Silverlight 4.0 with SharePoint 2010 (1 of 2)
It’s been a while since I used SharePoint as I was focusing lately on Silverlight, In this post I will start exploring how to use Silverlight 4.0 with SharePoint 2010, I must mention that I’m not a SharePoint expert so please feel free to update me if there’s something mentioned that is not correct. What I like about SharePoint 2010 is that Silverlight comes right out of the box. The first thing you will note when you access SharePoint2010 sites (assuming that you have Silverlight installed) is that SP2010 makes use of Silverlight in many places, for example the Create Dialog is a just a Silverlight application Also the videos you upload to SP2010 assets libraries are played using a Silverlight media player the entry point for you Silverlight application into SharePoint is the Silverlight Web Part which is built into SP2010, you can insert this web part into any web page Let’s try to use this web part, first we will create a Silverlight application, Start Visual Studio –...