An interesting thing comes about with RIA applications and deep-links. Say a user arrives at a deep-link: http://hexadecimate.com/SilverlightStore/ Product.aspx?Name=Office+Professional+2007 Note that we're representing the deep-link state in the...

Last time , I spoke a bit about the general process of enabling search engines to index content in a Silverlight web application. This time, I’d like to deep-dive into the SilverlightStore SEO Example application available online. Overview of the Sample...

Silverlight 3 provides a myriad of reasons to use it for your next rich web application. But one drawback to using Silverlight is that search engines cannot index the content presented by XAPs. This is a deal breaker if you rely on search results to drive traffic to your site. The good news is that there are existing techniques you can make use of to get the best of both worlds: rich user experiences and search engine index-able content....