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Archive for the 'Mobility' Category

The Microsoft Developer Show #16 - Building Occasionally Connected Applications

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

In the coming months we are likely to see a new style of applications being built.  Although SQL Mobile has been around for some time, it has previously been restricted to applications designed for Windows Mobile devices or Tablet PCs.  With the release of SQL Server Compact Edition desktop applications can be built and deployed […]

Reposting the Moth on Cross Platform Development

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

I’m not a big fan of reposting content that other people have already stated numerous times, but Daniel Moth has some exceptional posts that are worthy of some mention:

Retargetable (=256)
Share Code (#if FULL_FRAME)
Deploy to My Computer
Resx compatibility for Smart Device projects
Another use of partial types
Not a strict subset
Sharing Cursor.WaitCursor and InputPanel in VS2005
Dotnet changes
Speaking at MEDC […]

Dual Project for Cross Platform Development

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

One of the topics that was covered in the show with Jeff Arnett is how you can aid cross platform development by using dual, or parallel, projects.  The premise is that for every desktop project, you have a parallel device project.  The projects reside in the same directory and use the same code files, which […]

Microsoft Developer Show #8 - Mobile Cross Platform Development

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

This year we have not only seen a whole variety of Windows Mobile 5 devices hit the market, we have also seen the first UMPC devices being released. With the launch of Vista just around the corner (are you “ready for a new day“?) we will see operating system convergence such that Tablet PCs, […]