September 2007 - Posts

Calling WCF services from NetCF 3.5 using Compact WCF and NetCFSvcUtil.exe
13 September 07 12:29 AM | andarno | 16 Comments   

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 Read More...

Filed under: Mobile devices, NetCF, WCF, .NET

Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 CTP released
13 September 07 12:17 AM | andarno | 1 Comments   

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 Read More...

Filed under: Mobile devices, WCF, .NET

Where are the InfoCard sites?
06 September 07 02:53 PM | andarno | 4 Comments   

InfoCard is the greatest invention since the web browser! In my opinion anyway. If you don't agree or you haven't heard of InfoCard, please read from the www.identityblog.com , and in particular the post on the Laws of Identity . It's really quite impressive Read More...

Filed under: Identity

How to find the focused ListBoxItem in WPF
05 September 07 04:10 PM | andarno | 2 Comments   

One would expect that the WPF ListBox control would have some kind of FocusedIndex property to find out which item has the keyboard focus (and that dashed border around it) -- but it's not there. It seems the workaround requires a few lines of code, which Read More...

Filed under: WPF