Client server on CE

[Paul Gielens]

I got this embedded Windows CE.NET platform with a few
business and data access components installed. These
components supply/manipulate data stored in the sql server
db.

I now want to provide users of my application to grab
their handheld running WindowsCE.NET. Boot the client and
connect to the embedded application. What technology do I
use?

- Sockets?
- .NET Remoting?
- Running IIS on the embedded platform and provide content?
- Remote desktop, telnet?

Appreciate your thoughts on the subject.

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Sockets will work fine. This is the most flexible option, but probably the
most work, since you have to handle loss of connection, multiple clients,
etc. yourself.

You can't use .NET Remoting now because it's not supported in the current
version of the .NET Compact Framework.

You can run a Web server on the embedded platform and provide ASP, ISAPI,
etc. capabilities to access your data.

You can, from the Windows CE device, attach to a Terminal Server, but the
Windows CE device cannot *be* the terminal server. So, it doesn't seem,
from your description, as though this will work.

Paul T.

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Wouldn't webservices be an option?

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[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

I'm not sure that the Web server on CE supports hosting Web services. We
use our own server on our devices. If it does support them, then that would
be a good option, yes.

Paul T.

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