While this week has very much been focussed on Windows Phone 7 so far we also released the latest version of our Mobile In The Hand suite for the .NET Compact Framework. Along with some bug-fixes (several around EmailMessage functionality) and performance...

We have heard over the last couple of days how the Silverlight development model in Windows Phone 7 means that all developers are now mobile developers. However what does the platform offer beyond the standard Silverlight classes and functionality. Where...

The covers have been lifted off of the twelve sessions at MIX in the Windows Phone track. Following on from yesterdays announcements that Windows Phone 7 development consists of Silverlight and XNA, these session descriptions tell more about the entire...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c0213f68-2e01-4e5c-a8b2-35e081dcf1ca&displaylang=en This Developer Tool Kit acts as an add-on to the Windows Mobile 6 SDK. It adds in Windows Mobile 6.5 and 6.5.3 samples, APIs and Emulators...

Since Bluetooth APIs were introduced into Windows (we are talking about the desktop OS here, not Windows CE / Windows Mobile / Windows Phone) there have been numerous updates and changes. Confusingly not all of these have been in Major updates or service...

I've already had a couple of questions about how to develop applications for Windows Phone 7. At the moment the "developer story" has not been announced but over on the Windows Mobile Developer Blog they have announced that MIX10 will be...

Microsoft New Zealand are running a competition to win a trip to the next Microsoft PDC event in Los Angeles. It is open to all developers living in New Zealand. All you need to do to enter is help them out with questionnaire:- “Targeted towards NZ developers...

There are a number of scenarios in which you want to retrieve the icon associated with a particular executable or other file type. One example is when building a file browser, you might also want to extract the icon associated with your application or...

There have been rumours floating around all over the web about Windows Phone future versions. Microsoft have remained tight lipped allowing various tech sites to come up with all sorts of fanciful stories. However a tantalising news snippet has appeared...

Microsoft have now released some replacement developer certificates for Windows Mobile. See this post for details and a download link:- http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/wmdev/archive/2010/01/12/new-windows-mobile-developer-certificates.aspx

As some of you may have noticed the development certificates which are shipped with the Windows Mobile 6 SDK all expired on 31st December 2009. There have been no updates provided yet so the only official workaround is to fiddle with the date on your...

A question came up on the newsgroups of how to get the Guid assigned to a Type via a GuidAttribute. Typically this will be defined when creating a manged Class/Interface to match a COM exposed CoClass/Interface. The desktop exposes a GUID property of...

My last post of 2009 is just a quick message to send all the readers of this blog best wishes for 2010 and to thank you for your support this year. 2009 was a very busy year and not just on the work front as this year I got married and moved half way...

One of the new items introduced in version 4.0 is a wrapper for the Email configuration provider. This provides a one-stop-shop to access and modify email account settings. This is used for all email account types except for Exchange synchronisation....

In Mobile In The Hand 4.0 all the Windows Mobile networking features are found in the InTheHand.WindowsMobile.Net assembly. This contains support for Connection Manager, Internet Sharing and Wireless Manager. This post will look at the Internet Sharing...