<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
Hi &nbsp;I'm a complete newbie to PDA programming. &nbsp;Would like to use ASP.Net as this is what I'm comfortable with. &nbsp;I also wanted to use Sync Services but have been advised that my client would have to purchase a full version of SQL server and he is only prepared to buy the Express edition. &nbsp;The app only has to transfer delivery jobs to a driver and then send back details when each delivery has been signed for - as there is a limited amount of data involved, I'm wondering it we could use XML so we don't even need SQL or SQL CE? &nbsp;I need to know what the limitations are if any before I go down this route.<br />
Thanks <br />
Lorna
</div>
</div>


Hi  I'm a complete newbie to PDA programming.  Would like to use ASP.Net as this is what I'm comfortable with.  I also wanted to use Sync Services but have been advised that my client would have to purchase a full version of SQL server and he is only prepared to buy the Express edition.  The app only has to transfer delivery jobs to a driver and then send back details when each delivery has been signed for - as there is a limited amount of data involved, I'm wondering it we could use XML so we don't even need SQL or SQL CE?  I need to know what the limitations are if any before I go down this route.
Thanks 
Lorna

ASP.Net using XML instead of Sync Services

The successor to Active Server Pages, ASP.NET websites utilize the .NET framework to produce dynamic, data and content-driven web applications and services. ASP.NET code can be written using any .NET supported language. As of 2009, ASP.NET can also apply the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern to web applications

ASP.NET

Extensible Markup Language (XML) refers to the encoding of documents such that they can be read by both machines and humans. XML documents use tags to show the beginning and end of a set of data. XML is used extensively on websites to show volumes of data, and is the default for a number of office productivity suites. This topic includes discussions of XML-related technologies, such as XQuery (the XML Query language), XPath (the XML Path language), XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), XLink (the XML Linking language) and XPointer (the XML Pointer language).

A cellular phone (also known as a mobile phone, cell phone, hand phone, or simply a phone) is a telephone that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. Mobile phones that offer services such as text messaging, email, Internet access, business applications, gaming, photography and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones.