Silverlight Experiment 2 – File Sharing
by ChrisH on Jan.28, 2010, under Silverlight
I wanted to build on the earlier Silverlight experiment by adding some sort of functionality, and this is the result. It’s a proof-of-concept file uploading utility that shows how Silverlight can interact with remote servcies and dbs, and of course share files. The actual file upload is performed using Michiel Post’s excellent Multi File Uploader.
You can use this sample to create a user account, then create some virtual folders on the remote server, and then upload files to your folders. If you upload a picture file the web service will also create a thumbnail on the server.
(DISCLAIMER – This sample is intended as a proof-of-concept only and may have some bugs.)
This is as far as I’m planning to go with Silverlight for now. For any RIA development in the near-future I plan to use Flash instead.


