SharePoint does deliver, in my opinion, a fantastic platform for web application development. Sure, it’s “version 1.0” but wow what a 1.0 it is! It’s awesome on the ‘back end,’ but we’ve lacked a way to create rich, interactive user experiences. That now changes, with the release of the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint. The blueprint includes sample applications combining SharePoint and Silverlight, detailed guidance and best practices from Microsoft (claims Microsoft—I’ll await feedback from developers to confirm or modify that claim), and new business data visualizations and interactivity. You can download the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8343228
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About danholme
A graduate of Yale University and Thunderbird, Dan has spent over a decade as a consultant and trainer, delivering solutions to tens of thousands of IT professionals from the most prestigious organizations and corporations around the world. He has recently supported Microsoft technologies design and implementation at enterprises such as Raytheon, ABN AMRO, Johnson & Johnson, and General Electric. He was also the Windows Technologies Consultant for NBC during the Torino Winter Olympics, and is helping NBC to prepare for the Beijing games in 2008.
Dan’s company, Intelliem, specializes in boosting the productivity of IT professionals and end users by creating advanced, customized solutions that integrate clients’ specific design and configuration into productivity-focused training and knowledge management services.
Dan is also a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro magazine, a Microsoft MVP (Windows Server & Directory Services) and is currently penning his third book, to be released later this year by Microsoft Press.