In The Hand Ltd

Peter Foot

  • Fabien Decret is now blogging

    Fabien is a French mobile developer who regularly posts answers to the Compact Framework newsgroup. He has started blogging and already posted on a number of Windows Mobile and Visual Studio topics in both French and English. You can view… Continue reading

  • 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,… Continue reading

  • Book done, MEDC next!

    We’ve finished all the writing for the book, and it’s now winging it’s way to the printers. This week I finished converting all my sample code to Visual Basic so that we’ll have two versions of all the sample code… Continue reading

  • Deprecated APIs in Windows Mobile 6

    Over on the Windows Mobile Developer Wiki is a topic listing all the APIs and technologies which are deprecated in Windows Mobile 6. This is essential reading for any Windows Mobile developer: http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/MobileDeveloper.DeprecatedFeaturesInWindowsMobile6 Continue reading

  • Determine Version of Connected Device

    When your device is synchronised with ActiveSync (or Windows Mobile Device Center in Windows Vista) a number of device properties are written to the registry. This allows you to gather information on the device during a custom installation or from… Continue reading

  • TomTom In The Hand 6.1

    I’ve been a bit quiet over the past few weeks, on vacation and at the Microsoft MVP Summit. I’ve also been working on the TomTom In The Hand library and today have released a new version. It turns out that… Continue reading

  • Personal Area Networking in the Delphi Magazine

    John Penman has written an article in the March edition of Delphi Magazine entitled “Simple Wireless Networking with Delphi for .NET” which describes using the 32feet.NET library from Delphi code. It walks the user through each of the areas of… Continue reading

  • What’s New For Managed Developers In Windows Mobile 6 (Part 3)

    Thankfully after the previous false-start the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs are now back online and here to stay. In the last post, I looked at new properties in the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status namespace. It turns out that there are some minor improvements… Continue reading

  • Programmatically Activating Speakerphone

    Windows Mobile devices, both Smartphone and Pocket PC support Speakerphone functionality. When operating through the Phone application the end user can toggle the state, up until now there has been no documented way to achieve this through code. Last year… Continue reading

  • Richard Jones is Blogging

    Richard has just started blogging, starting with a sample for maximising screen space by creating a Vista style textbox with integral label, and a description of what he has been up to in the fight against “Monkey Code“. I’ve subscribed… Continue reading