PDC 2nd day!

While the first day was extremely boring. I really liked the second day. Mr. Kemmou had lots of intereting mobile samples for us. The first session was so so as he only taught how to use ASP.NET to design WAP/WML pages. I was really interested in the mobile embedding technologies. So, there it was in the second session! A brief overview of the compact framework for mobile devices. 3MB for a windows os and 1MB for the .NET framework... thats 4MB pre-reserved on any smartphone/pocketpc ;)

.NET supports three types of devices at this time... Windows CE based systems, PocketPCs (most features!) and there's Smartphone. It had two emulators for Smartphone.

I was really excited when Mr. Kemmou showed us how to access the low level phone api (like dialing another number, accessing sim info, sending sms and stuff). That was really exciting.

In the end he said that he'd be uploading the slides and all the source code on his website and microsoft will be uploading all the slides too... I was really excited!
Too bad there are no GPS classes in the Compact Framework. Really wanted that.

The next speaker was Mr. Rafal... I just love to hear whatever this guy has to tell. Luckily, it was a very interesting topic on IPv6. I already knew the basics so it was pretty easy to grasp! Ah well, this guy didn't take questions in the end. Whenever he speaks, I feel like its Mr. Bean (Rowan Aitkinson) speaking! ;)