Oh sure, just when you think you have a good idea, you read a PDC blog about somebody else doing the same thing. Well, at least similar! Who says there is no competition to innovate! I guess a learning project is still a learning project even if it’s not totally unique. Maybe this will even inspire me to get more done. It’s all good.
So what the heck am I talking about you ask? Well, in an attempt to try out a few coding things for a work project I decided to write a .Net Compact Framework app, partially inspired by the Task Vision sample, to act as an event guide at the upcoming Microsoft PDC Conference in LA.
The original idea was to have a disconnected app that could obtain a current session list from a web service, allowing the user to view and select their own “personal” session list stored on their device. I also wanted to have certain network aware capabilities to do some cool (potentially P2P) things at the conference if there happen to be some WIFI enable areas. I’ll keep you posted on my progress…