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PixelMuse
PixelMuse

Reputation: 470

Reference SharePoint dll from within a Silverlight Application?

I need to build an external upload utility to send files up to SharePoint 2010. However, I can't reference SharePoint to call all of the code needed to work with a document library.

Is there any way to make this happen inside Silverlight?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 268

Answers (3)

int32
int32

Reputation: 1687

All answers are true and valid, however there IS a Client Object Model for SharePoint that you can use with Silverlight aswell. Here is a great tutorial to get you started.

Upvotes: 2

Bryant
Bryant

Reputation: 8670

Silverlight runs on the client, not on the server, so you can't reference the SharePoint dlls. You would need to build a server-side service that uses the sharepoint dlls and then call that service from Silverlight.

There are built-in sharepoint developer entry points which I reference in my blog post here. You could probably use these instead of using the sharepoint dll.

Upvotes: 1

Wiktor Zychla
Wiktor Zychla

Reputation: 48230

This is rather not possible. Silverlight executes under a sandboxed environment with no direct access to server-side APIs.

Instead, create a WCF service at the server side, reference the Sharepoint DLL from within the service and call the service from Silverlight.

Upvotes: 1

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