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Get practical information for developing applications with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0—straight from mobile-development experts. This definitive guide delivers the proven techniques, real-world insights, and extensive code samples you need to bring information access to any Windows-based mobile device.

Discover how to:

• Design a user interface that is optimized for smart devices
• Add functionality by using Windows® Mobile APIs
• Organize and persist data stored on a device
• Establish network connections and respond to changes in network state
• Synchronize mobile devices with data stored on backend servers
• Implement authentication, symmetric encryption, and asymmetric encryption algorithms
• Optimize application performance for resource-constrained devices
• Interoperate with native code by using PInvoke and COM interop
• PLUS—Get an introduction to .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and Microsoft Visual Studio® code name “Orcas”

PLUS—Get Microsoft Visual C#® and Visual Basic® code samples on the Web

The first successful implementation of a high-speed, third-generation wireless network is i-Mode, an ambitious mobile platform developed in Japan. i-Mode phones have the amazing ability to display full color websites and dynamic video and Java content. This technology is currently being launched throughout Continental Europe and the United States.

This article, by Jean-Luc David, is an introduction to i-Mode web development. We will examine some of the basic features of an i-Mode phone by building a simple guestbook application using the .NET Framework.

The .NET Compact Framework (CF) is a version of the .NET Framework for mobile devices such as cell phones, PDAs, and Pocket PCs. The final versions of the CF and the Smart Device Extensions (SDE) were released in February of 2003, yet in spite of widespread interest in the technology, there has been very little information released so far to help developers master these powerful new tools. Together the CF and the SDE provide a rich development environment for building both stand-alone and connected applications on both the Pocket PC and Windows CE platforms. The authors have been teaching developers about the CF and SDE for months now, and have based this book on the real-world questions raised - and solutions developed - in those training sessions. The authors strike a perfect balance between the "whys" of mobile development, the architecture, and the "hows", the best practices. Busy developers will appreciate their concise style.

Introducing Microsoft's flagship wireless development tool
The .NET Mobile Web Developer's Guide will provide readers with a solid guide to developing mobile applications using Microsoft technologies. The focus of this book is on using ASP.NET and the .NET mobile SDK. It provides an introduction to the .NET platform and goes into moderate details on ASP.NET to allow readers to start developing ASP.NET applications. In addition, this book will give the readers the insight to use the various Microsoft technologies for developing mobile applications.
This book assumes the readers have experience in developing web applications and are familiar with any one of the server-side technologies like ASP, JSP or PHP.
The first book available on Microsoft's cornerstone wireless development tool
Best selling, high profile authors. Wei Meng Lee and Shelley Powers are frequent speakers at all of the major developer conferences have previously authored best selling books for O'Reilly & Associates, Wrox Press, SAMS and Que
Comes with wallet-sized CD containing a printable HTML version of the book, all of the source code examples and demos of popular ASP .NET and .NET Mobile programming tools
Comprehensive Coverage of the .NET Mobile SDK and ASP.NET for Mobile Web developers

You know all those hidden techniques and amazing features you spent months discovering in Visual Basic 6? Imagine you could read just one book and regain all of that knowledge. Imagine a book that clearly shows you how to do practically everything you want in .NET – and provides real-life code to get you there. Imagine a book that goes beyond the basics, yet doesn’t get bogged down in detail, a book that will save you hours. That’s what this book is all about; it is the number one book for all your VB.NET code demands.

The ASP.NET mobile controls give developers the tools they need to create sites and applications that are accessible from a variety of devices. They are contained in an optional add-in called the Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit, which can be installed on top of the .NET Framework. This toolkit contains the controls themselves, plus some additional functionality that can be utilized by Visual Studio .NET for producing mobile applications.

This book is designed to cover three areas. The first section teaches the basic concepts of mobile development, and walks the reader through the basics of WAP, WML, and the concepts of devices with limitations in size, memory, screen, bandwidth, etc. The core section of the book goes on to teach ASP.NET developers how to create mobile controls to produce targeted output suitable for viewing on one of these devices. The next section then applies this to Visual Studio .NET, with chapters showing how to do this from within the Studio environment. The book finishes with a case study, collecting the concepts discussed throughout the book into a worked example. This book teaches the ASP.NET programmer all of the necessary concepts they need to understand to be able to competently create applications using these controls.

"Mobile .NET" begins by educating the reader about a wide variety of different wireless Internet devices. These devices are divided into two main divisions: those that are directly supported by .NET (Pocket PCs, i-Mode phones, and WAP devices), and those that are not (Palm OS and J2ME-powered devices). By the end of the book, the reader will be able to make .NET work equally well with all of the devices. In the middle section of the book, the advantages of .NET as a development platform are introduced. a .NET Web Application - capable of serving up stock quotes to virtually any wireless device - is produced as an exercise, continuing from one chapter to the next. The section concludes with a demonstration of how .NET Web Services, the cornerstone of Microsoft's new "programmable internet," can be invoked from each of the wireless devices mentioned above. "Mobile .NET" concludes by drilling deep down into the technologies provided by .NET specifically for use with wireless devices. The Mobile Internet Toolkit, which can automatically adapt the output of a .NET Web Application based upon the special needs of differing client devices, is discussed first. Next, the book describes in detail how Mobile Information Server may be used to automate and customize the delivery of information to specific devices within an enterprise. Finally, SQL Server CE - a centerpiece of Microsoft's mobile data strategy - is discussed as are the two main technologies for interfacing with it via custom code: ADOCE and OLE DB.

With Programming ASP.NET 3.5, you'll quickly learn to create state-of-the-art applications using Microsoft's popular web development technology and Visual Studio 2008. This updated bestseller provides comprehensive and easy-to-understand information to help you use several .NET 3.5 technologies for faster development and better web application performance-including ASP.NET AJAX for interactive user interfaces, LINQ for data access, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for web services.
Programming ASP.NET 3.5 includes examples and sample code that let you explore development with ASP.NET in more depth. With this book, you will:

• Learn about AJAX and ASP.NET server controls included with Visual Studio 2008
• Discover how to use the DataSource and data-bound controls in ADO.NET
• Use the new LINQ API and learn how to make use of it within ASP.NET pages
• Create a uniform look and feel throughout your application with Master Pages
• Use navigation controls to build site maps, menus, and breadcrumbs quickly and easily
• Build and use various web services with WCF
• Detect errors during development and handle them in your production code
• Learn how to configure and deploy your website

Written by Microsoft technology experts Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz, and Dan Maharry, Programming ASP.NET 3.5 is the best book for learning how to build dynamic, interactive web applications using Microsoft's latest technologies.

Microsoft's .NET strategy embraces a vision for integrating diverse elements of computing technology and data services. The wireless Internet and mobile devices are core components of that strategy. Visual Studio .NET includes a powerful set of toolsthe Mobile Internet Toolkitfor developing websites and applications that can be accessed from all kinds of mobile devices .NET Wireless Programming provides the technical details you need to master to develop end-to-end wireless solutions based on .NET technology.

You'll learn to take advantage of the Mobile Internet Toolkit's automated deployment capabilities, which enable a single site or application to work with nearly any mobile device. Freed from the task of writing code to accommodate various devices, you'll be able to apply other skills to build a more powerful application: Work with styles and templates. Create custom controls. Read from and write to databases. And use Microsoft's Web Services in support of a distributed architecture.

Five case studies, including a mobile intranet, a contacts database, and an online game, illustrate solutions to real problems and techniques for maximizing application flexibility. A set of appendices provide detailed information on the WML language and the Toolkit's classes. This book presents its many code examples in Visual Basic .NET, but the greater emphasis is on Visual Studio .NET and the flexibility it gives developers in choosing the language they want to use.

These Transactions publish archival papers in the broad area of Petri nets and other models of concurrency, ranging from theoretical work to tool support and industrial applications. ToPNoC issues are published as LNCS volumes, and hence are widely distributed and indexed. This Journal has its own Editorial Board which selects papers based on a rigorous two-stage refereeing process. ToPNoC contains: revised versions of a selection of the best papers from workshops and tutorials at the annual Petri net conferences, special sections/issues within particular subareas (similar to those published in the Advances in Petri Nets series), other papers invited for publication in ToPNoC, papers submitted directly to ToPNoC by their authors.

The third volume of ToPNoC contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the best papers from the workshops held at the 29th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency and from the 8th and 9th Workshops and Tutorials on Practical Use of Coloured Petri Nets and the CPN Tools. The 10 papers provide good coverage of a diverse range of topics including workflow systems, network protocols, mobility, intelligent transport systems, the state explosion problem, Petri net synthesis and the p-calculus. The volume offers a good mixture of theory, tools and practical applications related to concurrency and provides a useful snapshot of current research.