Creating Silverlight analytics tracking

[Damon]

This thread is for all Q&A related to the tutorial on Silverlight Tips website for adding analytics code to Silverlight applications.

Tutorial:

The tutorial can be found here: http://www.silverlighttips.com/?tag=/event+tracking

Download:

Download this project from CodePlex here.

Project Summary:

1. Creating a tracking class
2. Creating a Java Script function for calling "pageTracker._trackEvent"
3. Calling Tracking class from your code and passing tracking values

[Damon]

Common issues/mistakes with implementing tracking

I recently notice that after implementing the code for tracking I wasn't receiving some of the data in my report. This specifically was happening when I passed parameters from my default.aspx page and I noticed those specific parameters are not showing in the report.

The reason this happened was because I was passing four string to my pageTracker._trackEvent();function and this was wrong.

See Event Tracking Guide documents on Google.

Basically, the last variable you pass to pageTracker._trackEvent() is an integer and if you pass a string i.e. "" or " ", then the function doesn't work.

[Damon]

Update:

A new version of this is now available at Silverlight Tips (Tracking in Silverlight (Google Analytics) - Part II):
http://silverlighttips.com/post/2010...t-Part-II.aspx

This version covers how to add the tracking to your web page to find out information about user platforms and if user has Silverlight installed or not.

It then explains how to capture details about user activities on your none-Silverlight version of the site, i.e. if user clicked on "install Silverlight" link.

You can also download the code from the project from CodePlex, link are provided in the tutorial.