For those interested in 'live' Silverlight 1.0 applications -- Do It Yourself Ads (DIYads) is online at http://diyads.com.au/
The premise is that vehicle owners can upload photos & design an advertisement (using Silverlight) for inclusion in print magazines to help them sell the vehicle. The Help Videos http://diyads.com.au/DIY/DIY030.aspx show how it works, if you don't feel like taking it for a test-drive (sic)... Although the Silverlight 'Ad Builder' is kinda cool; what is more interesting is the behind-the-scenes processing from Xaml 'templates' to Jpeg previews using WPF; then transforming the XPS to PDF snippets which are later stitched together into the actual magazine pages that are sent to press. Note that using WPF classes on the server to render Xaml-to-Jpeg is 'not supported' but it seems to be possible if you are willing to play around a bit to work around the possible memory-leak issues... Adobe was openly hostile when asked for assistance with this project (tried to sell us Flash, of course, and *refused* to provide any tech-support to assist in converting XPS to PDF, despite having the XPS2PDFLib component that can do it) and Microsoft wasn't much help either. We found NiXPS ( http://nixps.com/) to be a great product with very responsive support staff - highly recommend their product if you are interested in XPS/PDF print solutions. Hope it is of interest... ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
