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Using the Silverlight Web Part

Version: 1.0.0

Description

Silverlight applications are commonly used to overcome sandboxed limitations and create RIA in SharePoint web sites. The Silverlight Web Part which comes with SharePoint 2010 makes deploying custom Silverlight applications to SharePoint pages easy to do and does not require writing any code. This lab will guide the reader through a series of exercises to deploy a Silverlight application to a SharePoint site and display it on a page.

Overview

Silverlight applications are commonly used to overcome sandboxed limitations and create RIA in SharePoint web sites. The Silverlight Web Part which comes with SharePoint 2010 makes deploying custom Silverlight applications to SharePoint pages easy to do and does not require writing any code. This lab will guide the reader through a series of exercises to deploy a Silverlight application to a SharePoint site and display it on a page.

Objectives

This lab will demonstrate how you can use a web browser to deploy a Silverlight application to a SharePoint site and display it on a page. To demonstrate these concepts the reader will

  • Upload a Silverlight application to a SharePoint site.
  • Use the Silverlight Web Part to display the Silverlight application on a page in the SharePoint site.

System Requirements

You must have the following items to complete this lab:

  • 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine
  • Silverlight WebPart

Setup

You must perform the following steps to prepare your computer for this lab...

  1. Download the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine and create the Hyper-V image.

Exercises

This Hands-On Lab comprises the following exercises:

  1. Using The Silverlight Web Part

Estimated time to complete this lab: 10 minutes.

Starting Materials

This Hands-On Lab includes the following starting materials.

  • Visual Studio solutions. The lab provides the following Visual Studio solutions that you can use as starting point for the exercises.

    • <INSTALL>\Labs\SilverlightWebPart\Source\End\Sample.Silverlight.App.sln: A sample Silverlight application used to demonstrate how the Silverlight Web Part displays Silverlight applications on a SharePoint site.
    Note:
    You will not open the Visual Studio 2010 Solution in this lab exercise. You will use the .xap file the Visual Studio 2010 Solution creates in this lab exercise.