Aug 17

The New York Times Silverlight Kit Now on Windows Phone 7 on CodePlex

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The legendary New York Times finds it’s way to Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 with the “New York Times Silverlight Kit”..

http://nytimessilverlight.codeplex.com/

This package was put together by legendary Microsoft personality Michael Scherotter who helped to bring us such great previous projects like the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework, the first ever Word to XAML converter.

http://www.codeplex.com/site/users/view/mscherotter

There is a Silverlight demo of the APIs in action at : http://xmldocs.net/nyt/

  • New York Times Developer Network
  • A demo of the kit: A demo of the kit.
  • Artist Explorer: An application to research musicians that uses the kit

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  • Blog Post about the release of the kit.
  • Using the Kit in Expression Blend
  • API Keys
  • CLR Objects
  • Value Converters
  • Building the Source Code

     

    Using the Kit with Expression Blend

    1. Create a Silverlight Project in Expression Blend
    2. Add a reference to the NYTimesSilverlightKit.dll assembly.
    3. In the Data...CLR Objects panel, press the + CLR Object button
    4. Add one of the CLR objects listed in NYTimesSilverlightKit\NYTimes namespace
    5. Using the XAML pane, add the API Key to the CLR object you just created as an ApiKey attribute. You can also add the API Key to the App.xaml resources like this Api Keys.

    DOWNLOAD THE WINDOWS PHONE KIT HERE On CodePlex:

    http://nytimessilverlight.codeplex.com/releases/view/42720

    Application NYTimesSLKitForWP7S.zip


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