A number of customers have been reporting issues with SMS interception on the T-Mobile Dash handset. On these devices the SMS interception does not work through either the Microsoft or In The Hand class libraries. This is specific to the T-Mobile ROM as other branded versions of the same device, such as the HTC S620, do […]
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How To: Use the Ping class
Networking In The Hand includes the Ping class (In the InTheHand.Net.NetworkInformation namespace). The component allows you to determine if a network path to a particular host is available and whether the host is responding. It doesn’t guarantee that a particular service is running on the server (HTTP, FTP etc). You can perform a Ping in a […]
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How To: Use the AuthenticationDialog
Networking In The Hand 2.0 offers a new dialog which allows you to prompt the user for networking credentials. The dialog is designed for the best appearance depending on your platform, for example the screenshots below show both Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC and Windows Mobile 6 Standard Landscape:- If your application stores […]
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New Networking Component
In The Hand Ltd today released Networking In The Hand, a developer library for the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and 3.5 Beta. This library adds additional networking functionality not found in in the Compact Framework while matching the object model used in the full .NET framework to make it easy to share your code between […]
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Stephen Fry is Blogging
Stephen Fry, intellectual and comic hero has not only started blogging, but started talking about mobile devices. Definitely worth a read. (from Dave Sussman)
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Friday Fun: Untamed Workforce
There are videos and photos doing the rounds from a new spoof information site for Windows Mobile which takes a light-hearted look at mobile working. Why not take a look?
Late last week HTC quietly released the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for the S620. A few eagle eyed bloggers posted about it. The first thing I found was that the upgrade process doesn’t work with Windows Vista, when it reboots the device into bootloader mode the computer fails to connect. I had to run the […]
In November Microsoft will be hosting the twin conferences of Tech Ed Developers and Tech Ed IT Forum in Barcelona. Tech Ed Developers runs the week of 5th to 9th and covers 14 different tracks, one of which is Mobile & Embedded. This will cover the latest versions of all of Microsoft’s Mobile & Embedded […]
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MOTODEV Summit
Following on from the developer contest I mentioned a while ago, Motorola are running a series of developer summits later this year. They will be covering development across their range of platforms and devices, including Windows Mobile. They will have a UK event in London on the 9th of November, which conflicts with Tech Ed […]
In .NETCF v3.5 there is a new namespace – System.Media which brings audio support to the Compact Framework. Previously the common way to add sounds to your application was to use the PlaySound API (either P/Invoking yourself or using one of many wrappers). Now that the framework itself has built-in support, which matches the desktop […]
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