Summary
In this chapter you have seen how to manually create Silverlight Web Parts that can host a Silverlight application in SharePoint. Creating the web parts manually is a little tedious and not very straight forward for beginners. This was the reason the Silverlight Web Part extension was created. The Silverlight Web Part extension automates all of the steps required to create Silverlight Web Parts. The extension also gives you the flexibility to use either the built-in Silverlight Web Part or use a sandboxed Visual Web Part.
You learned about some of the limitations of the built-in web part. You also saw how you could extend the Visual Web Part by interacting with the HTML tags in the web part. All of these options should be used in ways that make the most sense for your particular solution. The Silverlight Web Part extension helps you jump start your Silverlight Web Part projects and reduces the steps to get Silverlight running in SharePoint.
You've also learned how to connect web parts so you can show master-detail relationships, dashboards, and mash-ups. In the process, you also learned how to manually put Silverlight in a web control, which is helpful when writing navigation controls, field controls, and editor parts.