Once you have completed your Windows Phone 7 application you will need to publish it to the Marketplace. In this unit you will learn how to avoid some common publishing mistakes. You will also see how to protect and secure your applications. You will also learn about a couple of techniques to make your applications private.
Hands-On Labs
Creating Private Windows Phone 7 Applications
The Windows Phone 7 marketplace does not have a concept of a private marketplace. Applications published to the marketplace are visible to everyone. When deploying an application for all the users in a large organization, using the marketplace is the most efficient way to go about it. Developers must take steps to ensure applications deployed to the public marketplace are only used by authorized employees and not the general public.
Creating Private Windows Phone 7 Applications That Use Service Based Security
In this lab you will learn how to create a Windows Phone 7 application that uses a Windows Azure WCF Service to unlock the application. You will also learn how to provide users the functionality they need to call the Windows Azure WCF Service and conditionally unlock the application based on the results returned from the service.