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