[lex3001]

Ok, I'm sure these will be painstakingly obvious in a few weeks, but I have just downloaded and installed the plug and got a "Hello World" dialog app to run in the simulator.
Now, for you pros out there, could someone please help with a couple things:

1. Are the web services called from the device or from the BES? It looks like from the BES to me, but I am not sure -- if that is so, then they can be internal on our network as opposed to being exposed through the firewall to the Internet.

2. Can I cache data on the device? Or is MDS via Visual Studio more like a web app?

3. Authentication... is there a way for my web service to "know" who the user is via BES or MDS or whatever? Maybe via device ID and map that to the exchange account? I want to create an app that needs to know who the user is and needs to be secure etc.

Thanks...

[lex3001]

Oh, and one more... what's up the Intellisense and the plug-in? I noted there didn't seem to be any intellisense. Or C# for that matter. It feels like I am scripting javascript in a text editor.

[brcewane]

1. The web services are called from the BES

2. Yes you can cache data on the device... You can create your own Classes or use Classes exposed from a web service. There is a property on the Class where you can make them a persistent collection.. this basically makes it like a hash table that is stored in Flash storage. You can also create a global variable that is persisted as well

3. You can setup NTLM authentication on your webservice if you like where the user will be provided a challenge response on the device for the application when it first attempts to access the web service

4. You "ARE" coding in JavaScript.. The plugin does not support writing C# for the device. It is more of an AJAX approach where you use JavaScript for coding. The Intellisense is JavaScript only.