Because Silverlight applications add rich functionality and enhance the user experience on SharePoint sites, they are frequently part of a custom branding solution. When you need to add a Silverlight application to all the pages in your SharePoint site, you will most likely add the Silverlight application to a master page. SharePoint Designer 2010 provides the features and tools you need to brand SharePoint sites and add Silverlight applications to master pages. This makes SharePoint Designer 2010 the perfect tool for power users who may not have experience developing solutions using Visual Studio 2010, yet still need to enhance the look and feel of their SharePoint sites with Silverlight applications.
Hands-On Labs
Adding a Silverlight application to a Master Page
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.
Creating self service Silverlight applications
Because Silverlight applications add rich functionality and enhance the user experience on SharePoint sites, they are frequently part of a custom branding solution. Self service Silverlight applications provide the ability for site owners to administer and configure Silverlight applications and associated site functionality without the need to write code.
Capturing Silverlight application usage data
Understanding how end users interact with Silverlight applications is just as important as understanding metrics about web pages on web sites. The SharePoint Client Object Model makes it easy to track usage data for Silverlight applications and store the data in SharePoint lists.
Reporting on Silverlight usage data
Understanding how end users interact with Silverlight applications is just as important as understanding metrics about web pages on web sites. The SharePoint Client Object Model and the Silverlight Toolkit makes it easy to generate visual reports for Silverlight usage-tracking data stored in SharePoint lists.