Creating a web app using Silverlight and Sharepoint

[Hardwar3]

Hello!

I was recently hired by a company as an intern, and my first project is to create a web application using Silverlight (coding with XAML and C#) and SharePoint. The goal of the app is to scan the current SharePoint page for keywords, such as "HR" or "Agile", and then provide links to learning resources based on these keywords. The learning resources will be both external and internal links. Most of the keywords and learning resources will be set manually.

This is a very large project, and I have two months allotted to it. Where do you think is the best place to begin? I have been looking up some examples of web scraping, but I could use some tips on topics/technologies to research.

Thanks!

 

[Markbnj]

I think Silverlight might be overkill for what you've described. You could provide this functionality directly within Sharepoint, afaik, or use javascript and a REST service to return the links for a keyword. But assuming this is what you have to do, the WebBrowser control is one place to start. I think the challenge will be getting to the DOM of the displayed document, and then manipulating it to add the links somehow. I don't see an easy way to do that, so you might have to fall back on using the HTML bridge to manipulate a DIV floated over a canvas, or something along those lines.