Overview

There are a few steps that must be completed in the right order for the development and testing of a Silverlight enabled WebPart.

  1. Install WSS 3.0
  2. Install VS 2008 and VS 2008 SP 1
  3. Install Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows Sharepoint Services (VSeWSSv12)
  4. Install Silverlight Tools 2.0 for Visual Studio 2008
  5. Modify the Sharepoint Web.Config to include Web Extensions and Silverlight assemblies
  6. Add the XAP MIME-Type to IIS
  7. Create a sample Silverlight control
  8. Create a sample WebPart control
  9. Copy the output from the Silverlight project to the Sharepoint server
  10. Configure the WebPart in Sharepoint
  11. Test

The following posts will walk you through the above steps.