1. Windows Forms and Smart Device Extensions in the End-to-End Application
Hans Verbeeck
Developer Consultant
Microsoft EMEA

2. Football247.net clients or Business Data admin reporter browser
Presentation
Business
Data
admin WS
Façade
(asmx) WS
Façade
Biz
Services D A L
reporter
WIN
Service SP or
ES Façade
ASP .NET UI
(aspx)
browser

3. Football247.Presentation .Administrator, .Reporter
Football247.net
Football247.Common
.Core
Application
Architecture
Solution
Structure
System
Architecture
.Datasets
Football247.Presentation
.Administrator, .Reporter
.WinControls
User Tier
.WebSite
.WebControls
.Facades
Football247.Business
Business Tier
.Facades
.Host
.Services
Football247.Data
Data Tier
.DataAccess

4. Agenda Building a Framework using Visual Inheritance
Using Web Services in Windows Forms
No-touch deployment
Using the Compact Framework and Smart Device Extensions

5. Building a framework Panel UserControl TreeItemHandler TreeView
TreeNode
TreeItem
.Tag

6. Framework’s Guided Tour
Show the server explorer.
Add sp’s, tables, open tables
Drag objects on forms
DEBUG the get quote of the day stored procedure

7. Agenda Building a Framework using Visual Inheritance
Using Web Services in Windows Forms
No-touch deployment
Using the Compact Framework and Smart Device Extensions

8. Using Web Services Where’s my .config?
Add app.config to Windows Application project
When building, this becomes ApplicationName.exe.config
Asynchronous calls make sense in Windows Applications

9. Using XML Web Services in Windows Forms
Show the server explorer.
Add sp’s, tables, open tables
Drag objects on forms
DEBUG the get quote of the day stored procedure

10. Agenda Building a Framework using Visual Inheritance
Using Web Services in Windows Forms
No-touch deployment
Using the Compact Framework and Smart Device Extensions

11. Deployment Options What affects client TCO? Problems to solve
System Impact
First Time Deployment
Application Update
Problems to solve
Isolate applications
Run app without touching the client (no installation)
Update the app without touching the client
Will the install of app1 break app2?
Every client has to have the app explicitly installed on it
Every client has to re-install the app to pickup updates

12. URL Launched Apps Run a managed app from a URL
Start -> Run ->
<a href= My App </a>
No-Touch Update for free
Just update the files on the server
On-Demand download
Must have .NET FX on the client

13. Code Download Load Assemblies from a Web Server
App downloads itself at runtime
Update server assemblies to update app
Use Assembly.LoadFrom(url)
Takes a URL to an assembly
Downloads and caches the assembly
Automatically checks for newer versions
Permissions based on where the assembly came from

14. Auto-Updating Applications
Traditional installed client apps
Automatically downloads and applies updates from a server
No explicit uninstall / install to update
Examples: Windows® XP, MS Money, MSN™ Messenger, Terrarium, …
.NET Application Updater Component
What is it?
A .NET sample component that enables a .NET application to automatically update
Same code used in the .NET Terrarium
Enabling Technologies
Application Isolation
.NET Framework Class Libraries

15. Deployment options summary
URL
Launched
Code
Download
Auto Updating
Components
No-Touch
Deployment
Yes
No-Touch Update
Dynamic Modules
Offline
Full Trust

16. Know your Sandbox Security is based on evidence
Where does the application come from?
Who is the author of this application?
.NET Framework Configuration / caspol.exe

17. No-touch deployment Show the server explorer.
Add sp’s, tables, open tables
Drag objects on forms
DEBUG the get quote of the day stored procedure

18. Agenda Building a Framework using Visual Inheritance
Using Web Services in Windows Forms
No-touch deployment
Using the Compact Framework and Smart Device Extensions

19. Compact Framework client-side applications client-side applications
Visual Studio.NET
.NET Framework
code
client-side applications
web pages
client-side applications
web applications
There are two basic application models to consider when developing for devices:
Mobile Web Applications, which are web applications with web pages formatted to run on small form factor devices
Client-side applications, which use secure .NET code designed to be deployed to and execute on the target device
Mobile Web Browser
.NET Compact Framework

20. .NET Framework .NET Compact Framework System.Web System.WinForms
Services UI
Design
ComponentModel
Description
HtmlControls
Discovery
WebControls
Protocols
System.Drawing
Caching
Security
Drawing2D
Printing
Configuration
SessionState
Imaging
Text
System.Data
System.Xml
ADO.NET
SqlClient
XmlDocument
Serialization
Design
SQLServerCE
Xslt/XPath
Reader/Writers
System
Collections IO
Configuration
Runtime
InteropServices
Security
Net
ServiceProcess
Text
Reflection
Diagnostics
Remoting
Serialization
Globalization
Resources
Threading

21. Controls for CF Applications
Supported controls
Button
CheckBox
ComboBox
ContextMenu
DataGrid
DomainUpDown
HScrollBar
ImageList
InputPanel
Label
ListBox
ListView
MainMenu
NumericUpDown
OpenFileDialog
Panel
PictureBox
ProgressBar
RadioButton
SaveFileDialog
StatusBar
TabControl
TextBox
Timer
ToolBar
TreeView
VScrollBar
Unsupported controls
GroupBox
RichTextBox
NotificationBubble
Print Controls
Unsupported controls – not available in CE
CheckedListBox
ColorDialog
ErrorProvider
HelpProvider
LinkLabel
NotifyIcon
ToolTip
Splitter
FontDialog

22. .NET Compact Framework Show the server explorer.
Add sp’s, tables, open tables
Drag objects on forms
DEBUG the get quote of the day stored procedure

23. Resources In the pack you receive at the end of the day Post-event CD
Football247.Net Workspace on

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