For all of you that want to run WebSites that utilize XamlWebControls in IIS7 (Integrated pipeline mode), you have to perform the following steps:

1.) Insert the following  handler into your web.config file:

...
<system.webServer>
  ...
  <handlers>
     ...
    <add name="XamlImage" path="XamlImage.axd" verb="GET" type="Albamond.XamlWebControls.XamlImageHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" preCondition="integratedMode" />

 2.) Give full permissions to the AppPool account that the website is running under to the following folders (location may be different, depending on your configuration):

~/Xaml/Jobs
~/Xaml/Rendered

Please note that the current XamlWebControls examples are build for IIS6. Therefore you have to make changes above in your web.config to let them run with IIS7.

I am very happy to announce the first release of XamlWebControls!

XamlWebContrals is an ASP.NET control suite from Albamond that allows you to add XAML renderings to every day used UI elements like buttons, panels and images. The XamlWebControls are an alternative to Silverlight as all rendering takes place on the server. There is not need for any client installation.

The great advantage of using XAML in a web site is to let developers use and manipulate any graphic element directly in Visual Studio and take advantage of Microsoft's powerful WPF:

• Full alpha channel transparency support
• Great visual effects like blur, shadow, color gradient, ...
• Scale, rotate or skew graphics
• Vector based drawing of any geometrical figure
• ...

For more information visit the XamlWebControls homepage:

http://www.albamond.de/XamlWebControls