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Instead of making a webservice call each time certain data was needed, the data was stored in the SqlCe database on the Pocket PC , to retrieve when needed. This allowed quickly displaying data after having retrieved it once, while still giving the possibility...
On the client-side, a Pocket PC application was used. Since this has no guaranteed connectivity, some additional techniques had to be used to improve the end-user experience. First of all, when calling a webservice from a Pocket PC , it was possible that...
After having implemented a data layer in the Data project, it was time to make a real data implementation. A Sql Server 2000 implementation was the default data source, located in the Data.SqlServer project. Enterprise Library was used to provide the...
Any application using data benefits from having a separate data layer. This enables the administrator to select which data source to use. It also makes your application have an advantage, making it easier to sell. Besides from the advantages for the end...
When developing an application it’s possible to use debug mode to figure out why something is wrong, but when it’s time to deploy the application something else has to be integrated. To solution to this is logging. Implementing good logging functionality...
To configure the solution, Enterprise Library was used. This contained a Configuration Application Block which allowed defining various configuration sources externally from the application. This approach gave to ability to switch from XML configuration...
After everything was done on the server-side of the Remoting implementation, inside the Windows Service , it was time to add the consumer side. In the case of this project, the consumer was an ASP.NET Webservice running on the same machine. This required...
When the Windows Service was successfully running, a way had to be found to control it. There was a ServiceController class which allowed controlling a service and sending messages to it trough the ExecuteCommand method. This method was limited to sending...
Normally, a windows service is used to provide a system service to other applications, such as an antivirus service for example. The best practice for a business application providing a service would be to create a Windows Forms application, which runs...
To demonstrate the possible use of eID in Windows applications, I created a small client/server application. This application contains a central server, which listens on a certain port for possible clients. After a client connects, it has to authenticate...
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