Now lets have a look at silverlight web part in sharepoint 2010. Thesilverlight custom web part will use a sandboxed visual web part to host the silverlight application. Right, now the web app works fine by adding a page viewer web part to sharepoint and putting in the appropriate url. I have a silverlight 4 web application that needs to be added to an alreadyexisting sharepoint application. Building a silverlight chart web part for sharepoint 2010. Understanding the benefits of integrating silverlight with sharepoint the. Get the most uptodate version of sharepoint for a mobile, intelligent intranet. The silverlight web part extensions for sharepoint are designed to make it as easy as. My example will be geared toward how simple it is to publish a silverlight application to a sharepoint site and use it in a web part. The zip contains the source code for the web part and the silverlight application.
Users just need silverlight runtime to view or run the applications. It either rolls up all or selected annoucements lists, publishing pages or blog posts within the sharepoint site collection and thus gives much better visibility to news published anywhere within the selected site collection. Getting silverlight 4 drag and drop working with the. Silverlight and sharepoint integration professional. Create silverlight web part displaying odata for sharepoint visual. A data view web part is a great way to display data with filtering, grouping, and user desired formatting. Sharepoint 2010 ships with a silverlight web part, making it very. In sharepoint 2010 weve got outofthebox support for hosting silverlight applications in the silverlight web part. Every major web part implementation i have seen has been a big ball of mud, and i have seen. Sharepoint chat web part for sp 2010 sandbox solution. Sharepoint 2010 has introduced a new web part silverlight web part which is an out of the box sharepoint web part. In this article, we will show how to use out of box silverlight web part in sharepoint 2010. Browse other questions tagged sharepoint server silverlight or ask your own question. To fix the issue, set the zindex to 0 and add a parameter for windowless and set the value to true.
It can live just about anywhere in the user interface with sharepoint 2010. Sharepoint stack exchange is a question and answer site for sharepoint enthusiasts. Sharepoint 2010 and silverlight web part sl version. How to use the silverlight sharepoint web part to display. In sharepoint 2010 development with silverlight, two sharepoint gurus collaborate to teach all the concepts and techniques needed to create robust silverlight solutions for delivery through sharepoint 2010, and present fully documented code that demonstrates superior design and programming. And finally, the template will also create a test harness page in the site pages library that hosts the silverlight web part. This project is a utility project and will help developers and administrators to code. Our plan is to deploy sharepoint to external users without forcing them to use silverlight. If you want to download the code for the above demonstration, please visit. Run it once, and youll be able to drag and drop files into a silverlight 4 web part living inside of sharepoint 2010. It also covers methods to deploy and debug the silverlight application while it runs as silverlight web part in a sharepoint page. So what youre saying about silverlight is no needed in this situation appears to be wrong. To create a silverlight application and silverlight web part.
Enhance the responsiveness offered by sharepoint 2010 visual web parts by transforming them into silverlight rich internet applications about silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for the web, desktop, and mobile applications. Microsoft silverlight 4 and sharepoint 2010 integration. Sharepoint silverlight browser webpart ian campbell. Visio web access also called visio services has two display modes. Once its added to the page it should load up the appropriate silverlight app. Getting started with silverlight and sharepoint 2010.
The book teaches you to take advantage of the new features offered by visual studio 2010 to browse sharepoint lists. After you are in this state you can connect the two projects together by adding a silverlight web part. So far i have disabled silverlight on the web application using powershell but anytime you load some pages on the site it is still displaying a message box with the title this copy of the silverlight pluin has expired and the body of the message says. The task of creating silverlight web parts is a little bit tricky, because of the required settings to be set against projects in visual studio, as you can check at. Silverlight can be used to integrate rich, powerful applications into sharepoint at the web part level of integration. However, the link that sharepoint renders for the web part is for silverliht 3 and not silverlight 4. Sharepoint 2010 development with silverlight microsoft. To reconfigure the web part or to provide a different silverlight application. Using silverlight web part in sharepoint 2010 techbubbles.
Rightclick the sharepoint project and add a new project item. Therefore we need to add this wrapper web part first into the page that you want to place the silverlight web part as shown below. Its a working app i can open it in my local browser but it wont load on sharepoint. Building a silverlight web part sharepoint 2010 development with.
At first it was loading for a few seconds, and then coming up with the silverlight application cant be loaded message. Free microsoft sharepoint web parts amrein engineering. This is a very simple demonstration of using a media web part. If you want to know how to install silvelright 3 and what you need to know before using silverlight 3 with sharepoint, read this post. Mike morton is back at it again, this time showing how easy it is to develop, package and deploy a silverlight webpart to sharepoint 2010. Virto silverlight data grid is a lightweight and easytouse tool for microsoft sharepoint 2007 and 2010, intended for aggregating and editing data from various sharepoint lists interactively. To test the web part, edit a page within the sharepoint site and locate the published web part. The sharepoint 2010 project the sharepoint project will link to the silverlight project and deploy both the silverlight application and the web part. You must be member of default security group inorder to add the web part to the page.
In this article i am going to describe how to add silverlight web part in sharepoint 2010 site in very easiest way. It is in wiki pages, but in the latest version of firefox, the video starts to play but then stops and brings up the install silverlight image. Most significantly, many of the most popular and successful web parts both from microsoft and from thirdparty creators relied on silver light. I have done a lot of sharepoint custom development and i see silverlight as the answer to the horrible web part programming model microsoft has made available in sharepoint. The concept is similar to smartpart approach we have in wss3moss 2007.
The news tiles web part displays the most recent news in a tile or a grid layout. Silverlight 3 media viewer web part for sharepoint. Manually building a silverlight web part sharepoint 2010. It was the most useful webpart in sharepoint 2007 and now has been improved to a great extend in sharepoint 2010. Your mobile, intelligent intranet lets you manage content, knowledge and applications. You can download the source files from silverlight web services samples. This code could be a web part, a feature, or code in the master page. Modify custom properties, such as the silverlight control height and width. The future of silverlight in sharepoint in sharepoint 2010, silverlight was used for many segments of the ui and was touted as one of the major offerings of that release.
When the person downloads the sl version 3 and comes back to the sharepoint website they are then asked to upgrade to sl 4. Once you are done with your silverlight application then follow the following steps. Integrating silverlight 4 with sharepoint 2010 packt hub. Please note that sharepoint 2010 uses silverlight 3. Use an rss feed or xml file as the data source and customize its presentation. Start by creating a new silverlight project in visual studio. Adding a silverlight project for this example, you are going to use one of the sample applications that ships with microsoft expression blend. Alternative solutions i have found are to create web part for this or use htm form view web part as suggested in these articles. Sharepoint 2010 development with silverlight ebook by bob. This utility is great for generating some test data for sharepoint testing purpose.
It facilitates one to view their silverlight applications. A new visual studio 2010 extension was released by paul stubbs recently, which installs silverlight web part templates for sharepoint 2010, called silverlight sharepoint web parts. Deprecation of silverlight mode in visio web access visio. We have created a sample silverlight application using. Additionally, silverlight 4 is crossbrowser capable and we can take advantage of the improved out of browser features to create applications that interact with the sharepoint 2010 server but run in the windows desktop, out of the web browser.
So i have created silverlight multiple file uploader visual webpart for. When the person downloads the sl version 3 and comes back to the sharepoint website they are then asked to. Sharepoint 2010 silverlight multiple file uploader codeplex. When the web part is added it may not display for a couple of reasons. Sharepoint and the silverlight web app could be on the same server or different servers. Creating a silverlight web part in sharepoint 2010. Wsp file and install sharepointmultiplefileuploader. The silverlight web part always accepts the application in the. Implementing a silverlight sharepoint webpart with visual. The first task you need to solve is how to package and deploy your silverlight application in your sharepoint. For every business scenario in which people need to interact with other people, with content and information, or with lineofbusiness data, the sharepoint 2010. During the development of a silverlight web part for sharepoint 2010, i found that the drop down navigation menus were hidden behind the web part.
Dataview webpart in sharepoint 2010 enjoysharepoint. In sharepoint, the odata service is implemented by the restful service listdata. Next, create an empty sharepoint project in the same visual studio solution that the silverlight project is in. I am using out of the box silverlight viewer webpart in sharepoint 2010 foundation. Upgrade to the latest version and create a mobile, intelligent intranet with sharepoint in office 365. Then reference the client object model dll in your control, and youve got the makings of a killer sharepoint 2010 uploader control, using one of the coolest.
Go to any sample sharepoint site, and add the silverlight web part to a page. In the new project item, click the silverlight web part project item in the sharepoint \ 2010 node, as shown in figure 5. Silverlight integration with sharepoint 2010 part i. Intermittently rather most of the time i would say it.
In sharepoint 2010 development with silverlight, two sharepoint gurus collaborate to teach all the concepts and techniques needed to create robust silverlight solutions for delivery through sharepoint 2010, and present fully documented code that. How to use the silverlight sharepoint web part to display silverlight. On the sharepoint site click the edit icon then the insert tab, select web part, and choose the silverlight web part in the media and content category. Silverlight web part sandboxed deployment in sharepoint. Sharepoint 2010 provides a wrapper web part under media and content category to host silverlight. The insert video tool is not available in web part pages created in a site using the team site template. Part 4 silverlight web part framework for sharepoint 2010. Visio web access will stop displaying in silverlight mode on sharepoint online and sharepoint server 2019. Display a silverlight application with this web part. Sharepoint 2010 menus hidden behind silverlight web part. Microsoft silverlight is legacy browser technology that is being deprecated. I uploaded a silverlight application to sharepoint 2010, and added it to a page with the silverlight web part.
First of all, you need to create a silverlight application. This is the fourth video on my silverlight web part framework for sharepoint 2010 called xaptic this video is my progress update see scottcurrier. First, we must download and install various silverlight development tools. You need to complete the below steps before adding the silverlight application. In certain sharepoint 2010 prerelease versions, the following error message could appear, could not download the silverlight application or the silverlight. Thesilverlight web part will use the builtin silverlight web part provided by sharepoint. Click add and in the silverlight web part dialog enter the value from the url field in the elements. Could not download the silverlight application in sharepoint 2010. Silverlight integration with sharepoint 2010 part i dotnetcurry. Deactivate silverlight on client pc sharepoint 2010. Sharepoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform of choice for the enterprise and the internet. Ensure that you supply the complete path to the page. My example has gone for an innovative hello sharepoint from silverlight message. Using silverlight web part, you can add silverlight applications and videos to sharepoint page.
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