Silverlight Blog

I had a little inspiration during the holidays – tried it out – and it worked.

With Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft introduced a new feature called Webslices. Little pieces of information within your browser-bar (most commonly) about site-updates.

Now I tried to put a Silverlight app into a Webslice.

Herefor I created a new Silverlight App with a testpage like this (created automatically)

<form id="form1" style="height: 100%;">
<div id="silverlightControlHost">
<object width="100%" height="100%" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param name="source" value="ClientBin/SilverlightWebslice.xap" />
<param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" /><param name="background" value="white" />
<param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="3.0.40624.0" />
<param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
</object></div></form>

In my Silverlight-App I placed a Textblock saying “Welcome to my Silverlight Webslice”.

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
        <TextBlock Text="Welcome to my Silverlight Webslice"></TextBlock>
  </Grid>

And then, in default.aspx I put the Webslices-Code

<form id="form1">
<div id="SliceID" class="hslice" style="display: none">
<span class="entry-title">Silverlight Slice
<a style="display: none" rel="entry-content" href="SilverlightWebsliceTestPage.html">Alternative</a>
</div></form>

and voila, a silverlight Webslice.

Have fun playing arund with it )

Before I forget, there is an alternative for Firefox Browser called WebChunks. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for the current Version at the moment, hope the developer will keep on working on it.

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