November 2004 - Posts

SOAP Services on the PocketPC

Thanks to Christian Weyer for pointing me to the .NET Compact Framework Mobile Web Server Architecture !

Actually, I found this before, but gave up after I got a Type Exception on my HP iPaq 5450 ( 2002 ).  I tried again, and after creating the wwwroot folder manually, it deploys and runs fine.

It was cool to add a web reference in Visual Studio from a server running on my iPaq! :)

Assuming there isn't comparable functionality appearing in forthcoming Compact Framework releases, it would be a good project to keep alive. I would admit that SOAP services on a PocketPC are of little use to most users, but in the world of more connected web services I imagine they have a place somewhere.

Anyone have any information on this project? The origional link is dead, and there are almost no references to it under google.

posted Monday, November 15, 2004 11:44 AM by andrewwhitten

Soap Services on CE?

I'm looking at ways to pass messages to a PocketPC. There are many out there, but I want to know them all for part of one of my projects. I'm not limited by the version, so Compact Framework 2.0 is fine. MSMQ for Windows Mobile 2003 is very exciting, but I am interested in also using web methods. The easiest way is to implement a TCPListener object, and listen for requests. With Sql CE, there is a not so apparent web server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wceinet/html/wceinetWindowsCEWebServer.asp I am curious, because my boss found a CAB file in the Compact Framework 2.0 SDK, called: HTTPServer.PPC2003ARM.MS.PocketPC.CAB for which I can find no information! Ideally, I am looking for the simplest possible implementation of a SOAP listener to integrate into the application for PocketPC. Any help greatly appreciated!
posted Thursday, November 11, 2004 6:30 PM by andrewwhitten