Sending notifications from a server to a Pocket PC under CF.NET

[Jared Miniman [MVP]]

Hey all,

I've been bothering the OpenNETCF guys for a cut of their managed wrappers
for MSMQ, but sadly there wasn't enough support to keep that project alive.
So I'm left with a problem. I need some kind of mechanism to push messages
from a server (we can assume a Win 2003 box running IIS 6.0 and .NET 1.1) to
a Pocket PC. These messages can be alerts (like pop up a message on the
screen) or data updates to the PPC's local SQL CE store (if one table in
SQLCE contains rows indicating tasks, we might want to add or remove rows
from that table).

We can certainly create a timer, and upon timer wakeup, force the device to
connect to the Internet, make a generic web service call and ask to see if
the server has any updates, but that seems pretty hackish. How have you
guys gotten around the lack of MSMQ support in CFv1.0 to handle
notifications?

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Jared Miniman
MS-MVP Mobile Devices
Accenture Mobile Solutions Group

ActiveSync problems?
http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/support/help/activesync.asp
Connection Mngr Q's?
http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/tutorials/connectionmanager

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

Jared,

We'd gladly hand over the source if you want to complete the library....

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Or switch to C++ and write most of the logic in there and simply P/Invoke to
it at the right times from your managed code. MSMQ works pretty well from
C++...

Paul T.