Codemasons’ Guild – Jumpstart Live Meeting #2 Q&A
Last Friday James McCutcheon, Dave Glover & I (DonK) hosted the second in the Codemasons’ Guild Jumpstart series. If you want to review the first two LiveMeetings or look at either for the first time – head to www.codemasons.com.au, Jumpstart #1 is up, and Jumpstart #2 will be shortly.
We had some fantastic questions asked through, and at the end of, the Live Meeting – and here’s the listing of a whole host of them;
Q: I thought that WCF on WinMo wasn't available over HTTP, only exchange?
A: Only very basic http
Comment: (Nick Randolph) There is a new version of the MCSF: http://mobile.codeplex.com. It has been updated to drop the negative features Dave's referring to. Has support for lightweight DI and some other nice features :-)
Comment: (Nick Randolph) Unlike Silverlight which is not a true subset of the .NET FX, the .NET CF is IL compatible with the .NET FX. This means that you can run a mobile on the desktop - true build once, run anywhere
Q: Silverlight support?
A: We won't be bringing Silverlight support to Windows Mobile 6.5
Q: In trying to build your own "compelling mobile UI" would you recommend using the UI Framework posted on MSDN for gradients, transparencies, buffering etc? code.msdn.microsoft.com/uiframework
A: Yes
Q: Does the png transparency trick that you demonstrated also work on WinMo 6.1?
A: Yes
A special thanks to Nick Randolph for his input in the Q&A session – Nick is one of our local Mobile MVPs.
DonK
