Live Demo of ScottGu's Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Digg Application
This afternoon I made a second pass through ScottGu's 8 part tutorial on Silverlight 2 Beta 1. This time around I downloaded his demo application, browsed the source code and played around with the app a little bit. It was all very impressive. And to be honest, a little bit overwhelming - everything is new again.
I didn't see any live demo links on Scott's blog, so I thought I would upload his digg demo app to my web server. So if you want to view his app without downloading the code (or if you don't have VS 2008), you can view the live demo here. Hopefully Scott won't mind ...
Also, the search box does a search for digg stories based on topic so if you enter a topic that doesn't exist nothing really happens. Some good search terms to use are
- basketball, baseball, golf
- programming, hardware, microsoft
That's it. Enjoy!
Comments
bug :
click on any dig link...
the popup with dig link with blue in center window will open.
now close it. then click again on the same dig link ... the popup will not open again...!!
Posted by: krunal | March 13, 2008 12:38 AM
Hi Matt, Nice article. Nothing appears on my screen apart from the UI layout. Do I need to download another pluggin for it to work?
Posted by: Ade | March 13, 2008 04:15 AM
@Ade -
When the app first loads, you should see an empty screen, except for the header seach bar. Enter in a topic keyword like 'basketball', then click the search button. The grid should populate.
There is nothing more you need to download.
Matt.
@krunal -
Yep - looks like a bug. I wonder if Scott's blog has a QA staff? I know I wish mine did.
Matt.
Posted by: Matt Berseth | March 13, 2008 05:48 AM
after i install the sliverlight, i dont see anything
Posted by: Nisar | March 13, 2008 11:25 AM
It's weird, I can get to the page, but when I try searching, nothing happens. Same thing happens when I try the code on my local machine, although on my local machine I can see what's happening. No matter WHAT URL I try downloading the WebClient ALWAYS says "Download Failure"
Posted by: Tim | March 13, 2008 12:22 PM
@Tim -
Did you make sure you entered one of the topic keywords I mentioned above? The digg topic search service seems to be pretty sensitive about what topic keywords are used. I tried 'basketba' and I also recieve the Download Failure exception. But when I use 'basketball' it works fine.
HTH,
Matt.
Posted by: Matt Berseth | March 13, 2008 01:28 PM
It doesn't seem to be returning any results in IE6 with for me with "basketball" but in Firefox 2 it works just fine.
Posted by: Mike B | March 14, 2008 11:02 PM
I'm running IE6 works for me. Matt thanks for posting this!
Posted by: Jeremy | March 15, 2008 09:25 AM
Nice idea, but...
When I run this in Firefox, I get an error message "The plug-in performed an illegal operation. You are strongly advised to restart Firefox."
When I run it in IE 7, I get the search bar at the top, but nothing else. Typing in the search box, and hitting the search button, nothing happens...
Posted by: Moray McConnachie | March 26, 2008 10:49 AM