Steve Fox's OBA Ramblings : Silverlight

Announcement: Silverlight 3 is now RTW...

Steve Fox — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:27:00 GMT

You can check out more info on how to get up and running on the Silverlight site: http://silverlight.net/getstarted/default.aspx.

You can also check out Tim Heuer's blog here: http://timheuer.com/blog/. He's got some great links on where to get tools/SDK and also some of the changes to expect with the up and coming with the new version.

Now it's time to update all of those Silverlight and SharePoint integrations you've been building! :-)

Steve

Silverlight RTM and SharePoint Blueprints Ship on Codeplex

Steve Fox — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:38:00 GMT

Today, additional SharePoint and Silverlight Blueprints on CodePlex were uploaded to include two more Silverlight RTM samples: custom navigation in SharePoint and the colleague viewer. These blueprints provide samples for you to build and explore using Silverlight as an alternate way to develop and integrate powerful user experiences within SharePoint and add rich Internet application functionality to your SharePoint sites. Included in the overall set of samples are a Hello World sample, a Slider sample, and the recently added Custom Navigation and Colleague Viewer samples added today. You can download the samples along with documentation and screencasts at http://www.codeplex.com/SL4SP.

Over the next few weeks, I'll publish a couple of other blog posts on Silverlight and SharePoint. I think there is tremendous opportunity here for building rich Internet applications that can also be thought of as OBAs. For example, think about skinning an integration with SAP with Silverlight and then dropping it into a SharePoint site. This not brings the LOB system world into SharePoint, but does it in a way that improves the look and feel of the UI as well as providing additional controls that you can build around the UI to, for example, filter on SAP, Dynamics or other LOB system data.

For more resources on how to integrate Silverlight and SharePoint, be sure to visit http://mssharepointdeveloper.com. Keep an eye out on this site over the next few weeks, as we're going publish a new round of content for WCM and MOSS. Some cool SharePoint and Silverlight stuff will be shipping.

Happy coding!

Steve

Announcing SharePoint for the Web Development Series

Steve Fox — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:34:00 GMT

For those that are looking for more SharePoint development resources, we'll be launching a series of webcasts starting next week. More information below.

Announcing the SharePoint Products and Technologies for Internet Site Development webcast series. This series shows how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for your internet site. We will leverage a fictitious site, Adventure Works, to demonstrate how to customize SharePoint to create your internet presence. The series is presented by our Microsoft Most Valued Professionals, experts in the technologies they are presenting on. This material follows up on the labs and webcasts that were introduced on the http://mssharepointdeveloper.com site.

Date	Topic	Presenter
12/2	Getting Started	Todd Baginski
12/4	.COM Branding	Doug Ware
12/9	Custom Fields, Web Parts, and Lists	Todd Bleeker
12/11	FBA Authentication	Todd Bleeker
12/16	Web Interoperability	Eric Shupps
12/18	Search	Rob Bogue
1/6	Content Deployment	Andrew Connell
1/13	Enabling Social Networking	Brendon Schwartz and Matt Ranlett
1/15	Site Customization with Silverlight 2.0	Sahil Malik

SharePoint Connections Deck

Steve Fox — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:39:00 GMT

I'm just wrapping up my week here in Las Vegas for SharePoint Connections, and one of the requests I had was to post my decks for those who attended my sessions. I've posted my decks to a public skydrive folder here:

http://cid-40a717fc7fcd7e40.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/SharePointConnections/Final%7C_Presentations.zip

If you have any issues connecting and retrieving the decks, let me know.

I'll also upload the code samples and some videos that go along with these, but wanted to get these uploaded first. As for the questions we discussed in the sessions, I'll be posting answers to those as well.

Thanks to all of you who attended the sessions and made SharePoint Connections another successful event.

Steve

Use Silverlight to Enhance your SharePoint-Based OBAs with the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint

Steve Fox — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint Released to CodePlex!

Today we released the source code for the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint—based on the Silverlight Beta 2 release. The Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint provide a way for developers to better understand how to integrate Silverlight applications with SharePoint. Silverlight is an incredibly popular technology and with the increase in SharePoint adoption we’re finding an increased call for integrating technologies like Silverlight with SharePoint.

In this release, you’ll find five blueprint samples:

1. Hello World

2. Media Player

3. Slider Control

4. Custom Navigation

5. Colleague Viewer

Included in the release are documentation for each of the samples and the source code (go to the Releases tab of the CodePlex site). Also posted to the site is an FAQ document. In the coming days and week, we’ll publish additional screen-casts and any other supporting documentation we create or that is provided to us through the developer community.

The links to get to the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint are:

1. http://www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint/ --or direct at the CodePlex site

2. http://www.codeplex.com/SL4SP

Enjoy!

Steve