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Integrating SharePoint Social Web Services and Windows Phone 7

Version: 1.0.0

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:

Note:
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.

Note:
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.