19februari

Extending BlogEngine.NET with shadowbox

Last week I investigated options on extending the well known Lightbox 2 functionality with the ability to display other types of media files, in particular swf-files. This for the purpose of my blog, where I wanted to have a good user experience on viewing uploaded screencasts (or 'videotutorials', or 'webvideos', or whatever you call them). I fiddled with it a bit, but soon discovered it would take me quite some time to adjust it to my needs.

But behold, after just a minute of googling I stumbled upon Shadowbox Media Viewer by Michael J.I. Jackson, a piece of software released just a couple of days ago. And thankfully, it fulfilled all my needs (and quite a bit more than that!). What exactly is shadowbox? According to the site

"Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display pictures and movies in all major browsers without navigating away from the linking page."

Out of the box it works really great in static HTML, or even – semi static – ASP.NET pages. I wanted however to add it to my blog, wich is driven by BlogEngine.NET (I started this blog only on feb. 1st). It turned out to be pretty easy, and I wanted to share this experience to the world, so I dedicated a screencast to it.

Check it out - just click the image, it should load the screencast in a shadowbox itself (hey, what else did you expect :-). Please notice however that the audio quality is not optimal. It has some clicks and squeaks. I apologize for that. Other properties are:

  • A 17-minute walkthrough on extending a fresh BlogEngine.NET installation with shadowbox.
  • Starting with downloading the needed files, incorporating them to the blog, ending with adding a new post that contains 'shadowbox-ed' media like hi-res images and swf-files.
  • Please allow the video a couple of minutes to load. It should take a while, but I hope it's worth the wait. (Weird experience: Firefox loads the video a lot faster that Internet Explorer, given the same amount of bandwith…)

If this video is useful to you, or you have other comments, please feel free to leave a note.

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08-05-2008 03:08 #

Awesome! This is just an amazing piece of javascript.

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13-06-2008 01:16 #

Interesting posts.

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13-06-2008 01:33 #

gracias por su valiosa información

Daniel Mexico

21-07-2008 06:49 #

thanks for the article and the player

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09-11-2008 07:34 #

Thanks for sharing thanks alots. Extending BlogEngine.NET with shadowbox

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11-11-2008 07:40 #

Thanks for all the kind replies.
Peter.

Peter

25-11-2008 03:42 #

hello! thanks for the information about Extending BlogEngine.NET with shadowbox

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29-11-2008 05:43 #

Yippe!!! great article and viewer.

lonelysoul India

03-12-2008 12:48 #

What a great idea. That'll help webmasters all over the place. And stop their traffic leaving them. Nice post!

vardis United Kingdom

05-12-2008 10:49 #

I like the concept and you make it very clear on what needs to be done. Thank you for sharing your knowledge of BlogEngine and shadowbox.

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11-12-2008 02:45 #

great job sir! thanks!

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21-12-2008 03:11 #

With shadowbox, i am sure soon, blogengine.net will take a lead from wordpress

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22-12-2008 07:17 #

nice tutorial by you

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27-12-2008 02:36 #

Thank you and congratulation for your informative blog. You've really got the concept.

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06-01-2009 01:55 #

Its nice idea to change from image to video lightbox. Maybe you can release this to the public, Thanks.

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11-01-2009 02:43 #

you've made a great job. thank you.

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11-01-2009 03:06 #

I'm quite new to BlogEngine.NET. but what you write in this post is really good and very informative. I think it will help me in the future. Thanks for the great work

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13-01-2009 04:29 #

it's a great job. thanks!

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16-01-2009 04:28 #

this blog was so interesting

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19-01-2009 11:53 #

Nice idea... thanks for the post. Always on the lookout for extras for Blog Engine.

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26-01-2009 08:17 #

Very entertaining site. I've bookmarked your site and added you on my blogroll! Keep up the great work.

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28-01-2009 12:03 #

I am new to BlogEngineNET..
nice share dude Smile

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29-01-2009 10:18 #

thank you again for this one.

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30-01-2009 03:46 #

thanks for blogengine.net information
it is very useful

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31-01-2009 08:26 #

Thanks you for sharing it with us your experience.

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08-02-2009 06:20 #

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16-02-2009 05:37 #

I'm thinking to use blogengine.net, but
I need to make sure that I can find some reliable support forum incase I run into difficulties with blogengine. Any forum that you can refer me to?

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17-02-2009 08:37 #

I always use the Codeplex support forums on www.codeplex.com/blogengine/thread/list.aspx.

It's open source however, so it is likely you get answers in a reasonable amount of time, but there's no such thing as SLA's.

Peter Netherlands

17-02-2009 02:54 #

Nice post, nice javascript...

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24-02-2009 06:33 #

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02-03-2009 09:44 #

now i find what i want to know.. thank you for the information..

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04-03-2009 01:03 #

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05-03-2009 03:42 #

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05-03-2009 03:59 #

Thanks a lot for your blog

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07-03-2009 09:13 #

Another good things in Shadowbox Media Viewer is that it puts every thing together in one place, you don’t split the juice, you have a consolidated effort on the web. Right?

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09-03-2009 09:48 #

I love working in shadowbox!

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13-03-2009 06:33 #

your post simple but very informative and useful it really helps me.

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15-03-2009 08:16 #

what a great blog, i like it.

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19-03-2009 05:40 #

Hey Pete.
WOW! I just saw it and damn was it amazing. It looks awesome but damn it sounds so hard to implement. Any easier tutorial with less hardcoding?

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20-03-2009 04:00 #

I admit, I have not been on this webpage in a long time... however it was another joy to see It is such an important topic and ignored by so many, even professionals. I thank you to help making people more aware of possible issues.
Great stuff as usual....

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23-03-2009 10:51 #

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24-03-2009 04:26 #

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24-03-2009 04:38 #

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24-03-2009 05:23 #

Shadowbox is an online media viewer application that supports all of the web's most popular media publishing formats.

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24-03-2009 07:41 #

Hello. I really enjoy reading your website. Finally i collect some ideas for my website or blog. Later, i will visit again to this website or blog. And thanks for the information.

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24-03-2009 09:32 #

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24-03-2009 04:22 #

i actually switch to blogengine,tnx for the new extension

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31-03-2009 06:08 #

I'm thinking of starting a video tutorial online school. I appreciate the tip on Shadowbox.

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03-04-2009 02:37 #

I love shadwoxes.

I hope I am able to create someone in future.

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