There's little doubt that wireless has been the hot topic of the last year. With the release of.NET, Microsoft has made it easy for developers to create wireless applications that will run on any device, whether it is a Palm, PocketPC, or cellphone. In.NET Wireless Programming, Mark Ridgeway teaches you how to create wireless applications using the Mobile Internet Toolkit. The book's emphasis is on Visual Basic.NET but the flexibility of.NET allows developers to choose the language they prefer. The book's five case studies--including a mobile intranet, a contacts database, and an online game--offer many code examples to challenge your skills.
From the Back Cover
Microsoft's.NET strategy embraces a vision for integrating diverse elements of computing technology and data services. The wireless Internet and mobile devices are core components of that strategy. Visual Studio.NET includes a powerful set of tools--the Mobile Internet Toolkit--for developing websites and applications that can be accessed from all kinds of mobile devices.NET Wireless Programming provides the technical details you need to master to develop end-to-end wireless solutions based on.NET technology.

You'll learn to take advantage of the Mobile Internet Toolkit's automated deployment capabilities, which enable a single site or application to work with nearly any mobile device. Freed from the task of writing code to accommodate various devices, you'll be able to apply other skills to build a more powerful application: Work with styles and templates. Create custom controls. Read from and write to databases. And use Microsoft's Web Services in support of a distributed architecture.

Five case studies, including a mobile intranet, a contacts database, and an online game, illustrate solutions to real problems and techniques for maximizing application flexibility. A set of appendices provide detailed information on the WML language and the Toolkit's classes. This book presents its many code examples in Visual Basic.NET, but the greater emphasis is on Visual Studio.NET and the flexibility it gives developers in choosing the language they want to use.

The book includes a set of research and survey articles featuring the recent advances in theory and applications of wireless mesh networking technology which will be a significant component in the next generation(e.g., fourth generation)mobile communication networks. Wireless mesh networks consist of mesh clients and mesh routers, where the mesh routers form a wireless infrastructure/backbone and interwork with the wired networks to provide multihop wireless Internet connectivity to the mesh clients. Wireless mesh networking has emerged as one of the most promising concept for self-organizing and auto-configurable wireless networking to provide adaptive and flexible wireless Internet connectivity to mobile users. This concept can be used for different wireless access technologies such as IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16-based WLAN, WPAN, and WMAN technologies.