Creating a Silverlight LOB (Line-of-Business) RIA

Now, we are going to create a very simple Silverlight LOB (Line-Of-Business) RIA that retrieves data, displays a grid with a list of projects, and allows the users to navigate through the data. Then, we are going to integrate this Silverlight UI in SharePoint.

1. 1. Create a new Visual C# project using the Silverlight | Silverlight Application template. Use SilverlightProjects as the project's name.

2. 2. Deactivate the Host the Silverlight application in a new Web site checkbox in the New Silverlight Application dialog box. We want the Silverlight application to run in a simple HTML web page. As you have installed Silverlight 4 Tools, the dialog box will offer you a combo box with the possibility to choose the desired Silverlight version. Select Silverlight 4 as we want to take advantage of the new features offered by this version.

3. 3. Add a new XML file to the project, Projects.xml. The following lines define properties and values for five...