Windows Mobile Team Blog
Welcoming Palm to Windows Mobile
If you missed the webcast yesterday morning, Bill Gates (Microsoft), Ed Colligan (Palm) and Denny...
Author: Soyale Date: 09/27/2005
2-state icons in WM5
We did a great job of adding support for 2-state icons in Windows Mobile 5 so you can have an icon...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/25/2005
State & Notification Broker 101
Not sure when it was published, but I just stumbled across this excellent article from Don that...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/25/2005
Persistent storage and the registry
This came up in the newsgroup yesterday but I think it's worth noting here as well... For...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/24/2005
Monday
Mike Hall has a teaser <sarcasm> I bet you'll never guess what it's for </sarcasm>...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/24/2005
.NET CF, AxHost, and PDC
Saw the keynote this morning? I did! Like the demo that included hosting the Windows Media Player...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/13/2005
Get a Windows Mobile 5 device at PDC
Jim just announced that the HTC Universal is being sold at the event at a mind boggling price of...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/13/2005
Comparing Static and Dynamic Linking of the VS 2005 Run-Time Libraries on Windows CE and Windows Mobile
There's a new article on MSDN. It's a good read when you're trying to decide between static vs....
Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/09/2005
Having More Colors Is A Good Thing, Isn't It?
When was the last time you saw a Windows Mobile device that couldn't do color? (It's a trick...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/07/2005
Calling managed code from native
A question that always pops up is "Can I call managed code from my native process?" And the answer...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/07/2005
Using the Talk button
Ever wanted to use the phone's green Talk key (sometimes called the Send button) in your...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/02/2005
Windows Mobile Help
Hi, I'm John Kennedy from the Mobile Embedded Division's UA team - in other words, Help files. I...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/25/2005
Unifying MessageBox and OpenFileDialog
A few days ago, I had a discussion on the pocketpc.developer newgroup with Tristan of PocketTV about...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/21/2005
Was I just in a Smartphone commercial?
First off, let me introduce myself. My name is Brian Cross, and I’m a member of the Windows Mobile...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/19/2005
Microsoft developers are fallible
Snicker, snicker. No really, we are. <innocent look> I discovered a bug in the Animate3 which...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/12/2005
Power to the System
In Power to the People we learned some of the differences between how PocketPCs and Smartphones...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/10/2005
WindowsMobile In The Hand
Speaking of new API's in Windows Mobile 5.0, the most common piece of feeback I got during the MEDC...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/08/2005
Hacking the Emulator
Clearly, somebody isn't giving Marcus enough real work to do so he's decided to figure out how the...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/05/2005
Power to the Developers part 1
In my recent Power to the People entry I talked about how bad it is for an application to burn CPU...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/03/2005
Power to the People
In 2002 when we released our first Smartphone OS, there were quite a few fundamental differences...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/01/2005
Vibrating Profiles & Missed Calls
As a long time Smartphone user, I'm really excited about the quality of Windows Mobile 5.0 and most...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/23/2005
embeddedFlorida.net
David McNamee, who I worked with at Smartphone Thoughts before joining Microsoft, has launched a new...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/22/2005
More RSS feeds
Not sure when this happened, but I just noticed that we now have a set of RSS feeds for the various...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/22/2005
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Forms Class Diagram
Despite many many complaints from Neil, I never got around to adding the...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/21/2005
Managed Direct3D Mobile
Not sure how this slipped through my radar before, but Casey Chesnut has written a fun article on...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/21/2005
Beating up your PPC with the web...
In my recent Persistent Storage entries I talked about the issue that if you do extensive web...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/20/2005
More Persistent Storage Stuff part 2
A continuation of my "More Persistent Storage Stuff" entry, which is a follow up to "Why Persistent...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/18/2005
More Persistent Storage Stuff part 1
There have been a lot of comments to my "Why Persistent Storage Is A Good Thing" entry, as well as a...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/18/2005
Why Persistent Storage Is A Good Thing
Here's a quick primer on why you want Persistent Storage on your Pocket PCs. Persistent Storage (PS)...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/14/2005
"Migrating Applications to the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and Windows Mobile 5.0"
Don Sorcinelli has a good article up on developer.com that goes over some important things to think...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/14/2005
Migration FAQ Update
We added this to the Migration FAQ today, prefacing the existing entry about CAB files on Windows...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/13/2005
Webcast Wednesday
For those that missed MEDC or got overwhelmed by all the interesting sessions happening...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/11/2005
Small change to SMS interception
Until a question in the smartphone.developer newsgroup brought it up, I had forgotten about a small...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/09/2005
MEDC tour update
Today was the 4th stop on our tour in Kuala Lumpur. We'll spend this weekend making our way to...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 06/16/2005
The MEDC World Tour has begun
The first event isn't until tomorrow but James, Sean and I got settled into our hotel in Berlin last...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 06/05/2005
Updated Windows Mobile Tool Support Matrix
A while back, I posted a diagram illustrating how our tools map to versions of the platform. That...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 06/02/2005
Mobilizer Madness
Going to Tech Ed? Want to win a new Windows Mobile device? Enjoy the thrill of frantically running...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 06/02/2005
27,469
I know what you're thinking (assuming you think like my mom (hi mom!)): "How is Robert going to...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/27/2005
What new APIs do you want?
Now that Windows Mobile 5.0 has shipped, it's time to plan the next version. We want your...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/26/2005
Security Model
Are you a developer? Are you confused by the security model of Windows Mobile 5.0? I was, too, so I...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/26/2005
Migration FAQ
Backwards compatibility is super important. For Windows Mobile 5.0, we established several new...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/22/2005
DMA Transport Update for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2
Playing with VS 2005 Beta 2 and the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK? Having trouble getting VS to connect to...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/22/2005
WiFi Debugging
You've probably read that the wifi/ethernet sync capabilities had to be removed in ActiveSync 4.0...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/22/2005
ARM Assembly Language tutorial
I originally wrote this tutorial on how to debug ARM code at the assembly level for my team, but...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/10/2005
Porting applications from CEDB to EDB
Howdy from MEDC! If you are porting your apps to target Windows Mobile 5.0 you might be interested...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/10/2005
My Podcast Debut
I did a podcast interview with Mike Hall last week which I've been told will be up on his blog later...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/03/2005
Smartphone Security Configurations
Did you know that the Mobile2Market website includes a list of the security configurations that...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/26/2005