MSDN Webcast: Testing the Most Critical Part of Your Application for Windows Mobile (Level 200)  

Communications with external services is a critical part of any mobile application; however, application communications handling can be difficult to test, especially for unexpected, incomplete, and incorrect communications messages. If you incompletely test your mobile application's communications handling, your application may become unstable or even crash when faced with the real world of mobile networking. But you do not have to be a networking expert to test your application's communications handling-you just need the right tool. In this session, we discuss the Local Server Framework, provided as part of the Windows Mobile 6 Software Development Kit (SDK). We demonstrate how you can create tests that can help you build better applications for Windows Mobile with the Local Server Framework because it provides control over the external service message handling in a predictable and repeatable manner. Attend this presentation to learn how you can use the Local Server Framework to exercise your application's communications handling and improve the reliability and stability of your application designed for Windows Mobile.

Presenter: Jim Wilson, President, JW Hedgehog, Inc.

Jim Wilson is president of JW Hedgehog, Inc., a New Hampshire-based consulting firm specializing in solutions, content creation, and mentoring for Windows Mobile software. Jim has worked extensively with the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft .NET Compact Framework (CF) since the original beta release of each. He has more than 14 years of experience with relational database programming, including Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition. Jim writes frequently for MSDN, and he has developed mobility curriculums for two of the industry's leading technology training organizations, DevelopMentor and PluralSight. Jim speaks regularly at Microsoft conferences and is online at http://pluralsight.com/blogs/jimw.

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