Hello All-

We've had a couple of repeat questions in the Semblio Forums that I thought we'd elaborate on.  The two topics center on hosting HTML content and Activity data in the Authoring Tool.   Enjoy!

Hosting HTML in Semblio with .NET 3.5

Late in the ship cycle the Semblio team determined that hosting HTML content within a Semblio Activity was prone to hanging on app shutdown or navigation away from the Activity.  Consultation with the WPF team confirmed that this issue was corrected in .NET 3.5 SP1.  Since no simple mitigation is available, we are recommending that anyone delivering content that hosts HTML in a Semblio Activity ensure that client machines be upgraded to use SP1 of the .NET 3.5 Framework (which was not an official pre-requisite).

Activity Data in the Authoring Tool

In a recent forum we had an exchange around how activity data is treated in the future authoring tool and will the package manifest hold all activity data or will each activity have its own activity data file?

To elaborate on Bruce Mackenzie’s response:  for the Semblio Authoring tool, the Activities it produces puts a minimal amount of information into the package manifest.  We have a single XML file that contains all the data to drive the Activity.  What goes into the manifest is a string property with the ID of the library for the activity and a Uri property that points to the XML data file.

 And yes, Authoring can import Semblio activities that were created outside of Authoring.  In those cases, Authoring reads the information placed in the Manifest and will transfer that and all dependencies to the new manifest.