- .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Data-Driven Applications
- .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Data-Driven Applications
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- Preface
- 1. CRMLive.NET: An Overview
- Tomorrow Inc.
- Deciding on the type of mobile application
- Defining the mobile sales force application
- Defining the mobile dashboard application
- Defining the mobile support case application
- Summary
- 2. Building the Data Tier
- Designing the data tier
- Connecting the Windows Mobile emulator to ActiveSync
- Setting up SQL Server Compact 3.5
- Setting up Oracle Lite 10g
- Building the data tier
- Building the CRMLiveFramework project
- Building the Plugin Manager UI
- Building the database plugins
- Summary
- 3. Building the Mobile Sales Force Module
- A brief walkthrough of what you will be building
- Building a form navigation class
- Building the main menu
- Creating the business objects to encapsulate your DataSets
- Building the AccountViewer form
- Building the Tasks list
- Handling file attachments
- Custom formatting and display in list controls
- Building the ProductList control
- Building a paged listing of accounts
- Summary
- 4. Building Search Functionality
- A brief walk-through of parameterized search
- Building the parameterized search feature
- A brief walk-through of full-text search
- Building the full-text search feature
- Creating the Keyword Extractor classes
- A sample keyword extractor—the HTML Keyword Extractor
- Indexing the file
- Creating the full-text search query for SQL Server CE
- Creating the full-text search query for Oracle Lite
- Encapsulating the retrieved dataset using business objects
- Creating the full-text search forms
- Trying out the full-text search
- Improving the full-text search engine
- Summary
- 5. Building Integrated Services
- Sending SMS and e-mail from your application
- Intercepting incoming SMS
- Placing phone calls from your application
- Detecting incoming phone calls
- Populating the History tab in the sales force application
- Synchronizing with Windows Mobile Contacts
- Synchronizing with Windows Mobile Tasks
- Sharing an account between two devices
- Capturing handwritten input using the Smart Device Framework
- Summary
- 6. Data Synchronization
- Overview of the different data synchronization methods available for Microsoft SQL Server CE
- Overview of the different data synchronization methods available for Oracle Lite
- A quick comparison between the various Synchronization frameworks
- Using Microsoft Synchronization Services
- Using Oracle Mobile Server
- Installing Oracle Database Enterprise 11g and Oracle Mobile Server
- Creating an Oracle Mobile repository
- Creating the CRMLive server tables
- Creating a new publication using the Mobile Database Workbench
- Publishing the mobile application to the mobile server
- Setting up application users using the WebToGo portal
- Registering the mobile device with the mobile server
- Synchronizing with the mobile server
- Synchronizing files with the server
- Creating network-aware synchronization modules
- Summary
- 7. Optimizing for Performance
- 8. Securing the Application
- 9. Globalization
- 10. Building the Dashboard
- 11. Building the Support Case System
- 12. Testing and Debugging
- 13. Packaging and Deployment
Edmund Tan is the CTO and co-founder of a leading e-forms and workflow solution vendor based in Singapore. He holds more than eight years of experience building performance-critical .NET e-forms and workflow solutions for smart devices on top of Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases for large companies and governmental institutions located in Singapore and Malaysia. Edmund is also a regular public speaker at various conferences held in Singapore and Malaysia on the topic of on-the-go BPM (Business Process Management) hosted on smart device technologies. During his free time, Edmund works on trying to create machines capable of emulating human thought.
My first and heartfelt word of thanks goes out to David Barnes without whom this book would not have been possible at all. I also thank James Lumsden for giving my e-mail a chance, Rakesh Shejwal and Greg, my long-time collaborator, for their always insightful edits, Srimoyee Ghoshal for keeping me on schedule, Lata Basantani, as well as everyone else involved in this book at Packt.
I extend my gratitude to my parents, Laumee and Obagi, for their undying love and support, my aunt Laumar for instilling the bookworm in me, my wife Shen for keeping the beverages flowing, my kid Sophie simply for being the pride of my life, and, last but not least, my brother Edwin for his jokes during the really, really late hours of the night.
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