Archiv der Kategorie: The Lost Files

Nearly every mobile business application uses a database, whether on client side, or on server side. How you can use a local database, sync with a server database and incorporate in other ways shows this special last edition from the … Weiterlesen →

Windows Mobile itself doesn’t support Printing at all. There are a few solutions out there to enrich Windows Mobile with this functionality. How it can be done directly from your application, or just how to print different document formats is … Weiterlesen →

Nearly every mobile application uses a properitary logging mechanism instead of using great Logging Frameworks like log4net. How it can be used is shown in Part 8: Logging with log4net from the Lost Files series. Again, this article is kept … Weiterlesen →

You don’t always have the chance to test applications using original devices. Especially when working in Buildings you don’t have the chance to work with a GPS device. A short introduction in Part 7: Working with Emulators from the Lost … Weiterlesen →

Desktop applications aren’t being delivered nowadays without being properly tested in most cases by Unit Tests. How this can be achieved using Visual Studio 2008 and NUnitLite to test mobile Applications is described in Part 6: Mobile Unit Testing from … Weiterlesen →

The Windows Mobile Device Center comes along with some assemblies for the Remote API.Unfortunatelly they aren’t documented and supported officially. But if you are interested to see, how they work, take a look at Part 5: Remote API with the … Weiterlesen →

Did you know, that reverse engineering your managed code is very simple? How you can do that, and how you can prevent your code of being reverse engineered is the topic of Part 4: Obfuscation from the Lost Files. This … Weiterlesen →

Ever wanted to create plugins for the today screen in managed code? This is possible. Check out Part 3: Items for the Today Screen form the Lost Files Series. Again, this article is kept in german. If anyone is willing … Weiterlesen →

Sometimes it is necessary to keep the User “trapped” in his application. He isn’t supposed to use anything else, than this application. This is seen very often is navigationally systems. How you can achieve this in you managed application and … Weiterlesen →

Back in 2007/2008 Torsten and I were working on a second edition of our book Programmieren mit dem.NET Compact Framework, which was published by MS Press. The book finally has been cancelled. But nevertheless – up to this point a … Weiterlesen →