Re: [HS] WP7 Version

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Chuck


--- In [email protected], "robmikedad" <chuck@...> wrote:
>
>
> I've been using HS on my PocketPC for quite awhile. I've just bought a
> WP7 and since I'm a .Net developer, I have been looking into porting
HS
> to it.
>
> Over the past month I've put together a prototype with the following
> capabilities:
>
> * Read/display from different databases i.e. Multi-store, etc...
> * Search for items
> * Switch between "All" and "Need"
>
> I still have to add the ability to save changes.
>
> Because there is no built-in database within WP7 (at least the API's
are
> not documented), I'm using XML while database issue gets sorted-out. I
> don't know C++, so porting the HS datalayer to C# might be a problem.
> There are other database providers that might fit the bill.
>
> Importing existing data -- Yes, this is definitely an issue that MUST
be
> addressed, and I've been researching alternatives. Some ideas
including
> making use of DropBox to allow syncing between the phone and other
> desktops. The PDB could be exported to XML or CSV, then imported into
> the phone. Also, hopefully Microsoft will increase the SkyDrive
support
> with WP7. Currently you can only sync OneNote documents.
>
> Well, anyway, I'll keep working on it.
>
> Also, I'm working on a desktop Handy Shopper app.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "chrisant_wa" chrisant@ wrote:
> >
> > Porting HS from Palm to WM originally took 6 months to get a beta
> working, and almost a year to get the first official release ready.
> >
> > Windows Phone 7 would be similar, 6-18 months probably. It is a
> completely different platform than Windows Mobile was. The trickiest
> part, though, is how to enable installing your old databases, and
> backing them up somewhere. As a hobbyist, I am not going to create and
> fund a web service for that, so it becomes quite a tricky proposition
> for a hobbyist programmer like me in the current incarnation of the
> Windows Phone (it only syncs certain kinds of document files with your
> PC -- anything else has to be custom sync code with "the cloud"). I
> would guess that will change sometime in the future, but I couldn't
> guess when.
> >
> > Realistically I'm not working on HS for WP7 at this time.
> >
> > Again, though, the database source code is already Public Domain. So
> any sufficiently motivated and skilled programmer could make a
> HandyShopper compatible program and charge for it. I.e. any requests
to
> make it "open source" have already been fulfilled in every practical
> way: the data format source code is already Public Domain (which has
> much fewer strings attached than "open source" does), the only code
not
> publically available is the UI code, which is useless anyway since
100%
> of it would have to be completely rewritten in a completely new and
> different platform.
> >
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Greg Gaub mailing.lists@ wrote:
> > >
> > > Sebastian wrote:
> > >
> > > >You cant install a cab file on WP7. Its a total different
> > > >WinMo OS. The only choise is the installation over windows
> > > >marketplace. or you can use a jailbreak. but this is no
> > > >option for me.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Ah. I guess we'll have to wait to find out from Chris, then. :)
> > > -Greg
> > >
> >
>
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