Sure, please email me directly re details.
On Feb 7, 12:03 pm, Frank Mantek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great post. If you have some spare time, interested in writing an
> article about that? :)
>
> Frank Mantek
> Google
> On Feb 7, 2008, at 7:38 AM, michael kariv wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Guys
>
> > I am using Silverlight Alpha 1.1 with Google Spreadsheets. You can
> > check it out at
> >www.gganttic.com(ignore godaddy ads, they will go away soon)
> > It is a Gantt chart based project management that stores tasks in
> > Google Spreadsheets. The Gantt control is SL 1.1 based.
>
> > SL currently does not work cross domain. I hit this limitation several
> > months back.
> > So I started using Gdata .NET client library on the server end to
> > proxy.
> > it was said (don't remember where) that SL 1.1 when released (it is
> > going to be released as SL 2.0) will do cross-domain.
> > I did not want to wait for it. So here is the better way.
>
> > It is to do the communication in Javascript layer, above SL.
> > SL is good in communicating between control and outside DOM
> > environment.
> > So SL can throw an event, that is wired to a javascript function, this
> > function calls asycronously a server (which can be any domain)
> > recieves JSON data, calls into SL control via SL scriptable methods.
> > Scriptable are methods of SL that are marked so (if you are C#, it is
> > [Scriptable] attribute on top of a method)
>
> > There is one drawback to it, the parsing logic would have to be in
> > JS.
> > So for the time being I am doing it still with my server. There is a
> > lot of guesswork involved in trying to understand which column of
> > spreadsheet means what metadata of a task - so it is best done in C#.
>
> > A word of warning. Just like Frank suspected, SL has a tiny subset
> > of .NET framework. So GData .NET library would not even compile - it
> > would need core classes SL has not gotten. It makes sense - SL is only
> > 4.5 M download so Microsoft had to cut on everything.
> > I initially hoped I could use Netika control. Netika guys did a great
> > work adding virtually all of Windows.Forms classes to SL.
> > It did not work. First Netika control is 900K, too much for my taste,
> > and second it did not compile anyway. Incomplete implementation.
>
> > So the bottom line:
> > - In the future you'll be able to call GData feeds direct from SL, but
> > you'll have to modify .NET library or write your own parser for the
> > feeds.
> > - there is a good way of communicating cross domain using Javascript
> > library. Gdata has got JS lib for Claendar and Blogger, if I am not
> > mistaken.
>
> > I shall be happy to answer direct questions, email me. I check this
> > newsgroup but not regularly.
> > Next on my list (besides improving gGanttic) is Visio like online
> > thing that would also store data in the Spreadsheets. Searchable and
> > versionable :)))
>
> > Google guys, great job, thanks.
>
> > On Feb 6, 8:19 pm, Frank Mantek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Sure, you could proxy the whole thingie.. Then it "might work". I
> >> only
> >> read through the initial documentation, so i am not 100% sure if the
> >> silverlight runtime supports all the things we need ....
>
> >> Frank MantekGoogle
> >> On Feb 6, 2008, at 6:34 PM, Timothy Parez wrote:
>
> >>> Oh, indeed :)
> >>> But you could put an XML WebService on the same host
> >>> if you're using ASP.NET (which is not a requirement for
> >>> Silverlight).
>
> >>> Timothy P.
> >>>http://www.itcrowd.be
>
> >>> On 06 Feb 2008, at 18:33, Frank Mantek wrote:
>
> >>>> No. The Silverlight runtime, last time i checked, does not allow
> >>>> you
> >>>> to do cross domain http requests, so you are not able to pull data
> >>>> from yourgooglesources....
>
> >>>> But i am more than happy to be enlightened...
>
> >>>> Frank Mantek
> >>>> Google
> >>>> On Feb 6, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Deza wrote:
>
> >>>>> Google.GData.Client works in a Microsoft Silverlight project ?-
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