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Accessing Web Services from Sandboxed Silverlight application in SharePoint 2010

 

This post discuss about accessing public web services from sandboxed Silverlight application in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 introduced the concept of sandboxed solution where the application runs in separate process outside the w3p process where SharePoint is running. Sandboxed solutions having the restriction to make a call to external resources like database and web services. This restriction causing the SharePoint developers to access these resources from sandboxed applications. SP2010

The solution is delivering a Silverlight application in sandbox environment which in turn calls the web service. Because Silverlight applications are running from the client machines even though they delivered from the sandbox solution.

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Using Silverlight Web Part in SharePoint 2010

 

Using Silverlight Web Part, You can add Silverlight applications and videos to SharePoint page. Users just need Silverlight runtime to view or run the applications. You must be member of default security group in-order to add the web part to the page.

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You need to complete the below steps before adding the Silverlight application to SharePoint site.

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Editing Silverlight page data using Domain Service

 

This post discusses to edit the displayed data in Silverlight page and save the changes back to database. Insert, Update and Delete operations can be done using domain service object context. All the changes you made to this object are collectively submitted to the database when you call the SubmitChanges method. image

This post requires to create a Silverlight Business Application in Visual Studio 2010.

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Data driven example using Silverlight Business Application

This post discusses how to displays data from the AdventureWorks Database on to Silverlight pages. In this walkthrough you will find the page that displays the data from customer table in adventure database and allows the user to traverse the records. You need to have Visual Studio 2010 SP1 installed on your machine.

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Silverlight business application contains two projects a Silverlight application and an ASP.NET Web application which hosts the Silverlight application.

Creating a Silverlight business application can be read here.

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Creating an application using Silverlight Business Application Template

 

This post discusses how to create a WCF Data Service solution by using the Silverlight Business Application template. There are several features that you can work with this Business Application Template by writing little code. This post specifically discusses the authentication mechanisms forms and windows. By Default Silverlight Business Application allows the users to register and login with built in controls. image

This template also gives you navigation ability where you can easily add Silverlight pages for additional functionality. It also enables authentication, roles and profiles.

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What is new in Silverlight 5 Beta

This post discusses the features in Silverlight 5 Beta. One of the greatest features                              image

in Silverlight 5 is tooling. Features are listed below

Binding

  • Breakpoints in XAML for debugging binding
  • Binding in style setters
  • Implicit Data Templates

Media

  • Sound effect for low-latency sound using the SoundEffect API
  • Variable speed playback
  • For performance boost H.264 media is now hardware decoded

Text

  • Linked Rich Text Boxes for seamless overflow and multi-column text

Input

  • Click count for multi-click support eg: double click
  • Listbox/Combobox type-ahead text searching

Graphics

  • Graphics stack improved using independent animations
  • XNA 3D API for low-level access to GPU, vertex shaders and 3D primitives.

Getting Started

Remember it is still in Beta so it may contain bugs

Install Visual Studio 2010 SP1

visit http://silverlight.net

Install Silverlight 5 Beta tools for Visual Studio 2010


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Data Binding for Silverlight Application

This post explains loading data into Silverlight form using ADO.NET Data Services service. We need to do the following tasks to achieve this

  • Creating an ADO.NET Data Services project
  • Creating a Silverlight application and referring the created service above

Creating the ADO.NET Data Services project 

 

1. Create an empty web application using Visual Studio 2010 as follows

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Silverlight sample in Visual Studio 2008

This post explains the tools required to start working with the Silverlight 3 in VS 2008. Also explains the sample Silverlight application building in Visual Studio 2008 environment.

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MVVM Pattern for WPF Applications

Introduction

Model-View-ViewModel [MVVM] is a design pattern for developing the UI Applications. It is a variation of MVC and MVP. MVP[Model-View-Presenter] which has been using for years to develop UI platforms.

Bit about MVP

View is what you see on the screen.Model displays the data and Presenter hooks the two elements together.You can read more about this pattern in August 2006 Design Patterns column.

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Silverlight 2 Development Overview

Introduction

This post explains starting Silverlight 2 development from developer prospective. Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser,cross-platform for delivering rich media experience and interactive applications for the web.

Prerequisites   you need to have the following installed on your machine to develop the sample Silverlight 2 application in VS environment. 

  • VisualStudio 2008 ServicePack 1
  • Silverlight 2 tools Download.

Silverlightchainer

Install the Silverlight_Chainer tool, it is one package installer which give you servicepack for visual studio, runtime for Silverlight , individual tools, SDK and as well as samples.

 

1. Start VisualStudio 2008, Select New Project from the File menu. The following dialogue box appears

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select the Silverlight project under Visual C# category and select Silverlight Application template and click ok.

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