Satter Ramblings

Mobile LOB Accelerator 2008

Mobile LOB Accelerator 2008 is now available for download. This is an update to the original Mobile LOB Accelerator and shows off new features in VS2008 and CF 3.5 while maintain performance. I worked on the underlying data layer which I will be talking about in blog entries. Below is the whole blurb about various features.

Sync Services for Devices

A CTP for Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET aka Sync Services for Devices has been released to the Download Center on MSDN. This allows Sql CE 3.5 to sync to other databases than Sql Server like Oracle.

Google Maps for Mobile API

Looks like someone has been having fun reverse engineering the Google Maps for Mobile API. The site includes very detailed information about the API including get your location, location based search, maps, and directions. The site includes sample code in C#. Check out.

SQL Server CE 3.5

SQL Server CE 3.5 is the supported version of the database in VS2008. What that means is the designers like Server Explorer only work if the database is SSCE v3.5 (Note: I am talking about SSCE accessed by Server Explorer. Server Explorer can talk to other databases).

Mobile Web Development

With mobile development one can build many types of application with .Net. Just like the desktop and laptop world these applications can be broken down into two types of applications WinForms or Web based. A lot of the entries on the blog are about the Compact Framework, so what about the web. This entry looks at web development with ASP.Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.

Performance

I have been working on several projects. One of the things I have been using for those projects is the Mobile Line of Business Accelerator. In public presentations some developers have asked why when displaying information does the LOB Accelerator end up looping through the data twice. Once for building the data objects and then again to display the newly created data objects. So the last couple of days I have looked at the performance implications of looping twice.

New UI

A new shell replacement has come out for Windows Mobile Professional. PointUI is a finger based UI so that you do not need to use a stylus! In addition, it has a cool UI and transitions between screens.

Merge Replication - New Record and Book

Rob Tiffany continues to push the boundaries of merge replication using his rack of servers. The new record is 15 million rows and hour with 1200 concurrent users. In addition, he has released a new book on Merge Replication.

Another new record 12 million rows

Rob Tiffany has given the Windows Mobile development community a Christmas present - 12 million rows syncing an hour on his test rack. The interesting part of the whole thing is that this is using off the shelf computers.

Creating Beautiful UIs

The Compact Framework while small still has a very rich feature set. This includes all the components you need to build a really stunning UI similar to the iPhone.