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  • New Visual Studio 2005 edition announced

    One of the stumbling blocks to getting into .NETCF development today is that the only supported tool for development is Visual Studio 2003 Professional or higher. Microsoft announced today at VSLive a new addition to the Visual Studio family in… Continue reading

  • Keep your Smartphone backlight on

    If your application involves displaying screen content you probably have come across the issue where the screen backlight turns off after a few seconds of no keypresses. You can override this behaviour in your application using a couple of underdocumented… Continue reading

  • New tool for Visual Studio help integration

    Creating help files which seamlessly integrate with Visual Studio 2003 is a pain. Microsoft have released a Help Integration Wizard (Beta). This is designed to walk through the process of creating a setup which will integrate a HTML Help 2.0… Continue reading

  • Upcoming Smart Device Chat

    There is a smart device programming chat starting in about 45 minutes from now:- MVP chat: .NET Compact Framework and Smart Device Programming You know them from the newsgroups! You love them for their immense knowledge! Please join these amazing… Continue reading

  • Casey posts detailed .NETCF v2.0 base class library changes

    The poster announced in the previous post gives a fairly high-level view of API changes between versions of the .NET Compact Framework. Casey Chesnut has posted a very detailed member-by-member comparison of v1 and v2 of the Compact Framework. This includes some… Continue reading

  • New .NET Compact Framework poster available for download

    Its been a bit of a moving target but I’ve finally released a current version of the .NET Compact Framework Versions poster. The aim is to show a fairly detailed view of the functionality available in .NET Compact Framework v1.0,… Continue reading

  • Using the Smart Device Framework?

    If you are using the Smart Device Framework in your software then why not take up Neil’s offer of free publicity in an upcoming webcast. Chris and Neil will be giving a webcast next Wednesday, and you can submit your… Continue reading

  • NDoc with Visual Studio 2005 Beta1

    I saw this post by Steve and realised that I hadn’t tried NDoc with Whidbey B1 yet. I was able to get it to work flawlessly, though perhaps my particular configuration is unusual. I’m running inside a Virtual PC image,… Continue reading

  • Write cool .NETCF Code and win prizes

    Chris has announced our Coding Competition on his blog. This is a chance to win some cool prizes including a Smartphone Dev Kit, Visual Studio, Pocket PC, Compact Framework books and more! Looking forward to seeing the cool entries we… Continue reading

  • .NET Compact Framework / Visual Studio for Devices Chat starts soon

    This months chat with the Visual Studio for Devices team is due to start in just under half an hour, logon here and bring your tricky questions for the product team members. Full details along with other online chats are… Continue reading