"Brian Abbott" <brian@msdnacasystems.co.uk> wrote in message
news:#PSe73yREHA.3052@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> I'm new to PPC development. I have a app that I wish to develop for
PPC2002
> and later devices. I started off thinking that C# was the way to go, but
> doing some research has made me have some doubts. The areas of particular
> concern are:
>
> - The app will connect to a web service and pass back a data set that
> includes a digitised signature, say 3k in size. AIUI, .Net CF SOAP
doesn't
> support attachments so I need to Base64 encode the sig and include that in
> the XML payload. BUT I have read that .Net CF is very slow in Base64
> encoding, to the point of being perhaps unusable?
>
> - In the future I might want to have the PDA act as a SOAP Web Server. I
> know .Net CF won't do this ATM - will it in the next version?
>
> Any comments on the above 2 points would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Brian Abbott
>
>

Brian Abbott <brian@msdnacasystems.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm new to PPC development. I have a app that I wish to develop for PPC2002
> and later devices. I started off thinking that C# was the way to go, but
> doing some research has made me have some doubts. The areas of particular
> concern are:
>
> - The app will connect to a web service and pass back a data set that
> includes a digitised signature, say 3k in size. AIUI, .Net CF SOAP doesn't
> support attachments so I need to Base64 encode the sig and include that in
> the XML payload. BUT I have read that .Net CF is very slow in Base64
> encoding, to the point of being perhaps unusable?

"Chris Tacke, eMVP" <ctacke[at]Open_NET_CF[dot]org> wrote in message
news:uDE5aXzREHA.4020@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I don't think base-64 will be a problem.
>
> I can't imagine that we'll see web service hosting any time soon on the
PPC.
> You can always write one or find a 3rd party one, but it's not there now
for
> either environment, and I doubt they will be in v. next.
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
> "Brian Abbott" <brian@msdnacasystems.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:#PSe73yREHA.3052@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm new to PPC development. I have a app that I wish to develop for
> PPC2002
> > and later devices. I started off thinking that C# was the way to go,
but
> > doing some research has made me have some doubts. The areas of
particular
> > concern are:
> >
> > - The app will connect to a web service and pass back a data set that
> > includes a digitised signature, say 3k in size. AIUI, .Net CF SOAP
> doesn't
> > support attachments so I need to Base64 encode the sig and include that
in
> > the XML payload. BUT I have read that .Net CF is very slow in Base64
> > encoding, to the point of being perhaps unusable?
> >
> > - In the future I might want to have the PDA act as a SOAP Web Server.
I
> > know .Net CF won't do this ATM - will it in the next version?
> >
> > Any comments on the above 2 points would be appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Brian Abbott
> >
> >
>
>

"Brian Abbott" <brian@msdnacasystems.co.uk> wrote in message
news:%23PSe73yREHA.3052@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> I'm new to PPC development. I have a app that I wish to develop for
PPC2002
> and later devices. I started off thinking that C# was the way to go, but
> doing some research has made me have some doubts. The areas of particular
> concern are:
>
> - The app will connect to a web service and pass back a data set that
> includes a digitised signature, say 3k in size. AIUI, .Net CF SOAP
doesn't
> support attachments so I need to Base64 encode the sig and include that in
> the XML payload. BUT I have read that .Net CF is very slow in Base64
> encoding, to the point of being perhaps unusable?
>
> - In the future I might want to have the PDA act as a SOAP Web Server. I
> know .Net CF won't do this ATM - will it in the next version?
>
> Any comments on the above 2 points would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Brian Abbott
>
>

"Razvan Dragomirescu" <razvan.dragomirescu@simeda.com> wrote in message
news:O4MgNz2REHA.2976@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> You might want to take a look at this:
>
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/NETCFMA.asp
>
> It's a WebServer written in C# for the .NET Compact Framework and it does
> have a SOAP module (they have a sample Web Service running on it). The
code
> is pretty clean, although it still has some quirks.
>
> Razvan
>
> --
> Razvan Dragomirescu
> Chief Technology Officer
> SIMEDA GmbH
> www.simeda.com
>
> "Chris Tacke, eMVP" <ctacke[at]Open_NET_CF[dot]org> wrote in message
> news:uDE5aXzREHA.4020@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > I don't think base-64 will be a problem.
> >
> > I can't imagine that we'll see web service hosting any time soon on the
> PPC.
> > You can always write one or find a 3rd party one, but it's not there now
> for
> > either environment, and I doubt they will be in v. next.
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> >
> >
> > "Brian Abbott" <brian@msdnacasystems.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:#PSe73yREHA.3052@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm new to PPC development. I have a app that I wish to develop for
> > PPC2002
> > > and later devices. I started off thinking that C# was the way to go,
> but
> > > doing some research has made me have some doubts. The areas of
> particular
> > > concern are:
> > >
> > > - The app will connect to a web service and pass back a data set that
> > > includes a digitised signature, say 3k in size. AIUI, .Net CF SOAP
> > doesn't
> > > support attachments so I need to Base64 encode the sig and include
that
> in
> > > the XML payload. BUT I have read that .Net CF is very slow in Base64
> > > encoding, to the point of being perhaps unusable?
> > >
> > > - In the future I might want to have the PDA act as a SOAP Web Server.
> I
> > > know .Net CF won't do this ATM - will it in the next version?
> > >
> > > Any comments on the above 2 points would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Brian Abbott
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>