Peter Foot

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• New Windows Mobile 6.5.3 DTK

  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... Posted Feb 16 2010, 05:33 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Application and File Icons with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  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... Posted Jan 26 2010, 05:16 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Interesting Windows Phone News for MIX10

  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... Posted Jan 20 2010, 05:35 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile

• New Development Certificates

  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 Posted Jan 13 2010, 09:25 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Expired Development Certificates

  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... Posted Jan 10 2010, 04:52 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Email Configuration with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  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.... Posted Dec 30 2009, 09:48 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Internet Connection Sharing with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  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... Posted Dec 22 2009, 01:47 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• More on "My" Functionality in Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  In the last post on "My" functionality I showed you how to get started adding the My Extensions to your project. In this post I have assembled a detailed tree of all the "My" functionality added in Mobile In The Hand 4.0. My Application... Posted Dec 15 2009, 05:44 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Vibration and Profiles with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  One of the goals of the Mobile In The Hand library has always been to provide a consistent managed API regardless of which specific flavour of Windows Mobile device you are using. One example of this is using the Vibration feature used to alert the user... Posted Dec 14 2009, 04:58 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Using Bluetooth Headsets with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  A commonly requested feature is the ability to switch audio to play through a Bluetooth headset device. Mobile In The Hand 4.0 brings this functionality to .NET Compact Framework developers allowing you to play any device audio through a paired headset... Posted Dec 11 2009, 12:31 AM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Windows Mobile Provisioning using Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  In the last post we saw the new My Extensions template which adds access to new Visual Basic features. In this post we will look at another new item introduced with Mobile In The Hand 4.0 - Provisioning XML. Visual Studio has a rich XML Editor built in... Posted Dec 09 2009, 05:53 AM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• New "My" Functionality in Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  This blog post will walk through the process of adding the additional "My" functionality added in InTheHand.VisualBasic. To start off, open Visual Studio 2008 and create a new Visual Basic device project (or open an existing one). At this point... Posted Dec 07 2009, 10:38 PM by PeterFoot with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Mobile In The Hand 4.0 Released

  Today we put the final touches to Mobile In The Hand 4.0 and have released this latest version of the suite. This is a major reworking of the code and the library is now broken into 10 separate dlls so you only need to deploy the specific functionality... Posted Dec 07 2009, 10:29 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Home and Visiting Clocks in Professional Edition

  In Professional Edition (Pocket PC) devices the Clock control panel allows you to set a home timezone and a visiting zone and lets you toggle between them. If you need to retrieve the current settings they are stored in the registry in a key called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE... Posted Aug 13 2008, 12:47 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Disable Windows Mobile 6.1 Threaded SMS View

  There may be an occasion where you want to restore the original chronological view for the SMS Inbox rather than the new threaded view. One example is where a system programmatically moves or inserts SMS messages into the system because these are not... Posted Apr 08 2008, 06:12 AM by PeterFoot with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Mobile