SharePoint 2010 Enhancements for End Users: New Silverlight Web Part & Improved UI for Adding Web Parts to a Page
Published 09/10 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community
It's time for another round of delving into the new features of SharePoint 2010, as demonstrated by Tom Rizzo in his Overview and Sneak Peek video at the official SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek site. As an employee of Bamboo Solutions, today's topic is one that's near and dear to my heart... I speak, of course, of Web Parts.
Check out the new, integrated UI for adding a Web Part to a page in SharePoint 2010. Inserting a Web Part is as easy as selecting Insert from the Editing Tools option in the Ribbon, and then choosing Web Part. The contextual Ribbon will then open a Categories pane listing the available categories of Web Parts, and selecting a category will then open another pane listing the corresponding individual Web Parts in that category. In the image below, you can see that with Silverlight Web Part selected, an About the Web Part pane will then appear, offering Description and Preview tabs. Just think: no more scrolling seemingly endlessly through a popup filled with dozens of Web Parts to find the one you're looking for!
As you probably noticed in the image above, there are also handy Add and Cancel buttons just beneath the About the Web Part pane. Once you've selected the desired Web Part (and previewed it if desired), clicking Add will drop it right into your page, as Tom Rizzo demonstrated with the Silverlight Web Part like so:
What's that you say? How can this be? There's no such thing as a Silverlight Web Part. Au contraire! The new-to-SharePoint 2010 Silverlight Web Part ships out-of-the-box and allows for the easy insertion of rich media or rich applications directly into a SharePoint site.
More on new SharePoint 2010 enhancements for end users:
- What to Expect When You're Expecting SharePoint 2010
- SharePoint 2010 Enhancements for End Users: Improved Look & Feel, and the Ribbon Comes to SharePoint
- SharePoint 2010 Enhancements for End Users: Multi-Select in Document Libraries, plus New Dialogue Interface
- SharePoint 2010 Enhancements for End Users: New Silverlight Web Part & Improved UI for Adding Web Parts to a Page
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