UPDATE: Core Engine for Sharepoint Taxonomy Navigation with Silverlight & WPF/XAML Deep Zoom in 3D

  • Click the right mouse button to freeze the cube
  • Move the mouse to zoom in and out while the cube is frozen
  • See if you can get the Easter egg to display

NOTE: If this did not work for you before, please try it using the new launch page below. This will indicate if any .NET bits are missing on your PC. This will all go away when we finish moving this work to Silverlight in total.


Click here to see it live

This proof of concept gets us around a few hurdles we were struggling with to deliver a ‘Google Earth’ style view but into a ‘company as the earth’. In our opinion, you can navigate to almost any spot on the planet so why is it so hard to find documents?

For those invested in document management, categorization and meta information addition (part of building the taxonomies) the piece we found missing was a ‘modern’ way to navigate, discover, filter, pattern match, etc. all that semi-structured data.

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  1. Hi Damon

    I’ve been trying to reach you regarding the Sharepoint position that we have..Neal needs to speak with you asap…please call me Friday (212)293-4370 Ken Frank Concepts in staffing.
    asap!!!

  2. This article gives you a good start in data binding with WPF and discusses these Simple Object Binding, Object Data Provider, and List Binding. Futures Options

  3. I am seaching for some idea to write in my blog… somehow come to your blog. best of luck. Eugene

  4. I get the following error:

    PLATFORM VERSION INFO
    Windows : 5.1.2600.196608 (Win32NT)
    Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50727.1433
    System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
    mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
    dfshim.dll : 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)

    SOURCES
    Deployment url : http://www.domaindotnet.com/sharepoint/domaindotnet.wpf.xbap
    Application url : http://www.domaindotnet.com/sharepoint/Application%20Files/domaindotnet.wpf_1_0_0_470/domaindotnet.wpf.exe.manifest

    IDENTITIES
    Deployment Identity : domaindotnet.wpf.xbap, Version=1.0.0.470, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=13684fcb91dfc1dd, processorArchitecture=msil
    Application Identity : domaindotnet.wpf.exe, Version=1.0.0.470, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=13684fcb91dfc1dd, processorArchitecture=msil, type=win32

    APPLICATION SUMMARY
    * Online only application.
    * Browser-hosted application.

    ERROR SUMMARY
    Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
    * An exception occurred while determining platform requirements. Following failure messages were detected:
    + Unable to install or run the application. The application requires that assembly Sentinel.v3.5Client Version 3.5.0.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) first.

    COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
    No transaction error was detected.

    WARNINGS
    There were no warnings during this operation.

    OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
    No phase information is available.

    ERROR DETAILS
    Following errors were detected during this operation.
    * [10/30/2008 3:50:54 PM] System.Deployment.Application.DependentPlatformMissingException (Unknown subtype)
    - Unable to install or run the application. The application requires that assembly Sentinel.v3.5Client Version 3.5.0.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) first.
    - Source: System.Deployment
    - Stack trace:
    at System.Deployment.Application.PlatformDetector.VerifyPlatformDependencies(AssemblyManifest appManifest, Uri deploySupportUri, String tempDir)
    at System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentManager.DeterminePlatformRequirementsCore(Boolean blocking)

    COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
    No transaction information is available.

  5. So sorry.. I know exactly what the issue is. If you try again it will ask you to install a small client side set of libraries for the time being. This is due to our use of Windows Presentation Foundation and the full XAML 3D library.

    This is optimized for a new client subset for the .NET 3.5 SP1 release (came out recently) so at least the full .NET 3.4 framework is no longer requirement (as long as you package and deploy it correctly).

    We mistakenly skipped a critical pre-eval stage before launch which is why you saw the mess above. Now you should get the options necessary to run this.

    Once this is fully ready for Silverlight, the deployment becomes even easier.

  6. I’m somehow having a hard time relating the bouncing flower box to the sharepoint taxonomy navigation.. it looks great though! :)

  7. Mike,

    I totally understand your point.This will be clear soon (if not more so now if you see the latest post. The cube is not the end-state, it just provides a view of the engine. The navigation works nothing like a moving cube, but that shows the core. In fact a cube may not be the shape, and words, not images are assumed initially for the taxonomy – or tags with images).

    Damon


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