WCF on the mobile side
Roman Batoukov has a post explaining in details the plans about providing Windows Communication Foundation support in the .NET Compact Framework.
The programming model provided will be limited to channel layer messaging only. It will be extensible, so the developers eventually will be able to implement their own transports. Few out-of-the box transport channels will be delivered like Http and E-mail.
Roman discusses some common problems regarding the devices communication , their solutions(when the WCF is out) and the feature of the E-mail as a messaging transport.
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