Creating Web Services for Pocket PCs

[RFEULINGatRITE]

Hello,

We have created a web service for a pocket pc app and are having some speed issue when transferring datasets.

We were previously using a dataset to transmit a single row of data and when we converted it to direct xml it got much faster (much).

Problem is, we often need to transmit a table of data across the service and using datasets doesn’t seem to be a viable option. I’m not sure how we could efficiently transfer in direct XML and turn it into a dataset as the data will often be used inside a data grid.

Am I missing something? I’m not sure if I could turn the xml into the dataset without overusing the pocket pcs limited resources.

Anyone have any experiences they could share? Thanks!

Rick

 

[chrissie1]

Since you are having trouble with the limited resources of the PocketPC, I would think about using ASP.Net and the PocketPCs Internet explorer. At least that's what I did.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

If you want to get an answer read this FAQ faq796-2540
There's no such thing as a winnable war - Sting

 

[RFEULINGatRITE]

I would love to but theres too many limitations presented by using a web site on a pocket pc.

We actually tried that first but the project is just too complex in terms of what the users want the UI to do.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

 

[RiverGuy]

If you are worried about your table of data containing too many records for your PocketPC to handle, then why not have it request and work with a single row at a time? Why transmit an entire table? You should be able to use the DataSet.ReadXML method, however.