Dot Net Mafia : Silverlight

Speaking at Office 365 Saturday Redmond!

Dot Net Mafia — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:45:29 GMT

I’m excited to be speaking at the first Office 365 Saturday in Redmond on 2/25. This new event will be an exciting display of all things Office 365. I’ll be talking about all of the cool things you can do with Search in SharePoint Online. ...(read more)

How to: Use the Silverlight web part with Visual Studio 11

Dot Net Mafia — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:11:14 GMT

Visual Studio 11 adds a new feature that makes working with Silverlight in SharePoint 2010 a bit easier. The new Silverlight Web Part feature automates deploying your Silverlight applications to SharePoint and can really save you a bit of time. ...(read more)

How to: Query People Search in SharePoint Online (and other SharePoint platforms too!)

Dot Net Mafia — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:38:12 GMT

At my Search talk at SPC11, I demoed how to build a Silverlight application that could query search in SharePoint Online . I also built a separate application that could query people search, but I haven’t posted on it yet until today. To query...(read more)

How to: Use Refiners with the Search Web Service (FAST Search for SharePoint)

Dot Net Mafia — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:50:47 GMT

Yesterday, I talked about how we can use FQL with the Search Web Service . As promised, I am continuing the series about the search web service to talk about how we can take advantage of refiners. As you may know, FAST Search for SharePoint...(read more)

How to: Query FAST Search for SharePoint with FQL and the Search Web Service

Dot Net Mafia — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:04:37 GMT

I’ve written many posts on how to query search ( Keyword in 2010 , Keyword in 2007 , QueryManager , Web Service , FQL using Keyword ) and I wanted to keep up the tradition and talk about how easy it is to get started using FQL with the Search Web Service...(read more)

Building a SharePoint advanced search application with Silverlight 4

Dot Net Mafia — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:29:00 GMT

At SharePoint Conference 2011, I showed off a great looking advanced search application using Silverlight 4. This application queried the Search web service at /_vti_bin/search.asmx to retrieve results and display them directly inside the application...(read more)