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Fun with Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Control - Part 2 - An In Depth Look At The Ribbon Control by johnnyt

Welcome to part 2 of the "Fun with Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Control" series. If you haven't read part 1 go ahead and click here . So how do we deal with this ribbon? Well, by using the powers of XML! Let's take a closer look on how the OOTB ribbon is constructed: If we open the ribbon definitions file - cmdui.xml (which can be found at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\XML) we will see the following structure: <...

SharePoint Social Networking project on CodePlex by johnnyt

Last week i presented a session on the Israeli SharePoint user group about the ribbon control in SharePoint 2010. One of the things i showed in that session was a ribbon tab built for sharing and bookmarking links from the organizational intranet with other users using many providers such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, Reddit and others. The tab generated a lot of excitement in the audience so i decided to make it an open source project on CodePlex and in time add other social networking projects...

Fun with Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Control - Part 1 by johnnyt

So, my first REAL post of 2011... Let's make it count! A few days ago i started looking into the possibility of integrating Silverlight into the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon control. Naturally i checked my favorite blogs to see if someone has experimented with this already but i couldn't find a single mention of Silverlight and the ribbon working together, so i decided to create a small, fun (and to be honest quite useless) POC of using Silverlight as a control inside the SharePoint 2010 ribbon...