I just got word from David Chang that the Chinese translation of our book is now complete. You can order it from Amazon.cn here:- http://www.amazon.cn/mn/detailApp?pageletid=newpromote&prodid=bkbk820876
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New Mobile Development Team Blog
Amit Chopra’s Visual Studio for Devices team has grown to include Silverlight Mobile and .NETCF and the team have a new blog to cover all these areas. I’m looking forward to some great content from the team:- http://blogs.msdn.com/mobiledev/
There may be an occasion where you want to restore the original chronological view for the SMS Inbox rather than the new threaded view. One example is where a system programmatically moves or inserts SMS messages into the system because these are not visible in the threaded view (even though the count of unread messages […]
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Antialisasing and .NETCF
On the newsgroup, a developer asked if it was possible to use antialiasing on a Label font. By default on Windows Mobile the text does not use antialiasing unless you turn on the global ClearType option under Settings > System > Screen > ClearType. The platform has the capability to smooth fonts, we just need […]
The release of Windows Mobile 6.1 brings a number of improvements for users but retains the same SDK and libraries as 6. The devices ship with .NETCF 2.0 SP2 in ROM. This release adds additional screen resolutions to both the Professional (touchscreen) and Standard (non-touchscreen) editions. For Standard edition these are all 131 dpi and […]
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Exception Messages on .NETCF v3.5
Martijn Hoogendoorn provides a description of how to avoid the message:- “An error message is available for this exception but cannot be displayed because these messages are optional and are not currently installed on this device. Please install ‘NETCFv35.Messages.EN.wm.cab’ for Windows Mobile 5.0 and above or ‘NETCFv35.Messages.EN.cab’ for other platforms. Restart the application to see […]
A question came up on our forums and so I investigated writing a wrapper for the GetSystemPowerState API function. This allows you to retrieve the power state name, and also a bitmask of flags – Is the backlight on, is the device password protected etc. This is the result in VB.NET. We will add it […]
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Tech-Ed 2008
I was delighted to find out this week that my session on Personal Area Networking was selected for Tech-Ed Developers this year. The session will cover a range of networking topics including of course Bluetooth. There will be a selection of demos which will support audience participation. It looks like I’ll be in good company […]
A number of controls within .NETCF have built in ScrollBars. Occasionally you may want to operate these programmatically on behalf of the user. When you do this you want both the control to scroll and the scrollbars to correctly reflect the current position. Faced with this requirement I found a solution in the WM_VSCROLL (and […]
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Great XNA Book Coming Soon
Rob Miles has finished his book on XNA development and it will be out in the wild soon. Although we don’t have XNA support for mobile devices it is a cool framework which allows you to build games for both PC and XBox 360 with managed code. You can see a couple of sample chapters […]
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