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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint

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The SharePoint platform is ideal for developers looking to build exciting solutions, and SharePoint 2010 is more equipped than ever for the task. While plenty of SharePoint titles will help you understand general SharePoint development techniques or spend time focusing on one method or tool, "Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint" offers you the option of using four different tools and platforms to achieve exceptional end user experience. This book fills the gap for a comprehensive SharePoint title which describes the end goal of a SharePoint developer. So often books focus on development techniques for one tool; this will get you on your way to developing a good business website with a great user experience, however, you choose to get there, be it using PowerShell, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Windows 7 Phone, or a combination of all four. "Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint" draws from five separate titles from Packt's existing collection of excellent SharePoint titles: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Development Blueprints "Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint" is an exciting mash-up of five existing Packt SharePoint titles for extending development techniques. It begins with two never before seen Packt chapters from an exciting new title, giving you a quick overview of the options available for extending SharePoint. It then moves on quickly to building a community site and discusses PowerShell scripting, as well as integrating Silverlight animations and helping you get to grips with SharePoint development on Windows Phone. With this book in hand you won't just find techniques for one development tool, you'll learn how to reach your end goal of developing a site with great user experience using a number of options at your fingertips.

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint
Credits
Credits
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Understanding SharePoint Development Choices
Understanding SharePoint Development Choices
Server-side development
Connecting to SharePoint through web services
Client-side development
SharePoint development tools
Choosing a development path
Summary
2
Building an Engaging Community Site
Building an Engaging Community Site
Creating the community site
Site permissions
Community members
Configuring social Web Parts
Configuring Rollup Web Parts
Creating an Enterprise Wiki
Summary
3
PowerShell Scripting Methods and Creating Custom Commands
PowerShell Scripting Methods and Creating Custom Commands
Introduction
Setting up your Virtual Machine and running a test script
Authoring, debugging, and executing script accessing farm settings with PowerGUI and PowerShell ISE
Accessing advanced SharePoint 2010 functionality with external libraries
Creating a custom PowerShell command (CmdLet)
Creating a custom PowerShell Snap-In
4
Integrating Silverlight 4 with SharePoint 2010
Integrating Silverlight 4 with SharePoint 2010
Understanding the benefits of integrating Silverlight with SharePoint
Preparing the development environment
Preparing the server
Creating a Silverlight LOB (Line-of-Business) RIA
Adding a Silverlight Web Part
Summary
5
Interacting with Rich Media and Animations
Interacting with Rich Media and Animations
Bringing life to business applications and complex workflows
Summary
6
List Definitions and Content Types
List Definitions and Content Types
Introduction
Creating a site column
Extending an existing content type
Creating custom content type using an object model
Associating a document template with the content type
Associating a workflow to a content type
Creating an external content type
Creating a list definition
7
Workflows
Workflows
Introduction
Creating a sequential workflow
Creating a site workflow with an initiation form
Deploying an InfoPath form with the workflow
Creating a task from the workflow
Creating a custom task form
8
Introduction to Programming Windows Phone 7 with the SharePoint Client Services
Introduction to Programming Windows Phone 7 with the SharePoint Client Services
Security in SharePoint 2010
Using WebClient to get data from the Web
RSS feeds available from SharePoint
Parsing XML in Windows Phone 7
Simple page navigation
Using the WebBrowser control to display the post
Summary
9
Building SharePoint Pages for Windows Phone 7
Building SharePoint Pages for Windows Phone 7
The difference between lists and libraries
Adding columns to a list
Customizing the list item output
Replacing the mobile home page
Summary
10
Building a Windows Phone 7 Dashboard Application with SharePoint Data
Building a Windows Phone 7 Dashboard Application with SharePoint Data
Forms-based authentication
Managed Client Object Model on the desktop
WCF Data Services to the rescue
Creating a dashboard application
Summary

Using WebClient to get data from the Web

As was stated in the introduction to this chapter, we are going to build a really simple RSS reader for Windows Phone 7. We are going to keep everything really simple. What that means is that we are going to focus on the pieces of code that actually do something.

This is what we are going to do:

  • Create our base project

  • Add a text block to display the WebClient results

  • Create a WebClient

  • Use the WebClient to request the contents of our SharePoint home page

  • Display the raw HTML that is returned in the text block on the page

First, a quick word about WebClient. WebClient isn't the most robust method of making requests over a network, but it's really simple and works for simple cases, such as the one we are working with.

Creating the base project

We can start by creating our base project. This RSS reader will use the Visual Studio Silverlight for Windows Phone Windows Phone Application template. Carry out the following steps to start the project:

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