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Just Published: Windows Phone 7, SharePoint, and UAG white paper.

Todd Baginski — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:33:03 GMT

Over the winter, Matthew McDermott, Darrin Bishop and I spent a lot of time creating Windows Phone 7 applications that integrate with SharePoint sites. One of the things we figured out how to do is publish a SharePoint web site with a UAG Server to provide the ability to work with ASMX and REST based SharePoint APIs. Today the whitepaper which documents this process is available on MSDN.

You can download the Building Windows Phone 7 applications with SharePoint 2010 Products and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) (white paper) whitepaper here.

A special thanks goes out to Ben Ari for his help!

New SharePoint and Silverlight Training Course

Todd Baginski — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Check it out; a brand new training kit about SharePoint and Silverlight and how to combine the two! This course was just released by Microsoft. Darrin Bishop, David Mann, and myself worked with Paul Stubbs to create it over the past couple of months. There’s some really great examples in this training kit which includes over 30 labs.

Some of my favorite labs include:

Making a Silverlight banner ad rotator that displays banner ads in a SharePoint list.
Creating sample SharePoint data which allows you to edit Silverlight applications in Expression Blend without being connected to a SharePoint server.
Interacting with hosting web pages and the Silverlight applications deployed on them.
Replacing the out of the box navigation controls in SharePoint with Silverlight.

Building Custom BCS User Interface Components

Todd Baginski — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Do you need to build a custom user interface that works with BCS data? If you do then check out my latest article in SharePointPro Connections magazine. In my article Business Connectivity Services, Part 3: Building Custom UI Components, I demonstrate how to build custom UI components that work with BCS data, including how to work around limitations in sandboxed solutions.