Hi :) A web service is a vague description of a remote service capable of reading requests made, most likely, over http and replying according to a predefined set of rules. A "Service" in this case is an interface to underlying appliction/applications. The communication scheme, syntax and process rules, is also commonly called protocol. Such protocols include XML-RPC, SOAP and REST. RSS, Atom are examples of definitions for stuctured data such as news items etc In a web service call, such as an XML-RPC or SOAP call, you can include content such as RSS or Atom. A simple top down example of dependances in a web service call: RSS (Human Readable Data) | V SOAP (Method Call Defenition Protocol) | V HTTP (High Level Transport Protocol) | V TCP-IP (Low Level Transport Protocol) What you are aiming at, i guess, is the manner to make calls and handle responses, * REST (Representational State Transfer) services include most RSS and ATOM feeds. REST means that you use HTTP (GET,PUT,DELETE) as protocol for retrieving (GET), updating (PUT) and deleting (DELETE) items on the remote end. REST skips the overhead of SOAP/XML-RPC and is a very fast and light weight way of communicating with a web service. * SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is however the most supported way of sending requests and recieveing responses on the CE platform. It is actually the technology of choice for the entire .NET paradigm. Its rather bulky though... * XML-RPC (XML Remote Procedure Call) is a very simplified protocol way of making Web Service calls. Because of its simplicity this is the choice for many developers outside the MS sphere. Hope this helps, Lars

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Hi :) Check out Mysaifu VM. Its a free implementation of the Java jre. Its really beginning to take shape! Just Google the name to download. Ciao :)

Hi :) The snappiest way involves some platform API calls. Check out the VERY good IPhone clone articles here on CodeProject. The guy has made the code for this very easy to reuse. Ciao, Lars

Hi, thanks for your question :) GSlide operates slightly different than other frameworks since it uses more of a new component architecture with exe files responding to outside procedure-calls. The nice thing about this is that prototyping can be VERY rapid, even be accomplished on your actual device. GSlide is in other words not "installed" or used as a GUI component in the normal VS manner. Think of GSlide developing more like client/server, or browser/server, developing. Play around with the script-files on your device, or in the desktop emulator to get started. There are also examples in the menu on the site. Im working on fun tutorials! Ciao, Lars

Hi :) I think there is an article on this site which deals with this... Also check SourceForge which i also think has some code to cover this (svg for cf). Good luck :)

Hi everyone! I have had so much help from this wonderfull site! Its time to give something back :) I have made a really nice RAD framework for making finger-friendly apps for WM. Its called GSlide and is a teeny-tiny-bit revolutionary in its architecture i must say. Most importantly really easy to work with! Check it out and please give me feedback! www.gslide.mobi Ciao, Lars