"Three screens and the cloud"

Interesting blog article from Keith Elder about information from PDC 2009:

.Net 4.0 - Start Reading Between the Lines ? Learn Silverlight and Entity Framework

Here's a quote: "Three screens and the cloud"

We heard this over and over at PDC. Let's read between the lines a bit shall we?

I have three screens: Windows Desktop, Web, Mobile. Ok, if I want to write an app that will run on all three what do I as a developer have to do today? Let?s see, well, we could write a ClickOnce deployed Smart Client for the Desktop that uses WPF. For the web, well, we would have to switch gears completely and rewrite our app in Asp.Net or Asp.Net MVC to get that screen. For mobile, even tougher, we have to rewrite the app again to get the mobile version. Let?s think about this differently again. Think about it, how many technologies would a developer have to know in order to an application for these three different screens; WPF, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS will be used just to name a few.

Now, let's switch gears. What if I used Silverlight 4 to write my app? Well, it could work in the browser no doubt. Hmmm, it could also work on the Desktop using the out of browser experience with elevated permissions. What about mobile?

"Wait, didn?t you just say Keith that at Mix we?ll get to see Windows Mobile 7?"

Yes!

"And hasn't there already been talk of using Silverlight for mobile?"

Yes!

"Aha! Three screens with Silverlight, I get it!"

That's right my friendly .Net developers the writing is on the wall. The vision of WPF/e (WPF Everywhere) is about to come true. We've waited for years but it is just around the corner as I predicted would happen years ago.

WM 6.1 Hot Fix for Sending SMTP E-mail

 

MS KB958639 Download details: WM 6.1 Hot Fix for Sending POP and IMAP E-mail

I was having a problem with Gmail apps on my WinMobile device, where I could not send email.  The only way around it was to delete and recreate the account.  Turns out it is a bug in WM 6.1, and this fixes the problem.

Microsoft Tag now can do black and white

Microsoft Tag can now do black and white tags, as well as color.  All the current readers already can handle the b&w.  And you can use both a b&w and color tag for same link.

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Microsoft Tag : Feature: Microsoft Tag Black and white!

Microsoft Recite : Announcement - Microsoft Recite - Technology Preview

Cool new WinMobile app released by Microsoft. 

Microsoft Recite's voice search makes it easy to retrieve your stored thoughts and notes by using voice pattern matching. It analyzes the patterns in your speech and finds matches between two recordings -- the notes you stored on your phone, and the search you do using your voice. With Recite you can store thousands of spoken notes, and then later retrieve the notes you want based on a match with your search term(s). This is different from speech recognition, which has to accurately convert spoken words to application-readable input.

Microsoft Recite : Announcement - Microsoft Recite - Technology Preview

It would be really cool if this integrated with Outlook to create appts, events, notes.

Windows Mobile: Configuration Steps to Test localhost Web-Services

This blog entry describes how to configure VS2008, WMDC and Windows Mobile Device Emulator to call local web services running under VS debugging.

This was also useful as it fixed my perplexing problem trying to get Device Emulator to connect to WMDC so that I can install .Net CF 3.5.  Specifically, making sure transport mode is DMA in WMDC, VS, and the device; and device emulator must be in Cradle mode.

Public Sector Developer Weblog : Windows Mobile 6: Configuration Steps to Test localhost Web-Services

Free Windows Mobile Remote Admin App

Larry Larsen on Channel 10 posts about an neat free little app for remoting into Windows Mobile phone.  Will do screenshots and video capture for documentation and training sessions, as well as making the screen larger for those of us that are a little older and more visually challenged.

 
Screen shot from my BlackJack

Free Windows Mobile Remote Admin App | Larry Larsen | Channel 10