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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7

By : Todd Spatafore
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7

By: Todd Spatafore

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is a reinvention of the Windows Mobile platform and improves productivity by taking a fresh approach to the most common Smartphone business usage scenarios such as e-mail, calendar, contacts, and collaboration. Microsoft SharePoint is a Web technology-based server that can be used to build portals, collaboration sites, and also content management sites.</p> <p>Microsoft Windows Phone 7 allows you to integrate with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and create enterprise-ready websites and applications that access SharePoint Server on Windows Phone 7.</p> <p>The book starts by providing an overview of the out-of-the-box features of Windows Phone 7 for enterprises then moves on to an overview of the web browser that is included on the phone, Internet Explorer Mobile, covering the improvements found over the desktop version of Internet Explorer 7 and the limitations of the browser. The book then dives deep into topics such as Windows Phone 7 Web Development, building SharePoint Sites for Windows Phone 7, building SharePoint Pages for Windows Phone 7, and SharePoint Communities amongst others.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Customizing SharePoint Communities for Windows Phone 7

Web page architecture


Web pages on the client side mainly consist of three vital components: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The exact version of each of these varies, but in the end it all comes down to these three pieces.

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the container for the page content. The page should contain just that content and nothing else. A properly coded site would leave the presentation and functionality portions of the page to CSS and JavaScript. In addition, the content should be constructed in a manner that makes logical sense for the content that is being delivered. This is called semantic HTML.

By using semantic HTML, the page content can be readily searchable by a wider range of devices, other than just a desktop browser. Although in this book, we will use this to our advantage to write pages that can be viewed in Windows Phone 7's Internet Explorer Mobile browser, it can also help search engines discover your site content, and assist people...