Jim is President of JW Hedgehog, Inc. (http://www.jwhh.com) a New Hampshire based consulting firm specializing in developing solutions for the Windows and Windows Mobile platforms. Jim has worked extensively with the .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework since the original beta release of each. He is the author of both the mobility and Visual Studio Tools for Office curriculums for DevelopMentor. As a speaker, Jim can be seen at Tech Ed, VSLive, Microsoft Mobility DevCon, Embedded DevCon and WinDev. He is co-founder of the New Hampshire .NET User Group and is also author of the MSDN online column, You Can Take It With You (http://msdn.microsoft.com/columns/takeit.aspx).
The beta release of Visual Studio 2005 includes some of the most significant
enhancements to the Microsoft development environment since the release of
.NET itself. Nowhere is this more true than for developers targeting smart
devices such as the Pocket PC.
Visual Studio 2005 provides tremendous improvements to the smart device
development experience and the inclusion of the .NET Compact Framework
Version 2 (.NET CF v2) gives us the richest Smart Device platform we've had
to date. Virtually every aspect of smart device development has been improved
with this latest release, but one of the most tangible areas of improvement
is the addition of support for developing screen orientation-aware user
interfaces.
Screen Orientation and Resolution
When .NET CF v1 was first released about a year and a half ago, designing a
smart device user interface was pretty straightforwar... (more)
In this session you will learn the techniques that can be used to increase
the responsiveness of user interface and network operations for users of
applications built on the .NET Compact Framework.
First we'll be looking under the covers at advances and changes in the
"Whidbey" release to significantly improve performance. You'll receive a
general overview of how the .NET Compact Framework works under the hood at
runtime, with specific focus on performance implications. Next, we will
cover:
general user interface tips to increase performance how asynchronous
infrastructure, such... (more)
Jim is President of JW Hedgehog, Inc. (http://www.jwhh.com) a New Hampshire based consulting firm specializing in developing solutions for the Windows and Windows Mobile platforms. Jim has worked extensively with the .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework since the original beta release of each. He is the author of both the mobility and Visual Studio Tools for Office curriculums for DevelopMentor. As a speaker, Jim can be seen at Tech Ed, VSLive, Microsoft Mobility DevCon, Embedded DevCon and WinDev. He is co-founder of the New Hampshire .NET User Group and is also author of the MSDN online column, You Can Take It With You (http://msdn.microsoft.com/columns/takeit.aspx).
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