Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:31 AM
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Best ITA Apps: My application on MSDN Italy
The application I wrote some months ago is now published in the BEST ITA Apps showcase through the MSDN Italy weblog. I put into this application all my knowledge about Silverlight 1.0 and ASP.NET AJAX.
The application has been write to support a realtime monitoring system that works with GPS informations send by the vehicles on a central server. It show the position and the duty of public transportation vehicles, with tools to display races delay and current status.
It has been build using a transparent Silverlight layer on a map, and receive pseudo-realtime data from an AJAX ScriptService. The data is updated every few seconds and the vehicles marker move on the map. The application take advantage of AjaxControlToolkit to give a better user experience where it is necessary to get input from the user, and use silverlight for the rendering of markers, and tracks.
I hope this may be a good example on how to use Silverlight in a real application.
Link: http://blogs.msdn.com/italy/archive/2008/02/05/best-ita-apps-selsystemweb-e-silverlight.aspx