David Kline

If any of you read Gamerscoreblog , you may have noticed a suspicious resemblance between the photo of the zombie and the one that graces this site's News section...  Let me quell any rumors by saying that it is indeed true that the zombie and I...

This evening, I came home to the news that my absolute favorite author, Arthur C. Clarke had died.  I have been an avid reader or Mr. Clarke since I was 12.  That year, I first picked up a copy of '2001: A Space Odyssey".  From the...

Just a quick note to let folks know that I will be making the trip to Mix this year.  I have recently gotten my flight, hotel and conference in order and am now officially registered.  I'm very much looking forward to this conference. ...

Since MEDC 2005, I have been tapped to present sessions many times.  Over the past three years, I have learned a lot and have grown as a presenter. When I was first getting started, I attended my first speaker training course.  Speaker training...

I've been meaning to post this for the last week...  The .NET Compact Framework v3.5 Power Toys have officially been released.  You can download the Power Toys from here . See the .NET Compact Framework Team weblog for details on the included...

Here's another in my series of "why didn't I know this feature was there". While I was doing a technical review last week, I learned about a much easier way to add files to my Visual Studio projects. In the solution explorer Select a project...

The Visual Studio for Devices team has been posting a very interesting and informative series on the CoreCon API.  I highly encourage anyone interested in writing remote tools to read the series.  In fact, I recommend everyone interested in...

I love tools.  Debuggers , analyzers, performance monitors, profilers, everything.  In version 1 of the .NET Compact Framework, the only available tools where the Visual Studio debugger and the performance counter data file (also known as the...

I don't often go off-topic on this site.  In fact, I probably start each off-topic post with the same basic statement.  Seeing that tomorrow is a national holiday in the United States, today seemed like a good time to take a little break here...

Part 1 - The origins of the 'lunch launcher' Part 2 - MEDC 2007 Part 3 - Managing the Transport Part 4 - Sending messages Part 4b - The output channel Part 5 - Receiving messages Part 6 - Processing messages Part 7 - The Lunch Manager Now that we have...

While browsing MSDN today, I came upon a handy article that I wanted to share.   Titled 'How to: Debug while Running a Smart Device Unit Test ', it provides step by step instructions on debugging your test projects. There is one additional step...

Part 1 - The origins of the 'lunch launcher' Part 2 - MEDC 2007 Part 3 - Managing the Transport Part 4 - Sending messages Part 4b - The output channel Part 5 - Receiving messages Part 6 - Processing messages The journey is almost at an end.  Today...

Alan Page announced today that the new Microsoft Tester Center site was live.  This is very cool.  What I love about this site is summed up in three words... it's about testing . I encourage anyone interested in learning more about testing and...

Part 1 - The origins of the 'lunch launcher' Part 2 - MEDC 2007 Part 3 - Managing the Transport Part 4 - Sending messages Part 4b - The output channel Part 5 - Receiving messages Last time, I talked about how the Lunch Launcher receives messages . Today...

I recently finished reading Rob Tiffany 's newest book 'Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact 3.1 ' (special thanks to Rob for blogging about the process and the chapters). For anyone, like me, who attended MEDC...

Part 1 - The origins of the 'lunch launcher' Part 2 - MEDC 2007 Part 3 - Managing the Transport Part 4 - Sending messages Part 4b - The output channel In the series so far, we have seen how the Lunch Launcher manages the Store and Forward Messaging transport...

Part 1 - The origins of the 'lunch launcher' Part 2 - MEDC 2007 Part 3 - Managing the Transport Part 4 - Sending messages There is a time honored tradition in some television series of having, for example, 'Season 4' and 'Season 4b'. This weblog is no...

Part 1 - The origins of the 'lunch launcher' Part 2 - MEDC 2007 Part 3 - Managing the Transport Last time, I talked about how the Lunch Launcher manages the transport objects used to communicate via Store and Forward Messaging on the .NET Compact Framework...

The .NET Compact Framework team made an exciting CTP available this week.  The .NET Compact Framework v3.5 Power Toys September 2007 CTP release contains some old friends (ex: Remote Performance Monitor) and ads some great new ones (Service Model...

Part 1 - The origins of the 'lunch launcher' Part 2 - MEDC 2007 In the first two installments (linked above), I introduced the lunch launcher and talked about getting ready for its debut at MEDC 2007 in Las Vegas. Now it's time to start looking at how...

In part 1 , I introduced the lunch launcher. Today, I'm going to talk a bit about the preparations for the "world premier" of the lunch launcher from MEDC 2007. Before getting started, I set out a few goals: Provide an introduction to the Store and Forward...

Several years ago, when I first joined the .NET Compact Framework team, we took some time (a week, if memory serves) to play with our product. We called that our "app building" time. At it's heart, app building is an opportunity for us to get a feel for...

Last month, Andrew Arnott posted a very handy table that compares the Windows Communication Foundation features found in .NET Framework v3.0 with those found in .NET Compact Framework v3.5 . This is an invaluable resource for anyone writing Windows Communication...

In the first installment of this series, I detailed a list of key metrics used to determine when a product is ready to ship. Today, I'm going to talk about how I interpret these metrics. Avoid out of context metrics The first thing to remember when looking...

I realized, this morning, that this weblog has been active for over three years and still has an empty About page... That's a bit too long, so today, I have rectified the omission. Click here to learn a little more about who's been filling this site with...