Making a program for PocketPC to take values from an XML web page every second

[Confused]

Well, title explains it really.

I want to make a program that i can run on my PocketPC (Compaq iPAQ) which will take values from this page when they are updated every second.

How would i go about this if it is possible, i have Visual Basic 6 installed on my computer and IIRC i can get a PPC developer kit thingy for it, any ideas where?

This is going to be part of my case mod which is a work in progress 🙂


Thanks in advance

ConfusedBW

 

[BitSpit]

http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/developer/default.asp

 

[Confused]

Thanks BitSpit, will take a look later when i get back home 🙂

ConfusedBW

 

[joohang]

What is the nature of the application you're looking for? Is the PocketPC client rich client or thin (web) client?

You can create PocketPC apps with Embedded Visual Tools 3.0 (with Embedded Visual Basic), but I am not sure if it is able to access the XML parser built-in to PocketIE.

The .NET Compact Framework has a limited implementation (to be designed for PocketPCs) of the System.Xml class library, but it's not even a beta 1 yet. 🙂

The answer really depends on the nature of the application you plan to build, imo.

 

[Confused]

I'm not sure which type i want, whatever can take the values from that XML page (created by CoolMon), which are updated every second.

I know next to nothing about this, but i'm up to a challenge! 🙂

ConfusedBW

 

[m0ti]

you might to want to try doing something in J2ME, and add on J2SE's XML parsers.

 

[Confused]

m0ti, in English....? 😉 j/k

Sorry, letters and numbers mean nothing to me lol. Any web sites i can be puzzled over?

he he

ConfusedBW

 

[joohang]

J2ME is the mobile implementation of Java. So.. check the Sun website? 🙂

I have no clue how it works but I know a developer who spends days writing games in J2ME.