Using Silverlight

Not that I’ve used Expression Blend 2 to create anything fancy. I’ve done a two page test Slideshow in a quick feasibility study with regard to one of my pet projects.

Then I had to deal with the hosting. I’m using Sliverlight Streaming to deliver the applications to my webpages (via an Iframe, I belive).

It took a while to figure out how to upload the pages so that the service could understand what was supposed to happen with the application. then it took a wee bit longer to understand how to integrate the provided code on to my ASP.net page.

But I got it working, in the end 🙂 .

Now that I know it works, I have a few ideas.

And now I have to go and actually build the thing….

PS. If you get Error 2252 while running your application make sure that the path from your xaml file to the dll is correct. Took me a while to figure that one out. I find that its usually the simplest things that stump you 🙂 .

Trying Popfly

If the mashup embed works, it will show up below ( it shows up fine in Windows Live Writer Beta 2).

Well. I tried. Although the embed is in an IFrame ( i.e, no javascript), it does not show up in WordPress. Which is nonetheless disappointing, and one of the disadvantages of having this kind of setup.

In any case, Popfly works great. I created a photostack that grabbed random Blaugh comics in a couple of minutes. Worked great. So simple to use.

Back to creating mashups. More soon.