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Silverlight

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Silverlight Enhancements in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 takes advantage of Silverlight to provide rich and interactive user interfaces. It also greatly simplifies hosting of media content and Silverlight applications within SharePoint by providing out-of-the-box Silverlight-enabled web parts. In this post I will point out some of these Silverlight enhancements and show you how easy it is to host media content [...]

CRM Mapping – Part 1: Hosting a Silverlight Application in CRM 2011

Want to know how to host a Microsoft Silverlight application in MS Dynamics CRM 2011? We’ll show you how by integrating Bing maps into your customer database!

Building Interactive Maps with Silverlight and Bing Maps

Overview The goal of this blog is to detail each step in the process of creating a functioning Silverlight application using Bing maps. This will also be the first of a series of blogs that explore the versatility and extendibility of this application to other Microsoft technology platforms including SharePoint, CRM, and ASP.NET. We will [...]

Passing Parameters to a Silverlight Webpart in SharePoint

In this blog, I will outline the steps necessary to pass initialization parameters to a Silverlight webpart within SharePoint.  Due to the client-side processing nature of Silverlight applications, it is not easy to get server-side information for use in your Silverlight application during runtime.  Fortunately, leveraging the SilverlightApp.InitParameters property makes it quite straight-forward to pass [...]

Using SharePoint Web Services to Integrate SharePoint and Silverlight

When integrating Silverlight with a SharePoint site, it becomes apparent very early on that using data that lives in SharePoint in your Silverlight application will be difficult.  The reason being that Silverlight applications run on the client-side.  Therefore, a developer wanting to extract list data or use files hosted in SharePoint cannot simply use the [...]