Here we are in Berlin, and I've attended the first 3 sessions about developing on the new Windows CE 6 platform with Visual Studio 2008. From my hotel room on the 11th. floor:   From one of the conference rooms:  My hotel room: It's just great fun beeing here!

Andy Wigley is also attending this conference, and he held a session "Building Mobile Applications with the patterns & practices Mobile Application Blocks", which he also talked about at the TechEd in Barcelone in November 2006. I already wrote about his session back then, but he did talk a bit more in debth in this session. What he mentions is that the application blocks are not that easy to use. Seems like he's had some more time to reflect on the subject, and come to terms with how much e... [More]

Loke Uei Tan held a session, where he talked about what's new in the CF 3.5. First off: What's missing: Server functionality, i.e. ASP.NET (But who want's to host an IIS on a mobile device?) .NET Remoting :( (Really sucks, but can understand that remoting might be big) Reflection.Emit (Haven't used it yet) Managed C++, J# (Fine by me) What was their purpose of 3.5 then? Their answer: Adressing key developer issues.People normally create is distributed application, but they seem t... [More]

The first session I attended was with Larry Liebermann, where he talked about what new for developers in Windows Mobile 6. The session was rated for 200 points, which I would say it barely rated. What's cool about the new platform for us developers is the Compact Framework v2 SP2 is going to be located within the ROM of any Windows Mobile 6 device. For those of us, who want to persist data on the device, the SQL Server Compact Edition will also be located in ROM. This will mean that the CF and S... [More]

Welcome to MEDC 2007. I'm here with Michael Alrøe from the Engineering College in Århus, Nicolae Marian from Syddansk University and Henrik W. Hansen from Microsoft, and we are exited to be in Berlin. We are here to learn about developing applications for mobile devices, and for my focus with the .NET Compact Framework. It's all hapening at the ProArte Hotel where we all are staying, which makes it easy to get to the conference :) So, stay tuned for updates about the talks I'm visiting.

Thursday the 6th. of June 2007, my new nephew was born: He is going to be named: Magnus Bach Nielsen Today he looks more like this: Can't wait to spend some more time with him :) Congratulations Louise and Jesper, he looks awesome!