SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight

4. A First Look at Silverlight in SharePoint

SHAREPOINT HAS A NUMBER OF OUT-OF-THE-BOX FEATURES that take advantage of Silverlight if it is available. This greatly improves the usability of SharePoint in a few key areas. This chapter demonstrates how you use Silverlight in SharePoint without writing any SharePoint code in Visual Studio. The goal is to understand how the SharePoint team thinks about Silverlight in the product and demonstrate techniques that you can use to quickly leverage Silverlight on SharePoint.

When learning about building Silverlight applications for SharePoint, it is helpful to learn from those who have come before you. In this case looking at the work that the SharePoint team has done and how they overcame their issues ...