Data points: Accessing data from mobile applications

Data access is an important aspect of developing applications for Windows mobile® devices with the Microsoft®.net compact Framework. By using an existing architecture to send and receive data between mobile applications and application servers, you can use datasets, custom objects, or scalar values to pass data.

In this installment of data points, I'll discuss best practices for data access policies when developing Smartphone mobile applications. I'll show you how to design a data-driven Smartphone application that can display and save data over the Internet. It also describes how to communicate with a server application, which provides a way to get data using a dataset, custom object, and entity generic list<t>.

Mobile development

Basic Tools for mobile development

. NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2

Windows Mobile 6 Professional and Standard SDK

Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for Smartphone

Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for Pocket PC

ActiveSync 4.5 (Windows XP)

Windows Mobile Device Center (Windows Vista)

Microsoft Device Emulator 2.0

Windows Mobile 6 Emulator

Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Emulator

Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone emulator with a horizontal screen

Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Emulator

Motorola Q Emulator