Microsoft SharePoint: Extending Sharepoint Solutions With Silverlight
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Product Description

This is an instructor-led course, emphasising hands-on experience via self-guided exercises at the end of each module. The course begins by introducing Silverlight, beginning from the very basics of XAML & Expression Blend, working through to designing the user experience, & finally on to data binding & network access. The introduction to Silverlight ends by examining how Silverlight can interact with the web page which hosts it.

We will also introduce some of the many controls which are available for Silverlight, including the Bing Maps control, the Silverlight Toolkit Chart controls, & the Timeline control.

The course then turns to Share Point, providing a quick recap of Share Point development & an introduction to the new features of Share Point 2010. Developers who wish to work with Share Point 2007 will see how to enable Silverlight applications to work in that version of Share Point, & how to create a web part that can host Silverlight applications. Developers who wish to work with Share Point 2010 will discover that those features are already present, & will examine the new functionality of the Share Point 2010 interface.

Finally, the last exercise of the course brings together all of the previous material to create a Silverlight application which can be hosted in Share Point, & which uses the available Share Point API (2007 or 2010) to access the data available in Share Point. This application will retrieve data from Share Point lists & SQL Server databases, & display it in a multiple-panel format using maps, charts & lists.

Delegates are free to complete the exercise material using either MOSS (Microsoft Office Share Point Server) 2007 or Share Point Server 2010, & to develop in either C or VB.NET.

This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.