Red Five Labs has launched its own MVP program.

The free MVP licence entitles participants to create multiple IMEI-linked licences using the Red Five Labs website.

Please visit this link to participate: http://www.redfivelabs.com/net60/MVPRegistration.aspx

As this MVP channel develops we plan to add access to most recent builds, Net60 feature requests and other internal tools and documentation.

The Net60 development roadmap is largely customer needs driven. Our next October 1 release will include partial CF 2.0 support (generics), a date time picker, a DataGrid class, OpenGL support and telephony support.

We'd love to hear from you and how you plan to use Net60 (http://www.redfivelabs.com/forums/default.aspx).

Regards

The Red Five Labs Team

Net60 Version 1.0.1 is released
Net60 is the defacto .NET framework for Symbian devices. Version 1.0.1 now boasts a Visual Studio plugin to build and sign Symbian SIS installers. It has never been easier to build .NET applications for Symbian S60 / Nokia smartphones!

Sign up for an online demo of Net60 in action with Red Five Labs' CTO
Forum Nokia hosts our CTO Mike Welham in an informative webinar that will show you how to leverage your .NET CF applications onto the S60/Symbian platform.

Sign Up! for the online event here.
[ Start time: 07/10/2008 9:00 AM (GMT-08:00)]

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All visitors to our website will be able to download an immediate trial of Net60 by following this link.

 
Evaluate Net60 now!

Net60 Version 1.0 is now available!

With Net60 mobile application developers can now use the familiar .NET Compact Framework 1.0 to develop applications targeting the broad range of S60-based Nokia smartphones. The current version supports all S60 3rd edition devices such as the popular Nokia smartphones.

Net60 benefits System Integrators developing mobile solutions as it enables multiple platform support through one codebase, .NET code re-use and offers customers the flexibility of chosing the Nokia E & N series range of smarphones. 

Software vendors gain the possibility of targeting the vast market of the S60 smarphone with their .NET code that was purely written for the Windows Mobile platform with little further investment. Sell more applications to a broader audience!

Being able to code faster using tools such as Visual Studio reduces the time to market thereby increasing company productivity. Increase revenue and reduce the cost of development!

A 30 day evaluation license is available. Please visit this page and complete the application form to request a Net60 trial.

Managed support is provided to evaluators on support@redfivelabs.com  

We look forward to hearing from you! 

Best regards,

The Red Five Labs team 

1-3 April 2008 sees the CTIA Wireless 2008 'mega' convention take place at the Las Vegas Convention Centre. Red Five Labs will be exhibiting Net60 alongside Symbian on booth number 4855 at the show.

Net60 is a .NET framework on the Symbian OS which now allows .NET developers to write applications for the popular Nokia S60 range of smartphones.

The team will be available for customer meetings and demonstrations at the convention. If your company would like to arrange an appointment please email your details to info@redfivelabs.com 

 

Beta 3 has been refreshed. The timeout expiry date is now set to 28 May 2008.

Whilst the team is busy preparing a great release with many fixes and improvements for the Version 1.0 release, these weren't QA'ed in time for the necessary replacement of the existing beta which times out over the weekend. In this way, beta testers will still be able to use Net60.

The download of Beta 3 is available from http://www.redfivelabs.com/content/download.aspx

Please let us know how you intend to use Net60 so that we may best develop it to your needs. For all licensing information and use case feedback please contact Stephane Landier by email on slandier@redfivelabs.com or by phone on +33 253 358 309.

Support for the current Beta of Net60, including the download and installation process, is available from support@redfivelabs.com. 

Best regards,

The Red Five Labs Team

Red Five Labs releases Net60 Beta 3, the .NET Compact Framework for S60. We have received great input from the community thus far and we're really pleased to be engaging with such top class software engineers. Thank you to you all!

The download is available as usual from http://www.redfivelabs.com/beta/BetaDownload.aspx or through navigating the 'Beta Download' menu drop down when signed in. This beta evaluation version will remain active until 29/02/2008

Full managed support for Net60, including the download and installation process, is available from support@redfivelabs.com.

The QuickStart Guide is a great resource to consult to get up and running as quickly as possible. The use of the tools shipped with Net60 such as Genesis is described in the guide which shows how .NET applications are installed directly to the S60 applications menu.

Please let us know how you intend to use Net60 so that we may best develop it to your needs. For all licensing information and use case feedback please contact Stephane Landier by email on slandier@redfivelabs.com or by phone on +33 253 358 309.

Best regards,

The Red Five Labs Team

 

Following a successful first release of Net60 Beta 1, Red Five Labs announces the release of the second beta of Net60, the .NET Compact Framework for S60.

Thank you to all our current beta testers for your support and interest in our software. Once logged in to our site the download is available from http://www.redfivelabs.com/beta/BetaDownload.aspx or through navigating the 'Beta Download' menu drop down.

Any difficulties with logging in or with the download can be directed to support@redfivelabs.com. This beta evaluation version will remain active until 31/01/2008 with a commercial evaluation of Version 1.0 planned for thereafter.

The QuickStart Guide has been updated to reflect the changes included in Beta 2. The main change is the inclusion of Genesis, a tool to create .sis packages from .NET .exe's. The use of this tool is described in the guide and allows .NET applications to be installed directly to the S60 applications menu.

We have also made performance improvements, made various bug fixes and included a P/Invoke tutorial which is also available online.

Please let us know how you intend to use Net60 so that we may best develop it to your needs. For all licensing information and use case feedback please contact Stephane Landier by email on slandier@redfivelabs.com or by phone on +33 253 358 309.

Best regards,

The Red Five Labs Team

Red Five Labs announces a beta release version of Net60 - the .NET Compact Framework for S60.

Beta testers please need to complete our sign up process and wait for the account to be approved by our team. We expect to have to provide support to a large user community and tightly coupling our website to our support ticketing system allows us to provide great support to users of our site. You will efficiently be able to submit queries to us, whether bug reports or sales related questions.

This beta version supports S60 3rd edition devices. 

We look forward to your feedback!

The Red Five Labs team 

Red Five Labs will this week be exhibiting at CTIA Wireless IT, the prominent wireless industry exhibition in San Francisco. As a Symbian Platinum Partner, Red Five Labs was invited to promote the company's Net60 solution for .NET enterprise focused system integrators and ISVs.

Net60 is ideally suited for enterprises seeking to extend .NET line-of-business applications to the mobile platform powered by Symbian.

A pre-release version of Net60, a .NET Compact Framework for the Symbian OS, will be demonstrated on one of the leading S60 devices, the Nokia N95. The developer productivity adavantages of developing applications for S60 in Microsoft Visual Studio using C# will also be highlighted during the demo.

Red Five Labs can be found on the Symbian stand, stand number 332.

To make an appointment to meet the company at the show, please email info@redfivelabs.com

 

Red Five Labs will again be exhibiting at the upcoming Symbian Smartphone Show.

The Smartphone Show 2007 is the leading industry event in the Symbian OS ecosystem. As a Symbian Platinum Partner, we are looking forward to participating in the event.

An on-device demonstration of a beta version of Net60, our .NET Compact Framework for Symbian OS for S60, will be available. Visit the team at stand 55 and we'll talk you through the RAD benefits made possible by .NET on Symbian.


The implications of .NET on Symbian OS for developers and the enterprise are vast. Mike, our CTO, will be elaborating on these in his presentation on .NET in the Symbian Developer Network Live! side seminar theatre.  The presentation is scheduled for 14:30 on Day Two of the show (Wed 17 October) and is open to all.


Registration is free and can be done via the website. The show takes place from 16-17 October at the Excel Centre in London.

 

 

Recently Red Five Labs has been actively engaging with the software development community in South Africa, and particularly with university computer science and electrical engineering departments.

We were thrilled with the opportunity to meet with the Polelo Research Group and the other honours computer science students at the University of Pretoria.  

Prof. Bishop gave us an excellent overview and tour of the department and its facilities.

We certainly look forward to visiting Pretoria again! 

 

 

 

Today we had the pleasure of hosting the Rhodes University Computer Science Honours class as part of their field trip exploration of the software development industry in Johannesburg.

The students were able to meet our development teams and learn about real world software engineering practices. They showed much insight into our product.

After the formalities, we threw them a bit of a curve ball by asking them to design a self-propelled vehicle: most teams did remarkably well. More on the event here.

 
The Red Five Labs Team
 

Red Five Labs screened 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' at the prestigious Cinema Nouveau in Rosebank last Thursday evening.

The event was a rip roaring success! Thank you to all the Johannesburg based software developers that came through for the evening. It was particularly rewarding for Red Five Labs to be able to create a humming community by screening films about the software industry!

If you would like to be kept informed of future events (apologies - only in Johannesburg ), please drop a line to 'reservations at redfivelabs dot com'.

More info about the most recent event can be found here or off our 'Events' page. 

Congratulations to Noto at Ardent Solutions who won the LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics kit which we put up for grabs through our webservice based competition. Better luck to all other participants for the next event!

The Team at Red Five Labs 

Anglo Dutch Holdings, a private investments holding company, has recently invested in Red Five Labs.

The full press release explaining the deal is available here.

We are excited to have our new investor on board, signaling a further period of growth for the company.

Red Five Labs Team 

We’d like to thank all the folks who have downloaded our framework and provided us with a steady stream of (mostly positive!) feedback.

It has been exciting and valuable for us to learn from you what you would like to see in our framework, especially regarding the proposed licensing model.

As the previous release of our .NET Compact Framework for S60 times out on 1 May 2007, a new May CTP has been uploaded to the site. The timeout will now be set for 1 July 2007. Users will receive a “Red Five Labs Timeout’ message after that date. We apologise for any inconvenience caused; we’re just trying to ensure that the community is running the latest version.

If you have any questions please direct them to support@redfivelabs.com

Regards

 

Red Five Labs Team