Satter Ramblings

MVC 4 - Game Changer

During the //build/ Day 2 keynote, Scott Guthrie announced a new release of MVC. MVC 4 is a developer preview meaning "danger, Will Robinson, danger". However it is definitely worth a look as it makes building mobile web applications easier. It is also what I have been waiting for to get moving on Web LOB Accelerator. Read on for how to build a multi-device site using MVC 4.

Creating a Multi-Device Web Site

One of the things I have always wanted to do was write the Mobile LOB Accelerator as multi-device application. One of the things that has held me back is the lack of ADO.NET in Silverlight. Yes I know I can use a lot of database implementations for Silverlight. The problem is that I have yet to find a way to spoof in ADO.NET. I would like a class library that device specific UI then consumes. Ah but how about a web site with device specific UI. This is very doable.

Porting LOB Accelerator to iPhone using MonoTouch

People who have read my blog probably knew this was coming. I assisted Rob Tiffany in writing the second version of his Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator. So it is only natural that I try and port it to MonoTouch.

CodeDOM

  Reed Robinson has been talking about the Mobile LOB Accelerator lately. This got me thinking how I could make it easier to write applications based on it. This then lead me to CodeDOM. Ok I am lying but then I can't give away all of my secrets.

State Aware Objects in Mobile LOB

Reed Robison wrote a blog entry about State Aware Objects in the Mobile LOB Accelerator. I thought I would talk about how this part of LOB developed.

Mobile Line of Business Accelerator 2008 - Data Retrieval

The new Mobile Line of Business Accelerator 2008 includes a new data layer that can be used in your own projects to speed up development. When the Add Item screen for example is displayed, the user uses a combo box filled with inventory objects to pick inventory items to add to an order. This article walks through how the data gets from the database to the UI.

Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine

Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine has a cool advertisement for Mobile LOB Accelerator. There is also an article about it. Very cool.

Tech Ed 2008 North America

Tech Ed 2008 North America is coming up next week. The show has now been split into two weeks. One for Software Developers and the other for IT Professionals. In addition, this year MEDC has been folded into Tech Ed. This is a great idea as now your training time and dollars do not need to be split between two shows. In the future Mobile developments will participate in the mainstream conferences like Tech Ed and PDC.

Mobile LOB Accelerator 2008 Architecture

The Mobile LOB Accelerator 2008 is an enterprise mobile application demonstrating how a mythical hardware distributor could use Windows Mobile devices to support the sale and distribution of hardware goods. This blog entry looks at the architecture being used.

Managed Stored Procedures

One of the new features in the Mobile Line of Business Accelerator 2008 is something the team called “Managed Stored Procedures”. Now the team did not really write and add to SQL Server CE 3.5 the ability to create stored procedures. Instead we looked at what developers were really looking for that they wanted stored procedures.