"The application allows police to enter name and vehicle searches on their hand-held devices. Queries are sent via a secure GPRS connection to WA Police headquarters. The solution was developed using Visual C# .NET and consists of a .NET Compact Framework...

MDC 2004 slides are available online.

If you haven't taken the survey please take a moment to do so. Links: - Access the survey - More information about the survey This survey will assist the patterens team in determining priorities for producing guidance. This is you opportunity to influence...

A collegue, friend and all round good guy not to mention ex .NET Compact Framework team program manager, Ivo Salmre (where's your blog Ivo?), has just finished his mobile coding book. "In this book, Ivo Salmre leverages his experience as a designer of...

"The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of Application Blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application Blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code, that can be used as-is...

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=346 When I'm on the road, as I am right now I often need to share a single network connection wirelessly with my two laptops (for redundancy - something always goes wrong on the road) and countless devices. I tried a...

"How do Smart Clients fit into the big picture of enterprise architecture? This session looks at the Smart Client's place within Enterprise and how it relates to Service Oriented Architecture. We look at some of the key architectural challenges surrounding...

Further to my previous post calling for comments on mobile patterns. A survey is now online to capture your feedback. If are interested in seeing some mobile patterns please take a moment to fill out the survey. "The Smart Client Team at Microsoft patterns...

Regarding my previous two posts, looking for job seekers and employers. I am receiving a huge volume of due to those posts - which is extremely cool by the way. But it is becoming increasingly difficult to reply to everyone in a timely manner. I would...

I am current working with my counterpart in the Patterns and Practices group on a schedule for potential .NET Compact Framework patterns and guidance. Is there something that you have been looking for or needing in the way of patterns, guides and / or...

See the comments on my previous post calling for devs. I know have an inbox full of emails from capable developers and architects worldwide. Contact me if you would like their contact details or post a comment on this blog entry if you are looking to...

I have been receiving a bunch of requests lately from companies asking if I can suggest experienced developers for a variety of positions that they have available. If you are an experienced smart client / .NET Framework / .NET Compact Framework (any or...

Interesting blog entry from Mike Zintel on the past, present and future of the .NET Compact Framework. Check it out here .

A colleague of mine, Felix from Microsoft developer support, has been working on a cool Object Pascal scripting engine. "Opscript is an scripting engine based on Object Pascal. This engine takes advantage of Active Scripting to integrate with Microsoft...