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  • Designing Class Libraries Series

    Brad Abrams’ team at Microsoft have started a series of Webcasts around class library design. The introductory session is available on the site now with a further 13 sessions to follow. A chat session is scheduled to follow on the… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Build 50115

    I’ve posted an updated build of the Bluetooth library here. It adds full support for the desktop, improved class-of-device and other properties. The sample app is now supplied in Pocket Pc, Smartphone and Desktop versions which all talk to each… Continue reading

  • .NETCF Service Pack 3 is out – Go Get It!

    .NETCF SP3 Redistributable can be downloaded from here:- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?amp;displaylang=en&familyid=a5a02311-194b-4c00-b445-f92bec03032f&displaylang=en List of fixes grabbed from the above page:- Fixed Issues:– Transitions between managed and native code can cause memory leaks on ARM platforms.– A NullReferenceException is thrown when a Web Method… Continue reading

  • GetEntryAssembly for .NETCF

    If your application contains multiple levels of DLL files, you may want to determine the name and path of the original calling executable. On the desktop you can use Assembly.GetEntryAssembly() but this is not available in the Compact Framework. I… Continue reading

  • Rudolph the Bluetoothed Reindeer

    I’ve uploaded a new release of the Bluetooth library which adds the key feature of hosting services over bluetooth. This now allows two-way communications between devices and to demonstrate how this works I’ve included a sample Bluetooth Chat application. This… Continue reading

  • New in .NETCF v2.0

    Jono posted a link to a new section in the online Beta documentation at MSDN which describes in some detail whats new in v2.0 of the Compact Framework. This includes new framework features and a list by namespace of the… Continue reading

  • System.Net.IrDA for the desktop (Part 2)

    Following my previous post, I did some further development to the code to make it fully match the .NETCF assembly (yes, in my haste I’d missed a few properties and cut a couple of corners). So now I have compiled… Continue reading

  • System.Net.IrDA for the desktop

    Following on from a question which cropped up on today’s MVP chat. I did some investigation into IrDA support on the desktop framework. Turns out you can’t use System.Net.IrDA.dll from .NETCF on the desktop as I had read on some… Continue reading

  • Online Bluetooth code updated

    There were some recent enquries on the OpenNETCF Forums about the current Bluetooth code. It seems I had refreshed the website with some development code which would only work if a couple of items were commented out. This is because… Continue reading

  • Forms Anywhere built around OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework

    Via Jono’s Blog:- ‘Forms Anywhere is an attempt to provide a development platform for data capture using the Pocket PC. It handles all data collection tasks from creation to capture, all that is needed on the back end is the… Continue reading