Chapter 10. Building a Windows Phone 7 Dashboard Application with SharePoint Data

Note

This chapter is taken from Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7 (Chapter 7) by Todd Spatafore.

This chapter will demonstrate many of the custom application paradigms that we encounter as we build enterprise applications for SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7. We will build a simple dashboard that will demonstrate the display of important data and a graph to present information about key performance indicators for a fake company. To get to the data, we will introduce programming against SharePoint 2010 using the client-side API's. This includes using REST and WCF Data Services. We begin this chapter, with a brief look at security. This chapter will cover the following topics:

• Forms-based authentication

• Managed Client Object Model on the desktop

• WCF Data Services to the rescue

• Dashboard

Earlier in this book, we set up our development environment with SharePoint, Visual Studio...