Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 integration : techniques, practical tips, hints, and tricks for Silverlight interactions with SharePoint / Gaston C. Hillar ; reviewers, Marius Constantinescu ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillar, Gaston C.

Contributor:

Constantinescu, Marius.

Series:

Professional Expertise Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silverlight (Electronic resource).

Microsoft SharePoint (Electronic resource).

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

C. Hillar Gaston: Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.

Summary:

Techniques, practical tips, hints, and tricks for Microsoft Silverlight 4 interactions with SharePoint 2010 in this book and eBook

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 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 RIAAdding 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; Chapter 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 callbacksWorking 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; Chapter 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 itemsInserting 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 listSummary; Chapter 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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612712517

9781282712515

1282712519

9781849680073

1849680078

OCLC:

797916672