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Provisioning smart devices: an introduction

Andrew ArnottNovember 29, 2007Nov 29, 200711/29/07

A lot of questions on the MSDN forums center around how to customize a device or an app to prefer a specific network connection over another. The correct way to accomplish this is by "provisioning" the device. In fact a great many aspects of the device and the applications on it can be configured through 'provisioning' the device.&

Why .NET Compact Framework fails to call some HTTPS web servers

Andrew ArnottNovember 19, 2007Nov 19, 200711/19/07

A bug was discovered recently in the .NET Compact Framework version 2.0 (SP2 and earlier) and 3.5 that causes HttpWebRequest's directed at some HTTPS servers to fail with this error: (for web services) System.Net.WebException: Unable to read data from the transport connection. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Unknown error (0x0).

Trying out the iPhone

Andrew ArnottNovember 7, 2007Nov 7, 200711/7/07

So I had the opportunity to try out the iPhone for a day. Overall I was impressed, but there were some very basic features missing from many of the otherwise killer apps that I would greatly miss if I was to use the iPhone as my primary PDA and phone. Here is a brief summary:Then of course there's the closed platform problem, and I

Workaround for XmlSerializer T[] and List bug

Andrew ArnottNovember 5, 2007Nov 5, 200711/5/07

The XmlSerializer in NetCF 2.0 has a bug where if a single serialization requires reflecting into types that use a mixture of Collection<T>-like types for the same T the XmlSerializer will throw an exception. Here an example where CF 2.0 would crash: This type would fail to serialize under NetCF 2.0 because T = string would a

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November 2007 | Premier Developer

Provisioning smart devices: an introduction

Why .NET Compact Framework fails to call some HTTPS web servers

Trying out the iPhone

Workaround for XmlSerializer T[] and List bug

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