In The Hand LtdAt Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference Kevin Turner announced the “2008 Global Launch Wave”. This will include Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server). The occasion will be marked on 27th February 2008 in Los Angeles – Mark you diaries 🙂 Some more information here:- http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=8800
Rob Miles has just blogged that his book “Embedded Programming with the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework” is currently on special offer at Computer Manuals through the MSDN Flash email newsletter. So if you have a wobbly table, or a door you want to prop open now is the time to buy (just kidding) 🙂 For […]
João Paulo was investigating Guid performance when used as identifiers in a SQL Compact database and discovered that the performance of Guid.NewGuid() left a lot to be desired. The reason for this is that the function uses lowest-common-denominator support, using a random number generator and setting a couple of specific bits to conform to guid […]
Fancy yourself as a mobile game developer and want to win loads of Motorola kit? If so the Motorola Developer Network (MOTODEV) have a game development contest for you! There are categories for both Java and Windows Mobile games, for Windows Mobile you could choose to write in native or managed code. It would be cool […]
Rob Miles, a fellow MVP who wrote one of the chapters for our book has grabbed a copy at DevDays in Amsterdam, you can see a picture of him proudly clutching the book in his latest blog post. In case you need any further encouragement to purchase the book beyond the 600+ pages of technical […]
On a traditional Standard (nee Smartphone) device the start-menu items are arranged into a 3×3 grid, you can navigate these quickly using the numeric keypad. On a landscape device the items are arranged in a 4×2 grid so this is impractical. Instead the QWERTY keys are used, or to be exact:- Q W E R […]
Fellow MVP Wei-Meng Lee has finished a book on building applications with a range of networking technologies using .NET, both on the desktop and on devices. This covers the fundamentals of Sockets and Serial programming and contains a number of interesting projects incorporating webcams, fingerprint readers, RFID and GPS receivers. The section on Infrared programming shows how […]
There have been numerous occasions where I’ve needed to write code to launch another process and wait for it to complete, usually taking some action based on the exit code. Therefore I’ve got a handy helper method to do this. It has changed a few times and is made much simpler in .NETCF v2.0 by […]
Fabien is a French mobile developer who regularly posts answers to the Compact Framework newsgroup. He has started blogging and already posted on a number of Windows Mobile and Visual Studio topics in both French and English. You can view Fabien’s blog here:- http://fabdecret.blogspot.com/
The Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh is available today. It includes some documentation enhancements and new samples. One of these is called RingtoneManager and is a C# application which wraps all the Sound APIs for ringtone management and sound playback, the latter of which were introduced with Windows Mobile 6. This is great because it […]
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