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Silverlight Chat Application for CMAP Code Camp

Pete Brown - 11 April 2008

For all of you attending tomorrow's CMAP code camp, here's a sneak peek at what I'll be building in my 10:30 Silverlight 2 and Microsoft Expression session. The session is targeted towards developers, but anyone with an interest in Silverlight or Expression is welcome and encouraged to attend

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The application has a server piece (the windows forms app) and, in this instance, two Silverlight clients in a chat, actually talking to each other over sockets.

Expression Design

  • Building the chat bubble

Expression Blend

  • Designing the overall UI
  • Creating interesting and easy animations to make the bubbles pop up and fade away

Visual Studio 2008

  • Wiring it all up and just a little bit of sockets grunge for good measure.

The session is all demo and code. You'll leave there with an understanding of how the tools work together, how to do some basic animation in Blend, how to create shapes and glass effects in design, and how to build a Silverlight 2 application.

Source code will be available some time after the code camp.

Hope to see you there!

         
posted by Pete Brown on Friday, April 11, 2008
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10 comments for “Silverlight Chat Application for CMAP Code Camp”

  1. Gravatar of LyleReply
    Lylesays:
    Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 5:11:52 PM
    Is this source code available anywhere? I can only get 1 client connected using localhost, every time i try to connect another client to server it says its already connected. in other words it doesnt go to the onbeginaccept callback, it just skips it. this looks like you have 2clients connected on localhost to server. please help.

    Thanks
  3. Gravatar of Pete BrownReply
    Pete Brownsays:
    Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 4:37:05 PM
    @Lyle, @Tony

    I have two clients connected to localhost. In Beta 1, your are limited to opening sockets connections on the site of origin only. In addition, there's a reverse DNS lookup to make sure it truly is the site of origin.

    That is a limitation in Beta 1.

    If you want to hit a particular server, you must serve up your app from that server and also use the fully qualified domain name for both the socket connection and the page hit, or use IP address for both.

    I'm not at home at the moment, so don't have the source handy. I don't think the sockets code I did is a good example of using sockets, but I can provide the source if you're interested. If so, click the contact link at the top of the page and let me know.

    Thanks.

    Pete
  6. Gravatar of mskcReply
    mskcsays:
    Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 3:21:13 AM
    Hi,
    When will the Source Code of this application be available? Atleast give some code, so that, we can understand it...
    Looking forward for your reply with the code...
    Regards,
    mskc
  7. Gravatar of Pete BrownReply
    Pete Brownsays:
    Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 2:38:36 PM
    Hi All

    There's been enough interest in this that I'm going to put together a post and/or video on it very shortly.

    I was going to wait until the WCF Duplex stuff came out for Silverlight, as I feel that would be a more robust approach, but I'll give you all something with sockets :)

    Stay tuned.

    Pete

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