- .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
You've come all the way from scratch across the full spectrum of development, testing, and deployment, and you're now fully equipped to build rich data-driven applications for the .NET Compact Framework!
In this final chapter of the book, you've learned how to create robust packaging and deployment solutions that make deployment an easier task for your end users. You've learned the following in this chapter:
- How to create a CAB installer project
- How to create an MSI installer project
- How to create custom actions (in a class library) and link it up to various installation events in an MSI project
- How to create an automated update web service, and an update tool (on the mobile device) that is version aware
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