In the last post we saw the new My Extensions template which adds access to new Visual Basic features. In this post we will look at another new item introduced with Mobile In The Hand 4.0 – Provisioning XML. Visual Studio has a rich XML Editor built in, Windows Mobile uses provisioning XML documents for […]
This blog post will walk through the process of adding the additional “My” functionality added in InTheHand.VisualBasic. To start off, open Visual Studio 2008 and create a new Visual Basic device project (or open an existing one). At this point you’ll end up with a solution window which looks a bit like this. Note the […]
Today we put the final touches to Mobile In The Hand 4.0 and have released this latest version of the suite. This is a major reworking of the code and the library is now broken into 10 separate dlls so you only need to deploy the specific functionality you require in a project. We have […]
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Domain Name Woes
Normally when I renew a domain it goes through smoothly in plenty of time and nothing “exciting” happens. For some reason the provider decided to do something to the domain at the same time as it was being automatically renewed which has lead inthehand.com to go into some form of limbo for the best part […]
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Widgets and Samsung
There has been a lot of buzz recently around Widgets because of the support in the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 release. However don’t forget that Widgets are based on web standards and therefore can run on a wide variety of platforms. For example Samsung has just released a Widget SDK for their phone handsets:- http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/platform.main.do?platformId=12 […]
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Phone Recording in Windows Mobile
There has been some buzz recently about further changes to the Windows Mobile 6.5 user experience since it was announced and the developer emulators released. For example this article has some screenshots:- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544445 It shows changes to the soft-key menus at the bottom of the screen and a complete revamp of the tab control. Further […]
This latest release adds new APIs for FM Radio and devices with front and back cameras. The radio control allows you to turn on/off the radio, go to a specific frequency, seek up or down and read RDS data. You’ll need to uninstall the previous version if you have it before installing this package. So […]
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Roamin’ Umpire
When a mobile system requires a data connection in the field you accept incurring a certain cost to establish a GPRS connection. You may be lucky enough to have an unlimited plan or you may be billed based on the volume of data you use. Either way reducing the amount of data you send and […]
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Emulating Bluetooth
Alex Yakhnin pointed out this interesting article over on CodeProject showing how to use Bluetooth from within the Windows Mobile emulator:- http://blogs.msdn.com/priozersk/archive/2009/04/09/bluetooth-on-the-emulator.aspx Unfortunately it does require you to replace the stack on your host machine with FreeBT which is currently in Alpha so have a look through the Troubleshooting section for known issues first. I […]
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.NETCF 3.5 Breaking Changes
I came across this useful list of breaking changes in the .NETCF 3.5 runtime and thought I’d blog it here before I lose the URL:- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb986636.aspx
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