Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration: Techniques, practical tips, hints, and tricks for Silverlight interactions with SharePoint

• Develop Silverlight RIAs that interact with SharePoint 2010 data and services
• Explore the diverse alternatives for hosting a Silverlight RIA in a SharePoint 2010 Page
• Work with the new SharePoint Silverlight Client Object Model to interact with elements in a SharePoint Site
• Use Visual Studio 2010's new features to debug Silverlight RIAs that interact with SharePoint 2010
• Learn to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations on SharePoint 2010 lists from Silverlight
• Access and interact with external data sources and WCF Data Services
• Use themes and work with multiple interactive animations and effects to create distinct User eXperiences (UX) in a SharePoint environment
• Develop Silverlight RIAs that interact with SharePoint Visual Web Parts
• A step-by-step, fast-paced book that guides you in implementing Silverlight 4 applications in SharePoint 2010 environments

• Develop and host Silverlight Rich Internet Applications in SharePoint 2010 Pages
• Deploy and debug a Silverlight RIA included in a SharePoint solution by using the new SharePoint deployment features offered by Visual Studio 2010
• Take advantage of Silverlight 4 features to create rich UX for SharePoint solutions
• Work with asynchronous SharePoint requests and queries, and debug their execution
• Retrieve information from SharePoint lists, workflows, and libraries
• Use Silverlight applications to read, insert, update, and delete items from SharePoint 2010 lists and external data sources
• Combine external data sources in SharePoint 2010 and interact with them through Silverlight
• Create Web Parts that host multiple Silverlight applications
• Create Visual Web Parts that render Silverlight applications
• Consume SharePoint 2010 WCF Data Services in Silverlight applications
• Use Silverlight multimedia controls and features to display information to users taking advantage of the processing power offered by their client computers
• Enhance the responsiveness offered by SharePoint 2010 Visual Web Parts by transforming them into Silverlight Rich Internet Applications

If you are an application developer who wants to implement Silverlight 4 applications within a SharePoint 2010 environment, this book is for you. We assume that the reader has prior knowledge of Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 and this book focuses more on the integration of Silverlight with SharePoint 2010.