Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 using Forms Based Authentication

Version: 1.0.0

Description

Windows Phone 7 applications can use Forms-Based Authentication (FBA) to work with secured SharePoint resources. SharePoint 2010 includes an Authentication Web Service that can be used to authenticate requests using FBA. This lab will focus on using FBA to access secured SharePoint resources.

Overview

Windows Phone 7 applications can use Forms-Based Authentication (FBA) to work with secured SharePoint resources. SharePoint 2010 includes an Authentication Web Service that can be used to authenticate requests using FBA. This lab will focus on using FBA to access secured SharePoint resources.

Objectives

In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to access SharePoint resources from a Windows Phone 7 application using FBA.

  • Learn how to authenticate to SharePoint using the SharePoint Authentication Web service from a Windows Phone 7 application.
  • Learn how to attach a FedAuth cookie to web requests to access secured SharePoint resources.
  • Learn how to handled successful and failed authentication attempts.

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.