy of the planet , MS was the only one to bet for the Software when biggies like IBM thought of the hardware . Imagine your own computer without the MS ? Even if you say lot of crap about it but at the end you have the same things running ur machine. Can u think of any other company so severly scanned and scrutinized for each and every detail, if u can then think MS is facing competition.Google is very revered for its search prowess and lately in Asia for it beta version of orkut .But then most of it technologies remain unscrutnized and so u can afford to think that google doesn’t  carry that pressures to perform.MS in itself feeds millions by it own turnover nearly 350 bn $ plus lots of magazines and other people related to it .Also this includes MS bashers (most tech journos and motivated linux users ) and millions of MS hacker who make millions on a single leak discovered. Imagine the irony ! u have a thousand of coder for coding the MS and a millions for hacking into it still it manages to make without a major hassle .That too when MS coders are paid employees and hacker unpaids dedicated enthusiats .MS in this way must be fooding another 60 bn $.Its very lonely at top and nobody appreciates it .

GOT emotional , insist on original MS software atleast the cheaper ones for starters … if not all.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms867212.aspx

The following data has been extracted from the MSDN site

Windows Media Encoder SDK

The Microsoft® Windows Media™ Encoder application compresses live or stored audio and video content into Windows Media files or streams. It enables users to create multimedia productions from devices attached to their computers, translate audio/visual files into Windows Media Format, and either save the Windows Media-based content to a local file or broadcast it to the Internet.

Web developers can create an HTML user interface and access the SDK through script commands. Script developers can use the Windows Media Encoder SDK and the Windows Scripting Host to automate the batch conversion process. The SDK can also be used with either the default user interface or a custom user interface through Microsoft Visual C++® or Microsoft Visual Basic®.

For more information, see the Windows Media Encoder SDK Web site.

Producer SDK

Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint® 2002, an add-on for PowerPoint 2002 in Microsoft Office XP, makes it easy for everyday business users and media professionals to create engaging rich-media presentations by synchronizing audio, video, slides, and images. These rich-media presentations can be viewed on demand in a browser across the Internet or an intranet.  

The Microsoft Producer SDK, part of the Microsoft Producer download, provides an object model that you can use to create publishing e-services for Microsoft Producer. To publish a presentation, users normally must move through a series of wizard pages and individually specify publishing parameters, such as file paths or profile settings. Using the Producer object model, you can specify the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of an HTML document that functions as a custom user interface in the Publish Wizard, create registry keys that add your e-service to the Microsoft Producer Publish Wizard user interface, and specify profile information associated with your e-service.

For more information on the Producer SDK, please download Microsoft Producer from http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/producer.

Windows Media Rights Manager SDK

Using the Windows Media Rights Manager SDK, developers can create applications that encrypt (package) digital media files and issue licenses for those digital media files. A packaged Windows Media file contains a version of the file that has been encrypted with a key so that only the person who has obtained a license for that file can play it. The license is separate from the packaged Windows Media file, which means that the content and license for that content can be acquired at different times. Encrypted files can be either streamed or downloaded to the consumer’s computer. For more information, see the Windows Media Rights Manager SDK.

Windows Media Player SDK

The Windows Media Player SDK enables developers to create player applications with a custom look and feel using the Windows Media Player control in an HTML page. You can programmatically control and display playlists from a Web page, automatically stop or seek to specified markers in the stream, set bandwidth preferences for network reception, and add custom skins to the control’s user interface.

Microsoft JScript® and Microsoft Visual Basic® Scripting Edition are supported. For more information, see the Windows Media Player SDK.

Video Control (DirectShow SDK)

The Video Control is a Microsoft ActiveX® control that enables developers to create HTML-based analog and digital TV applications and DVD applications that run on Microsoft Windows® XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional. Other related objects enable the creation of custom electronic program guides from script applications.