OK so anyways...

Actual .NET Coding.

I'm working on a PocketPC RSS Aggregator. It's going to be really simple to use. I've already got most of the UI finished, which is not bad for about 2 hours of work. I won't be able to test it out until tomorrow night tho when I get my new PocketPC.

Anyways, I've got an issue I need to work out, and I want your opinion. How do I sync it up? Should I use SQLCE, and dump the feeds into a database, and have a desktop "conduit" that hooks into ActiveSync, or should I try to pull the XML feed and agregate it in the file system. The question then remains, how many posts should be in each feed before it gets "recycled". There are a lot of questions to be answered. Please, give me your ideas, because I want to make this a really killer app.

-Robert

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  • Ah, I...





    wow, I ran out of room! Anyways, as I was saying...





    Ah, I think thats about it.

  • I'll concur with Dan's first item. Do the heavy lifting on the desktop; Pocket PC wasn't designed to do CPU intensive tasks. This is one of the reasons Microsoft left out XSLT from .NET CF; too CPU intensive.

  • I've been thinking a lot about it... and I don't know if it's very practical to have a PocketPC aggregator. Brady Gster made a very valid point.... you could always use AvantGo to grab the pages themselves.... with full HTML.





    What I am curious about is....seeing if I can use .NET speech to let you dictate blog entries, and then submit them up to the blog using the webservice or the IBlogThis interface. I don't think it's possible tho since .NET speech is prompt-based.

  • I've been thinking a lot about it... and I don't know if it's very practical to have a PocketPC aggregator. Brady Gster made a very valid point.... you could always use AvantGo to grab the pages themselves.... with full HTML.





    What I am curious about is....seeing if I can use .NET speech to let you dictate blog entries, and then submit them up to the blog using the webservice or the IBlogThis interface. I don't think it's possible tho since .NET speech is prompt-based.

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