Course - Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Programming using the .NET Compact Framework 2.0

Synopsis
This course will introduce to participants the various techniques to program their Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC devices. Far from being an introductory course, this feature-packed course will show you how to interface with external devices, communicate wirelessly with other devices, as well as access the data of built-in applications (such as Contacts, Outlook Mobile, and Calendar) from within your own.

Day 1 (Fundamentals)
· Introduction to Windows Mobile 6 development (NEW)
· Building Screen Orientation and Resolution Aware Applications
· File I/O
· Integrating with Contacts and Outlook Mobile
· Integrating with Calendar
· Integrating Telephony Functions
· Using Web Services
· Transferring Binary Data using Web Services
· Database Access using SQL Server Mobile Edition
· Remote Data Access using SQL Server Mobile Edition

Day 2 (Advanced)
· Using the Built-in Camera
· Intercepting Incoming SMS Messages
· Capturing Signature on the Pocket PC
· Location-Aware Using GPS (Serial Port)
· RFID
· Imaging (Using the Symbol SDK)
· Barcode Scanning (Using the Symbol SDK)
· Barcode Scanning (Using the Built-in Camera)
· Infrared Programming
· Monitoring System States and Sockets Communications
· Bluetooth Printing
· Deploying Pocket PC Applications
· Using the Magnetic Card Reader

Date
· Time: 9am to 5pm daily
· 20th (Thur) and 21st (Fri) Sep 2007
· Closing date for registration: 7th Sep 2007.

Course Fees
· $798
· To qualify for Early Bird Discount, register before 16h Aug and receive a $200 discount ($598 after discount)
· Inclusive of 1 lunch and 2 tea breaks for each day

Venue
Motorola Enterprise Mobility Business

230 Victoria Street #12-06/10

Bugis Junction Office Tower

Singapore 188024

Course - Developing Rich Interactive Applications (RIA) using Microsoft Silverlight

Course Synopsis

One of the latest buzzwords you often hear nowadays is RIA, or Rich Internet Applications. Rich Internet applications (RIA) are Web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. To Microsoft, RIA stands for Rich Interactive Applications, which is really their main focus when they recently announced the latest product known as Silverlight.

Microsoft® Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on Mac OS X or Windows.

In this 2-day jumpstart course, participants will learn the basics of Silverlight and get jumpstarted on developing compelling RIA applications using Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1.

Day 1 (Silverlight 1.0)
* Understanding XAML
* Using the Canvas object
* Drawing and Painting
* Graphics programming
* Manipulating images
* Manipulating text
* Manipulating media
* Animations

Day 2 (Silverlight 1.1)
* Building Dynamic UI with Silverlight
* Networking in Silverlight
* Interacting with HTML Programmatically
* XML Programming
* Persisting Data

Date
* Time: 9am to 5pm daily
* 1st (Mon) – 2nd (Tue) Oct 2007
* Closing date for registration: 7st Sep 2007

Course Fees
* $798
* To qualify for Early Bird Discount, register before 16h Aug and receive a $200 discount ($598 after discount)Inclusive of 1 lunch and 2 tea breaks for each day

Venue
HDB Learning Center
HDB Hub
480 Lorong 6, Toa Payoh
Singapore 310480

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