Thanks for reply! Yes, I've already seen negrony and considered it as "a fast and flexible markup processor for building arbitrary parsing and rendering control structures" according to the description from site. It was useful to understand how to implement opensocial standard by exploring source code / debugging. But I think it would be better to me to continue development using my source code as it was designed using new features of .NET Framework as async Tasks (all I/O operations are async, e.g. fetching gadget definition from remote location, rendering), expression trees, upcoming ASP.NET WebAPI (as REST services).. Also I'm trying create it as lightwight component which can be integrated easly into existing ASP.NET (MVC) sites.
However I understand that it is far away from production quality as negroni and isn't ready to publish. So I plan to continue development and when it become more stable, I will try to populate it and opensocial concept among .NET developers (for example publish articles which describe key principes at codeproject.com - popular resource where I haven't found any major reference on opensocial topic). Thanks, Ilya 2012/8/8, Chris Cole <[email protected]>: > Hey, good to hear from you. Also nice to hear there's some .Net interest. > > Negroni is being hosted on Google Code here: > http://code.google.com/p/negroni/ > > Myspace is not actively contributing any longer, but the implementation is > available under the Apache license. I have also moved on to other items > and have not been actively maintaining the project, so it's a little out of > date. > > Negroni is not an "out of the box" OpenSocial container like Shindig, but > rather a fast parsing engine that has an OpenSocial Gadget parser written > on top of it and the basic hooks to tie into APIs that can hydrate the .Net > based OpenSocial data contracts. > > I'd be happy to help you get started with this code base if you are > interested in trying to move it forward and get a good .Net OpenSocial > option available in the market. > -- > clc > > > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Ryan Baxter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Welcome Llya! >> >> Have you taken a look at Negroni [1]? It is probably not that active >> anymore but I know it was open sourced by MySpace and was based on >> .NET. Chris Cole (CCed) was one of the lead developers and can >> probably give you more information. >> >> As always we are welcome to contributions from everyone, but we need >> to evaluate any new implementations and make sure there is a serious >> developer community around them so they live up to the high standards >> of our consumers :) >> >> -Ryan >> >> [1] http://code.google.com/p/negroni/ >> >> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Ilya Builuk <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hello Shindig community! >> > >> > As developer who works with Microsoft .NET Framework platform I found >> > that there are no open implementations of opensocial container on .NET >> > (pesta/baadal isn't production quality, poorly designed and aren't >> > using .NET benefits as they just unsuccessful port of shindig java >> > implementation). So I've started my own open source project here: >> > catpic.codeplex.com. It uses all client-side (javascript) of shindig, >> > but server-side is written from scratch. Also it will be distributed >> > as nuget package (package manager for Visual Studio - see nuget.org) >> > that means it will be integrated into existing ASP.NET application. >> > This is the goal: integrating of opensocial facilities into existing >> > applications with minimal efforts. Just install nuget package, >> > implement some interfaces which are mediators between different >> > systems (e.g. repositories of people, activities) and your site is >> > opensocial container now. >> > >> > So, what have I done: >> > * simple gadget server (some features, as preload aren't implemented) >> > * social handlers: people.get, people.create, activities.get, >> > activities.create, activitystreams.get, activitystreams.create >> > * demo site (continues integration build): http://catpic.apphb.com/ >> > >> > Why am I writing here? Maybe this project can be considered as good >> > start point to develop Shindig in .NET world. >> > >> > Resources: >> > * catpic.codeplex.com - project repository >> > * http://catpic.apphb.com/social/ActivityStreams >> > >> > Tests: >> > * >> http://catpic.apphb.com/gadgets/ifr?url=http://catpic.apphb.com/content/gadgets/social/ActivitiesSuiteTest.xml >> > * >> http://catpic.apphb.com/gadgets/ifr?url=http://catpic.apphb.com/content/gadgets/social/PeopleSuiteTest.xml >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Ilya >> >
