Greetings Developers!
We're very excited to announce that we're bringing Microsoft Silverlight to the MySpace Open Platform.
Silverlight empowers MySpace developers with more freedom and flexibility to design OpenSocial applications that provide streaming video, graphics and audio to a variety of platforms and devices. Silverlight and the MySpace Open Platform will enable developers to rapidly create and deliver sophisticated MySpace applications with a custom look and feel through the flexible skinning of controls and data.
To learn about how designers and developers can create interactive, engaging apps on MySpace, please visit: myspace.com/silverlightonmyspace
Sample Silverlight Applications
To add the following applications, you must first install Microsoft Silverlight.
Friend List
Friend List is a very simple app that demonstrates retrieval of a friend list. It requests 20 friends at a time from the OpenSocial container. As the friend lists are returned to the app, it displays them on the app, along with a status message of how many friends have been loaded. This is basically a "Hello World" for Silverlight on MySpace using OpenSocial. Full source code is available for this app, including a zip file with all Visual Studio Files.
Try this app.
Friend Slider
Friend Slider is a real-world app that is an example of how Silverlight can be leveraged on MySpace. It gets the images of the user’s friends, displays them in four columns and two rows at a time, scrolling them upwards as new friend pictures enter the view at the bottom. Essentially, this is an animated version of a friends list. It can be added to any user’s profile. This has been a surprisingly successful app, with over 3500 installs in its first two weeks of release.
Try this app.
Posted by: Bryan Green
a.k.a. Codestorm