Microsoft® Mobile Development Handbook

Summary

This chapter looks at the range of networking and communication methods available in the Compact Framework. When you use any of these techniques, you must understand the cost and performance issues you may encounter on wireless networks, and you must design your code so as not to assume the connection will always be available. You can control this to an extent by how you encode your data to send over a connection, a factor completely in your control when you use low-level sockets or SerialPort. The next chapter looks at techniques to establish network connections and monitor connection state.