November 2010
Beginner
454 pages
15h 15m
English
book
Professional SharePoint® 2010 Branding and User Interface Design
by Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford, Paul Stubbs, Larry Riemann
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Silverlight and SharePoint
Integration
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
Understanding Silverlight features and tools
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Creating a Silverlight Web Part
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Accessing SharePoint data using the Client Object Model
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Extending Visual Studio to create Silverlight solutions
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Silverlight delivers rich user experiences and the tools developers and designers need to rap-
idly create these experiences. Silverlight has had amazing penetration in the consumer space,
with more than 500 million downloads and over 500,000 developers and designers (and more
every day). As Silverlight reaches critical mass, many developers and designers are turning
their Silverlight skills toward other platforms, such as SharePoint. I generally see two types of
SharePoint developers: those who are new to Silverlight, and those who are new to SharePoint.
So, this chapter delves somewhat deeper into programming than many of the other chapters,
but designers are frequently asked to work with technologies like Silverlight because of the rich
interactive user interfaces that they make available. Silverlight projects often involve design-
ers and developers to ensure the application looks as nice as it performs. This chapter covers
Silverlight as it pertains to SharePoint. To learn more about Silverlight development, check out
Wrox’s Professional Silverlight 4.
SILVERLIGHT FEATURES
Silverlight platform development is on a breathtaki ...
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