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Clarity. Direction. Confidence.

SHAREPOINT + SILVERLIGHTDeveloping with Silverlight & SharePoint 2010 = Awesome

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Speaker bio

Name Tobias Zimmergren

Company TOZIT AB (www.tozit.com)

Roles Architect, Developer, Mentor & Trainer

Twitter @zimmergren

Blog www.zimmergren.net

User Group www.ssug.se

http://www.tozit.com/http://www.twitter.com/zimmergrenhttp://www.zimmergren.net/http://www.ssug.se/https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Zimmergrenhttp://www.ssug.se/http://www.zimmergren.net/http://www.twitter.com/zimmergrenhttp://www.tozit.com/

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Agenda

Silverlight 101Integration points: Adding Silverlight to SharePoint 2010Integration points: CommunicationClient Object Model

Developer ToolsDemo: Built in support for Silverlight in SharePoint 2010Deployment pathsDemo: Custom Silverlight Web PartOut of browser experience

Demo: Out of browserLync Silverlight controlsDemo: Lync silverlight controls in Visual Studio 2010Silverlight vs HTML5...?

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Silverlight 101Silverlight is a subset of WPF.NET based

Started out as JS-based in v1.0Moved over to .NET in 2.0 and forth

Cross BrowserIE, FF, Safari, Chrome, ..Cross Platform

WindowsInternet ExplorerFirefoxSafari

ChromeMac OS

FirefoxSafari

LinuxMoonlight (mono)

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Silverlight 101: Why Silverlight?

Microsofts primary way of creating Rich InternetApplications (RIA)

Windows Phone 7

Streaming mediaSharePoint 2010 OOTB support for Silverlight

Silverlight executes on the client

Silverlight Client Object Model

Take the load off the serverExecute all the fancy-pants code on the client and send batchedrequests to the server only when you need to.

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Integration points: Adding Silverlight to

SharePoint 2010OOTB Silverlight Web Part

-> Upload XAP

Embedded HTML to render an tag

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Integration points: Communication

You can make your Silverlight applications talk toSharePoint 2010 in a variety of ways, including:

REST

/_vti_bin/listdata.svc

Read, Update, Delete data inlists

Compliancy: SharePoint 2010

Web Services

Build your own or use the built in.

Compliancy: SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

Client Object Model

.NET managed code

14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\ClientBin\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight.dll

Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight.Runtime.dll

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Development tools

Expression Blend 4

Silverlight Project

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight Tools

Designer vs Developer

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Demo: Built-in support for Silverlight

Create new dialog

OOTB Silverlight Web Part

Create a new Silverlight Application with Expression Blend

Upload the .XAP file

Use the Silverlight Web Part to render the application

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Deployment paths

Sandboxed solutions

Deployment through a Module

Think: Office 365

Farm solutions

Deployment through a Module

Deployment to the SharePointRoot

/14/TEMPLATE/LAYOUTS/ClientBin

Manual deployment

Upload to a Library

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Demo: Custom Silverlight Web Part

A custom Silverlight Web Part

Built using Visual Studio 2010

One Silverlight Project

One SharePoint Project

Any choice of deployment...

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Debugging?

Enable Silverlight Debugging

Attach to iexplorer.exe

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Out of browser experience

A property in your Silverlight project

Enables you to install and run the Silverlight applicationfrom your desktop!

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Demo: Out Of the Browser

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Lync Silverlight controls

Lync SDK provides Silverlight and WPF controls for VisualStudio 2010

Enables you to develop custom applications forcommunication in your organization

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Demo: Lync Silverlight controls & samples

Lync 1: Conversation Translator

Lync 2: Proposal Tracker

Lync 3: Exploring the Lync Silverlight SDK

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Silverlight vs HTML5 ... ?

Microsoft says

Well put 100% effort into Silverlight and

Well put 100% effort into HTML5 but

In different scenarios

Media

Media LOB

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HTML5

Working draft, 400 people working on the new HTML5standard

Work is led by three peers

Microsoft

IBM

Apple

All about making standards

Simplify tasks that today require scripting

Making all browsers render things the same way

All major browsers are part of the HTML5 work

Caveat: Priority differentiates between them

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Why would I choose Silverlight today?

Richer functionality and the power of .NET

More browser support

Functionality

Time

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Next steps?

DEV205 - Creating Dynamic Client Applications inSharePoint 2010

16.00

By Eric Schupps

Silverlight.com

Download the Lync SDK

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