In recent times, mobile devices have become quite powerful and feature rich
and are getting attention from consumers and businesses alike. Faster
processors, larger RAM and flash memories along with multiple communication
technologies have made mobile devices suitable to deploy and run business
applications. Such advancements are helping businesses embrace mobility to
improve their processes thereby increasing revenues and efficiency, while
lowering operational costs. Mobile device is an important component of any
mobile solution. There are wide-varieties of mobile devices to choose from.
Most commonly used enterprise mobile devices are based on Windows Mobile
operating system from Microsoft and it has become a preferred platform used
by companies around the world.
Problem
Windows Mobile is a feature packed and versatile operating system. There is a
lot an enterpri... (more)
So you deployed your brand-new ASP.NET web application to Azure cloud. All
seems to be working perfectly until a user tried to upload large amount of
data (approx. over 30MB) through your application UI. Unfortunately the
operation failed. Surprisingly small file uploads works just fine.
To fix the problem you need to ensure that the following configuration is
made in the web.config file.
Here value of maxRequestLength is in KB so that makes it 100MB. Having a
bigger executionTimeOut value ensures that the file uplo... (more)
Mobile Device Management (MDM) refers to the approaches or solutions used by
companies to remotely manage their mobile devices (PDAs, Smartphones,
Laptops, Netbooks). Variety of devices involved pose a big challenge for
anyone who intends to implement a Mobile Device Management Solution. In fact,
a single solution may never fully satisfy the all the requirements. Using
hybrid solutions (multiple solutions from different vendors doing
complimentary tasks) is a common approach that is used to solve the problem.
Here is a checklist of features that a typical Mobile Device Management ... (more)
.NET Compact Framework doesnt provide builtin double buffering for forms. In
case you have multiple custom drawn user controls on a form, loading will
mostly show flickr. Overriding OnPaint and drawing the form and its child
controls to an offscreen bitmap before putting it out to actual display is
expected to solve this. But, once a child control is added to another
container control, overriding OnPaint of the parent container control doesnt
allow you to paint the child as the child's client rect is clipped out from
the graphics object passed to parent's OnPaint.
The solution to... (more)
“Bring your own device” (BYOD) is a new trend whereby companies allow
their employees to bring their mobile devices (smartphones or tablets) to
work and allow them to be used for business purposes and to access the
company network and data. It’s a part of consumerization-of-IT wave that
has started to gain serious traction in the last two years. A recent survey
has all the numbers.
BYOD Benefits
Employees are more comfortable in using the device of their choice. They
don’t have to use two devices anymore, one for personal and one for
business work. With a BYOD program in place,... (more)
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