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.
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Sep 10 2009, 04:09 PM
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John Anderson
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About John Anderson
John Anderson joined Bamboo Solutions as Manager of Content & Syndication in May 2008 after a 12-year career at AOL. New to SharePoint at the time of his hiring, John was tasked with creating a new blog for the just-launched Bamboo Nation community in which he would document his daily SharePoint learning process. Thus was born the end user-centric SharePoint Blank, for which John authored 200 posts within a year, and which he continues to write today. Today, John writes SharePoint Blank in addition to his responsibilities as Managing Editor at Bamboo and, while he learned much about SharePoint in his first two years, he gleefully celebrates the release of SharePoint 2010 and the reset button that the new platform represents for SharePoint Blank.