How to use silver light XAML controls in multiple aspx pages in asp.net website?

Re: How to use silver light XAML controls in multiple aspx pages in asp.net website?

04-29-2009 3:54 PM |

Your best bet is to break it up into two Silverlight Apps, for two reasons:

First, since you are talking about two seperate aspx pages, you are going to have to pass the information from the search.xaml, in a link, to the results.aspx page.  Then take the input in the results.xaml and load your grid.

Second, you can create multiple entry points into your application pass variables into your xaml, but depending on the growth of your application it doesn't scale well.  You are loading the code and resources needed for both search and result each time.  As you add controls this will make you xap even larger.

 Is it possible to have a single aspx page in your application?  That would simplify things greatly from a Silverlight perspective.  You could even have Silverlight call out to AJAX javascript to update any portions of the aspx page.

Anyway, hope this helps.

Tony Champion

 

Re: Re: How to use silver light XAML controls in multiple aspx pages in asp.net website?

04-30-2009 12:46 PM |

First of all as mentioned by Tony, try putting both the XAML on the same ASPX page as dividing your XAMLs across ASPX pages defeats the purpose of using Silverlight. You will be better off using ASP.NET alone. still if you need to span across ASPXX pages, another alternative is to store your results in IsolatedStorage and then have your second XAML read the ISOStorage. This way you will not be passing the same data back and forth to the server multiple times.