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ISBN: 9780672325700 | 0672325705
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Copyright: 8/28/2003

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bull; The Compact Framework brings familiar .NET development to mobile devices. bull; This technology enables millions of Microsoft programmers to develop Windows CE applications. bull; Written by two Microsoft Compact Framework team members.

Introduction	p. 1
What's in This Book	p. 1
Conventions Used in This Book	p. 4
What You'll Need	p. 4
Online Resources	p. 5
Setting Up Your Development Environment	p. 7
Smart Device Extensions and the .NET Compact Framework	p. 7
Targeting Nonstandard Devices	p. 16
In Brief	p. 32
Introducing the .NET Compact Framework	p. 33
Why the .NET Compact Framework?	p. 33
Examining the .NET Compact Framework in Detail	p. 35
In Brief	p. 42
Designing GUI Applications with Windows Forms	p. 43
Investigating Unsupported Controls in the .NET Compact Framework	p. 43
Investigating Unsupported System.Windows.Forms Functionality in the .NET Compact Framework	p. 44
Working with the Visual Studio .NET Form Designer	p. 44
Understanding the Different Windows Forms Target Platforms	p. 49
Working with the Form Control	p. 52
Programming the Button Control	p. 55
Using the TextBox Control	p. 56
Using the Label Control	p. 56
Working with RadioButton Controls	p. 56
Using the CheckBox Control	p. 58
Using the ComboBox Control	p. 59
Using the ListBox Control	p. 63
Using the NumericUpDown Control	p. 65
Using the DomainUpDown Control	p. 69
Programming the ProgressBar Control	p. 72
Using the StatusBar Control	p. 73
Using the TrackBar Control	p. 73
Using the ToolBar Control	p. 74
Adding Menus with the MainMenu Control	p. 78
Using a ContextMenu Control in an Application	p. 79
Using the Timer Control	p. 83
Using the OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog Controls	p. 86
Using the Panel Control	p. 88
Using the HScrollBar and VScrollBar Controls	p. 88
Using the ImageList Control	p. 89
Using the PictureBox Control	p. 90
Using the ListView Control	p. 92
Using the TabControl Control	p. 98
Using the TreeView Control	p. 100
Working with the DataGrid Control	p. 104
In Brief	p. 110
Using Threads and Timers in the .NET Compact Framework	p. 111
Threads, Timers, and Windows CE	p. 111
The Thread Class	p. 112
Understanding Thread Basics	p. 113
Coordinating Threads with the Mutex Class	p. 121
Blocking until a Thread Finishes	p. 125
Controlling Access to Data Objects with the Monitor Class	p. 128
Managing Multiple Threads with a Thread Pool	p. 130
Timers	p. 131
Updating Variables with the Interlocked Class	p. 135
In Brief	p. 136
Network Connectivity with the .NET Compact Framework	p. 139
Working with Sockets	p. 139
Socket Programming with the .NET Compact Framework	p. 141
Serializing Objects for Transmission through a Socket	p. 150
Using UDP Packets	p. 151
Multicasting with UDP Packets	p. 155
Communicating with Remote Servers through the HTTP Protocol	p. 157
Communicating with Remote Servers through the HTTPS Protocol	p. 159
Communicating through the Device IrDA Port	p. 159
In Brief	p. 166
ADO.NET on the .NET Compact Framework	p. 167
Introducing ADO.NET on the .NET Compact Framework	p. 167
Caching Data with the DataSet	p. 167
Understanding Constraints	p. 175
Setting Up Autoincremented Fields	p. 178
Modeling Relational Data with the DataSet	p. 179
Creating Bindable Views of Data with a DataView	p. 187
Binding Data to a Control	p. 194
Comparing the Compact DataSet with the Desktop DataSet	p. 196
In Brief	p. 196
Programming with Microsoft SQL Server CE	p. 199
Investigating the Features Supported by Microsoft SQL Server 2000	p. 199
Creating a Microsoft SQL Server CE Database	p. 200
Adding Structure to a Microsoft SQL Server CE Database	p. 204
Populating a Microsoft SQL Server CE Database	p. 210
Retrieving Data by Using Sq1CeDataReader	p. 213
Filling a DataSet by Using the Sq1CeDataAdapter	p. 223
Updating the Microsoft SQL Server CE Database by Using the Sq1CeDataAdapter	p. 227
Generating Sq1Command Objects with the Sq1CeCommandBuilder	p. 233
In Brief	p. 235
XML and the DataSet	p. 237
XML and the .NET Compact Framework DataSet	p. 237
Loading XML into a DataSet	p. 238
Saving a DataSet as XML	p. 241
Loading and Saving XML in a Sample Application	p. 245
Modeling Relational Data with XML Schemas	p. 246
Loading and Saving Schema Alone	p. 256
Writing a DataSet to XML without Schema Information	p. 257
Reading a DataSet from XML, Ignoring Schema Information	p. 257
Inferring Schema	p. 258
Using XML to Design a DataSet	p. 259
Saving and Loading DataSets as XML DiffGrams	p. 261
In Brief	p. 263
Using XML Web Services	p. 265
Creating a Simple XML Web Service	p. 265
Understanding the .NET Framework Web Service Client	p. 271
Creating a Client for the Simple XML Web Service	p. 272
Consuming a Web Service That Uses a DataSet	p. 280
Consuming Web Service That Exposes a Typed DataSet	p. 284
In Brief	p. 287
Manipulating XML with the XmlTextReader and the XmlTextWriter	p. 289
XML Architecture Overview	p. 289
Working with the XmlTextReader	p. 290
Loading XML Data into an XmlTextReader	p. 290
Using the XmlTextReader's Namespaces Property	p. 293
Understanding the Normalization Property	p. 294
Controlling White-Space Interpretation with the WhitespaceHandling Property	p. 296
Using the XmlResolver Property	p. 298
Reading XML Nodes	p. 299
Reading XML Attributes	p. 306
Understanding How to Perform Full-Content Reads	p. 312
Skipping over Nodes	p. 318
Closing the XmlTextReader	p. 320
Working with the XmlTextWriter	p. 320
Creating the XmlTextWriter	p. 321
Manipulating Namespace Support	p. 321
Formatting the XmlTextWriter's Output	p. 322
Writing an XML Declaration	p. 323
Writing XML Elements	p. 324
Writing XML Attributes	p. 327
Writing xml:space and xml:lang Attributes	p. 329
Writing Element and Attribute Content	p. 332
Converting .NET Compact Framework Data Types through XmlConvert	p. 338
Writing Raw XML Markup	p. 341
Writing Other Nodes	p. 343
Writing Processing Instructions	p. 345
Writing White-Space Characters	p. 347
In Brief	p. 348
Working with the XML Document Object Model	p. 351
Processing XML by Using the Document Object Model	p. 351
Differences from the Desktop .NET Framework	p. 352
Loading the XML DOM	p. 353
Navigating the XML DOM	p. 354
Accessing Text from Elements	p. 358
Accessing Markup from Nodes	p. 359
Accessing an Element's Attributes	p. 362
Accessing Other XmlNodes	p. 365
Searching an XML Document Node Tree	p. 366
Creating XmlNodes	p. 367
Creating XmlDeclarations	p. 368
Creating XmlElements	p. 369
Creating XmlAttributes	p. 369
Creating Other Node Types	p. 370
Inserting XmlNodes	p. 371
Using the AppendChild and PrependChild Methods	p. 372
Working with the InsertBefore and InsertAfter Methods	p. 373
Inserting XmlAttributes into an XmlDocument	p. 374
Replacing the XmlNodes within an XmlDocument	p. 376
Removing XmlNodes for an XmlDocument	p. 378
Removing XmlAttributes from their XmlElements	p. 379
Writing the XmlDocument	p. 381
In Brief	p. 382
Interacting with Native Code	p. 383
Understanding When to Call Native Code	p. 383
Calling Native Code: Quick Start	p. 384
Marshalling the Fundamental Data Types	p. 388
Marshalling Simple Structures	p. 397
Passing Nested Structures by Using Custom Marshalling Code	p. 402
Calling the Windows CE Operating System	p. 406
Accessing COM Components from the .NET Compact Framework	p. 410
In Brief	p. 411
Exploring .NET Reflection	p. 413
Understanding the .NET Compact Framework Reflection API	p. 413
Loading .NET Assemblies	p. 413
Discovering Type Information	p. 414
Creating Type Instances by Using ConstructorInfo	p. 417
Invoking Methods by Using the MethodInfo Class	p. 426
Using Reflection to Manipulate Object State	p. 435
Adding Custom Metadata to .NET Elements	p. 460
In Brief	p. 468
Cryptography	p. 469
Cryptography on the .NET Compact Framework	p. 469
Invoking the CryptoAPI	p. 470
Computing a Hash	p. 474
Encrypting and Decrypting Data by Using a Password	p. 479
Using Session Keys to Encrypt and Decrypt Data	p. 491
Determining CryptoAPI Constants with the ConstFinder Sample Application	p. 507
In Brief	p. 507
Measuring the Performance of a .NET Compact Framework Application	p. 509
Using a Stopwatch Timer to Measure Code Execution Time	p. 509
Using .NET Compact Framework Performance Counters	p. 514
In Brief	p. 523
Deploying a .NET Application	p. 525
Packaging a .NET Compact Framework Application	p. 525
Using Visual Studio .NET to Package an Application	p. 525
Using CAB Wizard to Package an Application	p. 526
Distributing a .NET Compact Framework Application	p. 534
In Brief	p. 539
Developing for the SmartPhone	p. 541
Introducing the SmartPhone	p. 541
Developing for the SmartPhone by Using the .NET Compact Framework	p. 542
Writing an Application for SmartPhone--XMLDataSetViewer	p. 543
In Brief	p. 547
Index	p. 549
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