Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications for SharePoint 2010 (MDV08)- mynotes

SharePoint Connections 2010, Den Haag, 29 September 2010

Session: MDV08: Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications for SharePoint 2010 (MDV08)

Speaker: PAUL STUBBS (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pstubbs/)

• Globally Web parts are not rendered but only content is rendered on the mobile from a SharePoint site.
• If you wish to render web parts content, use Mobile web part adapters:
  • Renders alternate view
  • Lookup in browser.compat config file
  • Supported in SharePoint Foundation
  • Use Microsoft.SharePoin.WebpartPages.MobileAdapter
  • Override CreateControlForDetailView()
• Applications supported on Windows Phone:
  • Silverlight (business applications)
    • Modern XAML/event driven application UI framework
  • XNA (games)
• Capabilities of the Phone (features writable against SharePoin)
  • Input
    • Touch
    • Hardware buttons
  • Media
    • Digital media capture&playback
    • Media Library access
  • Data
    • Isolated Storage
    • LINQ
  • .NET
    • Superset of Silverlight 3.0
    • WCF (SOAP and REST services)
  • Phone Access
    • Integrated access to phone UI
    • Sensors, camera, microphone
    • Picker for contact and photos
  • Integrated with could Services
    • App deployment & updates
    • Notifications (very important for mobile services)
    • Location
    • XBOX live
• Authentication to SharePoint is an issue for development on mobile phones
  • The phone DOES NOT SUPPORT windows authentication yet but only Forms based authentication
  • Forms based authentication
    • Supported very easily through claims provider in SharePoint 2010
    • Provider neutral: SQL, LDAP
    • Solution: forms authentication provider can be set to LDAP and so the users will be still use the same username and password as the one in active directory
• Windows Phone tips for SharePoint
  • Only supports Forms Based Authentication sites in SharePoint
  • FedAuth Cookie is HTTPOnly
  • Pass along in a CookieContainer: set enableHttpCookieContainer on binding. One you have it (after authentication) always pass your CookieContainer with any list call you initiate.
  • Authentication.asmx not compatible with Service Reference in Visual Studio: use instead HttpWebRequest
  • Access to list web services works fine.
• Phone tools are working for Windows 7 only – phone development machine needs to be on Windows 7 (if you start the phone emulator in a server it will reboot L )
• Check slides for a development environment schema
• Tooling
  • http://Developer.windowsphone.com download all tools and emulators
  • Download SharePoint 2010 Developer VHD (Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, SharePoint Enterprise with Fast, etc)
• Run your App on a Phone for tests: Matthijs Hoekstra (matthijs.hoekstra@microsoft.com )

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