.NET Code Samples, Data Access, and Other Musings
The December 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine is now posted online. My latest Data Points column discusses development with the SmartPhone (titled "RSS Feeds on a Smartphone"). Here is a excerpt from the article quoted from the introduction:
This month I will demonstrate how to build a Windows Mobile® 5.0 application that reads RSS feeds and loads them into an ADO.NET DataSet. I will start out by showing how to request an RSS feed from a URL asynchronously and then demonstrate how to read the RSS feed and load it into a DataSet. Next, I will show you how to navigate the DataSet's hierarchy to find the appropriate data containing each feed's items. Then I will discuss how to use anonymous delegates to sort the data, how to check for the existence of a field in the RSS data using ADO.NET, and how to use the WebBrowser control to navigate to a URL or display HTML. Finally, I will demonstrate how to deploy the application to a mobile device using a CAB project. The full source code for this sample application is available from the MSDN®Magazine Web site.
You can read the article online here.
About John Papa
John (C# MVP and MCSD.NET) has been working with Microsoft distributed architectures for over 10 years. He has enterprise experience architecting and developing with .NET technologies including ASP.NET as well as WebForms using both C# and VB.NET. He is a baseball fanatic who spends most of his summer nights rooting for the Yankees with his family and his faithful dog, Kadi. John has authored or co-authored several books on ADO, ADO.NET, XML, and SQL Server, is the author of the Data Points column in MSDN Magazine, has presented MSDN WebCasts and can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as VSLive and DevConnections.
