After seeing Mike Gannotti's note about a SharePoint 2003 web part to display pictures from an image library in a web part by Simon Tocker, I decided I should do something for the MOSS/WSS 3.0 platform.

Simon based his custom web part on the Silverlight samples available on the Microsoft Silverlight developer site which uses a pair of JavaScript helper files as described here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb412401.aspx

I thought there must be a simple way to do this that was better than just using a page viewer web part and fewer complexes (hey, that was Words' grammar suggestion rather than 'less complex') than deploying a custom web part. Data View to the rescue. This has to be the most powerful web part in SharePoint!

Here is the demo http://www.wssdemo.com/pages/silverlight.aspx which will be updated with how to info shortly.

I'm surprised I found time to do this given that I just received an i-mate JasJam after 3 weeks without a phone (I got sick of hand-me-downs so held out for a new device) and it gets a 10 out of 10 from me.