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Windows Mobile: Wizard vs. Freestyle
Remember in the old days, how almost everything you did on a computer was driven by a series of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/06/2006
Windows Mobile: Simplicity = Power
I recently moved from using a Palm Treo to a Motorola Q device as my everyday device. This isn't due...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/05/2006
Windows Mobile: Debugging Tip when Developing in Managed Code
If you are developing a Windows Mobile 5.0 application in C# (or even Visual Basic .NET), here's a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/18/2006
Mouse with a frickin' laser on its head
This is just too cool: the latest Microsoft mouse has been released, and it's amazing. Not only does...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2006
XNA: Beta available now
If you are looking for a way of practicing your C# programming skills, you might want to hop over to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/31/2006
XNA: Demo Scene Revisited!
Ok, so this is cool. Want to develop your own games for the Xbox? Well, in this Autumn, you can,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/14/2006
Windows Mobile: .NET Compact Framework v2 SP1 Patch goes Live
The .NET Compact Framework v2 SP1 patch can now be downloaded from MSDN. You can get to the download...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/04/2006
Windows Mobile: MSDN for free, MSDN magazine, and more patterns & practices.
One thing I've recently discovered is that you can download the entire MSDN reference library for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/03/2006
Windows Mobile: Add your own graffiti to the official docs!
Have you ever wanted to share your opinion about the official Microsoft documentation? Well, now you...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/25/2006
Windows Mobile: Searching the docs with Google/MSN Search
So be honest: when you look for Windows Mobile documentation while you are programming, what do you...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/11/2006
Windows Mobile: Device Security Powertoy
One of the biggest pain-points for ISVs.. ok.. enough marketing speak. We know that device security...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/05/2006
Missing Windows Mobile 5.0 Documentation
From time to time, we find that we accidentally didn't publish some topics in the Windows Mobile SDK...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/03/2006
Windows Mobile: MEDC Hands-on Labs on MSDN
These labs are a must-see for Windows Mobile developers. They were originally created for MEDC in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/30/2006
Windows Mobile: Adapt Your App
The fact that Windows Mobile is so flexible that it can be used on Smartphones and Pocket PCs of all...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/14/2006
MSDN Bloggers make BBC News
As an ex-UK person, the BBC is the definitive source of all my information, so it was interesting to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/12/2006
Mobile Client Software Factory
The Patterns & Practices group is a team at Microsoft creating fundamental building blocks of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/08/2006
Windows Mobile and Ajax. Oh yes.
Every time I hear of "Ajax", I think of a kitchen cleaning product. Or at least, I did until a few...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/25/2006
Windows Mobile Starter Kits
Well, it's taken a lot longer than I had hoped, but we've finally got our Windows Mobile Starter...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/23/2006
Developing Managed Applications for Palm Treo 700w
I've been lucky enough to have a Palm Treo 700w to play with, and of course, that means writing some...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/22/2006
Windows Mobile Emulators - Standalone! and MSFP!
Woot! This is great - the Windows Mobile device emulator has been released in a standalone format,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/19/2006
Windows Mobile AKUs
Windows Mobile 5.0 is the operating system used by a huge variety of amazing pieces of hardware, but...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/19/2006
Windows Mobile SDK - Updated Documentation
As you can read on the Windows Mobile Documentation blog, the SDK docs on MSDN recently got an...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/12/2006
Windows Mobile event - MEDC 2006. The Content Publishing Perspective.
Well, the team is now back from MEDC in Las Vegas, and apart from some nasty colds, coughs and very...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/12/2006
Windows Mobile Documentation: New Docs, New Samples, New Videos
I've not posted for a while, mostly because I've been busy working away with the rest of the Windows...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/02/2006
New Windows Mobile Smartphone Landscape Emulator Available
Good news for Windows Mobile developers eager to test their applications on (presumably) forthcoming...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/31/2006
Windows Mobile Video Blog 2, and MEDC Update
Have you seen the new Palm Treo device running Windows Mobile 5.0? I have, and I made another video...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/26/2006
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Well from an Irishman (*) displaced to Redmond, a Happy St Patrick's Day to youse! I was updating my...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/17/2006
UMPC (Origami) vs Pocket PC
Wow, after all the hype, the details are finally out: and those UMPC's look smart - a complete...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/09/2006
Windows Mobile MSDN Forums & a Kids Programming Language
Just a reminder in case you weren't aware, but MSDN hosts its own forums which include a healthy...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/03/2006
What makes a GREAT application on a Mobile device?
Folks here at work were discussing how to make a popular blog posting, and top of the suggestions...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/02/2006
MEDC and the UA Team
MEDC - the most important event of the year, well, at least for Mobile and Embedded Devices...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/02/2006
Windows Mobile related Video Blog 01
I've just posted a short video blog entry, and I'd be interested in whether is works - both in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/27/2006
New SDK Doc Release - But do you want to know?
Over on the Windows Mobile Doc blog, I just posted an entry about the freshly-released February...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/20/2006
Hopper
What's Hopper? A serious debugging tool for Windows CE, that's what. Hopper will stress out your...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/10/2006
What's your favourite format?
I've been lucky enough to get to play with a Universal Pocket PC Phone, and I think I like it a lot....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/09/2006
Windows Mobile Survey Results - Project "More Code!"
At the end of last year, we performed one of most successful surveys ever of Windows Mobile SDK...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2006
Windows Mobile Developer Wiki - Updated
This post to inform you that the Developer Wiki has been getting some serious content input, and is...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2006
Experimenting with Windows Mobile Topic Designs
One of the big nuisances with Windows Mobile / Windows CE documentation is that it can be hard to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/20/2006
AYGShell.. wait.. I get it.. doh!
I've been tinkering on Windows CE-based devices since.. um.. well, let's see, my first one was a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/16/2006
My Article in Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine
Wow, I can't believe how long it's been since I was last in print. I used to make my living writing...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/13/2006
Happy Holidays!
This is my last blog post for 2005, as I'm off to visit family in Europe. Of course I'll have a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2005
Mobile Development: Which version of Visual Studio 2005?
As I've been careful to mention on the Windows Mobile Developer Wiki, in order to develop...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/15/2005
My New Spot
Don't worry, I'm not sharing epidermal skin care tips, rather I'm just very pleased with my new...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/08/2005
Windows Mobile Developer Wiki - Latest Updates
Material is still flowing into the Windows Mobile Developer Wiki, and the number of hits is growing...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/06/2005
Looking for a job in the home of amazing gadgets?
Here in the User Assistance team in the Mobile and Embedded Devision, we're looking for a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/30/2005
MSDN and You
Someone from our team, the Mobile and Embedded User Assistance team, came back from a customer visit...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/23/2005