[dba-VB] Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is here...

Hi Arthur

Feel free.

I think your option c) would be fine but it would depend a lot on how your data should be browsed.
Data communication with WP7 is somewhat special as you will not have, say, a direct connection to an SQL Server. If I recall correctly, everything is done via web services.

As you describe your app, it sounds like a pro tool that could be charged for. I mean: How many amateur construction contractors exist out there? In the Third World perhaps ...?

/gustav


>>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 09-12-2011 17:34 >>>
Thanks for that, Gustav. As it happens, I have an idea in mind for an app,
which I may donate to the world (since I really don't see how to make loot
from it, despite its demonstrable usefulness to a small minority of the
populace).

I'll grab the resources soon and knock together the first sketch of same.
That prompts another question: supposing that I have everything installed
to create an app, is it possible for me to send said files to you (or
anyone else so equipped) so that you could load it and run it and criticize
it and maybe even contribute additional modules to it?

I ask this because the amount of data my app would require is huge.
However, I can see this working (perhaps) in several ways:

a) everything is somewhere in some cloud;
b) the fifteen or twenty topics of interest can be downloaded into your
phone;
c) a mix of both, in which your core interests are stored in your phone,
but you still have access to the whole repository, and ability to add new
selections to your core interests, which causes immediate download to your
phone/tablet/whatever.

Without giving the whole idea away, it's an encyclopedia for engineers,
construction contractors, etc. I already have created a bunch of the tables
required for such an app, but I have several thousand more to go, until
it's the ultimate reference.

Thx,
A.

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Arthur
>
> You can fake it - actually are expected to do so during development -
> using the Windows Phone 7 Emulator (from the free SDK) which on-screen
> mimics most things. It requires 800 MB of ram and DirectX 10 graphics
> minimum.
>
> /gustav