Your opinion needed...

[Butt Chin Chuan]

I would like to develop a mobile forum in the pocket pc.
It is actually a mobile version of an existing forum in a
web system. Now, I have not done this type of programming
before (forum), so I will really appreciate any opinion
given.

1. Should I allow the user to register on the Pocket Pc
application too or they must register at the web forum
first before they can use it?

2. Should this be done in RDA or Replication?

3. If a user wants to start a new thread, should I let
him/her do it? This is because if I use RDA, it will have
some problems. I'm not too sure about the effects if using
Replication. Any comment?

4. Should I allow the user to view only certain amount of
message in a thread (say, the last 3 days) up to whatever
(1 year maybe)?

Thank you very much in advance for your response.

Butt Chin Chuan
A beginner in .Net CF

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

If you want to create a mobile friendly version of an existing web forum
(e.g. ASP.NET forums or similar) then you should probably be looking at
Mobile ASP.NET controls, rather than a client side database application:-
http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=6&tabid=44

This will allow you to target a wider range of devices from WAP phones
upwards (approx 200 device types) and is probably more suited to this type
of application. Because ASP.NET forums source code is freely available this
would probably be a good starting point from which to add on a mobile
specific front end.

See also the microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.mobile newsgroup

Peter