PivotViewer Silverlight Control API Overview (Channel 9)

PivotViewer Silverlight Control API Overview

Posted: Jul 20, 2010 at 9:07 AM

By: Larry Larsen

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Last month we held an invitation-only Silverlight Pivot Summit on campus. They were kind enough to let us record much of it for Niners. We'll air the five parts throughout the week.

Andrew Cox and Ralph Ruiz walk you through The Silverlight PivotViewer Control and how to embed your collection into a webpage. We review events, styling, how to create taking action on items and globalization within your collection. PivotViewer is a new visualization technology delivered as a Silverlight control. It helps visualize large collections of items in a more useful, powerful and organized way.

Below are links to resources which will help you get started with the PivotViewer Control today:

· Silverlight PivotViewer Download and Technical Documentation: here
· Collection Building Tools by Live Labs: here
· PivotViewer Community Forum: here
· First customer implementation: Hitched, a leading UK wedding planning site

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shaggygi

Jul 20, 2010 at 5:36 PM

Great demo. Will you be releasing the design demo that was mentioned about the cars collection? Thanks
fjpereira

Jul 21, 2010 at 7:32 AM

Very nice!!! Is there a link to download the presentation samples?
LarryLarsen "Lightbulb"

Jul 21, 2010 at 9:06 AM

I'll see what I can find.
IceX

Jul 22, 2010 at 9:43 AM

I hope you add those Pivots to Bing... Definitive worth having them when searching for cars.
Raiven

Jul 23, 2010 at 9:36 AM

Really like how the PivotViewer looks.
guercheLE guerchele

Jul 26, 2010 at 10:10 AM

Any chances on Labs Pivot matching to/merging with DGML so that edges' visualization be also possible?
Ben Hayat

Jul 27, 2010 at 9:48 AM

Could you P L E A S E provide all the samples that were used during the summit, so we can try out these ideas and provid you with more feedback. If you could also have more presence on the Pivot forum answering questions, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

..Ben
mfmanca

Aug 06, 2010 at 10:41 AM

@Ben: Did you get the source code of the demo? I wanted to have a look at the ContentFrame sample...
Mark Bramley

Aug 10, 2010 at 9:45 AM

Hi Ben,

You can find code samples for the PivotViewer control in the download at:

http://www.silverlight.net/learn/pivotviewer/

(the samples are installed under: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v4.0\PivotViewer\Jun10\Source)

The just-in-time collection server sample code is available from:

http://getpivot.com/developer-info/jit-tools.aspx

The most active developer discussion forum for the Pivot technologies is on: http://getsatisfaction.com/live_labs_pivot. Many of the Pivot team actively contribute to the questions and comments there. We would love to hear your feedback too.

Hope that helps,

Mark