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...