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Updated Wiki: Home

donsmith — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:47:37 GMT

Overview

Project Silk provides guidance for building cross-browser web applications with a focus on client-side interactivity. These applications take advantage of the latest web standards like HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript 5 along with modern web technologies such as jQuery, Internet Explorer 9, and ASP.NET MVC3.

To illustrate this guidance, the project includes a reference implementation called Mileage Stats that enables its users to track various metrics about their vehicles and fill-ups. Much of the effort in building Mileage Stats was applied to the usability and interactivity of the experience. Animations were included to enhance the enjoyment of the site and AJAX is used to keep the interface responsive and immersive. A great deal of care was also taken to ensure the client-side JavaScript facilitates modularity and maintainability. To accomplish these design goals, the JavaScript code was structured into “widgets” that benefit from the jQuery UI Widget Factory.

Getting Started

About the Mileage Stats RI

The Mileage Stats RI is a multi-page interactive web application where the pages are rendered without requiring a postback. This creates the illusion of a desktop application. The lack of postbacks enable rich UI transitions between states (pages.) The browser application runs very fast because of the client-side data caching.

The Mileage Stats RI JavaScript is modularized using jQuery UI Widgets. The widgets allow breaking the UI into small discrete stateful objects; providing a clean separation of responsibilities and concerns. See the Widget QuickStart (included with the latest download) for an example application that uses the jQuery UI widget factory.

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats uses Internet Explorer 9 Pinned Sites features. Below you can see the notification icon that indicates there are more than 3 outstanding maintenance tasks for the owner's three vehicles. Mileage Stats also displays dynamic jump lists for maintenance tasks.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Featured Fork

The NavigationSilk fork is provided by Graham Mendick as "A conversion of the Project Silk Dashboard to ASP.NET Web Forms using the http://navigation.codeplex.com/ project, concentrating on the navigational aspects i.e. deep linking, bookmarking, browser history and progressive enhancement". Have a look.

If you would like to use the Project Silk code to show other ideas or alternatives and have your fork mentioned here, just drop us a line.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ndelgado — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:51:41 GMT

You can download the documentation here.
Note that the CHM is also included with the full download of the guidance, including source code here.
The online version of the Silk documentation is on MSDN here.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ndelgado — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:30:52 GMT

You can download the documentation in CHM format here.
Note that the CHM is also included with the full download of the guidance, including source code here.
The online version of the Silk documentation is on MSDN here.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ndelgado — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:45 GMT

You can download the CHM here.
Note that the documentation is also included with the full download of the guidance here.
The online version of the Silk documentation is on MSDN here.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ndelgado — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:21:54 GMT

You can download the CHM here.
Note that the documentation is also included with the full download of the guidance here.
The online version of the Silk documentation is on MSDN here.

Updated Wiki: Home

Karl_Shifflett — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:20:26 GMT

Overview

Getting Started

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ndelgado — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:12:59 GMT

The online version of the Silk documentation is on MSDN here.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ndelgado — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:11:33 GMT

This release contains the Silk documentation in Help 1.0 (CHM) format. The documentation is also included with the full download of the guidance.

Note: If you cannot view the content of the CHM, using Windows Explorer, select the properties for the file and then click Unblock on the General tab.

The online version of the Silk documentation is on MSDN here.

Updated Wiki: Home

ndelgado — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:30:14 GMT

Download the latest community drop here.

First in a series of Project Silk videos here.

Thanks to those who attended the Web Workshop. Presentation materials are here.

Overview

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Home

ndelgado — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:29:54 GMT

Download the latest community drop here.

First in a series of Project Silk videos here.

Thanks to those who attended the Web Workshop. Presentation materials are here.

Overview

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Home

ndelgado — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:40:22 GMT

First in a series of Project Silk videos here.

Download the latest community drop here.

Thanks to those who attended the Web Workshop. Presentation materials are here.

Overview

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Home

Karl_Shifflett — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:29:23 GMT

First in a series of Project Silk videos here.

Download the latest community drop here.

Thanks to those who attended the Web Workshop. Presentation materials are here.

Overview

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Home

ndelgado — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:08:41 GMT

Download the latest community drop here.

Thanks to those who attended the Web Workshop. Presentation materials are here.

Overview

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Home

Karl_Shifflett — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:47:18 GMT

Download the latest community drop here.

Thanks to those who attended the Web Workshop. Presentation materials are here.

Overview

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Home

ndelgado — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:59:36 GMT

Download the latest community drop here.

Thanks to those who attended the Web Workshop. Presentation materials are here.

Overview

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Home

ndelgado — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:58:58 GMT

Download the latest code drop here.

Thanks to those who attended the Web Workshop. Presentation materials are here.

Overview

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ndelgado — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:50:04 GMT

The documentation is included with the latest download. Once we have the final documentation, we will post it here as well.

Updated Wiki: Home

ndelgado — Wed, 25 May 2011 05:06:09 GMT

Download the latest code drop here. Download the latest documentation here.

Thanks to those who attended the Web Workshop. Presentation materials are here.

Overview

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Home

ndelgado — Tue, 24 May 2011 22:29:22 GMT

Download the latest drop here.

Thanks to those who attended the Web Workshop. Presentation materials are here.

Overview

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.

Updated Wiki: Home

ndelgado — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:28:11 GMT

Download the latest drop here.

We will not have a drop on 5/17. The drop next week will include substantial changes to the documentation and code. Please stay tuned.

Thanks to those who attended the Web Workshop. Presentation materials are here.

Overview

About the Mileage Stats RI

Mileage Stats uses OpenID for authentication.

Mileage Stats contains a rich chart page that allows the selection of three charts, vehicle selection, begin and end date, and data selection. The chart data requires no postback and runs very fast.

Intended Audience

This guidance is for existing web developers who are interested in taking advantage of the latest web standards and technologies.