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Building Offline Enabled Applications: At Tech Ed Developers in Orlando this year, I had the pleasure of joining Ginny Caughey, Steve Lasker, Liam Cavanagh, and Rob Relyea for a Tech Ed Online discussion on building offline enabled applications. In an online world, why are we building offline Read More...
Posted 22 June 08 07:29 by robtiffany | 3 Comments
Filed under SSCE, Replication, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Wireless, SQL Server, 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
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
What can we learn from the new Amazon Kindle?: As an author and admirer of iconic mobile devices, I’m totally jazzed by Amazon’s new Kindle device. For those of you who haven’t read about this, Amazon just launched its own mobile reading device today that uses a high-resolution, electronic paper display Read More...
Posted 20 November 07 12:18 by robtiffany | 4 Comments
Filed under Wireless, CDMA, Invention, Marketing, Ideas, Innovation, Book, Author
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 | 1 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
Book Review: Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook: Best Windows Mobile Development Book Ever Written! Trust me, I've read them all going back to 2001 and I've written two of them myself. This is as broad and deep as it gets when it comes to managed code development on Windows Mobile. This should come Read More...
Posted 13 August 07 03:40 by robtiffany | 3 Comments
Filed under Merge, SSCE, Windows Mobile, Replication, .NET Compact Framework, C#, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Smartphone, Wireless, SQL Server, AES, Custom Controls, Security, RSA, WCF, Direct3D Mobile, Graphics, LINQ
The new book is underway...: As some of you know, I've been building and piecing together the documentation necessary to build out a scalable merge replication architecture for your Windows Mobile devices. If you've been to MEDC 2007 in Las Vegas or Tech Ed 2007 in Orlando, you may Read More...
Posted 11 July 07 03:26 by robtiffany | 9 Comments
Filed under Merge, SSCE, Windows Mobile, Replication, .NET Compact Framework, C#, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Wireless, SQL Server, IIS, Windows Server, Active Directory
Windows Mobile 6 Line of Business Integration: In the beginning, Windows Mobile could sync a Pocket Access database with Access on the desktop over ActiveSync. Today, the Swiss Army Knife of Integration that is Windows Mobile 6 can communicate with almost anything. Windows Mobile 6 can communicate Read More...
Posted 31 May 07 04:32 by robtiffany | 0 Comments
Filed under Merge, SSCE, Windows Mobile, Replication, .NET Compact Framework, C#, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Wireless, SQL Server, IIS, Windows Server, Active Directory

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