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  • Tech Ed 2004 Europe Highlights

    Its been a few days since Tech Ed in Amsterdam finished, and I’d intended to post a few of the highlights from the conference:- Keynote During the Keynote every delegate was given a handmade drum and encouraged to play along.… Continue reading

  • Automatic Capitalisation Of Words In A Text Box

    A question arose recently on the newsgroup of how to automatically capitalise the first letter of a word in a text box, e.g. by activating the shift key on the soft keyboard. Since there is no API for the SIP… Continue reading

  • Do our APIs give the same reaction?

    Eric King posted this hilarious picture to his blog showing the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference as you’ve probably never seen it before. I wonder if OpenNETCF class libraries get the same reaction from developers… 🙂 Continue reading

  • Tech-Ed 2004 Amsterdam

    I’ve been invited to help out on the Tablet PC Ask-The-Experts booth at Tech-Ed Europe. This promises to be a pretty cool conference with some great mobility content. I’m definately looking forward to it! Continue reading

  • UK Tablet PC ISV Challenge – Judging Complete

    In the last couple of weeks I’ve been down to Microsoft’s UK headquarters in Reading as a member of the judging panel for this interesting Tablet PC competition. Entrants were given the ability to purchase a subsidised Tablet PC and… Continue reading

  • Vibration and Pocket PC devices

    A number of Pocket PC devices support Vibration as an alert method, most (but not all) are Phone Edition devices. The Vibrate class in the OpenNETCF.Notification library is specific to Smartphone devices only. However the good news is that the… Continue reading

  • Smart Device Programming chat starts soon!

    I intended to post this slightly more in advance but have been travelling around all this week, please excuse me 🙂 Chat Date: June 10th10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time1:00pm – 2:00pm P.M. Eastern time17:00 – 18:00 GMT/BSTDescription: You know them… Continue reading

  • Visual Studio 2005 Team System and new source control system

    Steve Ballmer officially unveiled “Visual Studio 2005 Team System” which is a collection of tools around Visual Studio, previously code-named Burton. There’s more juicy details on Korby’s weblog. Part of this is a new source control system code-named “Hatteras” which is… Continue reading

  • Want to know more about OpenNETCF.Security.Cryptography?

    As Sam points out, the OpenNETCF.Security.Cryptography library was donated to the OpenNETCF codebase by fellow MVP Casey Chesnut. So a good source of information about how the library is built is Casey’s original article on the subject. The library is designed in… Continue reading

  • Friday Fun: Automating Windows Media Player from .NETCF

    Windows Media Player for Pocket PC (and Smartphone) doesn’t have a true object model like it’s desktop cousin, so the ability to use it from your own code is limited. However there is an undocumented method of sending commands to Windows… Continue reading