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Build robust and feature-rich mobile data-driven applications with the help of real-world examples

• Develop data-driven mobile applications from the ground up on top of the Oracle Lite and SQL Server Lite databases
• Build ergonomic User Interfaces targeting the mobile platform that you can easily adapt for your business applications
• Optimize performance and security on the mobile platform as well as drawing useful charts and reports using .NET CF's graphics libraries for your data-driven applications
• Utilize the various tools provided by Microsoft to maintain and fine-tune your enterprise applications with the help of realistic case studies
• Build three real-world business applications from the ground up with the help of easy-to-understand code snippets to provide practical and hands-on experience

In Detail

The new .NET CF 3.5 framework provides enterprise application developers with a whole arsenal of possibilities at their disposal, but without proper guidance on developing performance-critical enterprise applications, it is easy to make the wrong design and technology decisions.

This book guides you to build each part of a robust enterprise application by illustrating the .NET CF 3.5 framework with the help of real-world business applications. It will not only help you to master basic .NET CF skills, but also outlines the best methods, techniques, and tools available to create high-impact and performance-critical data-driven enterprise mobile applications. It provides a solid set of guidelines to aid .NET CF developers to understand how best to apply the features of the .NET CF 3.5 framework.

The bulk of the book illustrates the basic concepts of .NET Compact 3.5 Framework programming by walking the reader through 3 different kinds of mobile applications:

• A thick-client mobile sales-force application
• A thin-client mobile dashboard and reporting application
• A customer support case management application

Both the SQL Server Lite and Oracle Lite mobile databases are covered in detail, from data access to data synchronization. The book explains how device features such as Bluetooth, SMS, telephony, Infrared, and Windows Contacts can be accessed via .NET CF in a real-world example, namely the mobile sales-force application. It also explains.NET CF's GDI+ features that can be used to create rich charts and reports. You learn to synchronize the mobile application with remote datasources and communicate via web services and WCF services. The book outlines performance optimization and memory management techniques on the mobile platform. It also outlines the tools and techniques available for testing, performance-tuning, deploying and debugging .NET CF enterprise applications (including Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 from Microsoft).

This book will teach you to build robust, feature-rich enterprise applications using the .NET Compact Framework 3.5, with the help of an end-to-end real-world example of a mobile sales force application.

What you will learn from this book

• Build data-driven mobile applications using .NET CF 3.5 on top of the SQL Server Compact and Oracle Lite databases
• Explore many advanced features of the platform such as GDI+, marshalling, and so on with the help of real-world case studies
• Exploit the Smart Device Framework 2.3 (SDF) library to interface with various functions of the mobile device
• Access device features such as telephony, SMS, email, Address book, Bluetooth, and Infrared technologies using .NET CF
• Perform data synchronization on SQL Server Lite and Oracle Lite databases
• Optimize application/database performance and resource utilization for your data-driven applications on .NET CF 3.5 through advanced memory management techniques
• Take full advantage of the Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 to streamline the development and testing processes of your mobile applications
• Build and integrate powerful search functionality into your enterprise mobile applications
• Get to know various design patterns that you can use in various real-world business application scenarios

Approach

The book walks you through three different real-world mobile applications from head to toe to provide a practical, hands-on experience on how to use .NET CF. It provides you with code snippets (in both VB.NET and C#) from real-world business scenarios. A summary at the end of each chapter explains how these code snippets work together as a part of the larger whole. It also makes use of diagrams to explain core concepts and helps you decide on which design patterns to use in different enterprise application scenarios.

Who this book is written for

This book is written for developers who are acquainted with the basics of .NET Compact Framework and want to create enterprise-level mobile applications. It is for developers who have worked with the .NET CF Framework before but would like to learn how to utilize its advanced features and deploy leaner and faster business applications.

This comprehensive reference provides developers with the information they need to develop new applications or move existing applications to handheld devices and other resource-constrained hardware. It offers specific techniques for writing mobile applications, including developing GUI elements using Web Forms, transferring data using XML Web services, working with local and remote data sources, and developing applications that can operate in a disconnected state from the wireless network. The book illustrates each technique with working code samples in Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET. It also includes a quick reference appendix showing the differences between the .NET Compact Framework and the full .NET Framework.

There's little doubt that wireless has been the hot topic of the last year. With the release of .NET, Microsoft has made it easy for developers to create wireless applications that will run on any device, whether it is a Palm, PocketPC, or cellphone. In .NET Wireless Programming, Mark Ridgeway teaches you how to create wireless applications using the Mobile Internet Toolkit. The book's emphasis is on Visual Basic .NET but the flexibility of .NET allows developers to choose the language they prefer. The book's five case studies--including a mobile intranet, a contacts database, and an online game--offer many code examples to challenge your skills.

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.

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 innovative concept of Personal Network (PN), which was introduced and developed in MAGNET, finds in this book the first confirmation of the success that the future of wireless communications is bound to achieve. The importance of this book is not only related to being the first work on PNs, it also gives an overview of operation of a big project, like MAGNET, and in fact the organisation of the book reflects how the project itself has been structured. My personal Adaptive Global NET (MAGNET) summarize all the steps taken from the introduction of a user-centric perspective until the implementation of PN-Fs (Federation of Personal Networks), outlining the applications and commercialisations of the new concepts carried out of the project.

The intent of My personal Adaptive Global NET (MAGNET) is to disseminate the concept of PN and PN-F along with the activities and achievement carried out in MAGNET/MAGNET Beyond to encourage new project and academic initiatives toward personalized, ubiquitous communications.

Interactive web maps generated by MapPoint-Microsoft's popular mapping technology are crucial for businesses in a number of fields, including real estate, package delivery, and commercial air travel. In a word, MapPoint provides businesses with "location." Specifically, it provides an integrated set of products, servers, and services to enable a business to track the precise location of remote assets, thereby reducing operational costs and improving productivity. Whether the asset is a truck, a taxi, or even a field rep, MapPoint can tell you exactly where it is at any time.

Programming MapPoint in .NET from O'Reilly shows you how to use MapPoint to build custom applications for the desktop, the web, and mobile devices. The book also explains how to analyze and share data generated from a wide range of maps, including those that show demographic trends, population density, and sales potential. Chandu Thota, one of Microsoft's main MapPoint developers and the book's author, has organized the material into four major sections, each dedicated to a different MapPoint technology:

• MapPoint 2004 - calculating routes, rendering data maps, integrating with Global Positioning System (GPS) for obtaining real-time location
• MapPoint Web Service - techniques for finding points of interest, creating applications using the Find APIs and Route APIs, rendering LineDrive maps and polygons
• MapPoint Location Server - deployment scenarios, getting real-time location using mobile phones, managing contacts and privacy settings
• MSN Virtual Earth - the basics of programming with new MSN Virtual Earth APIs

The book provides a jumpstart for working with these technologies, including in-depth discussions about the core concepts and sample code provided in C#. It's ideal for anyone who wants to develop locations-based applications with MapPoint technologies.

The next time you follow online directions to the airport, you can chalk up an assist to MapPoint's state-of-the-art interactive mapping abilities. Better yet, you'll know how to create that same type of map yourself.

Portable and precise, this pocket-sized reference is the Web application developer’s fast-answers guide to ASP.NET configuration architecture, settings, and custom settings. Zero in on key ASP.NET configuration details and techniques using quick-reference tables, lists, step-by-step instructions, and real world tips, including coding examples for version 2003 of Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft Visual C#® .NET. This handy, one-stop guide delivers the focused, streamlined direction you need to get your Web solutions up and running quickly.

Get fast facts to:

• Exploit ASP.NET configuration file inheritance
• Customize applications by manipulating configuration settings
• Configure the System.Web namespace with reference on all sections, settings, and values
• Use .NET configuration settings for system diagnostics, .NET Remoting, proxy settings, and just-in-time compilation
• Tweak ASP.NET mobile controls for the unique needs of mobile devices
• Configure CLR settings, including garbage collection and cryptography
• Use Microsoft IIS settings to manage application pools and implement Windows® authentication
• Build and use custom sections and section handlers

Explains how to exploit the trends of improving business processes and creating important new products and services, by developing mobile enterprise solutions based on Microsoft's increasingly popular Pocket PC platform. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

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Citation Details
Title: PARTHUS LAUNCHES MACHSTREAM, THE INDUSTRY'S MOST POWER EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY FOR ACCELERATING MOBILE NET APPS.(Product Announcement)
Publication: EDP Weekly's IT Monitor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 21, 2001
Publisher: Millin Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 42 Issue: 19 Page: 8
Article Type: Product Announcement
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