Last week I presented to to about 30 to 40 people in Irvine about developing applications for the Mobile platform using the Compact Framework. The audience was great, lot's of good questions and interactions, I had promised to post all the content after the class and while this fulfils the terms of that statement I am sorry it has take me this long.

There are still some Mobility Metro events scheduled see Loke Uei Tan's blog entry More Mobility Metro events for more information. I talked to Loke this week and he has assured me we will be doing more of these events in a few more months as well.

Have you been thinning of ways you could create solutions for your customers or company on the Windows Mobile platform? Well you are in luck! I am going to be running two Mobility Metro Events in the Microsoft offices San Diego and Irvine on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 and Thursday, April 24, 2008. I will post the full details below... I hope to see you there!

 

 

The content for the mobility touchdown events that I was at in Los Angeles and Las Vegas has been updated and is available for download from Q4Tech's web site at Mobility touchdown content. If you attended any of the events around the world you will want to get the final content as all the bugs were fixed as the content was bending given.

For a review of what the Mobility touchdown events were see the MSDN blog http://blogs.msdn.com/mobilitytouchdown.

Just incase you had not seen this back in November Q4Tech released to CodePlex an implementation of the Patterns & Practices Mobile Updater Application Block. I have seen it used and it's quite feature complete, I hope to have my line of business application demo back online soon and have it using this block.

A area of development that miss not working with as often as I would like is programming for Windows CE. I did a lot of development for CE with the Compact Framework before I joined Microsoft and have contented to develop some small proof of concept applications to show what is possible but as always if not part of your day to day job you tend not to keep up and that is where I am at with this (and many other) topic.

I recently found the HopperRX blog that has a bunch of good advice and tools to help develop applications for CE I hope it can help any of you keep up as well.

There is going to be a online guided hands-on webcast titled "Creating Managed Applications for Windows Mobile 5.0 Powered Devices"

For more information see the MSDN event site for the event MSDN Webcast: Guided Hands-On: Creating Managed Applications for Windows Mobile 5.0 Powered Devices (Level 200).

This is the first time I have seen this type of training offering offered and am quite interested to see how it is received so please let me know if you attend it.

I am sure you all have been waiting like myself for the final version and now it's here!

Mobile Client Software Factory

Go get it!

The PAG group has just released a CTP of the Mobile Client Software Factory. I have yet to read and play with the code but I am told it is great.

Please let me know what you think of it if you decide to play with it.

OK I know this is going to be a pain in my side but I want to do it so I can stay current on Compact Framework development. On the suggestion of Scott Kerfoot I have stated to develop a small test Compact Framework application. I have setup a new site to host it and it’s Web Service. Check it out!

Pubs Demo

The San Diego .NET Users Group is putting on a Mobile Development Conference as always with these events I am sure it will sell out so sing-up soon!

I found a good article about setting up SQL CE merge replication on the linked from the Developmentor web site. It's Setting Up Merge Replication: A Step-by-step Guide check it out.

Microsoft has released the .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP2 I was in the beta and SP2 has had no problems with my current CF projects but there is a help to performance!

I found a cool little FAQ MSDN about the Compact Framework. Check it out at .NET Compact Framework Frequently Asked Questions

We created a set of PPC apps to use here at TechEd but we delayed rolling them out until we had some issues with the SQL Server dealt with. So tonight and tomorrow I will be helping anyone who wants to run the PPC apps that were demo'd at the first keynote. Lets hope all goes well, the only issue I think we will have is the load on our local SQL box it's just not a powerful box. Come back to see or come to the CommNet help desk and ask for Woody and we will get you setup.

Ok so now we get in to what this bolg is all about.
A guy I work with sent me a link to a great website that called opennetcf which is for open-source projects targeting the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. This rocks there are quite a few project up there now and I am sure more to come.