18 Aug 08 - 28 Sep 08

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Introduction

Silverlight is one of the major new technologies from Microsoft near release and will potentially have a huge impact on the Microsoft development community. Developers are rapidly looking to Silverlight to solve major challenges and limitations as posed by existing technologies (such as Windows Forms and ASP.NET). WPF uptake has been lukewarm at best, however the similarities it has with Silverlight could very well give it the kick it needs. Silverlight, after starting it's life with the code name of WPF/E (WPF Everywhere) has been some time in the making but the version we've all been waiting for (version 2, containing a subset of the .NET Framework allowing developers to write client side code in their favourite .NET language rather than just Javascript which was the only option in version 1 of Silverlight) is finally nearing completion.

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Introduction

As Silverlight approaches its official version 2 release, the hype for Microsoft’s powerful web development platform is certainly building.  Through the many beta versions there have been countless changes, so some developers have shied from fully embracing Silverlight.  Silverlight has many powers that are not often explored, and in this past week I’ve created this comprehensive tutorial to pull together a series of interesting findings on the subtleties of Silverlight 2.

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Introduction

Silverlight applications make it easy to perform a lot of actions. One of its greatest capabilities is to work with Web Services. In this article I will demonstrate how you can search books in Amazon.com with Silverlight. I have created a simple application which allows you to navigate through the great catalog of books very easily.

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Preparation

Amazon.com provides very functional web service.

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Introduction

In this article I'd like to tell you how you can easily create your own Virtual Earth viewer based on Silverlight Deep Zoom technology.

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Like many others, we have wanted a combo box since the release of Silverlight, but failed to find a usable one. Rather than waiting to see if and when the RTM includes one, we decided to address that need ourselves. It includes templating, data binding, and auto complete functionality.

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Getting Started

The initial code for the combo box was obtained by reflecting (http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/) on the Silverlight ListBox control. This provided the initial xaml and C# for the dropdown portion of the combo box, so we renamed the controls from ListBoxItem to ComboBoxItem and ListBox to ComboBox.

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The next item in this series is the drupal popular content block. You can see this block on the right hand side titled 'Popular content' that lists my sites popular content of all time. The current block actually uses the views (version 2) module to display the content, but this information ultimately comes from drupals core statistics module. The information will be hosted in a custom silverlight control that I have created that simply sends requests to my custom drupal module and displays the data that it receives.

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I created a simple user control using the Popup control as a starting point. The end result is a nice little user control that can be used as a popup control to display a message. It has only 1 button on it (an OK button that closes the popup control). I’ll outline the basic steps of creating the User Control and how the popup control works with it. Of course, you can create a popup control without the user control, but its a much cleaner practice to create user controls.

Step 1)  Create a tester control...

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I will be writing a few posts on connecting silverlight and drupal in which I will replicate my main site. I will be doing this piece by piece as I investigate each drupal module that I am using and how I can request the appropriate data to populate my silverlight controls. I have outlined the basics needed to accomplish this in my previous post and will be focusing on the new information that is needed to complete each new piece.