.NET Compact Framework Team

NETCFSvcUtil.exe fix

2009-08-10T09:25:52Z

Check out Manish’s blog on NetcfSvcUtil.exe crashing on some operating systems and the uploaded fix for it here.

Back to basics GC series

2009-07-10T20:14:00Z

Check out the Back to basics GC series published a while ago by Abhinaba!!

WCF for mobile whitepaper

2009-07-08T15:40:34Z

Check out Mahathi’s blog about a WCF for mobile whitepaper published recently by one of the MVPs.

HTTPS related hotfix

2009-07-02T14:57:00Z

Manish has posted regarding a hotfix for the HTTPS related issue discussed in a previous post. The hotfix was recently given out to WM based devices on NETCF 3.5. Check out his post!

Back to the NETCF blog

2009-07-01T14:54:00Z

We would like to revive the NETCF team blog and post here instead of the mobile developer blog as we noted earlier. Welcome back to the team blog.

- NETCF team.

NETCF 3.5 namespace poster updated

2009-06-22T15:08:00Z

Check out Manish’s blog regarding this.

New Mobile Developer Blog!

2008-05-09T01:37:34Z

We, the NetCF team, have decided to combine our blog with the other teams doing mobile development work in our organization, namely the Visual Studio for Devices team and the Silverlight Mobile team.

From now on, all .Net Compact Framework material will be posted on the Mobile Developer blog. We'll continue to keep this site up so you can still find all the previous material we've posted.

Enjoy the new site!

Thanks,

The NetCF team.

Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 have been released

2007-12-13T22:12:00Z

The Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 have just gone live at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C8174C14-A27D-4148-BF01-86C2E0953EAB&displaylang=en. If you downloaded a previous version, you might want to upgrade as there have been several bug fixes and improvements made to several of the tools.

What’s New

Many here are likely familiar with Remote Performance Monitor which shipped as a part of .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 and the Heap Viewer extension that shipped 2.0 SP2. This time we’ve added the CLR Profiler based on the desktop tool, NetCF SVCUtil for making it easy to consume WCF services on device, and the App Config tool for creating config files on the fly. We’ve improved our remote tools platform to make it significantly easier to use: client side tools components now deploy automatically so tools “just work”, everything works with emulators and a common device manager UI is provided to keep tabs on all your remote devices.

Comprehensive documentation for the tools is now also provided out of the box in the form of a chm file.

The Tools

NETCF CLR Profiler – CLR Profiler is an instrumenting allocation profiler for NETCF applications. It provides detailed allocation visualizations, allocation callstacks and other views of the managed heap for diagnosing various memory management issues.

NETCF ServiceModel Metadata Tool – The .NET Compact Framework ServiceModel Metadata Tool (netcfsvcutil.exe) allows you to generate a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) client proxy to help developers consume WCF services on device. Like svcutil.exe, which is the desktop version of the utility, netcfsvcutil.exe is a command-line tool that generates service model code from metadata documents and generates metadata documents from service model code.

App Configuration Tool - On-device tool for specifying what version of NETCF an application will run against (ie. Create config file), displaying installed versions of NETCF and displaying info about DLLs in the GAC.

Remote Logging Configuration Tool– The Logging Configuration Tool enables users to easily configure logging options on a NETCF device including: loader, interop, network, error and finalizer logs. (used to be a part of RPM)

Remote Performance Monitor and GC Heap Viewer – Provides real time counter data (ranging from Garbage Collector activity to type loading info) on a running NETCF application. The GC Heap Viewer feature allows you to capture the managed heap at any moment your app is running to view live references, and allows you to compare multiple snapshots to find memory leaks.

NETCF Network Log Viewer – A utility for viewing NETCF network log data.

Other Notes

Steven Pratschner has a few links to some overview on the tools here: http://blogs.msdn.com/stevenpr/archive/2007/12/10/powertoys-for-the-net-compact-framework-version-3-5-now-released.aspx.

Enjoy!

Why .NET Compact Framework fails to call some HTTPS web servers

2007-11-21T19:57:41Z

On his blog, Andrew discusses an HTTPS bug in NetCF that causes NetCF to throw a WebException when connecting to some servers, and its possible workarounds.

David writes about the Lunch Launcher and Store and Forward Messaging

2007-11-12T23:47:50Z

Over the past couple of months, I have been serializing my experiences in writing the Lunch Launcher demo (as seen at MEDC 2007) using the new Store and Forward Messaging feature of .NET Compact Framework version 3.5. The series is now complete and the full table of contents is listed here.

The Journey of the Lunch Launcher
Part 1 - The origins of the 'lunch launcher'
Part 2 - MEDC 2007
Part 3 - Managing the Transport
Part 4 - Sending messages
Part 4b - The output channel
Part 5 - Receiving messages
Part 6 - Processing messages
Part 7 - The Lunch Manager
Part 8 - What did I learn?

Enjoy!

Disclaimer(s):
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
The information contained within this post is in relation to beta software. Any and all details are subject to change.

Post on Remote Logging WCF on .NET Compact Framework

2007-11-02T00:43:00Z

Hey everyone,

I've posted a quick overview of how to use the .NETCF Remote Logging tool to help debug WCF applications on the .NET Compact Framework. You can find it here.

-Dan

.NET Compact Framework Application and Libraries List Updated

2007-09-25T23:53:00Z

I've updated the .NET Compact Framework catalog with the some new applications and libraries, and some minor edits to existing entries.

Click on this link to see our application catalog.

The catalog contains applications that I find out about through web searches and emails from developers. We're always looking for applications and libraries to add to our catalog. Applications and libraries we discover are used for

posting updates to our team blog (you are here!) to show what types of applications are being built with .NET Compact Framework. This page gets thousands of visits monthly, so having your app listed here can be an effective supplemental means of publicizing your application and company.
candidates for basic compatibility testing with new versions of the .NET Compact Framework under development. This helps us do our best to ensure that existing applications – like yours – continue to work well with new versions of the .NET Compact Framework.

If your application isn't on the list - I'd love to add it. Send an email to cfapp@microsoft.com (include name of application, which platforms it targets, required version of NETCF and URL). If you need product support, please use the MSDN Feedback Center as this will ensure your issue gets into our databases where we can respond to it and track it.

Michael Lipp

Senior SDET

.Net Compact Framework

Disclaimers: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 CTP Released

2007-09-13T03:04:00Z

The Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 CTP (September 2007) has just been released as an MSDN download.

This was originally slated to be released with the Core .NET Compact Framework, but was spun off as a side download.

Included in this release:

Remote Performance Monitor and GC Heap Viewer – Provides real time counter data (ranging from Garbage Collector activity to type loading info) on a running NETCF application. The GC Heap Viewer feature allows you to capture the managed heap at any moment your app is running to view live references, and allows you to compare multiple snapshots to find memory leak issues.

NETCF CLR Profiler – CLR Profiler is an instrumenting allocation profiler for NETCF applications. It provides detailed allocation visualizations, allocation callstacks visualizations and useful for diagnosing memory management issues.

App Configuration Tool (NetCFcfg.exe) - On-device tool for specifying what version of the NETCF runtime an application will run against, displaying installed versions of NETCF and displaying info about DLLs in the GAC.

NETCF ServiceModel Metadata Tool – The .NET Compact Framework ServiceModel Metadata Tool (netcfsvcutil.exe) allows you to generate a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) client proxy to help developers consume WCF services on device. Like svcutil.exe, which is the desktop version of the utility, netcfsvcutil.exe is a command-line tool that generates service model code from metadata documents and generates metadata documents from service model code.

Remote Logging Configuration Tool – The Logging Configuration Tool enables users to easily configure logging options on a NETCF device including: loader, interop, network, error and finalizer logs.

NETCF Network Log Viewer – A utility for viewing NETCF network log data.

Reflections on having multiple versions of NetCF on your device

2007-09-08T03:08:35Z

Andrew Arnott discusses which versions of the .NET Compact Framework can be side-by-side installed, and which version will run your NetCF app on his blog.

The WCF subset supported by NetCF

2007-09-08T03:05:25Z

Andrew Arnott details the features of WCF that are and are not supported by NetCF on his blog.