Bringing life to business applications and complex workflows

So far, we have been able to interact with data from the SharePoint Server through the SharePoint Silverlight Client Object Model and WCF Data Services. Sometimes, we need to share, manage, and consume rich media, related to data.

SharePoint 2010 improves rich media management by introducing asset libraries and we can take advantage of this new feature by consuming it in a Silverlight RIA through the SharePoint Silverlight Client OM. Silverlight 4 offers outstanding features to create amazing User eXperiences (UX) when combining rich media with effects and animations.

Creating asset libraries in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Server 2010 introduced a new asset library specially designed for managing and sharing digital assets and rich media files such as images, audio, and video. It is possible to combine workflows, routing, rules, and policies with asset libraries. However, in this case, we will focus on creating simple asset libraries...