The Net Caboodle Windows Mobile 5.0 connector pack allows you to generate native service connector DLLs for the Microsoft® .Net compact frameworks version 1.0 and version 2.0.

To see an example of the Net Caboodle WM5 connectors in action, try out the Whoosh Cam service for free. The Whoosh Cam service allows you to connect your Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone to your web cam running on your PC at home or at work.

The connector pack works in the same way as the Net Caboodle Mobile Java stubs generator, except the output file is a DLL, rather than a JAR file.

The automatically generated connector code provides the same connectivity functionality as the Net Caboodle Java ME stubs.

Having generated the DLL "stubs", you can then add the DLL as a resource to your Visual Studio WM5 project allowing you to write native Windows Mobile 5.0 applications that connect to your enterprise or business systems.

The development process is similiar to using the Net Caboodle IDE plugins for NetBeans and Eclipse except that the mobile client application is written in Visual Studio .NET

The code mappings to C# also use the same factory based pattern to access services deployed to or connected from the Net Caboodle gateway. For example, below is the C# code for accessing the Hello RMI example that comes with the NetBeans and Eclipse plugins.

using com.nc.example;


namespace HelloApp
{
   public class MainMenu : Form
  {
     private Hello service=HelloFactory.getService();


     public void TestService()
     {
         Console.WriteLine( service.sayHello() );
     }

  }

} 

If you examine the C# example, you will see that the generated code for Windows Mobile 5.0 is consistent with how you access your services via your Java MIDlets.

This connector pack is available on request to customers with commercial Net Caboodle Developer and Gateway licenses.

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