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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

Chapter 3. Enhancing SharePoint Sites for Windows Phone 7

SharePoint is a very diverse tool. It is important that it is implemented correctly, and figuring out that implementation will keep developers busy for years. Implementing SharePoint is more than just running the setup from a DVD. Thought and care needs to go into deciding what the organization needs and what parts of SharePoint should be exposed. This is the discussion with which we will begin this chapter.

After discussing why we customize SharePoint sites, we will discuss SharePoint itself. We will review the terminology of various components that make up SharePoint. We will compare SharePoint to ASP.NET and IIS.

Next, we will review the development environment and how to set up SharePoint. We will discuss the various options for setting up all the tools that will be needed for developing SharePoint and Windows Phone 7.

Finally, we will investigate how to use Visual Studio 2010 to customize a SharePoint site and then package that...