Creating a dashboard application

Let's get started on a simple dashboard application for the Windows Phone 7. For this application, we are going to write a simple panorama application in Windows Phone 7. This panorama application will have two sections named Panorama Items. We'll read data from a shared calendar containing days off for employees and display them on the screen. We'll then add another panel that will display a pie chart showing the overall status of all projects currently being worked on. This data will come from a project task status site in our SharePoint site.

Creating the calendar

Before we create the calendar, let's create a new site for this chapter. Carry out the following steps to create a new site:

1. 1. Open your SharePoint site.

2. 2. From the Site Actions menu, select the New Site option.

3. 3. In the Create dialog that appears, select Team Site.

4. 4. Give the new site a name of Chapter 7

5. 5. Give the new site a URL of Chapter07.

6. 6. Click on the Create button and SharePoint...