building your first windows phone 7 application for sharepoint

Joris.Poelmans@gmail.com

Building your first Windows Phone 7 application for

SharePoint

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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)

@JOPXTWITS#SPSBE34

Agenda

• Getting started

• Why authentication matters…

• Exploring different remote APIs in FBA scenario

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

HOW TO START

http://create.msdn.com

YOUR DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

• Multiple options

• Single machine Windows 7

• Single machine W2008 R2 using 2 separate VHDs

• Multiple machines

• High performance game framework

• Rapid creation of multi-screen 2D and 3D games

• Rich content pipeline

• Mature, robust, widely adopted technology

spanning

Xbox 360, Windows,

and Zune

• Modern XAML/event-driven application UI framework

• Rapid creation of visually stunning apps

• Metro-themed UI controls

• Reuse existing Silverlight controls and libraries

TWO FLAVOURS OF APPLICATIONS

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

SHAREPOINT RSS FEED

SharePoint

_layouts/ListFeed.aspx

• 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

Demo

Integrating with SharePoint using RSS/ATOM feeds

Agenda

• Getting started

• Why authentication matters …

• Exploring different remote APIs in FBA scenario

SHAREPOINT AUTHENTICATION SCENARIOS• Windows Phone 7 does not support Windows Authentication

• SharePoint authentication design will affect API support

• * Supported with Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)

• ** Support depends on design

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**

AUTHENTICATED ACCESS SCENARIOS - FBA

• Enable Claims Authentication

• /_vti_bin/Authentication.asmx

1 1. Call authentication.asmx

2. Request credentials3. Send credentials4. Return cookie5. Attach cookie to

subsequent calls

2

3

4

5

Demo

Working with Form Based Authentication

Agenda

• Getting started

• Why authentication matters …

• Exploring different remote APIs in FBA scenario

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

Demo

Integrating with SharePoint REST APIs

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

SHAREPOINT WEB SERVICES

Service Proxy

Soap Request

SharePoint

OR

imaging.asmxlists.asmx

sitedata.asmxspsearch.amxversions.asmx

views.asmx

Demo

Integrating with SharePoint using Lists web service

SHAREPOINT USER AND SOCIAL DATA USING WEB SERVICES

• Use Search.asmx and UserProfileService.asmx

• SocialDataService.asmx

• Read and manage

• Comments or Notes

• Tags

• Ratings

Demo

Integrating with SharePoint using social web services

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.

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