Community building is an important part of any product release – especially so for a platform like the .Net Compact Framework. One of the things that takes sometimes a significant fraction of my working day is interacting with the community in multiple...

One of the most common questions we are asked is how fast is .NET Compact Framework? There are 2 things that will help you the most for your project: 1. Learning how .NET Compact Framework is architected from a performance viewpoint, you'd get do's...

One of the most common requirements of a well written mobile application is to be network aware. For instance, as an app how do I determine if I am in the signal range of a GPRS network? There's this cool managed class that exposed in the windows mobile...

One of the things I’ve learn over the last few years and what I find missing is the answer to the question of, “ What’s the best approach to debugging a network issue?”. After spending long hours in front of nasty networking issues I think the following...

This is how .NET Compact Framework determines which proxy to go through while communicating with a server. The order in which .NET Compact Framework (NETCF) searches for proxy information is: Step 1: It checks if the programmer has specified this in...

There are some things that cannot be done in .NET Compact Framework in a static constructor which are possible in the full .NET Framework. Basically, all static constructors when are executed in a serialized fashion in .NET Compact Framework V2 (Note...

One interesting issue that came up recently and not very obvious at first sight is the following: We found a difference in behavior in .NET Compact Framework compared to the Full .NET Framework. Basically we found that calling the same function...

True to my geeky background, I'll meet the world using the cliche'd phrase... To introduce myself, I'm a software developer working on the .NET Compact Framework team (usually called the NETCF team in short). I've been on the team for 2 years and its...