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Using Sample Data With Expression Blend

Version: 1.0.0

Description

Expression Blend gives designers the ability to design Silverlight applications that display SharePoint data without having connectivity to a SharePoint Server. This functionality greatly reduces the amount of setup and configuration required to enable designers to work with sample data and fine tune Silverlight applications. This lab will guide the reader through an exercise that uses the SharePoint Client Object Model to generate sample data and use the sample data inside Expression Blend to create and design a Silverlight application.

Overview

Expression Blend gives designers the ability to design Silverlight applications that display SharePoint data without having connectivity to a SharePoint Server. This functionality greatly reduces the amount of setup and configuration required to enable designers to work with sample data and fine tune Silverlight applications.

This lab will guide the reader through an exercise that uses the SharePoint Client Object Model to generate sample data and use the sample data inside Expression Blend to create and design a Silverlight application.

Objectives

This lab will demonstrate how you can use the SharePoint Client Object Model to generate sample data and use the sample data inside Expression Blend to create and design a Silverlight application. To demonstrate this concept the reader will

  • Use the SharePoint Client Object Model to generate sample data.
  • Use Expression Blend to create and design a Silverlight application.

System Requirements

You must have the following items to complete this lab:

  • 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
  • Microsoft Expression Blend 4

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.
  2. Install Expression Blend 4 on the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine.

Exercises

This Hands-On Lab comprises the following exercises:

  1. Deploy the pre-requisite list template and create the Parts list
  2. Using the SharePoint Client Object Model to generate sample data
  3. Using Expression Blend to create and design a Silverlight application

Estimated time to complete this lab: 20 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\UsingSampleDataWithExpressionBlend\Source\begin\SP.Blend.Sample.Data.Generator.sln: A WPF application which generates sample data from a SharePoint list.

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Downloads

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