Microsoft smartphone programming

Title:

Personal Author:

Yang, Baijian, 1972-

Publication Information:

Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Publishing, 2007

ISBN:

9780471762935

Subject Term:

Cellular telephones -- Computer programs

Pocket computers -- Computer programs

Microsoft .NET Framework

Added Author:

Zheng, Pei, 1972-

Ni, Lionel M.

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"Professor Yang and Dr. Zheng are two of the passionate young researchers in the field with a lot of hands-on experience. Professor Ni, on the other hand, is a veteran in wireless technologies, 2.5G/3G cellular phones, and embedded systems. The energy, the hands-on experience, and the long-term vision ensure that the book is of highest quality."
--From the foreword by Ya-Qin Zhang, Corporate Vice President for Research, Microsoft China

The second-generation Smartphone applications are exclusively designed to leverage the advantages of mobility and ubiquitous wireless access. This book provides you with an in-depth look at software development issues and design guidelines, and helps you gain the skills you need to develop your own efficient and feature-rich Smartphone applications that utilize the latest cutting-edge technologies.

Complete with code and examples, the book first walks you through the Microsoft Smartphone platform from a software developer's perspective. It next uncovers the .NET Compact Framework as well as the Smartphone programming environment. You'll then find detailed information on Microsoft Smartphone-related application design and programming topics in the domains of the .NET Compact Framework (managed code). Plus, you'll explore advanced development topics such as security and performance considerations that you'll be able to incorporate into your own applications.

What you will learn from this book
* How to use the programming framework and classes available in Windows Mobile and Smartphone SDK
* The fundamentals of .NET Compact Framework 2.0
* Techniques for developing your own robust Smartphone applications
* Steps for customizing components and P/Invoke
* How to enhance data and communication security
* Ways to improve the performance of your applications
* Fundamental techniques for supporting world-ready applications

Who this book is for

This book is for software architects and developers working in the area of mobile application development as well as professionals who want a quick and thorough overview of the Microsoft Smartphone software development platform.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Author Notes

Baijian Yang is an assistant professor in the Computer Technology program at Ball State University. He became a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in 1998 and was one of the core software designers/developers for etang.com. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 2002. He is now engaged in research and development in the area of wireless networks and distributed systems.

Pei Zheng received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 2003. He joined Microsoft as a software engineer in 2005. Before that he was an assistant professor of Computer Science at Arcadia University, and a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. His research interests include distributed systems, network simulation and emulation, and mobile computing.

Lionel M. Ni is Chair Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, and Director of the Digital Life Research Center at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Ni earned his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in 1980. He has been involved in many projects related to wireless technologies, 2.5G/3G cellular phones, and embedded systems. He is co-author of the book Interconnection Networks: An Engineering Approach (Morgan Kaufmann, 2002), and Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing (Morgan Kaufmann, 2006).

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xix
Introduction	p. xxi
Part I Smartphone and .NET	p. 1
Chapter 1 Introduction to Microsoft Smartphone	p. 3
What Is a Smartphone?	p. 3
Smartphone Applications and Services	p. 4
Mobile Commerce	p. 5
Mobile Enterprise	p. 5
Mobile Data Service and Entertainment	p. 6
Challenges of Smartphone Application Development	p. 6
Introducing Microsoft Windows Mobile	p. 7
Windows Mobile 5.0	p. 7
Microsoft Smartphone from a User's Perspective	p. 8
Summary	p. 10
Chapter 2 .NET Compact Framework Fundamentals	p. 11
Introducing the Microsoft .NET Framework	p. 11
The Common Language Runtime	p. 12
.NET Framework Class Libraries	p. 13
Visual Studio 2005	p. 14
Introducing the .NET Compact Framework	p. 15
CLR of the .NET Compact Framework	p. 15
.NET Compact Framework Class Libraries	p. 15
Platform Invoke	p. 16
Smartphone Development Tools	p. 17
.NET Compact Framework Type System	p. 18
Types	p. 19
Attributes and Reflection	p. 21
Generics	p. 21
Exception Handling	p. 21
A Quick Review of C#	p. 22
Value Types	p. 23
Reference Types	p. 24
Operators	p. 25
String and object	p. 26
Classes and Interfaces	p. 28
Polymorphism	p. 32
Arrays and Collections	p. 33
Summary	p. 35
Part II Smartphone Application Development	p. 37
Chapter 3 Developing Your First Smartphone Application	p. 39
Required Tools	p. 39
Visual Studio 2005	p. 40
Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for Smartphone	p. 41
Smartphone Device Emulator	p. 41
ActiveSync	p. 42
All-In-One Package	p. 43
Building Your First Smartphone Application	p. 43
Creating a Smartphone Project	p. 43
Adding Code to the Form	p. 49
Project Files	p. 51
Testing and Debugging Applications	p. 52
Packaging and Deploying Applications	p. 56
Packaging Applications	p. 56
Signing Applications	p. 59
Delivering and Installing Applications	p. 61
Summary	p. 62
Chapter 4 User Interface and Input	p. 63
UI Design with Forms and Controls	p. 63
Supported Controls	p. 64
Control Behaviors	p. 65
Smartphone UI Design	p. 85
Soft Keys	p. 86
The Home and Back Keys	p. 86
General UI Flow of Smartphone Applications	p. 87
Creating an Application with Multiple Forms	p. 88
Keyboard Input and Input Mode	p. 96
Input Mode	p. 96
Soft Key Functionality	p. 101
Additional UI Considerations	p. 102
Auto-Save	p. 102
DPI and QVGA Issues	p. 102
Performance	p. 103
Summary	p. 103
Chapter 5 Data Storage and File I/O	p. 105
Overview of Smartphone Data Storage	p. 105
The System.IO Namespace	p. 107
Creating a File Directory Browser	p. 113
Implementing a Memo Application	p. 120
Summary	p. 129
Chapter 6 Data Access with SQL Server Mobile	p. 131
ADO.NET Overview	p. 132
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition	p. 134
SQL Server Mobile Architecture	p. 135
Installing SQL Server Mobile	p. 136
Setting Up the SQL Server Mobile Server Environment	p. 138
Installing SQL Server Mobile Tools	p. 138
Creating a Database and Tables from SQL Server 2005	p. 138
Creating a Publication	p. 142
Configuring Web Synchronization	p. 145
Creating a SQL Server Mobile Database	p. 147
Creating Subscriptions in SQL Server Mobile	p. 148
Writing SQL Server Mobile Applications	p. 151
A Simple Application with the DataGrid Control	p. 151
The SqlServerCe Namespace	p. 157
Summary	p. 163
Chapter 7 Networking	p. 165
An Overview of Smartphone Networking	p. 165
Emulator Networking	p. 166
Web Access	p. 167
The HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse Classes	p. 168
Creating HTTP Request	p. 169
TCP Servers and Clients	p. 176
The IPEndPoint Class	p. 176
The IPAddress and IPHostEntry Classes	p. 176
Network and Host Byte Order Conversion	p. 177
The TcpListener and TcpClient Classes	p. 178
An Example of TcpListener and TcpClient	p. 180
Network Sockets	p. 187
TCP Sockets	p. 188
UDP Sockets	p. 196
Nonblocking Mode and Asynchronous Methods	p. 198
Summary	p. 199
Chapter 8 E-mail, SMS, and PIM Data	p. 201
Pocket Outlook Object Model (POOM)	p. 201
The WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook Namespace	p. 203
Creating E-mail Applications with Managed APIs	p. 205
Creating a Simple E-mail Application	p. 208
Creating an E-mail Application with Attachments	p. 210
Accessing PIM Data	p. 216
Using SMS	p. 220
Summary	p. 226
Chapter 9 XML and Web Services	p. 227
Overview of XML and Web Services	p. 227
XML Support in .NET Compact Framework	p. 229
XML Syntax	p. 229
An XML Example: Customizing the Home Screen	p. 231
XML Schema	p. 233
XML-Related Classes	p. 234
XmlDocument and XmlTextReader	p. 235
XmlNodeReader and DataSet	p. 240
An XML Processing Sample Application	p. 242
Building a Smartphone XML Web Service Application	p. 248
Adding a Web Reference	p. 248
Consuming Web Services	p. 249
Summary	p. 253
Chapter 10 Platform Invoke	p. 255
Managed and Unmanaged Code	p. 255
Building Unmanaged DLLs	p. 257
Using P/Invoke in the .NET Compact Framework	p. 260
Declaring and Calling an Unmanaged Code Function	p. 261
Error Handling	p. 262
Marshaling Data	p. 263
An Example of a P/Invoke Application	p. 271
Optimizing P/Invoke Performance	p. 278
Summary	p. 279
Chapter 11 Exception Handling and Debugging	p. 281
Exceptions and Exception Handling	p. 281
Exceptions	p. 282
The try...catch Statement	p. 282
The finally Statement	p. 283
The throw Statement	p. 285
Exception Stack Trace	p. 286
The Exception Class	p. 288
The SystemException Class	p. 289
The ApplicationException Class	p. 290
Best Practices of Exception Handling	p. 292
Debugging in Visual Studio 2005	p. 293
Debugging Windows	p. 293
Debugging Setting	p. 294
Deploying and Debugging in Visual Studio	p. 294
Defining Symbols	p. 294
Limitations of Debugging	p. 295
Multithreaded Debugging	p. 296
Managed Threads	p. 296
Race Condition	p. 298
Deadlock	p. 300
Summary	p. 304
Part III Advanced Topics	p. 305
Chapter 12 Device and Application Security	p. 307
Mobile Threats	p. 307
Glossary of Terms	p. 309
Digital Signatures, Certificates, and Application Signing	p. 309
Privileged and Unprivileged Applications and Certificate Stores	p. 310
Trusted and Normal Applications	p. 310
Security Policies and Roles	p. 311
Windows Mobile 5.0 Security Models	p. 312
Certificate Management in Windows Mobile 5.0	p. 314
Obtaining Certificates	p. 314
Signing Applications with Certificates	p. 315
Managing Certificates	p. 319
Security Policies	p. 322
An Example Code	p. 325
Perimeter Security	p. 330
Physical Access Control	p. 330
Antivirus Considerations	p. 331
Summary	p. 332
Chapter 13 Data and Communication Security	p. 333
Data Protection	p. 334
Data Encryption	p. 334
Database Encryption and Password Protection	p. 341
Securing Communication Channels	p. 346
Network Authentication	p. 346
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)	p. 347
Virtual Private Networks	p. 350
Wi-Fi	p. 353
Securing Web Services with SOAP Headers	p. 353
Server Side	p. 354
Client Side	p. 360
Summary	p. 362
Chapter 14 Globalization and Localization	p. 363
Globalization and Localization Support	p. 363
Culture	p. 364
The CultureInfo Class	p. 365
Developing a World-Ready Application	p. 366
Creating Localized Resources	p. 366
A Sample Application with a Localized Satellite Assembly	p. 370
Localizing Data	p. 377
Dates, Time, and Calendars	p. 377
Numbers and Currency	p. 379
Strings	p. 381
Best Practices	p. 382
Summary	p. 383
Chapter 15 Graphics	p. 385
.NET Compact Framework Graphics	p. 386
The Graphics Class	p. 386
Creating a Graphics Object	p. 387
The Color, Pen, and Brush Objects	p. 387
Vector Graphics	p. 389
Drawing Text	p. 397
Working with Fonts	p. 399
Drawing Images	p. 400
Drawing Bitmaps	p. 402
Embedded Resources	p. 408
Summary	p. 409
Chapter 16 Performance	p. 411
General Principles	p. 411
Using .NET Compact Framework Performance Counters	p. 412
CLR Performance	p. 417
Garbage Collection	p. 417
Call Overhead	p. 418
Math	p. 423
Reflection	p. 423
Generics	p. 423
Class Library Guidelines	p. 424
BCL Collections	p. 424
StringBuilder versus String	p. 426
Regular Expression	p. 427
XML and Data Access	p. 428
XMLReader and XMLWriter	p. 428
XML Schema	p. 428
XML Serialization	p. 429
Data Access	p. 429
Windows Forms	p. 430
Form Loading Performance	p. 430
Form Layout	p. 431
BeginUpdate and EndUpdate	p. 433
Summary	p. 434
Appendix A New Features in .NET Compact Framework 2.0	p. 437
Appendix B A Glance at the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Class Library	p. 441
Appendix C The Smartphone Bootstrapping Process	p. 459
Index	p. 465

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