Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint goes live

In case you missed it, with the release of Siliverlight 2 beta 1 during MIX 08, we also made available the samples source code for the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint.

The SharePoint team blogged about the blueprint earlier in the week, but we didn't release the code that day.  We were waiting for the Silverlight 2 beta.  Kudos to Rob and Patrick's team at U2U for their work on the blueprint. 

The most compelling thing about melding Silverlight and SharePoint is that it combines the awesome user experience of Silverlight with the powerful content management features of SharePoint.  I remember when Rob came into my office and in 5 minutes we pretty much groked what the media viewer control would do.  SharePoint has a picture library already defined.  With a Silverlight web part an end user could display the media in a rich way but not have to do more than the usual SharePoint content management tasks that do not require programming.