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Serving the finished pie

About a month ago, I got an email from a developer asking us if Windows Mobile supported Web Services. Most of you would know, the answer is yes, as a client. Running a web server on the phone is very impractical but this developer was very adamant that this be implemented because of his very specific requirement. After a few days of email tussle, I had to put my foot down and say no, we don't have this scenario because running a web server on a phone is not recommended and that's the reason why we did not built it in the first place. Although, if you built your own HTTP daemon, you can do it. Just that Microsoft is not doing it. (Prioritization).

Now I got this email from a buddy of ours, Richard Jones (of Best Developer Award fame), who was at the same time, without my knowledge, dabbling in the same issue I've described above and guess what, he wrote a Web SERVER in .NET Compact Framework that runs on a Windows Mobile device!!

Windows CE has a Web Service component called Web Services for Devices but it does not exist in Windows Mobile, so Richard wrote one himself.

Here's the source for the Managed Code Ickle Web Server and the full source for the solution including UI here : Web Services On Devices Full Source

Time to chomp on some *humble pie* and reply to that developer..

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  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2007
    PingBack from http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/08/24/

  • Anonymous
    August 24, 2007
    Blush.  I was just trying to win a bet...

  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2007
    There is a sample web server written in CF.NET on MSDN http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446537.aspx I've never tested it, but sounds interesting Ruslan

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2007
    If its any help.   I've had the Ickle web server running very stabley (if theres such a word) on a x86 CE-PC on CE 6.0  with no real issues. Yes, I know its limited in the number of threads it can spawn etc.   but this managed code approach certainly seems robust enough for domestic applications.

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2007
    This might interest Windows Mobile apps developers out there. Tan Loke Uei (Microsoft's technical