Silverlight Process Designer in SharePoint WSS - Development of a Silverlight 2.0 Process Designer tool with integration in SharePoint WSS

摘要

SharePoint WSS is an information portal from Microsoft. It helps employees communicateand collaborate within the company. SharePoint lets people share documents and files bystoring them in a central site making cooperation within the company trouble-free.Silverlight is a technology for building Rich Internet Applications. It uses a browser plug-inthat downloads and executes Silverlight code within the browser. It is designed to offer theuser a richer experience than the traditional mixture of HTML and scripting languages.The Process Designer tool brings these two technologies together. Completely developed inSilverlight the Process Designer tool takes advantage of out-of-the-box functionality ofSharePoint WSS. In conjunction the Silverlight tool brings a visual user experience toSharePoint that the technology itself cannot accomplish.Following a couple of integration steps Silverlight can be used within SharePoint. By usingWeb Service technology communication between the two frameworks is established makingthem benefit from each other.The focus of the thesis is the integration of Silverlight in SharePoint WSS, evaluating theprocess and the Silverlight technology. Integration and implementation issues will be outlinedthat helps development of future Silverlight applications.