Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook

Learn the essentials for developing mobile applications for any device. Focusing on proven techniques and practices, this guide addresses the real-world needs of experienced Microsoft Windows mobile developers. Users are growing increasingly dependent on mobile devices, and with innovations that make it easy to manage data synchronization, this proliferation will continue. Developers need to respond to this evolution with more than simple adaptations of the user interface–they need to implement mobile solutions for most of their applications. From expert authors with years of real-world experience, this book addresses this evolution, covering key mobile-development topics, including design, debugging, deployment, performance optimization, security, and globalization.

It also covers mobile applications that use Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition, and Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, running on devices such as Pocket PCs and Windows Mobile Smartphones. In addition, it includes extensive code samples in Microsoft Visual C#.

This book is a practical guide to developing applications for the .NET Compact Framework running on Microsoft Windows CE- and Windows Mobile-powered mobile devices. This is one of the first books on the market that directly addresses version 2.0 of the .NET Compact Framework, including the differences between version 1.0 and version 2. This is especially timely because at the time of this writing retail Windows Mobile devices containing version 2.0 in ROM are just beginning to show up on shelves in large volumes.

The authors not only explain what the new features in version 2 are, but they provide straightforward explanations of why the new features are useful, and how they can be effectively used to improve your own mobile applications. The book also takes a first look at the forthcoming version 3.5 of the .NET Compact Framework as well, providing an interesting preview of additional features and improvements that will arrive in Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas"-features such as compression, unit testing support, and compact versions of Language Integrated Query(LINQ) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

Although this book would be useful to anyone interested in writing applications for smart devices, it will be most useful for the experienced desktop .NET developer who is interested in branching out to devices for the first time. The advice contained in this volume doesn't get bogged down in theory or esoterica. Instead, it provides practical guidelines and knowledge for writing efficient and functional mobile software. It is full of useful code samples and examples that you can use to turbocharge your own device development. It doesn't assume that devices exist in a vacuum, understanding instead that your application may be part of an overall architecture involving desktop computers, servers, and so forth. And it addresses not just writing your application and getting it to function correctly, but also performance and deployment of your applications-difficult areas that may surprise developers new to the mobile environment.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - .NET Compact Framework-a Platform on the Move
Chapter 02 - Building a Microsoft Windows Forms GUI
Chapter 03 - Using SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and Other Data Stores
Chapter 04 - Catching Errors, Testing, and Debugging
Chapter 05 - Understanding and Optimizing .NET Compact Framework Performance
Chapter 06 - Completing the Application-Packaging and Deployment
Chapter 07 - Exchanging Data with Backend Servers
Chapter 08 - Networking
Chapter 09 - Getting Connected
Chapter 10 - Security Programming for Mobile Applications
Chapter 11 - Threading
Chapter 12 - Graphics Programming
Chapter 13 - Direct3D Mobile
Chapter 14 - Interoperating with the Platform
Chapter 15 - Building Custom Controls
Chapter 16 - Internationalization
Chapter 17 - Developing with Windows Mobile

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