Earlier in the week I posted a working example of a BlogEngine.Net extension for Slide.Show. A few people requested that I post the code so here goes.

Note: I modifed the SilverLightPlayer.cs file I found on flawless code.net and all the credit for SilverLightSlideShow should go to Sean as I can follow c#, but think I write vb much better ;).

1. To start with you will need to move the SilverlightSlideShow.cs file found in the dowload to your App_Code\Extensions directory. That really takes care of the extension for BlogEngine.Net.  

2. To get the Slide.Show part working, copy the SilverlightSlideShow folder found in the download to the root of your website. Note that all of the files found in the SilverlightSlideShow folder are stock from Slide.Show except for those in the SilverlightSlideShow\Example folder. Please visit their website for additional examples and for help with using Slide.Show.

3. Next, you will need to modify the the Configuration.xml file found in the SilverlightSlideShow\Example folder to correctly point at the Data.xml file in the same folder. Change "yourwebsite" to your domain name in the dataProvider element.

For additional changes you can make to the Configuration.xml file to change the look, feel and operation of your slide show see the Slide.Show project.

4. Next you need to modify the Data.xml file found in SilverLightSlideShow\Example folder so that each of the images has the correct path to the image stored on your website. Change "yourwebsite" to your domain name.

5. Now create a new blog post and enter the  token [ silverlightslideshow:example ] in the body of the post without any spaces between the brackets and silverlightslideshow:example. Save the post. It should now display the example that I posted earlier in the week.

6. To create your own slide show, just make a new folder in the SilverlightSlideShow folder such as familychristmas. Copy over the Configuration.xml and Data.xml from the SilverLightSlideShow\Example folder and modify as necessary so that Configuration.xml file points at the Data.xml file and Data.xml points at your images depending upon where you have placed them on your website. In your post the token you will enter will be [ silverlightslideshow:familychristmas ] without the spaces between the brackets and silverlightslideshow:familychristmas.

There are many things that could be done to improve this extension. I will post any update I make to improve it. Please let me know what direction you go with it as the person that starts something is never the one to think of the coolest feature.