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  • Useful new MessageWindow feature

    Earlier in the Beta for Visual Studio 2005 I submitted a product suggestion to support a very common scenario with the MessageWindow control, and I was delighted to find that in the July CTP it has been implemented. The MessageWindow… Continue reading

  • One-handed Pocket PC Applications

    Mark has posted the final version of his MSDN article on designing for stylus-free usage on Windows Mobile. This covers both what you get for free in .NETCF v2.0 for navigating around forms with the d-pad and also what you can… Continue reading

  • Service Packs and Fixes

    In order to determine all the known issues with .NETCF v1.0 and which Service Pack contained the fix, you would need to look through the fix list for each of the Service Packs in turn. For ease of reference I… Continue reading

  • Making the SDK Documentation more discoverable

    I like John Kennedy‘s proposed SDK TOC for Windows Mobile. And since the sample contains valid links, I was surpised at the amount of content I found which I’d not been able to locate before 🙂 While there will always… Continue reading

  • All These New Devices

    There has been a lot of activity recently on new Windows Mobile 5.0 devices, in a few cases official announcments, in some cases details leaked through common sources such as the FCC site where products sent for testing are publically… Continue reading

  • Functionality in InTheHand.WindowsMobile.Forms

    As has already been shown with some of the other libraries in WindowsMobile In The Hand, the object model is generally designed to follow the Windows Mobile 5.0 APIs. There are a few examples where new functionality is exposed which… Continue reading

  • Windows CE Services and Compact Framework

    Neither .NETCF v1.0 or v2.0 will support runtime hosting, this means it’s not possible to write a service in managed code which will run within the Services.exe process. However it is often useful to be able to query and manipulate… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth COM Ports On Windows CE

    Greg Scott from the Windows CE Networking team has posted an interesting article on how Bluetooth Virtual COM ports are implemented on Windows CE. Alongside the native code to setup a port, there are some details on the improvements in… Continue reading

  • Restricting Pim Item Collections

    This applies equally to WindowsMobile In The Hand and the Windows Mobile 5.0 APIs. On the collection classes there exists a Restrict method which returns a subset of the collection matching your search query. You can use the resulting collection… Continue reading

  • Manually run Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK script

    Some users may find that after installing the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDKs, although no errors were reported, they just don’t show up in the Visual Studio 2005 create project dialog. The reason for this is that sometimes the install script… Continue reading