In Getting started with SharePoint and Silverlight - Part II I talked about the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint. With the recent release of Silverlight 2 Beta2 I was wondering how easy it would be to get the Silverlight BluePrint to work with it. Unfortunately, things did not work quite easily - for an overview of changes in beta2 take a look at http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/archive/2008/06/04/breaking-changes-for-silverlight-2-beta-2-corrections-and-additions.aspx
For the HelloSilverlight sample the change is pretty simple:
- Rebuild Silverlight applications and copy the XAP file to the clientbin directory
- Remove the version property for the SilverlightControl - this seems to be removed in beta2.
- Rebuild and deploy to the GAC. Perform iisreset.
If you look at the Silverlight Mediaviewer webpart you will notice that this one is a little more complicated to update to Silverlight 2.0 beta.
The main problem with SharePoint integration and Silverlight 2.0 beta 2 is the change to HttpWebRequest class - delegates are called on a new non-UI background thread. This means that you will need to use System.Threading.SynchronizationContext to update the UI on the background thread. It took me a while to figure this one out ... after I finally found the solution I found this great posting about the necessary changes (would have spared me a couple of hours) - Porting the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint to Silverlight 2 Beta2.
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