Security in SharePoint 2010
We begin this chapter with a discussion on security for a very simple reason: security in SharePoint is tricky. In addition to that one very simple reason, authenticating users against SharePoint from within a Windows Phone 7 client application is even trickier.
That is to say, it is not impossible. In this chapter, the example RSS reader that we develop will only use anonymous access to the RSS feeds in SharePoint. Setting up anonymous access is very simple and we'll walk through the steps here.
Note
When writing this chapter, I came across a lot of errors on my testing server, but not my development server. After a couple of days of unsuccessful web searches and reinstalling different components, I discovered the root of my problem was due to the fact that the SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites install a non-final version of ADO.NET Data Services 1.5. Make sure the final version is installed from Microsoft. More information is available at the following URL:
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