Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration电子书

Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration

Table of Contents

Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Integrating Silverlight 4 with SharePoint 2010

Understanding the benefits of integrating Silverlight with SharePoint

Creating a SharePoint solution

Preparing the development environment

Setting up the development environment

Discovering the rich controls offered by the Silverlight Toolkit

Browsing themes with sample controls

Preparing the server

Browsing SharePoint Site collections

Creating a Silverlight LOB (Line-of-Business) RIA

Creating rich User eXperiences (UX)

Building a Silverlight 4 RIA

Adding a Silverlight Web Part

Adding a Silverlight RIA as a shared document

Adding a Silverlight Web Part to display a Silverlight RIA

Working with many Silverlight Web Parts in a single page

Understanding client and server code

Summary

2. Deploying and Debugging Techniques for Silverlight and SharePoint

Deploying a Silverlight RIA included in a SharePoint solution

Creating a list of tasks in SharePoint

Browsing SharePoint lists and fields with Visual Studio

Creating a Silverlight RIA to be linked with a SharePoint module

Working with the asynchronous methods and callbacks

Working with the ClientContext object

Linking a SharePoint module to a Silverlight RIA

Understanding the default deployment configuration

Debugging Silverlight and SharePoint

Debugging Silverlight Web Parts

Taking advantage of Visual Studio 2010 multi-monitor support

Understanding 32-bit and 64-bit differences

Understanding scalability

Preparing applications for multiple-browser support

Summary

3. Interacting with Data on the SharePoint Server

Managing data in a Silverlight RIA included in a SharePoint solution

Working with the SharePoint 2010 Silverlight Client Object Model to insert items

Inserting items in a SharePoint list with the Silverlight Web Part

Working with successful and failed asynchronous queries

Retrieving specific information about fields

Creating complex LOB applications composed of multiple Silverlight RIAs

Interacting with multiple Silverlight Web Parts in the same page

Understanding Line-Of-Business systems as independent Web Parts

Expanding LOB systems with delete operations

Understanding how to delete an item from a list

Expanding LOB systems with update operations

Updating an item in a list

Summary

4. Creating Dynamic Business Solutions

Accessing an external database in a Silverlight RIA included in a SharePoint solution

Creating a new database

Creating a new external content type to access data in a SQL Server database

Browsing a SharePoint list with external content and its fields

Interacting with external data sources using the SharePoint 2010 Silverlight Client Object Model

Specifying the fields to include in a CAML query for an external list

Consuming Business Connectivity Services from a Silverlight Web Part

Understanding security issues related to Business Connectivity Services

Impersonating BCS calls

Applying dynamic filters in a CAML query

Running Silverlight RIAs as Out-of-Browser Applications

Interacting with workflows

Attaching a workflow to a list of tasks in SharePoint

Inserting and approving items in a list with an attached workflow

Using a Silverlight RIA to display a SharePoint workflow's status

Understanding workflows' status fields

Summary

5. Working with WCF Data Services

Working with SharePoint 2010 WCF Data Services

Querying SharePoint 2010 lists in a web browser

Working with SharePoint 2010 WCF Data Services to display data from a list

Consuming SharePoint 2010 WCF Data Services from a Silverlight Web Part

Performing CRUD operations with SharePoint 2010 WCF Data Services

Deleting an item from a list with SharePoint 2010 WCF Data Services

Updating an item in a list with SharePoint 2010 WCF Data Services

Working with SharePoint 2010 WCF Data Services to insert items

Using LINQ to objects to perform joins

Debugging HTTP Requests with Fiddler

Analyzing Web Parts with SharePoint Developer Dashboard

Analyzing pages and Web Parts with SharePoint Developer Dashboard

Activating the Developer Dashboard On Demand display mode

Understanding the Developer Dashboard

Deactivating the Developer Dashboard

Summary

6. Interacting with Rich Media and Animations

Bringing life to business applications and complex workflows

Creating asset libraries in SharePoint 2010

Adding content to an assets library

Browsing the structure for SharePoint Asset Libraries

Controlling the rich media library by using controls in a Visual Web Part

Creating a Silverlight RIA rendered in a SharePoint Visual Web Part

Linking a SharePoint Visual Web Part to a Silverlight RIA

Adding a SharePoint Visual Web Part in a Web Page

Organizing controls in a containing box

Reading files from an assets library

Working with interactive animations and effects

Adding and controlling videos

Video formats supported in Silverlight 4

Adding and controlling sounds and music

Audio formats supported in Silverlight 4

Changing themes in Silverlight and SharePoint

Summary

Index