Johnny's RIA Corner

Twitter Trends jQuery web part gets redone in Silverlight by johnnyt

I've recently stumbled upon this awesome post by Shoban Kumar detailing the creation of a Twitter Trends web part for SharePoint 2010. I really liked the simplicity of the web part, its style and its purpose, so i contacted Shoban asking his approval to post a tutorial on how to create his web part in Silverlight. Shoban, all the credits for the idea and design goes to you my friend! Here is what the Silverlight counterpart of Shoban's web part looks like: To see how the application will...

What to do when facing the "NotFound" error from your Silverlight application. by johnnyt

So you developed a Silverlight application that gets data from a WCF/asmx web service. All is going great until that point where you test your application and get the one error you didnt want to face: "NotFound"... no information is available , nothing in the innerexception field can give you hints on what just went on and you are practically left alone in the battle... Fear not! Here are a few steps you can take to find out whats wrong: Step 1: it's 11 o’clock . Do you know where your...