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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

Blogs


At this point in the 21st century, everyone is familiar with what a blog is. In SharePoint, a blog is a site that is characterized by entries of content being listed from newest at the top of the page to oldest at the bottom. Content is determined by the author and can contain metadata such as the author, date, and keywords or tags to designate the categories in which the content belongs.

Creating a blog site in SharePoint

A blog site can either be the root site or a site contained within another site. This is consistent with all site types in SharePoint. The reason this is pointed out though, is that when creating a new SharePoint engagement, it is important to truly think of the overall goal of the website as a whole. If the website will essentially be a blog with other content thrown in from time to time, then it makes sense for the root site to be of the type blog. Otherwise, it makes sense to make the root site something else like the team site or a blank site and then add a blog...