Mobile Application Development and Integration With SharePoint

In this session you will learn how to build mobile applications that integrate with SharePoint data and services. This session shows how to develop native mobile applications as well as cross device compatible mobile applications with PhoneGap, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, and JQuery Mobile. Also discussed will be authentication and authorization techniques as well as how to interact with the various SharePoint APIs available to mobile devices.

Creating Internet Facing Websites with SharePoint 2010

This session will demonstrate how to create compelling Internet facing websites with SharePoint 2010. In this session, you will learn how to use the web content management capabilities SharePoint provides, as well as custom components built on the SharePoint framework, to create unique user interface and navigation components. You will also learn how to optimize page load performance, enable anonymous users to rate content in your websites, and fine tune your sites for maximum search engine optimization. This session will showcase techniques used on the official Microsoft SharePoint, Visio, and Lync marketing websites.

Come and check them out, I hope to see you there!

Next month, in a follow up article I’ll demonstrate how to use more of the SharePoint APIs in a cross device compatible approach.  Stay tuned!

When you add a Content Query Web Part to a SharePoint Page the option to Play media links in browser is checked by default.

When this option is checked the PlayInMediaBrowser property is set to true.  Like this:

<property name="PlayMediaInBrowser" type="bool">True</property>

This value controls whether or not the Content Query Web Part loads the mediaplayer.js file that controls the SharePoint Silverlight Media Player and wires up the SharePoint Silverlight Media Player to play media files when links to them are clicked on the page.  Since some web browsers cannot handle Silverlight, setting this value to true could cause errors.

If you look at the source of the page when you add a Content Query Web Part it looks like this when PlayMediaInBrowser is set to true.

When you set PlayMediaInBrowser to false, or you remove the CQWP from the page, the code to load the media player disappears.

If you take a closer look at the Content Query Web Part you will see OnPreRender is what is loading the mediaplayer.js file and calling the functions to wire it up. OnPreRender looks at the PlayMediaInBrowser property and renders accordingly.

Make sure you hit CRTL-F5 when refreshing the browser page or clear your browser cache after making the changes or you will not see the change take effect.

If you want to learn more about the mediaplayer.js file and the functions SharePoint uses to wire up the SharePoint Silverlight Media Player or you want to wire up the SharePoint Silverlight Media Player yourself for a custom solution then check out the magazine article I wrote on this subject.

John Liu also discusses this topic in his blog post.

First, close Outlook.

Next, open the Control Panel and select User Accounts and Family Safety.

Then, select User Accounts.

Next, click the Manage your credentials link in the top left.

In the Generic Credentials section, select the entry corresponding to the entry for Outlook specific to your O365 account.

Click the arrow to open the entry (see the screenshot above).

Click the Edit link.

Enter your new password, then click Save.

Open Outlook and the new password will authenticate you to your O365 account and download your email.

• How to keep SharePoint page sizes small so your sites load quickly
• How to use JQuery and custom code with the Content By Query Web Part to create compelling user interfaces and navigation components
• How to allow anonymous users to rate content

You can check out the article here, or view the entire print version of the magazine here.

Hopefully these lessons learned help you out as you create your own SharePoint WCM Sites.

Here’s the session description and some sneak peak screenshots of the application.  Come to the session to see the rest of what the application can do!

The session runs from 3:45-5PM Pacific Time on Monday, October 3rd!  Hope to see you there!

Now that you’ve created a Windows Phone 7 application that integrates with SharePoint 2010, it’s time to take it to the next level and integrate social features.  In this session, you will learn how to use the social capabilities SharePoint has to offer such as people search, user profile data, activity feeds, and colleagues. You will also learn how to provide push notifications in Windows Phone 7 applications that alert users when SharePoint list data, or social data has changed.  Finally, you will learn how to use external social web sites like Twitter and Facebook to compliment your social functionality and broaden the reach of your application to the world.

Your SharePoint colleagues:

Searching SharePoint for people:

The SharePoint Activity Feed:

Integration with Twitter:

I had the pleasure of working with Jonathan Hoffman, John Hormaechea, Keenan Newton, Gary Lapointe and Ravi Vridhagiri on this project. 

In this training you can learn how to lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Composites skills. This course covers a SharePoint Server 2010 Composites overview and all of these aspects for SharePoint Server 2010: Access Services, InfoPath Forms Services, Workflows in SharePoint 2010, Business Connectivity Services, and SharePoint BI and Composites Service Application Configuration.

The kit contains a video and several lab manuals to get you up to speed.

The kit takes a soup to nuts approach that begins by showing you how to set up a Windows Phone 7 development environment and eventually ramps up to some very complex functionality such as how to integrate with SharePoint and Windows Azure.

In the kit, you will find a total of 25 labs that include step by step instructions and sample source code.  Here’s a partial listing of the labs in the kit.  Wow, what a list!

Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 using Web Services

Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 using Rest APIs

Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 using Syndication Feeds

Integrating SharePoint Social Web Services and Windows Phone 7

Paging SharePoint List Data using Web Services and Windows Phone 7

Integrating Images Stored in SharePoint with Windows Phone 7 using Web Services

Uploading Images to SharePoint using Windows Phone 7

Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 using Forms Based Authentication

Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 using Unified Access Gateway (UAG)

Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Notifications

Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Tile Notifications

Integrating SharePoint and Cloud Services in Windows Phone 7 Applications

Integrating SharePoint and Cloud Data in Windows Phone 7 Applications

Integrating SharePoint with Cloud Services and Data in Windows Phone 7 Applications

Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 in Offline Mode

Integrating Windows Phone 7 Applications with SharePoint People Data

Querying the List Schema for Choice Fields

Creating Private Windows Phone 7 Applications

Creating Private Windows Phone 7 Applications That Use Service Based Security

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011
October 3-6, 2011 – Anaheim, CA

Integrating SharePoint Social features into your Windows Phone 7 Application

Now that you’ve created a Windows Phone 7 application that integrates with SharePoint 2010, it’s time to take it to the next level and integrate social features.  In this session, you will learn how to use the social capabilities SharePoint has to offer such as people search, user profile data, activity feeds, and colleagues. You will also learn how to provide push notifications in Windows Phone 7 applications that alert users when SharePoint list data, or social data has changed.  Finally, you will learn how to use external social web sites like Twitter and Facebook to compliment your social functionality and broaden the reach of your application to the world.

SharePointPro Connections magazine just published my second article in a two part series about creating mashup applications in SharePoint 2010. 

In the first article, I walk you through how to integrate BCS data with External Lists and Silverlight applications and how to use Bing maps to map the BCS data.  I also demonstrate how to use Silverlight to Silverlight communication.

In the second article, I demonstrate how to work with videos and the Assets Library in SharePoint 2010 and how to wire up the out of the box Silverlight video player and the SharePoint ratings controls using JavaScript.  I also discuss how to communicate between a Silverlight application and a web page.

This series of articles contains all the code from my how to make You Tube with SharePoint session and my creating Mashups in SharePoint 2010 that numerous folks ask me about each week.  Enjoy!