A while ago I was looking for another way to visualize large dataset from within SharePoint – a cool way to do this is using the Microsoft Silverlight Pivot Viewer (check out The Silverlight Pivot Viewer Control documentation and videos for more background info how to use this) – a great example of this is the Top SharePoint Internet Sites liver pivot .
At first I thought about writing a generic webpart myself which would load the cxml file (this is basically a specific xml format for defining the Pivot collection which you want to display) – but then I found this great project on Codeplex from Xavier Vanneste called the Pivot Viewer for SharePoint.
The Pivot Viewer for SharePoint Codeplex project contains an HTTP handler to dynamically generate a cxml file for a specific list or library – it also handles the Deepzoom image generation using Office Web Apps - and a webpart which is used to render the cxml file created by the HTTP Handler.
Off course you can still build your own custom solution on top of the Silverlight Pivot Viewer – these are the tools that you need to install to get going:
- Silverlight 4 Toolkit – April 2010 on Codeplex
- Microsoft Silverlight Pivot Viewer SDK – after installing the SDK there’s a directory added with sample code - C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v4.0\PivotViewer – unfortunately the Aug10 release did not work for me.
- (Optional) Pivot Collection tool for Microsoft Excel – enables you to represent a PivotViewer collection in a spreadsheet, and then export that spreadsheet to a format understood by Pivot Viewer
Some other links which might get you started:
- Excellent blog post explaining how to use the Silverlight Pivot Viewer control with data from the “Cricket World Cup 2011” – you will still need to rip the cricket players pictures to get it working though
- PivotViewer – Collections – with MSDN Magazine example
- Pivot, OData and Windows Azure: Visual Netflix
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