SharePoint and Silverlight

3I did a session for the SharePoint forum held July 1, 2008 and for those who are interested to try out the S+S BluePrints for SharePoint, the samples have so far not been updated to work with Beta 2 yet. So while that’s on the way, and you want to give a hack at trying to get it working yourselves:

1. Follow the steps detailed on this blog on how to configure your server to be able to serve out Silverlight applications. The last step tells you how to add a mime type, but instead of using application/x-silverlight-2-b1, change it to application/x-silverlight-2-b2 instead

2. I haven’t had time to convert the rest of the applications but 3 of them, I’ve managed to convert and upload on my Sky Drive folder

http://cid-bdfb7845c22e26b6.skydrive.live.com/embedrow.aspx/Presentations/SharePoint%20Forum

One of the first things you need to do is have the breaking changes document on hand 🙂 This blog post has the link to the breaking changes document as well as some additions and corrections on the document.

You will also need to make an update to the web part project.

There is a line where you’re supposed to specify the Silverlight version in your web part class. The property used to be “.Version”. This was updated to MinumumVersion, which you should then set to “2.0.30523” as below:

silverlightControl.MinimumVersion = "2.0.30523";