SilverPart 2.0 Released – A webpart to expose Silverlight content in SharePoint

 

 

I’ve just released a new version of the SilverPart webpart. The release 2.0 works with the Silverlight 2 RTM plug-in. It’s available as an open source at Codeplex site. Check it out.

Silverpart 2.0

This webpart allows you to integrate Silverlight and SharePoint and this is the webpart I’ve used on the demos during my presentation about the same topic. This will hopefully also contribute for creating Enterprise RIAs.

The idea of keep releasing this in Codeplex is a way to give back to the community since there are so many nice solutions there.

If you have any comments or feedback please let me know,

Thanks,

Andy Nogueira.

Social Computing with SharePoint and Silverlight Presentation

Hi,

I’ve uploaded that presentation I’ve did at the Toronto SharePoint Code Camp to SlideShare. You can also get a copy at the Code Camp site.

I’ve also posted a nice article about my presentation on my company’s blog.

All the presentations and code for the sessions are available on-line and there are lots of good stuff there. Check it out.

For those of you who were at the presentation, I just want to thank you again for all the interest and the really nice questions throughout the session.

Thanks,

Andy Nogueira.

Toronto SharePoint Code Camp 2009

I’ll be presenting at the Toronto SharePoint Code Camp 2009. This year there are a lot of interesting sessions all involving SharePoint. This is a really nice event with a lot of high caliber speakers.

I’ll be presenting a session called Social Computing with SharePoint and Silverlight

The event is in Toronto on January 24th 2009 (Saturday).

Check it out !
http://www.torontosharepointcamp.com

Cheers,

AN.

Windows Azure + User name with space = problems

First of all, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged here. I was busy and last month I’ve attended Microsoft PDC conference. It was amazing and had a good time. So many new things coming, lots of stuff for Silverlight, new Windows 7 and of course Windows Azure.

So, here I am, testing my first cloud service. I followed the instructions here Quick Lap around the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio

But for my surprise, I couldn’t run it smoothly. First of all, when I tried to run the solution with debugging I’ve got an error about creating the storage. Because this was the 1st time I was creating a cloud service, the storage tables needed to be created on my SQL database. A command DSinit needs to be invoked but it failed. After searching for information on the problem, I couldn’t find any links except for this.

Basically looks like this is a bug in the Azure SDK. If you have an account (I use Vista) with a space in the name, for example “John Doe”, then you may have some problems. The way I’ve found to fix this was to manually run the command via the Azure SDK command prompt. Just put the name between double quotes, something like:

C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.0>dsinit /server:myPC\sqlexpress /for
ceCreate /user:”myPC\John Doe” 

So after doing that the storage tables were succesfully created. Then I tried to run the solution again, but this time the Development fabric had problems to start the WebRoles, they would show looping messages about Role starting, abort, suspend. Then doing some more investigation I’ve found another link saying that the problem was because my user name has a space in it and Visual Studio tries to start the fabric from a location inside your user profile folder so it fails. The workaround was to open the Azure SDK command prompt again and start the Development Fabric service manually but this time pointing to a folder that doesn’t have a space in it, something like

C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.0\bin\devfabric>DFService.exe -sp “c:\fabr
ictemp”

After doing that the WebRole instaces in the Development Fabric could be started and I was happy I could finally play with my first Cloud Service. The only problem is that everytime I want to develop something I need to manually start it. Hope they fix that in the next CTP version.

Hope that helps,

AN.

Silverlight 2 RTM (Oct. 14th 2008) ???

Just reading a Microsoft Press release today looks like the RTM version will be available tomorrow. From the press release

Silverlight 2 will be available for download on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight. Customers already using a previous version of Silverlight will be automatically upgraded to Silverlight 2.

Is that true ? If so, tomorrow is going to be a big day

Also interesting to see on the press release that the plug-in is already available in 1 out of 4 machines worlwide. That’s a huge markeshare improvement.

“We launched Silverlight just over a year ago, and already one in four consumers worldwide has access to a computer with Silverlight already installed…” 

I guess the realization of the RIA era is becoming more real…

Press Release

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-13Silverlight2PR.mspx