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HomeHomeOur CommunityOur CommunityGeneral Discuss...General Discuss...Silverlight, Times Reader, DotNetNuke, & Michael W.Silverlight, Times Reader, DotNetNuke, & Michael W.
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10/24/2007 10:52 AM
 
Kenneth Courtney


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From early on, Michael Washington has really evangelized using Silverlight with DotNetNuke, and I couldn't agree more. As Silverlight supports User Controls and dynamically loading content, it seems like the next logical step for DotNetNuke's evolution.
 
In Michael's "A 3D DotNetNuke Dream" blog entry, he wrote about the possibility of partitioning the portal into a set of rooms off of a main lobby. One reader commented that "there were a million of these kinds of things in the mid to late 90s..." "Studies indicated people became annoyed and usage dropped rapidly." I think the author of that post missed one of DotNetNuke's Killer App features: Skins.
 
If instead Silverlight is used as the basis of a new skinning engine, it becomes the site owner's choice if he has a lobby or just a really slick UI like Microsoft Surface or something a little less dramatic. I think all of the skinning metaphors in DNN would translate nicely into a Silverlight framework: dynamically loading in Silverlight User Controls instead of Web User Controls.

A really neat example of this is the Times Reader. The Times Reader has actually been ported to Silverlight (they didn't say which version) but one point that was made was each page in the application was rendered server side and passed to the client using AJAX. See a video of this from Mix 07 here.
 
Now, I guess the biggest question: Could there be a port of everything that comprises the foundation of DNN to Silverlight? I doubt 1.0 ... and currently the latest alpha refresh of 1.1 lacks even a text box control, so until the textbox control is introduced (along with dropdowns, etc) I doubt any work could be seriously done on the next generation DotNetNuke presentation layer.
 
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3/9/2008 6:17 PM
 
Justin Jovic


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Now that 2.0 beta is out and has a bunch of controls, this can be rethought!

 
 
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