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  • Bluetooth Library (March Edition)

    To facilitate using the library in Visual Studio 2005 Betas I have made a few minor updates to the managed Bluetooth library, new/fixed in this release:- Now works under .NETCF 1.0, .NETCF 2.0, .NET 1.1 .NET 2.0 (Not tested under… Continue reading

  • Control and Component Designers Part Four – Events

    This is a quick addendum to part three. In that section we looked at un-hiding some properties in the standard controls which were implemented in .NETCF SP2. As well as adding Fore and Back colour support, SP2 introduced support for… Continue reading

  • Building the Latest SDF v1.3 Source

    We get a lot of requests asking for the very latest code for the SDF since tons of exciting stuff has been added (and many issues resolved) since our v1.2 release last year specifically from users starting to work with… Continue reading

  • Control and Component Designers Part Three – Extending Existing Controls

    Using these techniques it’s possible to extend existing controls and add attributes to improve their designer experience. To illustrate this I’ve taken the example of the ComboBoxEx control. This extends the ComboBox control by overriding runtime behaviour to overcome a… Continue reading

  • Control and Component Designers Part Two – Hanging the Decorations

    How the designer interprets your components is from a mixture of reflection to actually see what properties you expose, but also attributes which allow you to override this behaviour. The first attributes which are required for any component to appear… Continue reading

  • Control and Component Designers Part One – Building for Design Time

    Introduction When developing desktop .NET forms projects the toolbox contains a number of components you can drag across to your form and setup via the designer. A component in this case is any class which inherits from System.ComponentModel.Component. Visual Studio… Continue reading

  • Alternative View of Express Products

    Thanks Bill for this excellent link – an alternative view of the Visual Studio Express products target audiences. Check it out (but don’t take too seriously!):- http://www.atrevido.net/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=fc395650-88e9-4f9a-82cc-3f1ceebdfc3f Continue reading

  • Determine Current GSM Network

    This VB.NET code will work on Smartphone and Pocket PC Phone devices and return details of the current GSM operator (though it probably works on CDMA also). It relies on Alex Feinman’s excellent TAPI wrapper whish you can download here.… Continue reading

  • MEDC Worldwide Dates Announced

    The latest information on the MEDC2005 front is a list of dates and venues for the worldwide MEDC events which will follow the main MEDC conference in May. So far the following events have been announced:- Korea (TBA) – 19th-20th… Continue reading

  • FolderBrowserDialog for Windows CE

    To follow up from a recent enquiry on the newsgroup, neither .NETCF v1.0 or v2.0 include the FolderBrowserDialog component. The main reason for this is that this functionality is not implemented in all flavours of Windows CE, for example Windows… Continue reading