Corey Schuman » voip http://www.85turns.com Silverlight Consultant Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:57:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Silverlight and VOIP http://www.85turns.com/2009/02/04/silverlight-and-voip/ http://www.85turns.com/2009/02/04/silverlight-and-voip/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:25:19 +0000 Corey http://www.85turns.com/2009/02/04/silverlight-and-voip/ Much like 3D is more like 2.5D so is VOIP through Silverlight.  TringMe has set up a compelling Silverlight prototype showing how to make a call using Silverlight.  They’re using Flash to handle the voice and audio, with Silverlight to passing the number, the call action, and hang up action.  It looks like Silverlight is calling the Flash object through a JavaScript layer.  This use of JavaScipt reminds me of the YouTube in Silverlight prototype.  The video controls were done in Silverlight, the video was Flash, and the interaction between them used the YouTube JavaScript library.

Until Silverlight has native mic and webcam support, this will have to do.  Here’s the demo (click the image).

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Thanks to my PHP buddy, Robert Swarthout, for telling me about this.

Silverlight’s first VOIP application

This TringMe prototype is not the first time VOIP has been done through a Silverlight interface.  Cynergy used Skype com objects to accomplish this.  Check out Mike Wolf’s post for more deatails; very cool stuff.  (My favorite quote from Mike is: “Just because one platform doesn’t have feature A, you don’t have to drop it entirely.”)

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