In The Hand Ltd

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  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • Domain Name Woes

    Normally when I renew a domain it goes through smoothly in plenty of time and nothing “exciting” happens. For some reason the provider decided to do something to the domain at the same time as it was being automatically renewed… Continue reading

  • Widgets and Samsung

    There has been a lot of buzz recently around Widgets because of the support in the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 release. However don’t forget that Widgets are based on web standards and therefore can run on a wide variety of… Continue reading

  • Phone Recording in Windows Mobile

    There has been some buzz recently about further changes to the Windows Mobile 6.5 user experience since it was announced and the developer emulators released. For example this article has some screenshots:- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544445 It shows changes to the soft-key menus… Continue reading

  • Samsung Release Windows Mobile SDK 1.2

    This latest release adds new APIs for FM Radio and devices with front and back cameras. The radio control allows you to turn on/off the radio, go to a specific frequency, seek up or down and read RDS data. You’ll… Continue reading

  • Roamin’ Umpire

    When a mobile system requires a data connection in the field you accept incurring a certain cost to establish a GPRS connection. You may be lucky enough to have an unlimited plan or you may be billed based on the… Continue reading