Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration

Chapter 3. Interacting with Data on the SharePoint Server

We already know how to develop, deploy, and debug Silverlight RIAs that read data, request services, and access remote objects from the SharePoint server. Now, we want to interact with this data by performing insert, update, and delete operations. In this chapter, we will cover many topics that help us create simple and complex Line-Of-Business Silverlight RIAs that run as Silverlight Web Parts to interact with data in the SharePoint Server.

In this chapter, we will:

• Use a Silverlight RIA to insert items into a SharePoint list
• Retrieve and process metadata information about a SharePoint list
• Prepare code to handle errors when remote operations fail
• Work with messages to allow multiple Silverlight ...