Hello all.
I'm new to the forums and new to CSLA as well. Got a quick overview and read some documents and found the CE version of the framework.
Now I got a question. I understand that using CSLA a business object could be transmitted over a network from a Windows CE device. For example to a server running on a PC.
Now my question is this: Which version of the CSLA framework would I use to write that server that would be able to "understand" business objects created on the CE device ?
Or would it be the best to use the CE version itself and compile it as a normal windows application for use in the server ?
I'm not entirely sure how Lawrence implemented the CE version, but I suspect there's no data portal - at least not for communicating with the server. To do that he'd have had to create a serializer like we did for the Silverlight version a couple years later, and that's not easy to do.
So I'm pretty sure that the scenario for the CE version is to run CSLA on the client and make service calls (asmx or whatever) to the server - no objects would flow between the client and server, just XML messages.
I haven't looked into this, but it might be reasonably easy to port CSLA 4 to the Compact Framework. All the work we did to support Silverlight directly translated to Windows Phone 7 of course, so it took me perhaps 40 hours or less to get the WP7 version working. I don't know how CF compares to Silverlight in terms of .NET functionality, but if it is reasonably close it would probably take around 40 hours to get a CE/CF version running.
That's something you might consider if full data portal functionality is critical to your application.
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