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See you in Barcelona for Tech Ed EMEA Dev: Looking forward to seeing lots of familiar faces and meeting new ones starting December 10th at Tech Ed EMEA! While I ran the Windows Mobile track for Tech Ed North America last June in Orlando, this time around I'll just be delivering a couple of presentations Read More...
Posted 07 November 08 08:14 by robtiffany | 1 Comments
Filed under Merge, SSCE, Windows Mobile, Replication, .NET Compact Framework, C#, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Smartphone, Wireless, SQL Server, IIS, Book, Author, Publisher, MEDC, MVP, Tech Ed, SQL Server Compact, Sync, Sync Framework, Sync Services for ADO.NET, Republishing, Pocket PC
New Resco MobileForms Release for NETCF: Just in case all you mobile developers didn't hear, Resco has released Volume 3 of their MobileForms Toolkit 2008. Resco MobileForms Toolkit contains: Resco CustomKeyboard for .NET – flexible control supporting custom keyboard layouts Resco SmartGrid Read More...
Posted 29 October 08 07:19 by robtiffany | 1 Comments
Filed under Windows Mobile, .NET Compact Framework, C#, Smartphone, Custom Controls, Pocket PC
Chapter 1 of my new Book is Ready!: Mobile Data Synchronization with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact > Second Edition Achieving Global Scalability via Merge Replication Republishing Download and review the PDF from my Windows Live SkyDrive @ http://cid-8b9c82da88af61fc.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Sync/Ch%201.pdf Read More...
Posted 23 October 08 06:12 by robtiffany | 0 Comments
Filed under Merge, SSCE, Windows Mobile, Replication, .NET Compact Framework, C#, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Smartphone, Wireless, CDMA, GSM, UMTS, EV-DO, SQL Server, IIS, Windows Server, Security, RSA, Book, Publisher, Apple, SQL Server Compact, Sync, Sync Framework, Sync Services for ADO.NET, Merge Replication, Republishing, Pocket PC
Listen to Rob's Windows Mobile Interview on .NET Rocks!: I was recently interviewed by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell who run one of the Internet's most popular developer sites, .NET Rocks! You can catch the interview at http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=384 where you can either listen to Read More...
Posted 09 October 08 01:07 by robtiffany | 2 Comments
Filed under Merge, SSCE, Windows Mobile, Replication, .NET Compact Framework, C#, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Smartphone, Wireless, GSM, EV-DO, SQL Server, IIS, BizTalk, AES, Security, WCF, Direct3D Mobile, Graphics, LINQ, iPhone, MEDC, SQL Server Compact, Sync, Sync Framework, Sync Services for ADO.NET, Merge Replication, Pocket PC
Old School Windows Mobile :: Getting Started with Java on PDAs: Below is an article I wrote back in 2002 that described how to build Personal Java apps on the iPAQ during the age of Pocket PC 2000, Embedded VB and C++: PDAs are becoming a permanent fixture in the everyday lives of consumers and business people. There's Read More...
Posted 07 October 08 08:57 by robtiffany | 2 Comments
Filed under Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, Java, Thread, iPAQ
Sync Framework v1 and Sync Services for ADO.NET v2 are now Generally Available!: As of today you can download the Sync Framework SDK in 11 languages including Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Simplified), English, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish for AMD64, IA64 and x86 processors from the Sync Read More...
Posted 06 August 08 05:42 by robtiffany | 3 Comments
Filed under SSCE, Windows Mobile, Replication, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, SQL Server, WCF
Tech Ed Developers 2008 is less than 2 Weeks Away!: We're now in the home-stretch in our preparations for Tech Ed Developers in Orlando this June. Since this was my year to run MEDC, I've been working on this event since last October when MCB decided to integrate our Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference Read More...
Posted 21 May 08 09:06 by robtiffany | 0 Comments
Filed under Windows Mobile, MEDC, MVP, Bill Gates, Tech Ed
The iPhone comes to the Enterprise with a little help from Microsoft: This morning, Steve Jobs announced that Apple has licensed the Exchange Active Sync protocol from Microsoft in order to bring the following functionality to the iPhone: Push Email Push Contacts Push Calendar Access to the Global Address List (GAL) Remote Read More...
Posted 06 March 08 07:07 by robtiffany | 1 Comments
Filed under Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Wireless, Windows Server, Apple, SDK, iPhone, Objective C
Welcome to the New Windows Mobile Developer Center: A quick glance at the Windows Mobile Developer Center clues you in to the fact that we’ve done a complete overhaul of the site. For years, our “bread and butter” has been delivering you content on Smart Device Development which most often included articles Read More...
Posted 22 February 08 11:21 by robtiffany | 2 Comments
Filed under SSCE, Windows Mobile, .NET Compact Framework, C#, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Smartphone, Wireless, WCF, Direct3D Mobile, Mobile Web
Mobile Scalability + Staggering Performance: As you know from my recent posts, I've been hanging out at 1,200 concurrent Subscribers trying to boost performance. When I first hit the 1,200 Subscriber mark, I was able to change and replicate ~13 million rows per hour. I was happy with the scalability, Read More...
Posted 15 January 08 09:08 by robtiffany | 11 Comments
Filed under Merge, SSCE, Windows Mobile, Replication, .NET Compact Framework, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Smartphone, SQL Server, Windows Server
My New Book is Now Available!: "Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact 3.1" is now available in print! Those of you in the continental U.S. can just buy it directly from the Hood Canal Press site at http://www.hoodcanalpress.com/catalog.htm Read More...
Posted 07 January 08 02:12 by robtiffany | 4 Comments
Filed under Merge, SSCE, Windows Mobile, Replication, .NET Compact Framework, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Smartphone, Wireless, SQL Server, IIS, Windows Server, Active Directory, Security, Book
Yes, We Can Scale to 1,200 Concurrent Subscribers!: Yet again, I've doubled the number of concurrent Subscribers to 1,200 where each Subscriber is equivalant to a Windows Mobile device. I used 6 servers running 200 Subscribers each to create client load, plus 3 load-balanced IIS servers, and a separate Read More...
Posted 23 December 07 08:28 by robtiffany | 1 Comments
Filed under Merge, Windows Mobile, Replication, .NET Compact Framework, C#, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, IIS, Windows Server, Active Directory, Publisher
Windows Mobile Partner Summit Day 1: The Windows Mobile Partner Summit is going great and the event looks to be twice as big as last year. It's always nice to reconnect with our partner community. Steve Hegenderfer was kind enough to allow me to bring my rack of servers to his event. This Read More...
Posted 12 December 07 11:16 by robtiffany | 1 Comments
Filed under Merge, Windows Mobile, Replication, .NET Compact Framework, C#, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Smartphone, SQL Server, IIS, Windows Server, Active Directory, Security, Book
New Mobile Merge Replication Benchmarks: I just finished up a week of teaching attendees at the Dev Connections conference how to setup and use mobile merge replication to sync data between their Windows Mobile devices and SQL Server 2005. As usual, I brought along my favorite teaching tool, Read More...
Posted 09 November 07 10:02 by robtiffany | 2 Comments
Filed under Merge, SSCE, Windows Mobile, Replication, .NET Compact Framework, C#, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Smartphone, Wireless, SQL Server, IIS, Windows Server, Active Directory, Security, Book, Publisher
Mobile 2.0: The second annual Mobile 2.0 just wrapped up. The key takeaways are: Mobile Web (iPhone Safari Webkit sets the standard) Mobile Advertising (4 out of 10 Japanese click on mobile ads) SMS (Dominant and growing messaging technology but still underutilized Read More...
Posted 15 October 07 09:43 by robtiffany | 2 Comments
Filed under Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Wireless, CDMA, Ideas, Innovation, Mobile Web

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