Slide.Show Extension for BlogEngine.Net

by Bill Beckelman 1/2/2008 5:14:00 PM

Update: I posted the code for this extension in a new entry

Vertigo has created a Silverlight based Slide Show control open to the public. I decided to try and create an extension for BlogEngine.NET to use the control in my blog. However the approach used at http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2007/12/18/silverlight-slide-show.aspx is a lot easier to implement. I was able to get an extension to work though. The biggest problem I ran into was getting the correct URLs for the configuration and data files. If you have Silverlight installed you should see a working example below.

If there is any interest I will post the code for the extension.

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Comments

1/2/2008 6:54:57 PM

I'm certainly very interested in integrating Slide.Show and BlogEngine.NET, but perhaps I'm a bit biased since I lead the Slide.Show project for Vertigo!

However, I honestly do think Slide.Show helps to address the broad photo/image sharing needs of bloggers. It seems to me that often the reason people start writing blogs in the first place is to share their family vacation photos or to announce the birth of a baby or to gossip about Brittany Spears' latest haircut... Likewise, Slide.Show was architected to be flexible and easily embeddable, with blogs being the primary usage scenario.

The Slide.Show control is highly-customizable and can be used to display anything from a single image to an entire photo gallery using custom transitions and color schemes. Plus, its modular UI gives users precise control over the user experience, from using the simplest possible slideshow (with no navigational UI at all) to a rich experience with albums, thumbnails, full-screen, etc. It can be big or small, or even dynamically resizable by the user, depending on the configuration.

This is not meant to sound like an advertisement for Slide.Show, but I'm just excited at the possibility here. I'm sure that BlogEngine.NET and Slide.Show, both being popular open source projects on CodePlex, would benefit tremendously from such a natural "symbiotic" relationship.

Thanks for putting in the effort!

Will Allan

1/2/2008 7:02:04 PM

I like it.

Lisa

1/2/2008 10:36:51 PM

Please do share!
In fact, I'd suggest posting it as a module over the the BlogEngine site because I'd love to see this available as an extension ;)
Would be really sweet if it could parse the image directory and automatically create thumbnails and build the XML (or give users an easy way to select/sort images) - personally I'd be happy editing the XML manually but one of the great things with BE.N is that it's easy for folks who don't know about that sort of stuff to get started ;)

Offbeatmammal