The Mobile Minute 3
..ok, I missed posting last night but we're back on track tonight.. From the PDC:
- PDC Slides -- Look at these..you will be pleased
Just a few of the wonderful things (Whidbey / Laguna) revealed in the PPT decks at the link above (man..wish I coulda been there):
- .NET CF SP2 will be re-released shortly (~600% faster resources, ~40% faster XMLTextReader, ~20% faster ADO.NET)
- Microsoft CRM Mobile - completely developed in C#
- COM Interop - Yay!
- New forms controls: Web Browser, DateTime Picker, MonthCalendar, LinkLabel, Notification Balloon, DocList, RichInk, Splitter, Data Container, UserControl, and HelpProvider
- Ability to save bitmaps (yeah!)
- Image Rotation
- Auto-Scrollable Forms - Thank you! (now why the eff wasn't that there from the beginning - what a PiTA this was to handle)
- Tabbing Support
- Multi-resolution support
- Form rotation / Form factor support (screen orientation / screen size/resolution)
- Direct3D and DirectDraw
- Notifications Broker - I think that this will be _very_ useful
- System.Messaging - wahoo!
- XML Serialization / XML Schemas / XPath
- SQL CE ResultSet - Typed direct access to a SQL CE db
- Additional Framework libraries: Serial Port, Isolated Storage, Registry, Generic collections, Cryptography (Thank you!), Sound
- Dr. Watson goes mobile
- Finally! Some information about Laguna (SQL CE 3.0)
- Laguna will ship with Yukon (first Beta with Yukon Beta 2)
- Multi-User support (Yeah! Finally, I can have more than one user in my SQL CE db)
- ACID transaction support
- Showplan / Query Optimization hints
- SQL Workbench integration
- Data designer support via Whidbey IDE (no more manual coding - awesome!)
- DTS support
- Significant number of synchronization improvements
- Microsoft / Vodaphone Mobile Web Services Technical Roadmap via MSMobiles
- AppForge announces .NET support
- MSN Direct (SPOT technology) - I see James has a link to this as well
- The smart folks at OpenNETCF.org have released another library - OpenNETCF.Messaging - this will tide us over until Whidbey NETCF brings us System.Messaing
- Microsoft will be releasing Voice Command on Monday, November 3, 2003
- Loren has some notes from PDC about Longhorn and Ink
- PressPass about new tablet stuff
- More info about the forthcoming Tablet SDK v1.7 and the "LoneStar" edition
- One last thing about Tablet SDK 1.7 - Tablet Inking reaches web pages
-Nino
Update: I've gotten some feedback from some folks that tells me that my post may have been a bit confusing. 1) NET CF SP2 will be released soon. 2) In the bulleted list that I created (see above), none of the features are from SP2, they are from Whidbey NETCF.