Help – Windows Phone 7.1 Emulator crashes my VMWare Workstation

When reading about the Integrating SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Course on MSDN – I decided to immediately start trying out some stuff.

Since I have some SharePoint 2010 VM instances already setup and I have the Windows Phone 7.1 Development tools installed (the training kit is still written for Windows Phone 7.0 though) – I thought about just using this setup. Remember that you can quite easily access your SharePoint running within the VM instance from your guest by using the VMWare Network Adapter VMNet1 (host only) – (see quick tip – accessing guest from host with VMWare Workstation)

Unfortunately as soon as I started the Windows Phone 7.1 Emulator  - my VM just crashed – this seemed to be an issue with the beta release of Windows Phone 7 as well – check out Windows Mobile 7 Emulator kills VMWare – I tried the workaround outlined here – Round 1, fight! Windows Phone emulator x VMWare but unfortunately it did not work for me …

Anyone another workaround – please leave a comment….

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Integrating SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Courses available on MSDN

This thing got me really excited – Microsoft has released a new training course on MSDN for building Windows Phone 7 apps for SharePoint 2010.  The training kit is also available as an offline training kit – both the offline and online training kit contain a number of great modules and hands on labs. Enjoy …

• Introduction to Windows Phone 7 development 
• Setting up a SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Development environment
• SharePoint 2010 Mobile Web Development
• Enable SharePoint for Windows Phone 7 Mobile Access
• Creating  a Mobile Web Part
• Creating a Mobile Aware Field Control
• Integrating SharePoint Data in Windows Phone 7 Applications
• 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
• Advanced SharePoint Data access in Windows Phone 7 Applications
• 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
• Security with SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Applications
• Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 using Forms Based Authentication
• Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 using Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
• Integrating Push notifications with SharePoint data in Windows Phone 7 Applications
• Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Notifications
• Integrating SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Tile Notifications
• Integrating SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure
• 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
• SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Tips and Best Practices
• 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
• Adding Launchers to E-Mail and Phone Numbers
• Deploying Windows Phone 7 Applications
• Creating Private Windows Phone 7 Applications
• Creating Private Windows Phone 7 Applications That Use Service Based Security

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Deploying farm based SharePoint solutions requires access to SharePoint databases

Something you might overlook as a SharePoint developer is the fact that when you are using STSADM commands to deploy your solution you are running under your own account context. This in contrast with actions that you perform using SharePoint central admin which will typically run under the context of the farm service account.

So if you need to deploy/upgrade farm based solutions using stsadm I would typically do the following:

• Add your account to the local Administrators group on the SharePoint server machine
• Add the user with the public role and db_owner role on the SharePoint database in SQL Server

For more background information – check out You receive error messages when you try to use the stsadm.exe command line tool to perform administrative operations in Windows SharePoint Services – this support article is written for 2007 but is still valid for 2010.

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Introduction to FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

MSDN Live Meeting - Introduction to FAST Search Server for SharePoint Server 2010

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Windows Phone 7 training resources for developers

If you are new to Windows Phone 7 development – there are tons of resources out there – here’s just a small list to get you started (it did for me …)

• Windows Phone Programming in C# – 8 different sections with labs,presentations, etc … about Windows Phone 7 on Faculty Resource.
• Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes! (Beta)
• Video recordings for first Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart event
• Series of tutorials and example applications for Windows Phone 7 based on the 31 days of Apps
• TekPub –Windows Phone 7 development videos
• Windows Phone 7 Session Videos and Slides, Organized and Explained (MIX10)

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Windows Phone 7 link collection June 2011

• Leveraging your Android development expertise to build Windows Phone applications
• Connecting to an SSL WCF service with Windows Phone 7 Emulator
• Sketchflow for Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone developer certification exam on the way
• HTML 5 Host Application Framework for WP7 Mango
• Windows Phone Marketplace heading to web in Mango
• Windows Phone 7.1 Beta Developers Tools available
• Mango feature list
• Even more Mango features hidden in the developer tools emulator
• Windows Phone 7 online services availability matrix for Mango
• WP7 Mango teaser video previews new features 
• Alle Windows Phone 7 sessies van DevDays 2011
• Mango will provide “more” access to your contacts
• Windows Phone 7 development for absolute beginners
• Windows Phone Developer resources on App Hub
• Changes to the App Hub developer portal
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 Social Viewer Application Template released

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MSDN Forum Assistant available for download

You can now check out MSDN Forums and receive updates directly on your desktop with the MSDN Forum Assistant. Features include Ask a Question, Latest Post, Thread Updates, Priority Support, and Forum Q&A. You can download the MSDN Forum Assistant here: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=822a3787-89e8-4c6d-8fc4-a413437d86e9

You can find more information here:

MSDN Forum Assistant Web Site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-sg/gg650455

Video Overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYrNemrjQc8

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Claim Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 for Community Day 2011 on slideshare

Claim Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 for Community Day 2011

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About collaboration, innovation and organizational success

Next are a collection of links which I came across during my little stroll on the web when going through my RSS subscriptions which were tagged as interesting reads. Lots of with background information on collaboration, social software, organizational success … and off course SharePoint.

• The facets of collaboration Part 1 – Meet robot barbie
• The facets of collaboration Part 2 – Enter the matrix!
• The facets of collaboration Part 3 – The feature jigsaw
• The facets of collaboration Part 4 – It’s all Gen-Y fault or is it?
• Ten rules for modern collaboration – Edward Boches
• Social networking creates a collaboration Culture – Kim Nash
• It’s not what you see, it’s what you get!
• Gamers will save our economy
• The social intranet becomes reality
• Barriers to Knowledge Sharing: The Biggest one isn’t systems
• Doing a SharePoint assessment
• First look at Data from the SharePoint Maturity Model
• Collaboration vs social media = internal collaboration vs external engagement
• Focus on the process – the why and not the what for social software
• Can I get 5 minutes?
• So what about Business Users
• Ceilings, carpets & middle managers

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