Earlier today I posted a link from the Windows Mobile Team blog on Pocket PC Thoughts on an article being produced to describe rolling out mobile devices to your enterprise. Here is some useful additional material with a more technical twist which didn’t seem appropriate to mix in with it. This applies only to deploying […]
Author: Peter Foot
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Patterns & Practices Survey
Announced on Jono’s blog the Patterns & Practices team are looking at what guidance they can provide for device development. They have now setup a formal online survey to capture your wishes and needs, so I recommend you stop by and add your thoughts:- Fill in the survey Personally I’d like to see some kind of […]
Tomorrow the .NETCF MVPs will be hosting a developer chat at MSDN. Start time is 10am PST (6pm GMT). As usual any questions related to .NETCF, Smart Device Development or OpenNETCF are welcome. Full details along with other upcoming chats on a whole raft of topics can be found at:- http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats
Not a huge amount of change since last months release but I just wanted to post the latest update. The download includes the same Chat application samples along with the complete solution for the library itself. Downloads The main changes in this release are:- BluetoothRadio class which handles the radio state on a single or […]
Mike Zintel has posted a description of how the .NET Compact Framework got to where it is today, and where the team are headed in v2.0 and beyond. Key lessons learned by the team were in performance, interop and a few bloopers like the infamous DateTimePicker – the control which should never have been left […]
Nazim Lala from the .NET Compact Framework team has posted further details on the generics support in .NETCF v2.0 specifically the Reflection functionality available and how it differs from the full framework implementation.
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Visually identify your Bluetooth stack
Since it’s such a frequently asked question I’ve documented it here with some images which should hopefully clear up any confusion. The following screenshots show how to identify the Bluetooth stack on your Pocket Pc without writing any code or delving into the registry or system files. Microsoft Widcomm/Broadcom Bluetooth Off Bluetooth On Settings (Click […]
Announced on the Windows Mobile blog, this year will see the Mobile and Embedded developer conferences combined into one event happening in Las Vegas 9th-12th May. This year there will be lots of exciting content around .NETCF v2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 along with coverage of Windows Mobile and Windows CE and XP Embedded. Go […]
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Designing Class Libraries Series
Brad Abrams’ team at Microsoft have started a series of Webcasts around class library design. The introductory session is available on the site now with a further 13 sessions to follow. A chat session is scheduled to follow on the topic of each week, the first of which will be this Wednesday. There are some […]
I’ve posted an updated build of the Bluetooth library here. It adds full support for the desktop, improved class-of-device and other properties. The sample app is now supplied in Pocket Pc, Smartphone and Desktop versions which all talk to each other.
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