Silverlight with MOSS 2007
Developing a webpart may be very simple. Likewise, Developing a Silverlight application also will be very simple. But, If you are going to integrate both areas, that will be difficult little. Here, I am going to tell you that what are necessary steps that needs to be followed, while integrating the MOSS & SILVERLIGHT.
OK. See the steps below. (I assumes that you are familier with creating SharePoint webpart & creating sivlerlight Web applications.)
1. Whenever you are creating Silverlight applications, you can see a "Silverlight.js" file in your "Web" folder. For example, if your application name is "HelloWorld", your visual studio will create another folder with the name of "HelloWorld_web" or "HelloWorldWeb". Within this folder, you can see a file "SilverLight.js". Copy this file and paste it into "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033". (Note: you should paste that file, only into this folder. Else, you will get an error".
2. Create an Silverlight application and generate a XAP file.
3. Go to "c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\7070" and create a folder named "ClientBin" and give permission to Read & Write (for everyone).
4. Go to IIS
5. Go to Your SharePoint portal and make the "ClientBin" folder as a Virtual Directory.
6. Copy the Silverlight Application DLL & XAP file into this ClientBin folder.
7. Modify the Web.Config file to integrate the Silverlight. You can download a sample web.config file in the "download" section of
http://www.codeplex.com/SL4SP
9. Add 2 references in WSP Project (System.Web.Extensions & System.Web.Silverlight)
10. In the WebpartCode, you must inherit the below 2 namespaces.
a. using System.Web.UI.SilverlightControls;
b. using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
11. Write a code to call the XAP file within the "CreateChildControls" method like.
Silverlight sl = new Silverlight();
sl.ID = "MYSL";
sl.Source = "/ClientBin/SenSLMOSS.xap";
sl.Height = Unit.Pixel(420);
sl.Width = Unit.Pixel(420);
this.Controls.Add(sl);
12. "ScriptManager" code also should be placed inside the WebPart code. See the sample code below and this code should be inside the "OnLoad" method, like,
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{
if (!_error)
{
try
{
base.OnLoad(e);
ScriptManager sm = ScriptManager.GetCurrent(this.Page);
if (sm == null)
{
sm = new ScriptManager();
Controls.AddAt(0, sm);
}
this.EnsureChildControls();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
HandleException(ex);
}
}
}
13. Add & Deploy the WSP Webpart using stsadm command.
(stsam -o addsolution -filename "C:\SLMOSSWebPart.wsp")
14. Create a "WebPart page and insert this webpart into that newly created page.
15. You will see an amazing SilverLight Page.
Thats it...
