Johnny's RIA Corner

My book is published! by johnnyt

You might have noticed that i havent updated my blog in a while. There are two (happy) reasons for that: 1) My son was born about two weeks ago and as you might have guessed, things are hectic (but happy) :) 2) The book i've been working on for the last 9 months for Packt Publishing is finally released! Since im sure you are not here to hear about my new born son, let's talk about the book :) A few months ago i was approached by Packt Publishing to check if a preperation guide for the Silverlight...

Social SharePoint project on Codeplex updated! by johnnyt

My Codeplex project, Social SharePoint, just got updated with the Silverlight Twitter Trends web part. Go check it out at http://socialsharepoint.codeplex.com/ .

Fun with Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Control - Part 2 - An In Depth Look At The Ribbon Control by johnnyt

Welcome to part 2 of the "Fun with Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Control" series. If you haven't read part 1 go ahead and click here . So how do we deal with this ribbon? Well, by using the powers of XML! Let's take a closer look on how the OOTB ribbon is constructed: If we open the ribbon definitions file - cmdui.xml (which can be found at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\XML) we will see the following structure: <...

Fun with Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Control - Part 1 by johnnyt

So, my first REAL post of 2011... Let's make it count! A few days ago i started looking into the possibility of integrating Silverlight into the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon control. Naturally i checked my favorite blogs to see if someone has experimented with this already but i couldn't find a single mention of Silverlight and the ribbon working together, so i decided to create a small, fun (and to be honest quite useless) POC of using Silverlight as a control inside the SharePoint 2010 ribbon...

Getting SharePoint's user properties in your Silverlight 4 application by johnnyt

Recently i was tasked with creating a Silverlight LOB application that query SharePoint for it's data. One function of this application has to do with showing the details of a user based on the information found in SharePoint's user profile service, and in this tutorial i will focus on getting this information from SharePoint to Silverlight. In this tutorial we will build a simple application that shows the details of the user from SharePoint's user profile service using SharePoint's...

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...