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Hi,

I’ll be delivering a session on Managed Application Development for Windows Mobile at our monthly Community Day. In this presentation, I’ll cover basics of .NET Compact Framework 3.5, it’s new features and using .NET based APIs on Windows Mobile devices.

For this month, we’re having following schedule:

 

Developing SilverLight 2.0 based Web Applications

:Speaker:

Mr. Vikram Pendse (Programmer Analyst, zCon Solutions Pvt. Ltd.)

Time : 3:00 to 4:00 PM

Lap Around Expression Blend

:Speaker:

Miss. Pradnya Naik (Microsoft Student Partner – MIT)

Time : 4:10 to 5:10 PM

Managed App Development For Windows Mobile

:Speaker:

Mr. Mayur Tendulkar (Microsoft Technology Intern)

Time : 4:10 to 5:10 PM

Date: Saturday, 19th July 2008

– Venue –

Microsoft India Pvt. Ltd.

For more information click here

Namaste :)

Mayur Tendulkar | Microsoft India

Yes.

I’ve seen many people, who are facing issues while accessing Web Service on Windows Mobile enabled devices. Although there are lot of posts on blogs and forums, sometimes, it doesn’t work. Why? Because there are lot of issues.

Let’s see all those issues and solve them. I hope that readers of this blog are aware of creating Web Services in C# / VB.NET using Visual Studio 2005 or 2008.

If not, lets create a simple Hello World web service i.e. a web method, when called will return a Hello World string. By default, when you create any web service in Visual Studio it gives you “Hello World” method as a web method which can be consumed (or used) as web service.

Now, lets see how we can access this web service in Windows Mobile based applications.

1. Create a Windows Mobile based Windows Forms Application

2. Add a Web Reference to your web-service. Now, here is the glitch. While adding a reference it uses your system as a localhost (in some cases port no attached) but when you deploy your application on Windows Mobile, actually your web-service is still running on your development machine and not on your device. Hence, change this localhost with your development machine name OR machine name on which your web service is hosted. Don’t use IP address. Why? Because, when you attach your mobile device to the machine, using DHCP it gets automatic IP address. So, don’t set any IP address rather use machine name.

3. Now, create a proxy class and use that web service in your application.

4. To test the application, run it in emulator or on device. Now, if you’re running your application on real physical device then it should work properly. But, if you’re running it on emulator, then make sure that…

a. In ActiveSync -> File -> Connection Settings, you have allowed DMA connections.

b. When Device Emulator is running, in Device Emulator Manager, Cradle your device. That means, it’ll connect your device emulator to your machine.

This ways you should be able to consume web service hosted on your machine onto your mobile device (whether real-physical device OR emulator).

I hope, this clarifies and solves most of the issues.

Soon, I will create a Screen Cast and host it on my blog.

Namaste…..

Mayur Tendulkar | Microsoft India

Hi,

As part of Microsoft Heroes Happen Here Launch – we launched Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 at various Microsoft Partner locations.

For that reason, I used PowerPoint presentations that I would like to share with all of us. Please click on the below link which will redirect you to my shared MSN SkyDrive Folder.

Also, if you want to try out your hands on latest Microsoft Products, then you can download OR order the trial versions from following links. Click on the product name to go to the Product home page.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (CTP)

http://cid-96142e9b7756161d.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Campus%20Launch

Regards

Mayur Tendulkar | Microsoft India