- .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
Greg Yap is a tech-savvy person who's always interested in the latest technology. He has worked on .NET since its first release. He has experience in developing software for small, medium, and enterprise-sized companies around the world and has worked on Microsoft technologies for a variety of platforms including the .NET Compact Framework. He is also well versed in the C# and VB.NET programming languages.
I would like to thank my family, especially my understanding wife Jennie who's given me all the support and time I needed to review this great book. To my two kids—thank you! I'm glad that both of you have shown the patience I knew you would. My thanks also go out to my friend Edmund for having considered me as the technical reviewer for this book—I owe you a coffee! Last but not the least, I would like to thank Srimoyee Ghoshal for always being there to keep me on time and the remaining Packt Publishing team for giving me the opportunity to review this book.
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