Hey all! This is a note that I’ll be speaking at The SharePoint Technology Conference in the beautiful Sanfrancisco California in 4 weeks! The conference starts on February 7th, and runs for 4 days. If you’ll be in attendance, send me an email and let’s meet up! Below is my session topic:
Silverlight, SharePoint, and Sandboxed Solutions
Silverlight is a powerful tool in a SharePoint Developer's tool box. Not only is it a platform for rich internet applications, but it is also a door. With SharePoint 2010 sandboxed solutions, standard .NET code is prevented from accessing the out side world but Silverlight applications are not. This makes them a compelling solution when in the cloud. This session will cover how to build a Silverlight application from scratch, and render that application in the context of a SharePoint 2010 site. Then we'll go into the client object model, and show how to gather SharePoint data from within a Silverlight application. Finally, we'll see how to consume external data from a Silverlight app while in a SharePoint 2010 sandboxed solution.