I'm pleased to announce the official release of Jounce 2.0 for Silverlight 5. There are quite a number of new features available that I'll review in this post. Most significantly, of course, the code base has been updated specifically to target Silverlight 5. A number of bug fixes, feature requests, and Silverlight 5 features have been added. The DLL for Jounce is still just under 100 KB for release so it remains nimble and lightweight. There are two ways you can install the latest. Zip over to Jounce at CodePlex to download the binaries and/or the full source. Or, jump into NuGet and install the Jounce package. The package is set up to wire in a default application. To get this functionality, follow these simple steps: Create a new Silverlight application. I recommend the basic "Silverlight Application" template as I haven't tested with any others, and it doesn't matter if you host it in a web site and/or choose to use WCF RIA services.
Delete the App.xaml and MainPage.xaml files. Trust me on this one.
Jump into the package manager console and type Install-Package Jounce.
Hold down CTRL and press F5 and you should see a welcome message. That's it. You are ready to write your Jounce application. What's NewThe code base is now CLS compliant.The application service used to wire Jounce now exposes some configuration properties. You can use this to have Jounce ignore unhandled exceptions (by default, it will intercept these and publish them as a message instead) and also to set the debug level. These used to be parsed from the parameters from the object tag but obviously this did not make sense for OOB applications. When dynamically loading XAP files (i.e. extension or plugin modules) you can specify a callback that Jounce will call to report progress. This allows you to have more control over the extension points and display a progress message to the end user for example. The processing of the XAP file URL was updated to allow query strings. This is a common method to dynamically serve up XAP files and/or to manage updates for OOB applications. Jounce used to choke on this but the code was updated to gracefully handle this when you specify the URL to the XAP to download. Read more: C# Image
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Delete the App.xaml and MainPage.xaml files. Trust me on this one.
Jump into the package manager console and type Install-Package Jounce.
Hold down CTRL and press F5 and you should see a welcome message. That's it. You are ready to write your Jounce application. What's NewThe code base is now CLS compliant.The application service used to wire Jounce now exposes some configuration properties. You can use this to have Jounce ignore unhandled exceptions (by default, it will intercept these and publish them as a message instead) and also to set the debug level. These used to be parsed from the parameters from the object tag but obviously this did not make sense for OOB applications. When dynamically loading XAP files (i.e. extension or plugin modules) you can specify a callback that Jounce will call to report progress. This allows you to have more control over the extension points and display a progress message to the end user for example. The processing of the XAP file URL was updated to allow query strings. This is a common method to dynamically serve up XAP files and/or to manage updates for OOB applications. Jounce used to choke on this but the code was updated to gracefully handle this when you specify the URL to the XAP to download. Read more: C# Image
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