Dan Horbatt's Blog

XNA Game Studio 2.0 Released

I just got an email about XNA Game Studio 2.0 being released this morning and thought I'd share since XNA includes parts of the .NET Compact Framework. XNA Game Studio is a product from Microsoft that allows you to create games for Windows and the Xbox

Mobile Blocks - Automatic Application Updating and Deployment

I was browsing through http://www.codeplex.com/ the other day and stumbled up Mobile Blocks. Mobile Blocks is a framework to handle the deployment and maintenance of applications. It touts the following features: It helps you implement a "pull model"

Using NetCFSvcUtil.exe to interact with ServiceContracts

Due to size constraints, only a subset of WCF features were ported over, excluding ServiceContract support. Since then a big request we've seen for the .NET Compact Framework is the ability for WCF on devices to be able to interact with servers running