smart device and windows service, can they connect?

[Jonas L]

Hi,

I want to develope a smart device application that interacts with a
database, in this case a Paradox db, on a desktop PC. The normal
solution seems to be that I write a web-service application that
should run on the desktop. But, a web-service application requires an
IIS and this might be a problem when installing the system at the
customer. Not all customers have IIS installed on the PC.

I would like to know if I can write a Windows Service that uses the
remoting framework to publish objects (using tcp/ip or http channels
with binary or soap formaters) and then in my smart device application
create proxy's for the objects? Remoting doesn't seem to be supported
in the .NET Compact Framework or is it? My idea is that this solution
should as when implementing a window application that connects to a
remote windows service.

Are there any good sites on this subject?

Regards
Jonas

 

[Alex Yakhnin, eMVP]

You're right remoting is not supported. You'd need to write your own
solution for that.
Take a look at this article by Eric Gunnerson:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp09182003.asp

 

[Steve Maillet \(eMVP\)]

You could deliver the Cassini web serer with your product for those
customers that do not have IIS. It is capable of hosting web services.