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  • Synchronisation Strategies

    The author of sync-mobile has added another post that discusses scheduling strategies for synchronisation of data. In this post they outline three strategies for scheduling or kicking off a sync: SMS - There is definitely a risk that messages can be delayed or might never reach the target but on most...
    Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 03-27-2007
  • Mobile Client Software Factory (Dynamic Resolution)

    The Dynamic Resolution application block is just way too cool. So one of the on going issues with building applications for mobile devices with different screen orientations and resolutions is what to do when it changes (eg toggle between portait and landscape on a single device). With version 2 of the...
    Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-27-2006
  • Mobile Client Software Factory (Subscription Manager)

    An alternative to using webservices is to use sql replication. The Subscription Manager application block provides a simple interface with which to manage sql replication between a sql mobile database and a sql server via a web publication (class list below). The following example illustrates how you...
    Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-27-2006
  • Mobile Client Software Factory (Credential and Disconnected Service)

    Mobile applications often want to make webservice requests to either send a message to a server or as part of the synchronisation process. However if a connection is not available this request needs to be queued. When a connection is available, if the request is important enough it should be sent. Whether...
    Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-26-2006
  • Mobile Client Software Factory (Data Mapping)

    In my previous post on the MCSF we saw how the Data Access application block can be used to simplify data access. However, once we have retrieved the correct data rows from the database we still need to work with them. We could either pipe them into a dataset and work with them as untyped data, or we...
    Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-26-2006
  • Mobile Client Software Factory (Data Access)

    The next application block available in drop 5 of the MCSF is the Data Access block. At the moment this is a very simple block containing two classes that can be used to eliminate some of the unnecessarily repetitive code that goes into accessing databases. These classes are illustrated in the following...
    Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-26-2006
  • Mobile Client Software Factory (Connection Manager)

    Anyone doing Windows Mobile development should be aware of the fantastic work the team over at OpenNETCF have been doing with the Smart Device Framework. This has provided missing functionality for both v1 and v2 of the .NET Compact Framework. Recently they also released a series of application blocks...
    Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-25-2006
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