Description
Windows Phone 7 applications can use SharePoint Web services to work with social data. The SharePoint social and search web services allows developers create Windows Phone 7 applications that can find users and profile information and other social data including news feeds and comments. Creating social applications or integrating social data into a Windows Phone application can help users stay connected and informed.
Overview
Windows Phone 7 applications can use SharePoint Web services to work with social data. The SharePoint social and search web services allows developers create Windows Phone 7 applications that can find users and profile information and other social data including news feeds and comments. Creating social applications or integrating social data into a Windows Phone application can help users stay connected and informed.
Objectives
In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to use the SharePoint search Web service to query for SharePoint users. You will also learn how to retrieve user profile informtion and display it in a Windows Phone 7 application.
- Learn how to use the SharePoint search.asmx Web service to search for SharePoint users by first or last name.
- Learn how to use the SharePoint userprofileservice.asmx Web service in a Windows Phone 7 application to retrieve user profile infomration for a specific user.
Prerequisites
The following is required to complete this hands-on lab:
See Setting Up A SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Development Environment Module for instructions that describe how to set up the SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 developer machine.
- Windows 7 x64 installed with all Windows Updates installed, in one of the following scenarios.
- Installed on a physical machine
- Installed on a bootable VHD
- SharePoint 2010 installed on the Windows 7 x64 developer machine configured with a site collection that uses Forms Based Authentication (FBA).
- Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools
- Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools - January 2011 Update
- Windows Phone Developer Tools Fix
The following prerequisites are not included in the Setting Up A SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Development Environment Module installation instructions. If you are using a development machine built according to the Setting Up A SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Development Environment Module instructions you must install these components.
- KB981002- WCF: Hotfix rollup in .NET 3.5 SP1 for Win 7 and Win 2k8 R2
