November 2007 - Posts

Provisioning smart devices: an introduction
29 November 07 04:19 PM | andarno | 1 Comments   

A lot of questions on the MSDN forums center around how to customize a device or an app to prefer a specific network connection over another.  The correct way to accomplish this is by "provisioning" the device.  In fact a great many Read More...

Filed under: Mobile devices, NetCF, Provisioning

Why .NET Compact Framework fails to call some HTTPS web servers
19 November 07 10:18 PM | andarno | 33 Comments   

A bug was discovered recently in the .NET Compact Framework version 2.0 (SP2 and earlier) and 3.5 that causes HttpWebRequest's directed at some HTTPS servers to fail with this error: (for web services) System.Net.WebException: Unable to read data from Read More...

Filed under: Mobile devices, NetCF, WCF

Trying out the iPhone
07 November 07 08:00 AM | andarno | 1 Comments   

So I had the opportunity to try out the iPhone for a day.  Overall I was impressed, but there were some very basic features missing from many of the otherwise killer apps that I would greatly miss if I was to use the iPhone as my primary PDA and Read More...

Filed under: Mobile devices

Workaround for XmlSerializer T[] and List<T> bug
05 November 07 09:34 PM | andarno | 0 Comments   

The XmlSerializer in NetCF 2.0 has a bug where if a single serialization requires reflecting into types that use a mixture of Collection<T>-like types for the same T the XmlSerializer will throw an exception.  Here an example where CF 2.0 would Read More...

Filed under: Mobile devices, NetCF, .NET