Mark Arteaga

This year Toronto CodeCamp went off without a hitch.  We had about 300 people show up (out of 600 registered) so not a bad turnout considering the weather was nice and it was a Saturday.  Suprisingly I got a lot of interest in my session and was assigned the biggest room available and I would say about 60-70 people showed up.  A lot better turn out than last year were I probably got about 20-25 people!

Thanks to Chris Dufour for putting everything together and managing to get over $300,000 in prizes to give to the attendees!

As for my session here are the slide decks.

All Demo code can be downloaded here.  In this zip you will find

• "Demo1" - Basic intro to device development and the environment
• "CodeSharing" - Sharing business logic with the desktop and device. (For an entire 75 minute session on this instead of 15mins check out Daniel Moth's session at this year's MEDC.)
• "SqlCompactEdition" - Contains a SqlDesktop and SqlDevice that both access the same Sql Server 2005 Compact Edition database file. (NOTE: the SqlDevice project references the SDF file in the BIN\Debug directory of SqlDesktop.  So run SqlDesktop first, make changes and save, then run SqlDevice to see the changes)
• "RPMSample" - sample to show RPM and the various numbers it shows.  NOTE: If you want to have RPM working in Vista make sure you install Compact Framework SP2 on your machine (thanks to Steven Pratchner for letting me know )  Also take a look at my previous entry on RPM and various resources.

Comments or questions?  Just contact me via my blog and thanks to all that attended code camp and my session!

Last year's Toronto Code Camp was a great success with over 220 attendees, 20 speakers and over $17,000 in prizes.  This year's event is expected to be bigger and better.  There are already some great speakers lined up and some great sessions slotted.  I will also be doing a session on Windows Mobile Development using Visual Studio 2005.

OpenNETCF will also be giving away two CDs containing a full developer license of all our products available.

If you are in the Toronto area and available March 31 2007 register now and come out to the Code Camp for some great sessions!