Windows Mobile Team Blog
Square Screen Compatibility
Square-screen Pocket PC devices are coming. Our backwards compatibility layer does a great job of...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/22/2005
Getting ready for MEDC
It's been pretty quiet on the blog lately since, between working on the next version of Windows...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/22/2005
Orange Code Camp
I'll be attending the Orange Code Camp in Florida later this month. Drop me an email if you'll be...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/08/2005
Limited Microsoft Mobile and Embedded DevCon Registration Offer!
The Microsoft MEDC team have kindly extended a special offer to blog readers. The first sixty people...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 03/11/2005
Windows Mobile Application Contest
Win $25,000 and Application Distribution. Enter Your Best Applications in the Microsoft Windows...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/28/2005
Free Mobile Application Development Toolkit (UK only)
News for developers in the UK – this is UK only! : Take advantage of the new features in the...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/28/2005
MEDC US Registration Available
Register Today! The website and registration for MEDC 2005 in Las Vegas are now available at...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/25/2005
Tooltip control for .NET CF
let me add a subheading "CODING CORNER" to this post... I went to see a company in the UK (ATOS...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/15/2005
3GSM World Congress
I've only been down to Cannes (France) once for this event to present a very short session about...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/14/2005
Custom Soft Input Panel (SIP) for Pocket PC
As this is my first post on the WindowsMobile blog an introduction is probably in order: My name is...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/10/2005
Smart Client Patterns and Practices Survey
From Jono's blog: The Smart Client Team at Microsoft patterns & practices needs your feedback...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/08/2005
New Article : Planning a Small to Medium IT Solution to Include Windows Mobile
Our enterprise focussed team have just posted the beta version of a new article that will help you...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/08/2005
MEDC Planning Info on my Blog
If you're interested in what's happening behind the scenes for MEDC as we plan the event, you can...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/08/2005
New Articles on MSDN
How to Create a Database Browser Application for Pocket PC in C# by Using Visual Studio .NET 2003The...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/07/2005
Windows Mobile SDK now included in MSDN Product Feedback Center
Exciting news! As of this morning, Windows Mobile SDK is now included as a category for...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/02/2005
How to check if screen can be rotated - from .NET CF
David Kline from the .NET CF team has posted a managed wrapper for the native API I mentioned...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 02/01/2005
Data Access Application Block for .NET CF
The guys at Business Anyplace have come through with another big one. This time, they’ve ported the...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/31/2005
The Moth
Lot’s of great stuff on Daniel Moth’s blog lately. Here are a few: His collection of P/Invoke...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/31/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Device Command Shell
Our friends in Visual Studio for Devices team has posted a cool plug-in that works with the Whidbey...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/31/2005
Edit SQL CE Databases from the Desktop
Pocket PC Developer Network has the scoop on a new tool that is going to make a lot of developers...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/31/2005
.NET CF, Bluetooth, and SMS
Wei-Meng Lee ties all three together nicely in this article. -Robert
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/31/2005
How to check if screen can be rotated
This just came up in a discussion and I figured it’s worth passing on. With Pocket PC 2003 Second...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/31/2005
MEDC Brainstorming
We got a bunch of people together in a room today to brainstorm topics for the Windows Mobile track...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/27/2005
MEDC Call For Papers Issued!
Do you think you've got what it takes to educate application developers and device makers on...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/25/2005
Deployment, security and provisioning
Long time Windows Mobile support wizard Marcus Perryman just started blogging. Marcus has worked for...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/18/2005
Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile
Hi, folks ... I know it's been a while since I posted, but I think you're going to LOVE this one. On...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/13/2005
Smartphone Programming Articles Collection
Nauman Leghari has scoured the web and put together a nicely categorised collection of Smartphone...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/04/2005
Microsoft Windows Journal Reader Supplemental Component
For all the developers out there who came up with the excellent idea of writing an app that...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/04/2005
The eVB download page
A few weeks ago James updated the download page for the eVB runtime to give users the option of...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/03/2005
(Somewhat) New Stuff from OpenNETCF.Org
Here’s another item that’s been stuck in my “stuff to blog” folder for...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/03/2005
Hosting a Native Windows Control in .NET CF
Peter Foot (a .NET CF MVP) has a new article up on MSDN which discusses how to host a native control...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/03/2005
Migrating from eVB to VB.NET via VB6
In the eVB newsgroup, Robert Corrigan has posted instructions on how to migrate from eVB to VB.NET...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/03/2005
mGALSync
If you have Active Directory deployed in your enterprise, you’ve probably noticed that while...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/03/2005
Web Service Compression with .NET CF
Windows Mobile MVP’s Andreas Sjöström & Christian Forsberg have posted another great...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 01/03/2005
MSDN Windows Mobile Content Requests
Have you ever been searching for a technical article or How To and can't find it? Have you ever...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 12/14/2004
Standalone Emulator
I've seen several people ask this question lately so here ya go... It is possible to run the Pocket...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 12/10/2004
Welcome to ... The Code Room
Ever wonder what would happen if you put 3 developers in a room for 6 hours and asked them to build...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 12/10/2004
Pocket PC and Smartphone Software Giveaway from Handango
Details are here.
Author: windowsmobile Date: 12/09/2004
MSDN Smart Client Developer Center
The revamped Smart Client Developer Center is now live on MSDN with a new look, better organization,...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 12/05/2004
TechEd 2005 : Call for papers
It's that time of year again, that's right. It's conference season. Of course, for most people...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 12/05/2004
Updated GDI+ for .NET CF
From Peter Foot: XcrossOne Studio has released a new version of their open source GDI+...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 12/01/2004
Running a scheduled app in unattended mode
This question came up in a webcast: "I have an app that wakes up the device periodically. I don't...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 11/29/2004
Programmatically getting the phone number of a device
One question that is often asked is "How do I get the phone number of my device?" Usually the person...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 11/28/2004
The things I do for this team
The aftermath of the Milkshake Challenge, where developers could dump a milkshake on my head if they...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 11/08/2004
Signing Smartphone apps with a privileged certificate
The security infrastructure on Smartphone requires that an application be "trusted" in order to...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 11/02/2004
Microsoft Privileged Certificate Technology Requirements
Application code submitted to a certificate authority to be signed with a privileged certificate...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 10/28/2004
Open Source Implementation of GDI+ for .NET CF
XcrossOne Studio has a new open source library the promises to fill the gaps of features not...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 10/27/2004
Great deal on Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone with AT&T Wireless
Do you want to get this sweet new Smartphone which includes (along with the usual stuff) Windows...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 10/24/2004
Patch for Smartphone 2003 SDK Released
If you develop for Windows Mobile based Smartphones you'll be aware of the SPDPS utility. SPDPS is...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 10/15/2004
Painting problems with a PocketPC Today Screen plugin
The code for the sample Today Screen plugin that ships with the Pocket PC 2003 SDK has a bug in it...
Author: windowsmobile Date: 10/06/2004