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If you’re interested in incorporating Silverlight technologies easily and seamlessly into your Sharepoint/MOSS 2007 environment you may want to download and try the Silverlight 2 for Sharepoint Blueprint (Beta 2) from:

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.codeplex.com/SL4SP

What it provides is the ability to do numerous complex interactive functions within the Sharepoint UI with very little cost or time.  For example, the blueprint includes webparts that provide a slider control, a custom navigation toolbar, a colleague viewer and a few other things.

One of the capabilities is that it will enable Sharepoint admins to publish a special user interactive webpart into the Sharepoint site that can point to a Sharepoint list of multimedia such as pictures & videos.  By adding videos and photos to the list, end users find that the Silverlight webpart will automatically make them available for viewing in a very elegant way without traversing the lists themselves.

All navigation is taken care of within the Silverlight control instead of the Sharepoint interface.

Once content has been published into lists, a Silverlight Media Viewer webpart can be added to the Sharepoint front page or site that has properties that allow you to point to the content list that you want the viewer to tap from.

This can be either pictures or video or music.

It’s trivial for Sharepoint administrators to add and enable within their Sharepoint environment, and it’s completely free to use.

Once the webpart is in place, and the content source is set within the webpart’s properties, end users can visit the site and view photos using the web part.

Notice the interactive sidebar in the webpart.  This provides the end user with snapshots of all photos available in this case.

The same goes for videos which shows a thumbnail of each video within the content list, allowing the end user to select what video they want to view along with a description of the content within an overlay window.