Mindjet MindManager and Silverlight

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It seems that Microsoft's Sliverlight (formerly WPF/e) is the topic of the day.  Since I first learned about WPF/e last year, I started thinking of ways in which Mindjet MindManager could work with it.  I started playing around with it and the most exciting feature of it was that it was all based in XML.  That means that I could use my existing software tools like Visual Studio and my favorite languages, XSLT and C#, to transform MindManager's XML to Silverlight's XAML.  To get my mind around the feature set of Silverlight, I built a simple website (it isn't live yet) that lets you upload and view Mindjet MindManager maps on Internet Explorer, FireFox and Mac Safari.  Watch the video that I produced in TechSmith's Camtasia Studio.

It's just rough so far with simple expanding and collapsing of topics, but as time permits, I will work on developing its feature set.

MindManager to Silverlight.wmv

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 16, 2007
    This rocks, Michael.  Thanks for the inspiration!

  • Anonymous
    April 16, 2007
    I was just reading about Silverlight and noticed it was all based on XML & thought what will Mr Scherotter make of that... Development at the speed of thought!

  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2007
    Seems to work faster than the MindManager plug-in

  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2007
    This demonstration was the product of about 8 hours of work and only scratches the surface of what the MindManager file format can actually represent. Michael

  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2007
    function CreateSilverlight(){Sys.Silverlight.createHostedObjectEx({source: "streaming:/216/SilverlightMap",parentElement:

  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2007
    As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have been playing around with Silverlight and trying to see how it could work with Mindjet MindManager maps. Because both MindManager and Silverlight are based in XML, it is fairly straightforward to transform the

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    Can you please update the screencast URL?

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2012
    Has anyone every developed or deployed such an app?  Perhaps using a richer interface experience?