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  • Win a trip to PDC in Los Angeles

    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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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 Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • Replacement for Type.GUID

    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… Continue reading

  • Happy New Year

    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… Continue reading

  • 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.… Continue reading

  • 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 classes. Internet Sharing was introduced… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading