Using Silverlight with SharePoint Online
In this post, Troy Hopwood, Program Manager II on the Microsoft Online Services Engineering team, walks through creating a basic Silverlight control that integrates with SharePoint Online via Web Services that can then be deployed to SharePoint Online.
To develop and deploy this example, you need a SharePoint Online account with at least one site collection. You must have “full control” or higher permissions on the site collection used for this example.
You also need Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. SharePoint Designer 2007 is free, and you can download a free trial of Visual Studio 2008:
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Free Trial
Lastly, these instructions assume the Silverlight SDK and the Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 are both installed on your machine. If not, installing the Tools for Visual Studio 2008 will also install the SDK and can be found here:
Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008
Scenario
Our scenario is an IT consulting company with several consultants, each of whom have a different skill set. We want to build a simple Silverlight-based web part that shows all the consultants, their managers, and their skill sets.
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