Jonas Follesø's World of Software - REMIX08 YouCard Demo

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Jonas Follesø's World of Software

REMIX08 YouCard Demo

The Sydney REMIX08 Keynote is just about to start, and in about an hour I'll be presenting "What's new in Silverlight 2" together with Jose Fajardo. The main demo of my part of the talk is YouCard, a Silverlight 2 application aggregating content about your friends from Twitter and Flickr. The idea is basically to create something similar to Xbox 360 Gamer Cards to give you a quick summary of your friends latest tweet and pictures.

The application touches on many of the concepts of Silverlight 2, such as:

Layout controls
User controls
Styling and skinning
Local storage
Network access
Data binding
Animations and 2D graphics

You can try the application at http://follesoe.no/silverlight/youcard (or click the picture). Enter your friends Twitter name and click add. Flip the card to enter their Flickr feed URL. If you like it, check out the source code as well.

If you have any questions or comments about the session or code just drop me a comment.

See you at REMIX08!

Download YouCard Source

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Posted at Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:15:43 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)
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Monday, May 26, 2008 1:56:05 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Liked your session at Remix.... Well put together

Only cant get your demo to run (some xml tag issue)..

David McGhee

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:41:06 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

David: Thanks for the comment! Glad you liked it.

Do you have any more spesifics on the issue? I'll look into it this afternoon and provide some additional guidence on how to get the sample up and running...

Remember: Twitter.com doesn't have a crossdomain.xml file, so the requests are proxyed through Proxy.svc running on the hosting webapplication. Could it be a problem with the URL in the YouCard data file?

Cheers,
Jonas

Jonas Follesø

Sunday, June 01, 2008 2:26:51 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Hi Jonas,

Thanks for posting the source.

I can compile and run it using VS.NET 2008, however I run into a little issue when trying to open XAML file using expression blend (from Expression studio 2)

Here is the error message:
Cannot load type "System.Resources.UltimateResoureFallBackLocation" from assembly 'mscorlib, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicToken=....' due to value type mismatch.

I was guessing the assembly version didn't match. I tried to re-add again, but no luck. I checked using VS.NET for mscorlib reference which is located here C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\2.0.30226.2\mscorlib.dll, with runtime version is v2.0.50727

Any idea?

Thanks,
Hery

PS: I really enjoyed your session and Jose at Remix. It was one of the best sessions at Remix.

Hery

Sunday, June 01, 2008 4:05:58 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Hi Hery!

Glad you liked the talk! Had a great time at REMIX.

Expression Blend 2 only supports Silverlight 1.0 development... I probably forgot to underline during the presentation. You need to download Blend 2.5 Marc CTP to do Silverlight 2 Beta 1 development...

Blend 2.5 runs fine side-by-side with Blend 2.0, so you don't have to uninstall anything first :)

Let me know if you still have issues opening the project in Blend 2.5.

Cheers,
Jonas

Jonas Follesø

Monday, June 02, 2008 9:06:21 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Hi Jonas,
Thanks for sharing this nice application. I found a lot of useful things with it.
Your tip about changing my regional settings (decimal separator) to US style also helped, Blend 2.5 is now displaying the XAML fine.
Bye!

Sander

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