SharePoint Magazine

In the beginning there was SharePoint, a great platform, but not very interesting or user friendly. Here enters Silverlight and Karine Bosch, telling you all you need to know.

In this second article of the series, I’m going to build a Silverlight application that can be hosted from within a SharePoint web part. We will use Visual Studio 2010 to build a simple “Hello World” type application, but add a few touches to make our application configurable.

In this third part of the series, I will build a Silverlight application that communicates with SharePoint to render data that is stored within a SharePoint list. The Silverlight app will again be hosted within the out-of-the-box Silverlight web part that comes with SharePoint 2010.

In SharePoint 2010, we have an out-of-the-box Silverlight web part that can host almost any Silverlight application. But in this fourth part of the Silverlight series, we’re going to show how to build your own web part that hosts a Silverlight application. In SharePoint 2010, we can develop two different types of web parts: a visual [...]