.NET Compact Framework WCF and Store and Forward Messaging - Webcast Follow Up

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  • Don't miss the next Windows Mobile Webcast... Unit Testing for Mobile Devices: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032382824&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US.

Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday's Webcast.

BTW: You can now watch the Webcast On-Demand

My apologies for the delay in getting the post-Webcast content released. Last night and today were one of those 24 hour periods that are just hard to believe sometimes. My wife and I both had to have unplanned dental work. I suddenly developed a problem with an existing root canal .. so I had to go in and start the process of doing a new root canal on the same tooth. Then my wife broke one of her molars today and was experiencing significant discomfort  ... to make things more interesting, her tooth broke while we're in the midst of a pretty significant snow fall here in New Hampshire (literally coming down at over 2 inches/hour) ... fortunately, the dentist was nice enough to stick around and fit her in even though they had just canceled all their appointments for the day due to weather.

Sorry for the long dog-ate-my-homework story J ... As promised, here's the follow up content for the Webcast ...

Q&A

Question: What version of Exchange is required for Store-And-Forward messaging support
Answer: Exchange 2007

Code Sample

Here's the Store-And-Forward app we built showing how to setup both a sender and receiver: StoreAndFwd1.zip

Resources

The following are some web resources that you may find helpful...

What's included in the .NET Compact Framework WCF Subset

An intro to .NET CF WCF Store-And-Forward messaging that includes information on how to setup your development environment

Walkthrough showing how to use WCF Store-And-Forward messaging between a Windows Mobile device and a desktop computer

Lunch Launcher: An 8-part series (don't worry they're short parts J ) describing the process of building a WCF Store-And-Forward app used to collaborate between several devices.

 


Posted Dec 13 2007, 04:37 PM by jim-wilson

Comments

Abhinav wrote re: .NET Compact Framework WCF and Store and Forward Messaging - Webcast Follow Up
on 01-10-2008 9:33 AM
This is a great starter on messaging with WCF.

there is a catch though - the listener cannot process the message unless it is fully downloaded. and the size of the message depends on the data on the object.

Any ideas on this ?

Jim Wilson wrote re: .NET Compact Framework WCF and Store and Forward Messaging - Webcast Follow Up
on 01-18-2008 8:43 AM
Abhinav;

My apologies for the delayed reply - I was up against some very tight deadlines so I've been heads down for the past 10 days or so.

Regarding your question... I don't believe that the message size is an issue. I'm pretty sure that the call to the IInputChannel.Receive doesn't return the message reference until the entire message is received.

The issue you point out could be true for any transport but I believe that the architecture factors the issue out by only returning the message reference when the message is complete.

That said, I'm going to do a little research to confirm that my understanding is correct. I'll post back as soon as I get some more info.

Jim

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