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  • How To: Programmatically Scroll Controls

    A number of controls within .NETCF have built in ScrollBars. Occasionally you may want to operate these programmatically on behalf of the user. When you do this you want both the control to scroll and the scrollbars to correctly reflect… Continue reading

  • Great XNA Book Coming Soon

    Rob Miles has finished his book on XNA development and it will be out in the wild soon. Although we don’t have XNA support for mobile devices it is a cool framework which allows you to build games for both… Continue reading

  • HttpWebRequest Exceptions under .NETCF

    While testing code using HttpWebRequest it can be observed in the debug output that a number of exceptions are thrown within the GetResponse call of a HttpWebRequest. If you run exactly the same code on the desktop you don’t see… Continue reading

  • doPDF – Great PDF Printer

    I needed to convert some files to PDF format today. While this is possible in Office 2007 products with a free add-in it isn’t an option in other applications. I have an XPS printer and a OneNote writer but no… Continue reading

  • Determine Platform – .NETCF 3.5 and earlier

    One of the new features in v3.5 of the Compact Framework is the ability to easily detect the platform you are running on from Smartphone (Standard Edition), PocketPC (Classic or Professional Editions) or WinCEGeneric (Everything else). The code is very… Continue reading

  • WirelessManager sample

    Mobile In The Hand 3.0 has just been released. This is the latest version of our .NET Compact Framework library for working with all aspects of Windows Mobile. This latest version is optimised for .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and 3.5… Continue reading

  • New RSS Feed Url

    I’ve changed the site to publish the RSS feed through feedburner. Please update your news reader with the following URL to avoid any loss of service:- http://feeds.feedburner.com/peterfoot/ Thanks! Continue reading

  • TechEd Session Content

    I’ve begun uploading the content from the Networking session at Tech Ed. The rest of the example code will follow shortly. All the resources from the session can be found here:- https://inthehand.com/wp-content/uploads/folders/resources/entry4195.aspx Continue reading

  • Networking Session at Tech Ed Developers 2007

    The schedule for Tech Ed is now set. Now, I can’t compete with Daniel on quantity, but hopefully can equal him on quality. However this requires help from you – I am hosting an interactive session and so you can help… Continue reading

  • How To: Use the WebRequestMethods class

    Networking In The Hand introduces a repository for all the various method types for FTP and HTTP operations. While the common ones are easy to remember (“GET”,”POST” etc) many others are not, and so this class (like its desktop equivalent)… Continue reading