New Project: Silverlight.net Showcase Redesign
Starting to feel a bit like all I’m doing is posting about the work we’ve been doing, but truth be told, we’ve been quite busy as of late!
The silverlight.net customer showcase, built using Silverlight 1.0, enables users to rate , sort and browse Silverlight applications by category, country/region, tag and free search terms. Additionally, members of the Silverlight community can submit their applications for inclusion in the Showcase, and rate others’ work.
The previous Showcase had reached its breaking point and wasn’t scaling to keep up with all of the applications being developed. We architected an additive filtering system that disables any selections that would return an empty set of results — all of the filtering happens on the client side, not on the server. Microsoft was also very interested in highlighting the global reach of Silverlight, so countries and regions receive prominent display and filtering UI. Users can rate applications using a familiar rating paradigm.
Once again, the Step Change Group were rockstars on the backend, while we tackled UI design and all aspects of Silverlight development. We spent a good amount of time getting to know the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX library, leaning on it quite heavily to provide a solid infrastructure for development. All good things, expect more notes on our learnings and findings very soon.
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Darren,
This looks great. Most importantly this has to be one of the best looking implementations of SL 1.0. I am especially fond of the navigation animations on the left sidebar menu. Nice job.
Kurt
[...] Finally it’s now online. The Silverlight folks have redesigned the showcase section of the site and it’s purty. You can get the scoop on the story behind it at blog.lookorfeel.com [...]
Strange,
Hitting the “SUBMIT” button, going to the submit form and then hitting backspace enabled took me back and the page displayed fine (no JS error).
John
[...] showcase section of the site and it’s purty. You can get the scoop on the story behind it at blog.lookorfeel.com The previous Showcase had reached its breaking point and wasn’t scaling to keep up with all [...]
[...] showcase section of the site and it’s purty. You can get the scoop on the story behind it at blog.lookorfeel.com The previous Showcase had reached its breaking point and wasn’t scaling to keep up with all [...]