In this exercise you will add a Silverlight project to an existing solution and create a framework to deploy the Silverlight application to a SharePoint farm.
Task 1 – Adding Search Service To The Intranet Web Application’s Services
- Navigate to Central Administration located at https://demo2010a:2010/default.aspx.
- Click the Manage Web Applications link.
- Click Intranet in the list of Web Applications. The Intranet entry should be highlighted.
Click on Service Connections located in the Ribbon.
Figure 1
Service Connection Button
Choose [custom] as the group of connections.
Figure 2
Configure Service Application Associations dialog box
- Check all services available except for the FAST Query service. This should be left unchecked for this lab.
- Click OK.
Task 2 – Starting Index Crawl Of The SharePoint Content.
- Navigate to the Search Administration page located at https://demo2010a:2010/searchadministration.aspx?appid=edbe9ac4-3596-497b-a210-9d1d223b8052
- Click Content Sources located in the left hand navigation pane.
Hover over the Local SharePoint sites link and select Start Full Crawl. The crawl may take a few minutes. The crawl will need to complete before you build and deploy the application in this lab.
Figure 3
Local SharePoint sites link.