How to create a Chart on a SharePoint 2010 site

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Enterprise 2010 is a collaborative application that can be used by multiple users connected to the same server. On an established SharePoint website for a server, you can upload files and edit other users' work. You can also add new Web parts to files, such as adding a chart Web part containing data from another file stored on your computer. Adding a chart to a SharePoint Enterprise page can be helpful when you want to visually express data to other users connected to the SharePoint website.

1. Log into SharePoint site.
2. Navigate to the site where you want to create a Chart.
3. Select an existing page that you want to add the chart.
4. Click the Insert tab and then click Web Part.
5. Click the Business Data option from the Web Parts group. Click the Chart Web Part option and then click the Add button.
   
6. Click Save & Close.
7. Data and Appearance option and then click the Connect Chart to Data option.
   
8. Select your data source type, such as a Excel workbook that has been published to Excel Services or other data source type, and then click Next.
   
9. Select the file containing the data and then click the Next button two more times. ClickFinish and the chart with your data will appear on the page.

How to Use the Silverlight SharePoint Web Part to Display Silverlight Applications

Silverlight applications are used to build rich Internet-based applications. SharePoint previously allowed Silverlight integration with some configurations and many deployment dependencies.

SharePoint 2010 has introduced a new web part (Silverlight Web Part) which is an out of the box SharePoint web part. It facilitates one to view their Silverlight applications. The Silverlight web part always accepts the application in the ".xap" format, which is basically the compressed output file for the Silverlight application.

So, how to use out of box Silverlight web part in SharePoint 2010?

1. Create a sample Silverlight application using Visual Studio 2010.
2. Find a .xap file in the projectfolder -> projectfolder.web -> ClientBin folder
3. Upload the .xap file into one of the SharePoint libraries.  To upload the .xap file, go to the Library and click Add document.  Browse the source path of the clientbin folder and select the .xap file and click OK. One can select to overwrite the existing file in the library too.
4. To add a Silverlight web part, go to SiteActions -> Edit Page. Click Add web part. In the Media and Content category, select Silverlight web part and click OK.
5. Open the tool pane. Under the application category, click on configure and select the application file source path as the document name (.xap files) that you uploaded in the library. Click OK and select Stop editing from the Page tab. 
6. The Silverlight application is viewable and accessible very easily without any kind of back-end configurations.