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• .NETCF 3.5 Breaking Changes

  I came across this useful list of breaking changes in the .NETCF 3.5 runtime and thought I'd blog it here before I lose the URL:- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb986636.aspx Posted Mar 13 2009, 10:12 AM by PeterFoot with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: NETCF

• Antialisasing and .NETCF

  On the newsgroup, a developer asked if it was possible to use antialiasing on a Label font. By default on Windows Mobile the text does not use antialiasing unless you turn on the global ClearType option under Settings > System > Screen > ClearType... Posted Apr 02 2008, 11:19 AM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: NETCF

• Exception Messages on .NETCF v3.5

  Martijn Hoogendoorn provides a description of how to avoid the message:- " An error message is available for this exception but cannot be displayed because these messages are optional and are not currently installed on this device. Please install... Posted Mar 06 2008, 09:48 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• How To: Get System Power State Name and Flags

  A question came up on our forums and so I investigated writing a wrapper for the GetSystemPowerState API function. This allows you to retrieve the power state name, and also a bitmask of flags - Is the backlight on, is the device password protected etc... Posted Feb 23 2008, 11:29 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF, How To

• How To: Programmatically Scroll Controls

  A number of controls within .NETCF have built in ScrollBars. Occasionally you may want to operate these programmatically on behalf of the user. When you do this you want both the control to scroll and the scrollbars to correctly reflect the current position... Posted Feb 12 2008, 06:00 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF, How To

• HttpWebRequest Exceptions under .NETCF

  While testing code using HttpWebRequest it can be observed in the debug output that a number of exceptions are thrown within the GetResponse call of a HttpWebRequest. If you run exactly the same code on the desktop you don't see this behaviour. For... Posted Jan 09 2008, 03:39 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• Determine Platform - .NETCF 3.5 and earlier

  One of the new features in v3.5 of the Compact Framework is the ability to easily detect the platform you are running on from Smartphone (Standard Edition), PocketPC (Classic or Professional Editions) or WinCEGeneric (Everything else). The code is very... Posted Nov 23 2007, 10:29 AM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: NETCF

• New Networking Component

  In The Hand Ltd today released Networking In The Hand, a developer library for the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and 3.5 Beta. This library adds additional networking functionality not found in in the Compact Framework while matching the object model used... Posted Sep 21 2007, 11:45 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• System.Media.SoundPlayer versus the PlaySound API

  In .NETCF v3.5 there is a new namespace - System.Media which brings audio support to the Compact Framework. Previously the common way to add sounds to your application was to use the PlaySound API (either P/Invoking yourself or using one of many wrappers... Posted Aug 21 2007, 11:51 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• Multiline Button

  On the newsgroup somebody asked how to have multiple lines of text on a .NETCF Button control. The native control supports this but the appropriate style is not set by default. The following code snippet shows how to enable this:- private const int BS_MULTILINE... Posted Jul 27 2007, 05:24 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• More Facebook Progress

  I'm now a member of the CodePlex workspace for the Facebook Developer Toolkit . I've been working on porting across my modifications into the codebase. The .NETCF v2.0 version uses a project called Facebook.Compact but refers to the existing source... Posted Jul 24 2007, 04:21 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF, Facebook

• Facebook API and the Compact Framework

  The Facebook API allows third-party web and desktop applications to interact with Facebook features. There is an excellent shared-source library for .NET to wrap the Facebook calls but currently it only supports the full framework. I did some work converting... Posted Jul 20 2007, 04:52 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• Guid.NewGuid Performance

  João Paulo was investigating Guid performance when used as identifiers in a SQL Compact database and discovered that the performance of Guid.NewGuid() left a lot to be desired. The reason for this is that the function uses lowest-common-denominator support... Posted Jun 25 2007, 03:13 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• Waiting for a Process

  There have been numerous occasions where I've needed to write code to launch another process and wait for it to complete, usually taking some action based on the exit code. Therefore I've got a handy helper method to do this. It has changed a few times... Posted May 14 2007, 04:24 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• New Sounds sample in Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh

  The Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh is available today. It includes some documentation enhancements and new samples. One of these is called RingtoneManager and is a C# application which wraps all the Sound APIs for ringtone management and sound playback... Posted May 01 2007, 04:14 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF, Windows Mobile