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November 2007 - Developer Support

Provisioning smart devices: an introduction

November 29, 2007 Nov 29, 2007 11/29/07
Andrew Arnott
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

November 19, 2007 Nov 19, 2007 11/19/07
Andrew Arnott
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

November 7, 2007 Nov 7, 2007 11/7/07
Andrew Arnott
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

November 5, 2007 Nov 5, 2007 11/5/07
Andrew Arnott
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 ...