Cookies on the Silverlight desktop world, work almost magically, when using the browser stack. When you however, try to use the ClientHttp WebRequestCreator (especially to go out of browser), setting up of the cookie handling has to be done via some extra...

Below are some known issues with the MIX drop. Multiple "Add Service References" from VS Express 2010 IDE, causes the ClientConfig file generated to be overwritten. Details: The endpoints, bindings and client xml tags of the new service reference, overwrites...

Technorati Tags: NETCF WCF So, I have had a lot of questions on how to use WCF stack on NETCF and what the supported modes are for security and so forth. Really glad to say that Michele has written a cool guide for WCF mobile. This is based on NETCF 3...

There was recently a good post by Abhinaba about finalizers and threads Finalizers and Thread local storage . One of the things mentioned in MSDN is this: “ Finalizers can be executed in any order ”. The consequence of this is not too obvious. Consider...

If you had a desktop client that worked with the desktop’s AddServiceReference, and now wanted to use the same code on a mobile client – generating the proxy with a NetcfSvcUtil.exe tool, there is a gotcha that I recently got a customer query about. If...

I recently got a question from a customer on how one can add custom headers to NETCF app. There is a lot of documentation on how to do this using OperationContextScope and IDispatchMessageInspector on the desktop side, but neither is supported on CF 3...

As I embark on my blogging journey, I hope to have fun sharing my experiences with NETCF - I currently work as a developer with the team. I was recently trying to create a CE image with NETCF 3.5 built into the image, but realised that the instructions...