Light Up SharePoint …… with Silverlight!

Light Up SharePoint

Choon Ngee, TanRegional DirectoraZaaS Pte Ltdchoon@azaas.com

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− Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with Web Development and Software Development Competencies

− Microsoft Silverlight Expert Partner

− Windows Azure Inner Circle Partner

− Technical Director is in Microsoft Regional Director Program and only about 170 world wide.

− Nominated for Microsoft ISV for the Year 2010.

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Singapore

Hong Kong

Taipei

Shanghai

Beijing

Guangzhou Shenzhen

− Headquartered in Singapore.

− Subsidiaries in the China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

− Over 300 customers regionally

− Over 150 Sharepoint customers

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Topics

1. Why Use Silverlight With SharePoint?2. DEMO: Silverlight Dashboard3. The New Kid: SharePoint Online4. Deploying Silverlight Applications to

SharePoint

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SharePoint …

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… is a great platform!

− Sharepoint is very successful and a great platform− From the largest Fortune 500 companies to small and

medium businesses – all save time and money with Sharepoint.

− SP offers great features and functionality out of the box.

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But What About The User Experience?

− The SharePoint UX can be challenging ...... because it is based on a web user experience metaphor.

− A web user experience is not as smooth and rich as a native desktop application environment.

− Even though SharePoint is very well integrated with the desktop and Office applications, the UX is still a tradeoff between the broad reach of a web application and the richness and UX feature set of a desktop client.

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Broad Reach“Lowest common denominator“

Better UXTradeoff between reach and rich

Best UXRich client experience

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Is this a Problem?

− SharePoint users are generally OK with this tradeoff ...... but there is certainly room for improvement!

− Silverlight can enrich the SharePoint experience ...... and excite and delight your SharePoint users!

− The need for rich, elegant and interactiveSharePoint line of business applications is already high.

And this need will grow in the future!

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DemoSilverlight business dashboard

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Silverlight Pivot Viewer

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SingHealth

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Multi-Touch Silverlight Application

“We are privileged to have aZaaS as our partner in developing our www.flu-card.com portal”

Mr Foo KW, Vice President, HDD Solutions, Trek 2000 International Ltd

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Silverlight in Sharepoint

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The New Kid: SharePoint Online

− SharePoint in the Cloud – hosted by Microsoft− Low-cost, from $5,25 per user/month− Today: MOSS 2007 (without admin access)

− Portals, Team Sites, Collaboration Workspaces− SharePoint Web Services− Customization with SharePoint Designer

− Office 365 (Beta): SharePoint 2010 (without admin access)− Sandboxed solutions− VS 2010 Developer tooling− Data access through client object model, REST, WCF

On-Premise vs. Online

On PremiseSharePoint Online -

StandardSharePoint Online -

Dedicated

Self-hosted in your data centerDedicated hardwareCentral admin accessPartial and full trust customizationAuthenticated via ADAvailable to companies of any size

Hosted in MSFT data centerMulti-tenant/shared hardwareAdmin outsourced to MSFTPartial trust customizationAuthenticated via certs and formsAvailable for companies of any size

Hosted in MSFT data centerDedicated HardwareAdmin outsourced to MSFTPartial and full trust customization*Authenticated via NTLMDesigned for 5000+ seats

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Deploying Silverlight to SharePoint

− Need to install the XAP file somewhere− Document library? LAYOUTS folder? Hive?

− Need to display the XAP somehow− Insert the Silverlight HTML into the page− Can do this with the Content Editor web part− Can also write a custom SharePoint web part

− Much easier in SharePoint 2010!− Built-in Silverlight web part can host XAP− New client object model allows access outside of

SharePoint− Silverlight can be automatically deployed as part of

a .wsp

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Deploying Silverlight to SharepointFirst method: Using a shared Document Library

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Deploying Silverlight to SharepointSecond method: Using a Web Part

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Deploying Silverlight to SharepointThird method: Using a Sharepoint Module

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Accessing SharePoint data

− Simple RSS access to lists− REST and WCF access to lists (new in 2010)− Call SharePoint web services API (lists.asmx)− Pass data from hosting HTML page to an

embedded SL application with initParams− Call a custom (external) web service− Download resources directly

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Sharepoint Online Integration

Sharepoint Online / On-Premise

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SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight

− Much improved developer features!− Silverlight Web Part built in.− Sharepoint Client Object Model for Silverlight:

− Microsoft.Sharepoint.Client.Silverlight− Microsoft.Sharepoint.Client.Silverlight.Runtime

− Can access information in a SharePoint instance from anywhere outside of SharePoint!

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SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight public void LoadSPDocs(string countryId) { ClientContext ctx = newClientContext(ApplicationContext.Current.Url); List lib = ctx.Web.Lists.GetByTitle("Product Documents"); CamlQuery cq = new CamlQuery(); cq.ViewXml = String.Format(@"<View><Query><Where><Contains><FieldRef Name='FileLeafRef'/>

<Value Type='Text'>{0}</Value></Contains></Where></Query></View>",countryId); items = lib.GetItems(cq); ctx.Load(lib); ctx.Load(items); ctx.ExecuteQueryAsync(OnSuccess, OnFailure); }

private void OnSuccess(object sender, ClientRequestSucceededEventArgs e) { Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(BindListBox); }

private void OnFailure(object sender, ClientRequestFailedEventArgs e) { }

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Summary

− Silverlight and SharePoint are “made for each other” and work together very well.

− Use Silverlight in a web part to enrich the stock SharePoint experience to excite and delight your users.

− Use Silverlight to pull together multiple data sources and SharePoint data to create mashups.

− SharePoint 2010 comes with many additional features for developers building Silverlight applications.

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Resources

− Red Silverlight Dashboard:http://silverlightdashboard.dev.mandogroup.com/

− Demo source code:http://koestiestorage.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/DemoDashboardFINAL.zip

− Tutorial Sharepoint/SL integration:http://koestiestorage.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/SPSSLTutorial.zip

− BPOS – 30 Day Sharepoint Online trial:http://www.microsoft.com/online/trial-bpos.mspx

− Office 365 Beta:http://office365.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepoint-online.aspx

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Choon Ngee, TanRegional DirectoraZaaS Pte Ltdchoon@azaas.com