Posts Tagged ‘Compact Framework’

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108 hours down, 100 to go

October 3, 2008

So we’ve chewed through 108 hours of the allotted time and well I don’t think we have a lot to show right now but a half a dozen concept projects that individually prove each piece of our project will work, it’s the threading them all together and applying the “business” logic which is proving to be time consuming.

Michael organised to come over to my place after work on Thursday night so we can bounce a bunch of ideas of each other and then spend the night, I then organised for the both of us to take Friday off work so that we could focus on this a little more without those pesky work distractions :)

I think by the end of the day (well COB) we should have the better part of the application complete, or at least I hope that’s the case!

I don’t want to mention too much of what I’ve done as I think it will kind f give our app away, even though Michael has listed the three major technologies I’m using on his blog (damn you Mike) so no real technology updates.

What I learnt yesterday was that LINQ is supported on mobile devices, I’ll never cease to be amazed at the .Net framework, good job CF team!  It’s funny coming in to this I thought we were going to have to write a lot of stuff ourselves – I figured the Compact Framework was just going to be a really crippled / cut  down version of the regular framework and don’t get me wrong – there are some things missing (GDI+ for one!) but 90% of the functionality I’ve needed has been there and I thought it was going to be a lot closer to say 50%, I’m pleasantly surprised.

Anyway got to run, got to get some code done whilst Michael is still asleep :)