Back to native

After a few days struggling with the BlackBerry JDK, JDE and Eclipse, it's time to get back to predictability and safe ground. Boy, have I missed Visual Studio!

Now that I have some readers actively using, criticizing and suggesting improvements to the Windows Mobile native framework (thank you so much, Anatoly!), I think now is the time to start exercising the code with a real application. Contrary to my early plans, I will start with something that I really need on a day-to-day basis: a mobile password safe. Nowadays I struggle to remember all the mobile phone PINs and PUKs, debit and credit card PINs, online service passwords, just to name a few. I know there are some excellent applications out there ready to be purchased, but what's the fun in that? My idea is very simple: use an encrypted SQL Compact database to store all the sensitive data. The user will be able to add, modify and delete both data and structure (each information category will be stored in a different table). The user interface must be very simple:

• A main list containing the user's information categories (credit cards, phone PINs...);
• A secondary list containing the category details;
• A dialog for editing the details

So, after committing to this, let me roll my sleeves and head back to VS. On the next post I will start publishing the first version of the code.