Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Major Windows Mobile News
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "NEWS" @ 05:06 AM
Smartphone Thoughts reports about a number of key platform improvements announced at the Professional Developer Conference. The improvements will enable developers to design and develop really interesting and new types of applications.
In the post "Location, Location, Location (For Developers, That Is)" David McNamee writes: "There will be built in support for retrieving physical location information from the device. Microsoft’s Ori Amiga did a couple of demos that showed, in less than a dozen lines of code, how to retrieve address information from a Smartphone and use it in your application. The .NET Compact Framework will provide an abstraction over whatever mechanism the carrier uses to provide that data."
David also reports that the native data store in Pocket PCs and Smartphones (CEDB) is finally going away! Good news for developers and users as this will pave the way for somethings much better: SQL Server CE. However, Microsoft chooses to call the SQL Server CE incarnation that will live in Pocket PCs and Smartphones "eDB". David writes: "This new data store will also be replacing the native PIM data store. The API will be very similar to the one currently available for CEDB, but it will not be completely compatible."
Robert Levy reports about "Telephony Object Model for .NET Developers" writing: "the next generation of Windows Mobile will provide .NET developers with a unified model for accessing telephony features with managed code. Specifically, the features being made available through the .NET Compact Framework include access to the telephony UI, the ability to make and end calls, determination of the phone state, access to the call log, and notifications.". On the subject of unification of services, Robert writes: "In the next generation of Windows Mobile devices, developers will be able to receive notifications via window messages, CE message queues, application activations, and .NET event delegates. There will be a unified set of notifications for networking state, SM S, email, synchronization state, telephony events, device state, and event 3rd party events. ... In the next generation of Windows Mobile Devices, .NET developers will have easy access to email, SMS, contacts, calendar, and tasks through managed classes that wrap around the key portions of the native APIs. These .NET Compact Framework classes will provide mechanisms for creation, deletion, enumeration, sorting, searching, copying, and comparing."
Robert continues his reports with some cool Windows Media related announcements: "Microsoft has announced today their plans to bring DirectX down to mobile devices in the next generation of Windows Mobile. First on the list of features are DirectDraw and Direct3D Mobile."
In the post "Location, Location, Location (For Developers, That Is)" David McNamee writes: "There will be built in support for retrieving physical location information from the device. Microsoft’s Ori Amiga did a couple of demos that showed, in less than a dozen lines of code, how to retrieve address information from a Smartphone and use it in your application. The .NET Compact Framework will provide an abstraction over whatever mechanism the carrier uses to provide that data."
David also reports that the native data store in Pocket PCs and Smartphones (CEDB) is finally going away! Good news for developers and users as this will pave the way for somethings much better: SQL Server CE. However, Microsoft chooses to call the SQL Server CE incarnation that will live in Pocket PCs and Smartphones "eDB". David writes: "This new data store will also be replacing the native PIM data store. The API will be very similar to the one currently available for CEDB, but it will not be completely compatible."
Robert Levy reports about "Telephony Object Model for .NET Developers" writing: "the next generation of Windows Mobile will provide .NET developers with a unified model for accessing telephony features with managed code. Specifically, the features being made available through the .NET Compact Framework include access to the telephony UI, the ability to make and end calls, determination of the phone state, access to the call log, and notifications.". On the subject of unification of services, Robert writes: "In the next generation of Windows Mobile devices, developers will be able to receive notifications via window messages, CE message queues, application activations, and .NET event delegates. There will be a unified set of notifications for networking state, SM S, email, synchronization state, telephony events, device state, and event 3rd party events. ... In the next generation of Windows Mobile Devices, .NET developers will have easy access to email, SMS, contacts, calendar, and tasks through managed classes that wrap around the key portions of the native APIs. These .NET Compact Framework classes will provide mechanisms for creation, deletion, enumeration, sorting, searching, copying, and comparing."
Robert continues his reports with some cool Windows Media related announcements: "Microsoft has announced today their plans to bring DirectX down to mobile devices in the next generation of Windows Mobile. First on the list of features are DirectDraw and Direct3D Mobile."
