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Development and architecture for Windows Mobile devices. And a few useful tips on the way...

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Tech Ed is upon us.

If you are coming to Tech Ed this year, which is starting in a two weeks, I have a few sesssions there.

Break-out session (MBL402) "Creating a Compelling and Attractive UI When Developing for Windows Mobile and the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework".

II am going to show how to utilize the Alpha blending and Gradient drawing APIs that are available on the Windows Mobile platform to create a compelling UX. We also discuss ideas on how to think out of the box when designing UI for Windows Mobile devices. We also walk through the code that shows how to customize a standard controls (TreeView, ListView) with Gradient drawing.

The other one is a chalk-talk:

(MBL10-TLC) "Advanced Data Access for Windows Mobile Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008" in which I am going to show how to create a custom LINQ to SQL library that runs on .NET Compact Framework.

Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:15 PM by priozersk

Comments

Kevin Daly said:

I have to admit I am losing patience with the Compact Framework: its out-of-the-box UI capabilities have remained at a depressingly VB4-ish level.

It urgently needs, at a minimum:

- Layout controls (even the ones that were added to desktop WinForms in 2.0 would be a massive improvement)

- *built-in* support for alpha-blending and gradients

I'll be happy the day I see a presentation entitled "Creating a Compelling and Attractive UI When Developing for Windows Mobile and the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework Without using PInvoke And Yes, By The Way, We Know That Whenever We Advise You To Use MessageWindow We're Admitting Failure"

# May 22, 2008 8:17 PM

priozersk said:

I agree. I would be happy too. But the reality is that we need to come up with solution...

Anyway... the Silverlight is eventually coming to WM, so this may not be a failure afterall :)

# May 23, 2008 11:41 AM

gmcalab said:

I attended your session on this subject and wanted to download the source code can you provide me a link to do so.

Thanks and the session was great.

The out of the box controls are boring and this type of creation that you have done will definately provide the user with a better experience.

# June 4, 2008 9:53 AM
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