Windows Mobile, SQL Mobile 2005 and .NET Compact Framework 2.0 - a powerful combination
I want to share with you the enthusiasm I have for the Windows Mobile platform. If I had to pick an area of innovation that excited me most last year, it would have to be the developments in the Windows Mobile space. Windows and SQL Mobile 2005 in conjunction with the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 form an incredibly powerful platform for mobile information workers.
How many of you have a Windows Mobile powered device - a PDA or Smartphone?
Did you know you could get SQL Mobile for your Windows Mobile device?
Did you know that SQL Mobile can be a merge replication subscriber for data from your backend SQL Server 2000 or 2005 databases?
Now imagine what you could do with that? Any data stored in a SQL Server database could be made available to a Windows Mobile equipped workforce.
Obviously in order to do anything meaninful with that data you need a front-end application on the PDA or Smartphone, that's where the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 comes in handy.
Changes to the data on the mobile device are synchronised with SQL Server when replication is triggered and a flexible conflict resolution system is on hand should the complexity of your solution require it.
To find out more about SQL Mobile 2005 visit http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/sqlmobile/default.mspx
