Windows Mobile Team Blog
Designing custom home screens for Smartphone devices
Yesterday one of our developers stopped by my office and asked me how to write a custom home screen...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/05/2004
The aftermath of Amy's birthday
Thanks to everyone who wished Amy well in my earlier post. For those who are curious her birthday...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/04/2004
Silver-screen opportunities for our Illustrious Intern
https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=6129#6129 So, what about it, Robert? ;-) [Author:...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/04/2004
Utilize that Virtual Radio!
If you are looking for a simple way to simulate incoming phone calls and incoming SMS messages on...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/04/2004
Today is Amy's birthday!
Who the heck is Amy? Amy (a.k.a. “Princess Amy) is our Release Program Manager. Her job is to make...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/04/2004
Working with the Second Edition Pocket PC Emulators
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software for Pocket PC introduces the concept of screen rotation....
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/01/2004
eMbedded Visual C++ ARM Compiler
Larry Bank posted this question in the web chat we had last week : >>>>> The current...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/01/2004
How to file a bug?
As you are filing a bug report, there are a few things you should be aware of: If you discovered a...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/29/2004
It's bug bash day!
Today our team is holding a bug bash on our current development bits. What's a bug bash? It's where...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/28/2004
Sending an SMS to yourself in the emulator
At the APAC MDC last week, I had an opportunity to discuss developer tips with the audience in...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/27/2004
Web Chat Today 3pm PST
I've finally caved in to Roberts constant pressure to post on the Windows Mobile blog. At 3pm today...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/27/2004
Always up to date
The Exchange team blogs about how Windows Mobile 2003 devices are able to have information that is...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/26/2004
Blogging
We launched this blog about a month ago with a small group of contributors just to test the water....
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/26/2004
Chee on the ISV show
Funny how blogging works. As I was writing the last post I had to go and find Robert Scoble's blog...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/23/2004
Channel 9, here I come!
If you haven't seen Channel 9 yet, it's a pretty nifty little site set up by some wackos inside MSFT...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/23/2004
Which Windows Mobile developer sites do you use?
James has a post over in his blog about the three different places you can find developer content...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/23/2004
Working on Pocket PC and Smartphone
We're hiring a Software Design Engineer in Test to work (directly with me!) on our Mean Time To...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/23/2004
Testing .NET CF Performance
So you've got your .NET CF app up and running. Now you want to focus on reworking the code to...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/23/2004
SHGetSpecialFolderPath
Paula is mentioning this during her MDC presentations but it's something all Smartphone developers...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/22/2004
Lazy PInvoke Tips
So you need to write code that calls into a native API. You could spend time writing/testing the...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/22/2004
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition Webcasts
If you are writting Pocket PC or Smartphone applications that you intend to have running on WM 2003...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/20/2004
"No, really, this is how you get RAPI to work."
...that's David McNamee's winning entry to Neil Cowburn's competition where people were asked to...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/19/2004
I found a bug! Is there some format I should use to report it?
A lot of people often ask me if there is some format that they should use to report bugs to us. I...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/19/2004
Determining Font Size in Second Edition
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition adds a “Text Size” tab to the Screen control panel...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/17/2004
Windows CE Utilities for Visual Studio .NET 2003 Add-on Pack 1.1
IF you do mobile development, and you use Visual Studio .NET 2003, THEN I highly recommend that you...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/14/2004
Shout out to our new MVPs!
Manop Agrasut Rob Borek Robert Boyd Rey Flores Mauricio Freitas Bob Katayama Pat Logsdon Welcome and...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/13/2004
So much for that NDA...
Ed Hansberry decided to spill the beans on all things we were able to talk to the MVPs about...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/12/2004
MDC Wrap Up
Peter Foot was at MDC on behalf of Pocket PC/Smartphone Thoughts and posted his coverage of the...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/08/2004
Getting status information when establishing an async connection
There was an interesting post over in the microsoft.public.smartphone.developer newsgroup today that...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/08/2004
My Windows Mobile
Have a new Smartphone of Pocket PC Phone Edition? Want to quickly set it up from a website instead...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/05/2004
Debugging Resolution Aware .NET CF Pocket PC Apps
To mark a Pocket PC app as being resolution aware, you have to compile a native resource file into...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/03/2004
Application Verifier for CE based devices!
I spoke a bit at MDC about using Application Verifier to test Windows Mobile applications. In the...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/03/2004
Removing emulator skins
eVC 4.0 Removing skins from the eVC emulators requires editing the registry. As with any registry...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/01/2004
Hard Reset from .NET CF
Have you ever needed to write .NET CF code that forces a device to hard-reset? Here's my solution:...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/01/2004
Documented Registry Keys
Believe it or not, our SDK contains quite a bit of information about what Windows Mobile uses...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/01/2004
I'm on my way to Santa Barbara
Tomorrow at the lovely hour of 7:25am I get on an airplane and head down to Santa Barbara for a Tech...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 03/31/2004
MDC Highlights
Kris Kumar has posted his summary of MDC (including concept images of some new form factors that are...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 03/30/2004
Screen Sizes and Emulator Skins
Scott is doing a quick poll on what screen resolutions people use for development. It's an...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 03/30/2004
Warning Message in Windows Mobile Second Edition Emulator
If you've used the new Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition emulators with the .NET Compact Framework...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 03/30/2004
Introducing the Windows Mobile Team Blog
Last week's Mobile DevCon was an amazing experience for all who attended. For me, it was a thrill to...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 03/29/2004