David Jacobus

I have been working with Silverlight 2 and its integration into SharePoint and I am a convert!  I had thought that this was an application that would change the face of the internet!  I just kind of browsed it while it was in its 1.0 stage and now I am a confirmed Silverlight advocate!  I had a web part that I built that was an ad rotator with lost of business process on the server.  You know the kind of rules:

1.  GoLiveDate

2.  ExpireDate

3.  SortOrder

4.  LinkURL

5. Approved!

6.  More!

Not hard to do on the server but then prior to Ajax some kind of javascript need to be invoked which ran the automatic ad rotator!  A lot of work and coorination between server side code and javascript!  In Silverlight this is a trivial operation all in C# with a CAML Query!  I wish I could go an update all that cludgy code I created in the past without Silverlight!  A web part that took days before cab be built in a few hours!  In my next post, I will show how to build this ad rotator for a SharePoint List .

 

I hadn't looked for this update as 1.2 was pretty fresh!  But I came upon it by accident!  Wow!  They are finally getting it!  Just the ability to create the WSP in a resusable fasion is fantastic!  But the additional capability of a blank web site definition that can be a publishing site is the greatest!  It appears as if some of WSP Builder is baked in!  I had a Silverlight Host Control built by the Microsoft team with 1.2 but was thinking I would have to build a WSP by hand using WSP Builder when this came up in my browser!  It was a right click!  Wow!  I needed this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!