Silverlight: Create a custom expression Encoder publish Plug-in

This article discusses:

Expression Encoder Plug-in Base

Building a template Plug-in

Add FTP upload Feature

Build, install, and debug

This article uses the following techniques:

WPF, Visual Studio, and Expression encoder

Directory

Expression Encoder and Plug-ins

Creating Plug-ins

Building an FTP upload plug-in

Implement Publish Class

Save Configuration settings

Compiling, deploying, and debugging

Recently released Tools Microsoft®expression®encoder help you enhance and publish a rich media experience that can be rendered using Microsoft Silverlighttm and help you encode it. Expression Encoder has an extensible plug-in architecture that allows you to write Plug-ins that allow you to publish Expression encoder output to different sources.

In this article, I'll step through the steps to build the Expression Encoder plug-in using Microsoft Visual studio®2008 Beta 2. This plug-in is suitable for standard workflows that Expression encoder sessions and uploads the resulting output to an FTP server at the end of an encoding session.