1. .NET Compact Framework 2.0 for the Desktop Developer
Mark Arteaga
OpenNETCF Consulting
blog.markarteaga.com

2. Agenda Mobile Development .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Overview
Device Specific Controls
Data Access
Microsoft.WindowsMobile Namespace
Tips & Tricks
OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework 2.0

3. Mobile Development

4. .NET CF 2.0 Overview What is it? Why .NET CF? What’s Needed?
What can you develop for?
What’s New in CF 2.0?
What’s Missing in CF 2.0?

5. .NET CF - What is it? First made it’s debut in 2002/2003
Developed to bring the managed developer to the mobile space
Developed to have the same namespaces as the full framework
Has device specific classes and controls
Windows Mobile 5.0 API adds more classes

6. Why .NET CF? If you are a .NET shop then why not?
If you are an ISV, why not port your application to potentially 107million users
If you are an enterprise, why not extend some highly used or mission critical desktop application

7. What’s Needed?
If you have developed for the desktop then you already know how to develop for a mobile device
Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition - Includes CF1.0 and CF2.0
C# or VB.Net development experience. Can also use native C++
SDKs – some available with VS2005 some available for download
A real device to test on
A consumer or enterprise focused idea!

8. What Can you develop for?

9. What’s new in CF2.0 Command line compile COM Interop
Resource files same as the desktop
VB My Objects (My.Resources, My.Webservices, My.Forms)
System.Xml enhancements (XPath, XmlSerializer, Schema)
Improved threading
SQL Mobile replaces SQL CE 2.0
MSMQ now available
Framework 2.0 changes
Partial Classes
Generics
Anonymous Methods

10. What’s Missing in CF 2.0? My Objects
My.Applications
My.Computer
My.User
My.Settings
Xml Schema validation is not supported because of size
Timers – Start()/Stop() are not supported
Remoting is not supported
Sockets – not everything is supported
Reflection does not have Emit namespace
Activated/Deactivated events are not supported, can use GotFocus()/LostFocus() instead
Various controls because not available on Windows Mobile

11. Device Specific Controls

12. New Controls

13. All Controls

14. Tour of VS2005 from a Mobile Perspective
DEMO
Tour of VS2005 from a Mobile Perspective

15. Data Access SQL Mobile System.Data.SqlServerCE used for SQLMobile
Synchronization
Storage Engine
Query Processor
System.Data.SqlServerCE used for SQLMobile
System.Data.SqlClient used to access SQL Server from device
Typed Datasets

16. SQL Mobile and Integration with VS2005
Demo
SQL Mobile and Integration with VS2005

17. WindowsMobile.Namespace
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Forms
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.MessageInterception
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Telephony

18. Tips and Tricks User interface Load data in background threads
Landscape, portrait or square?
VGA or not?
Load data in background threads
Don’t use localhost when calling a webservice
Sharing code
use #defines
Compile assemblies against the CF
Use source control ‘share’ feature to share Xsd/Typed Datasets
Make sure not to call any device specific calls

19. OpenNETCF SDF 2.0 Framework to extend the Compact Framework
It’s Free!!
Award winning software two years in a row
Visual Studio 2005 integration
Don’t have to re-invent the wheel
Save countless hours in development
No comparable products out there in the same space

20. Demo
SDF Overview

21. Mobile Embedded DevCon

22. Relative Links www.opennetcf.org blog.opennetcf.org
msdn.microsoft.com/mobile
msdn.microsoft.com/embedded
msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/community

23. Contact Information
Websites: (OpenNETCF Consulting) (OpenNETCF.org) blog.markarteaga.com (My Blog) blog.opennetcf.org (Blogs of other OpenNETCF Members)

24. Contact Information
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