Never trust “Copy if newer”

Every CF developer knows and uses the “Copy if newer” option from time to time, when deploying on Compact Framework. This way the deployment is a little bit faster. Since I tried to do some C# OpenGL ES stuff on my HTC Touch Diamon as a private project, I came across...

AMUSE using Embedded Devices

AMUSE provides now the functionallity to use Embedded Devices based on Compact Framework using HTTP communication between the simulation in Enterprise Architect and the state machine on an Embedded Device. I will describe it based on a Windows Mobile 6 and...

Web service orchestration with AMUSE

Introduction The goal of this entry is to show how a flight booking process with different web services  and a mock-up GUI can  be simulated and verified with AMUSE. The focus is on the orchestration of the web services, which are part of the flight booking process. ...

Windows Phone 7 Devicetype

How to find out, if your app is running in an emulator, or on a real device? In July’s beta, Microsoft has moved this property from System.Environment to Microsoft.Devices.Environment namespace. //enum DeviceType contains: Device, Emulator this.IsEmulator =...

… immer wieder erfreulich

  Windows Marketplace for Mobile: Anwendungen anzeigen Es ist doch immer wieder erfreulich zu sehen, dass unsere gute, alte “Spin-the-Bottle” App immer noch zu den beliebtesten Apps für Windows Phone gehört ! In diesem Sinne …. viel Spass im Urlaub – egal...

Windows Phone 7 Database

MS announced, that there will be no database available for 3rd party applications, like on windows mobile 6.5. Instead of using SqlServerCE the user shall use cloud computing or xml files to store data. So I searched for alternatives, and found a very pretty proof of...

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta

The developer Tool for Windows Phone reached beta-status. And Microsoft included into the 380 mb Setup Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone. So far the good news. The bad news: several things have changed from CTP.April to beta – most of all: consolidation and...

ASP.NET MVC and a Generic jQuery Grid –jqTGrid Part 3

Please check out my previous posts (Part1 and Part2) if you haven’t read it yet. Today I want to show how we can create a generic “GridBaseController for our jqTGrid that we don’t have to implement the “DynamicGridData” controller method in every controller. For...