This document discusses building Windows Phone 7 applications to access SharePoint. It covers authentication with SharePoint, exploring different remote APIs like RSS, REST, and web services. It demonstrates integrating with SharePoint using RSS/ATOM feeds, the REST API, and social/search web services. The document emphasizes that authentication makes WP7 integration with SharePoint difficult but the SharePoint 2010 and WP7 Training Kit can help get started quickly building apps to extend SharePoint business solutions.

1. Building your first Windows
Phone 7 application for
SharePoint
Joris.Poelmans@gmail.com

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3. About me
• Unit Manager at RealDolmen
• Working with SharePoint since 2001
• MVP SharePoint Server since 2005
• Blog - http://jopx.blogspot.com
• Twitter – jopxtwits
• Co-author
• SharePoint Server 2007, the definitive guide (O’Reilly, 2007)
• Real World SharePoint 2007 (Wrox, 2007)
• Real World SharePoint 2010 (Wrox, 2010)

4. @JOPXTWITS
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5. Agenda
• Getting started
• Why authentication matters…
• Exploring different remote APIs in FBA scenario

6. WHY BECOMING A WP7 DEVELOPER?
• Gartner expects smartphone
sales to exceed 1 billion in 2015
• Gartner expects Microsoft’s
market share to increase from
6% to 20%.
• Business oriented mobile apps
are just starting to appear
• But ....
• Fragmented market
• Uncertainty about revenue
potential of paying apps
• Marketing required >70K apps
available

7. HOW TO START
http://create.msdn.com

8. YOUR DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
• Multiple options
• Single machine Windows 7
• Single machine W2008 R2 using 2 separate VHDs
• Multiple machines

9. TWO FLAVOURS OF APPLICATIONS
• Modern XAML/event- • High performance game framework
driven application UI • Rapid creation of multi-screen
framework 2D and 3D games
• Rapid creation of • Rich content pipeline
visually
• Mature, robust, widely adopted
stunning apps technology
• Metro-themed UI spanning
controls
Xbox 360,
• Reuse existing Windows,
Silverlight controls and
and Zune
libraries

10. SHAREPOINT API ACCESS SCENARIOS
Scenario Use for
RSS Read
REST API Read and write
Web services Read and write
Client side OM Not supported with WP7 & SPS2010
Custom Read and write

11. SHAREPOINT RSS FEED
• SharePoint provides OOB
RSS feeds
• Read only
• Support Anonymous
access
• List data only
• Additional fields =
XML + HTML
• Difficult to parse
• Feeds can be parsed
using
• Any XML API
including LINQ
• .Net Syndication
library

12. Demo
Integrating with SharePoint using
RSS/ATOM feeds

13. Agenda
• Getting started
• Why authentication matters …
• Exploring different remote APIs in FBA scenario

14. SHAREPOINT AUTHENTICATION SCENARIOS
• Windows Phone 7 does not support Windows Authentication
• SharePoint authentication design will affect API support
Scenario Basic Claims (FBA) Anonymous
RSS Supported* Supported Supported
REST API Supported* Supported Not Supported
Web services Supported* Supported Not supported
Custom Supported* Supported Supported**
• * Supported with Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
• ** Support depends on design

15. AUTHENTICATED ACCESS SCENARIOS - FBA
• Enable Claims Authentication
• /_vti_bin/Authentication.asmx
1 1. Call
authentication.asmx
2 2. Request credentials
3. Send credentials
3 4. Return cookie
5. Attach cookie to
4 subsequent calls
5

16. Demo
Working with Form Based Authentication

17. Agenda
• Getting started
• Why authentication matters …
• Exploring different remote APIs in FBA scenario

18. INTEGRATE USING REST/ODATA
• Service Proxy (works with UAG only)
• Generate a service proxy
• Visual Studio
• DataSvcUtil.exe
• Use generated proxy class to interact
with data
• HttpWebRequest – (only option with FBA)
• Url for reads ( simple)
• Create body for write (complex)
• Execute request asynchronously
• Process results in callback method

19. Demo
Integrating with SharePoint REST APIs

20. INTEGRATE USING WEB SERVICES
• Service Proxy
• Generate a service proxy
• Use generated proxy class to interact with data
• HttpWebRequest and SOAP
• Create SOAP request and HttpWebRequest
• Execute request asynchronously
• Process results in callback method

21. SHAREPOINT WEB SERVICES
imaging.asmx
spsearch.amx
versions.asmx

22. Demo
Integrating with SharePoint using Lists
web service

23. SHAREPOINT USER AND SOCIAL DATA USING
WEB SERVICES
• Use Search.asmx and UserProfileService.asmx
• SocialDataService.asmx
• Read and manage
• Comments or Notes
• Tags
• Ratings

24. Demo
Integrating with SharePoint using social
web services

25. SUMMARY
• Authentication makes WP7 integration with SharePoint quite
troublesome ...
• ... But using the “SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7
Training Kit” – you can get started quite quickly
• Build WP7 apps to extend your SharePoint business solutions
– don’t try to build a generic solution.

26. RESOURCES
• Building Windows Phone 7 applications with SharePoint 2010 Products and Unified
Access Gateway (UAG) (white paper) - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/hh180841.aspx
• Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications for SharePoint 2010 -
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pstubbs/archive/2010/10/04/developing-windows-phone-7-
applications-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx
• Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers -
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=1678
• SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Kit
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26813
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
http://silverlight.codeplex.com