Prerequisites - ASP .NET 3.5, - ASP .NET MVC, download - Your favourite versioning tool, eg. Tortoise SVN - Access to MS SQL database or SQL database express - FREE Visual Web Developer Express or Visual Studio   Installation Create 3 folders on your drive somewhere called - pesta (shared dll) - pestaserver (gadget server) - raya (sample site) Then, check-... [More]

I have just uploaded the initial release of pesta on Google Code. The project homepage can be found here and the code is available via subversion. Pesta is based on revision 698050 of the Java implementation of Shindig. Pesta is based on .NET Framework 3.5 and is implemented using C#. Out of the box, pesta is not completely complaint with OpenSocial 0.7. We are currently working on this. ... [More]

To use class libraries created by IKVM, you will need to additionally attach the following libraries IKVM.OpenJDK.ClassLibrary.dll IKVM.Runtime.dll IKVM.Runtime.JNI.dll Otherwise, you will encounter a strange issue where everything seems to go into an infinite loop. When debugging, the code will get 'stuck' when trying to call a class in the converted library. When co... [More]

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that Google and a few other social networks created (as a challange to Facebook) sometime during the end of last year. Compared with Facebook, OpenSocial is the "open-source" version for social networks. It tries to implement the concept of develop once, deploy everywhere. This is possible because any application that adheres to the OpenSocial standard that ... [More]