The Beginning
I've been pondering blogging for a while now. So here is my start.
Other fellow RD's on Radio UserLand that you should check out:
Clemens Vasters
Scott Hanselman
Stephen Forte
Thanks Scott for recommending that I try out Radio.
WIN-DEV
I'm sitting here tonight in The Westin Copley Place hotel in Boston, after spending the day at WIN-DEV where I presented three sessions on the Compact Framework. The speaker list at this event is incredible and I highly recommend attending. I hope that I get the opportunity to return because it was a enjoyable day meeting some of the great folks from DevelopMentor and Boston University.
Thanks to those who made me feel welcome. Some of the speakers that I met today were: Mark Boulter (WinForm team) and Erik Olson (ASP.NET team) of MS. From DevelopMentor, I met Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown , Ingo Rammer, Craig Andera, Bob Beauchemin, Fritz Onion, and Ian Griffiths. From Wintellect, I met John Lam. Several of went to dinner tonight and it was great conversation. Thanks Erik for buying dinner tonight.
I had met Keith Brown long ago, like in 95, so it was great to see him again. At that time, I was attending a DCOM class taught by Don Box at DevelopMentor in Torrence and Keith was visiting the week before he started teaching there. He sat in the back with me and provided educational assistance that week. That was before he became a star. And he's still a nice guy.
I have to mention fellow INETA speaker, Sam Gentile, who was a speaker here this week and gave me guidance through the day. Thanks Sam for letting me know that C++ is still alive and well. If you have any questions on TLBIMP, he's the man to talk to. <g>
My sessions today were:
W14 - Introduction to the .NET Compact Framework
The .NET Compact Framework is a special lightweight version of .NET designed for mobile devices, PDA’s and SmartPhones. This session introduces the Compact Framework and looks at how to get started building applications that take advantage of this powerful mobile platform.
W16 - Windows Forms and the .NET Compact Framework
The limited resources of mobile devices required substantial changes to the implementation of WinForms classes for the Compact Framework. There are substantially fewer controls and each control fires only a fraction of the events fired by their desktop counterparts. In this session, we will look at the differences between WinForms on the Compact Framework as compared to the desktop and how those differences affect both application and custom control developers.
W18 - Maximizing Performance for Smart Device Applications
The limited CPU and memory resources of mobile devices, PDA’s and SmartPhones create special challenges when building applications. The .NET Compact Framework was designed to help developers build efficient applications to take advantage of this new platform but much of the responsibility still falls on the developer. In this session we will look at the best practices to follow to insure that your applications perform at their very best. As part of our discussion, we will look into the special profiling information provided only by the Compact Framework.
Many thanks to Jim Wilson, a .NETCF Guru, who got me into this great gig today. If you don't know Jim, he is DevelopMentor's .NETCF guy, TechEd presenter, and all around a good programmer in the .NET world. When I have questions about .NET CF, this is one of the main resources that I go to. I owe you, Jim.
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