About This Experiment:
This is my experiment on Tag Cloud Filters with ASP.NET 3.5's
LinqDataSource
and ListView Controls.
The control is a datagrid of sorts that allows you to
filter the contents of the grid using a
tag cloud. There are many applications of these Tag cloud filter Controls, most
commonly these controls are used to filter topics of interest while browsing a web-site.
Most of the development blogs that I found on the web have some form of implementation
of this control. For instance Scott Gunthrie
, Kathy Kam,
Shawn Burke etc. use Tag Clouds to filter the topics of interest within their blogs.
However most of them use an SQL driven data source for content in their list views.
The blog entries are read from a database. These blog entries are stored with other relavant
information like time of creation, tags etc within the database. I have used an XML data source
to drive the content within the List View and my content for now is images. I might extend this
experiment to build a beta blog where I will use the Tag Cloud Filer control to filter the blogs
of user interest. This experiment has been adapted from an experiment preformed by
Matt Berseth.