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Source Code For Presidential Candidate Tracker Visualization

26th February 2009, 05:19 pm by Matthias Shapiro

Due to repeated requests for the source code (and the fact that I apparently can’t brag about it on Silverlight.Net without a link to the source code), I’m putting it up for download.

Presidential Candidate News Tracker Source Code

JSON Data File With Candidate Data (Note: Apparently, Wordpress likes to uncapitalize file names for me, you may have to re-name the file to “CandData.json” to get it to work with the app.)

Warning: This code is a disaster. I was having strange problems getting my custom controls to work and, after a couple hours fighting with it, I gave up and ended up writing the exact same layout and code for 14 separate candidates. Same problem with the “dates-of-note” along the timeline.

Not pretty, but it works. Have fun.

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3 Comments

  1. Designer WPF » Blog Archive » InfoViz Project For Tim Heuer - Presidential Candidate Tracker:

    [...] UPDATE: I’ve made the source code available for download here. [...]

    26 February 2009, 5:21 pm

  2. Chris:

    Thanks Matthias,
    I appreciate you making your source code available … it’s going to be fun figuring out what makes this thing tick :-) Again, congratulations on your win!

    Best regards
    Chris

    27 February 2009, 8:59 am

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    [...] parts up on DSLS: Textual DSLs for Developers Part 2 is Live! Matthias Shapiro reports that the Source Code For Presidential Candidate Tracker Visualization is now up and available. Brad Abrams reports on Some Great New Mix09 Sessions Posted — check [...]

    5 March 2009, 4:19 pm

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