The iPhone was a hit, and people look to Microsoft to produce a ZunePhone in some future version of their Zune music player. But I ask you, "Why?!" What you may not be aware of is that Windows Smartphones already do everything that we hope ZunePhone will do. Just check out this feature list: ...
The .NET Compact Framework 3.5 adds a subset of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF or "Indigo") to smart devices, allowing them to communicate with desktop WCF components with all the flexibility of multiple, interchangeable service bindings and endpoints. Although it ships out of the box only with support for message-level communicati...
The .NET Compact Framework team just released the Consumer Technology Preview (CTP) of the Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5. These Power Toys are tools to help you build, debug and optimizie your NetCF 3.5 applications. My personal favorite is the NetCF ServiceModel Metadata Tool (NetCFSvcUtil.exe) which allows NetCF clients...
The .NET Compact Framework has had several releases: V1 + 3 service packs, V2 + 2 service packs, V3.5 (to date just betas). Which of these are installed on your device? Can you have multiple versions installed simultaneously? Which version will run your NetCF app if multiple versions are installed? This post addresses all th...
[Updated: 21Nov07 to clarify that custom headers are supported, but not in NetCFSvcUtil proxy generation] [Updated: 27Aug07 to correct Gzip sample, and clarify on transports & extensibility] [Updated: 23Aug07 to add SecurityAlgorithmSuite enumerable]Many people have been asking about what subset of .NET 3.0's Windows Communication Foundati...
