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  • Summer Rain

    As I walked to the local Tesco’s to pick up something to eat for lunch today it was, unsurprisingly, raining steadily. Keeping my head down and a stiff upper lip etc I kept going. As I looked down at the pavement… Continue reading

  • Context Menu Extensions Windows Mobile 2003 versus Windows Mobile 5.0/6

    One of the features of Mobile In The Hand is the ability to add context menu extension handlers for the PIM applications from managed code. One of the problems with implementing this feature is that the behaviour of these applications… Continue reading

  • Visual Studio 2008 Launch Date Announced

    At Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference Kevin Turner announced the “2008 Global Launch Wave”. This will include Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server). The occasion will be marked on 27th February 2008 in Los… Continue reading

  • .NET Micro Framework Book on special offer

    Rob Miles has just blogged that his book “Embedded Programming with the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework” is currently on special offer at Computer Manuals through the MSDN Flash email newsletter. So if you have a wobbly table, or a door… Continue reading

  • Guid.NewGuid Performance

    João Paulo was investigating Guid performance when used as identifiers in a SQL Compact database and discovered that the performance of Guid.NewGuid() left a lot to be desired. The reason for this is that the function uses lowest-common-denominator support, using… Continue reading

  • Motorola Game Developer Challenge

    Fancy yourself as a mobile game developer and want to win loads of Motorola kit? If so the Motorola Developer Network (MOTODEV) have a game development contest for you! There are categories for both Java and Windows Mobile games, for Windows… Continue reading

  • Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook at DevDays 2007

    Rob Miles, a fellow MVP who wrote one of the chapters for our book has grabbed a copy at DevDays in Amsterdam, you can see a picture of him proudly clutching the book in his latest blog post. In case… Continue reading

  • Windows Mobile Standard Landscape Shortcut Keys

    On a traditional Standard (nee Smartphone) device the start-menu items are arranged into a 3×3 grid, you can navigate these quickly using the numeric keypad. On a landscape device the items are arranged in a 4×2 grid so this is… Continue reading

  • Practical .NET 2.0 Networking Projects

    Fellow MVP Wei-Meng Lee has finished a book on building applications with a range of networking technologies using .NET, both on the desktop and on devices. This covers the fundamentals of Sockets and Serial programming and contains a number of interesting… Continue reading

  • Waiting for a Process

    There have been numerous occasions where I’ve needed to write code to launch another process and wait for it to complete, usually taking some action based on the exit code. Therefore I’ve got a handy helper method to do this.… Continue reading