Chapter 1, Introducing Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 7 is a reinvention of the Windows Mobile platform. This chapter begins with an overview of the phone controls and capabilities. Then Microsoft Outlook capabilities are covered. This includes working with e-mail, contacts, and calendars. Next the full range of Microsoft Office capabilities is reviewed covering OneNote, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of the Windows Marketplace.

Chapter 2, Getting Started with Internet Explorer Mobile. Windows Phone 7 includes a mobile version of Internet Explorer that has most of the rendering features found in the desktop Internet Explorer 7 and the JavaScript capabilities of desktop Internet Explorer 8. This chapter begins with a brief discussion of web page architecture. It follows that up with a more in-depth investigation of the browser found in Windows Phone 7. Next is a discussion of the mobile friendly META tag settings. The chapter concludes with an example of building a single web page that will render for both the desktop browsers and Windows Phone 7 Internet Explorer.

Chapter 3, Enhancing SharePoint Sites for Windows Phone 7. SharePoint is a powerful tool and this chapter begins to expose the power found in SharePoint by discussing the customizations available to users and administrators. Next, an overview of the structure of SharePoint from sites to web applications is discussed. Then, an overview of the development environment used for the rest of the book is examined. This leads into a summary of the various site templates available in SharePoint. The chapter concludes with an example of building a custom site.

Chapter 4, Building SharePoint Pages for Windows Phone 7. Within a site, data is stored as either lists or libraries. This chapter begins with an examination of these differences. Then it describes adding columns to a list and customizing the list item output. The chapter ends with an example of replacing the mobile home page.

Chapter 5, Customizing SharePoint Communities for Windows Phone 7. This chapter focuses on customizing SharePoint communities for use on Windows Phone 7. The SharePoint communities of interest are blogs and Wikis.

Chapter 6, Introduction to Programming Windows Phone 7 with the SharePoint Client Services. This chapter moves away from programming SharePoint's web interface for Windows Phone 7 to building Windows Phone 7 applications that utilize SharePoint data. After a brief discussion of security in SharePoint, the chapter provides an example of building a simple RSS reader. The simple RSS reader gets data from an anonymous RSS feed from a SharePoint list, and discusses many of the basics of building a Windows Phone 7 application.

Chapter 7, Building a Windows Phone 7 Dashboard Application with SharePoint Data. The chapter begins with another discussion of security in SharePoint and the example in this chapter utilizes forms based authentication in SharePoint. The example from Chapter 6 is revisited, but this time a username and password are used to access the data. After a brief discussion of the tools available for building SharePoint applications on the desktop the focus turns to building out the dashboard application for Windows Phone 7.

Appendix A, Additional Resources. There are a lot of resources on the Internet that provide the bits and pieces required to build the exceptional applications that enterprise consumers will require from their phones. This chapter provides a list of additional resources that could come in handy while developing for both SharePoint and Windows Phone 7.

Appendix B, What wasn't covered in this book and why? This book isn't an exhaustive reference for how to develop Windows Phone 7 applications and sites for SharePoint. This appendix will cover some topics that weren't described in any detail, but might be of use for an enterprise SharePoint application on Windows Phone 7.

For working with samples and development situations in the book, two machines and ideally a Windows Phone 7 device will be required.

It is worth noting that the Windows Phone 7 Emulator will not run on a machine running other virtualization software and as such, the Windows 7 machine can neither run on a virtual machine nor on other virtual machines while the emulator is running. For more information on setup, please refer to Chapter 3, Enhancing SharePoint Sites for Windows Phone 7.

If you are a .NET developer who wants to create enterprise-ready websites and applications that access Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows Phone 7, then this book is for you. You should have a basic knowledge of Windows Phone 7 and SharePoint Server 2010. This book also assumes some knowledge of C#, managed code in general, and a basic level of familiarity with Visual Studio.

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select new RSSItem
{
Title = item.Element("title").Value,
Date = item.Element("pubDate").Value,
PostUrl = item.Element("link").Value
};

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InitializeComponent();
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}

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