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Danny Simmons explores some anti-patterns you should look out for when building n-tier applications with the Entity Framework.
Daniel Simmons
MSDN Magazine June 2009
The .NET Compact Framework 3.5 provides a subset of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) functionality that you can harness to communicate between Windows Mobile devices and desktop PCs. We'll show you how.
Andrew Arnott
MSDN Magazine Launch 2008
Dominick Baier
MSDN Magazine March 2007
This article focuses on developing for Pocket PCs, a skill which can then be transferred to Smartphone application development.
Rob Pierry
MSDN Magazine December 2006
The .NET Compact Framework can be used to write great code and great applications. As long as you take a few things into consideration and are willing to bend a rule or two, you can have your performance cake and eat it too. In this article the authors present some neat tricks to make life as a programmer easier when using the .NET Compact Framework. Later they discuss techniques to increase performance, and decrease both load time and memory footprints. Sample code is provided.
Dave Edson and John Socha-Leialoha
MSDN Magazine December 2004
The Compact Framework Control class doesn't provide direct access to Windows messages. However, with P/Invoke, a few lines of native code, and the Compact Framework MessageWindow class, it's still possible to access underlying Windows messages. This can be used to work around any .NET Framework features, including keyboard support, that are not included in the Compact Framework.
Alan Pulliam
MSDN Magazine April 2004
John Papa
MSDN Magazine September 2003
Developers have myriad options when it comes to creating solutions for mobile devices. One of the greatest challenges facing mobile developers is finding a compact yet robust local storage solution. SQL Server CE 2.0 promises to deliver on both fronts. This new release represents a tremendous leap in terms of features and performance over its predecessor. This article will review some of the platform and tools choices developers have today. The authors will compare and contrast the significant new features in SQL Server CE 2.0 with the previous release. Following that, they will build a sample app for illustration.
Mark Brown and David Meunier
MSDN Magazine January 2003
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