Creating help files which seamlessly integrate with Visual Studio 2003 is a pain. Microsoft have released a Help Integration Wizard (Beta). This is designed to walk through the process of creating a setup which will integrate a HTML Help 2.0 file with Visual Studio. Currently to integrate your own help you either have to get […]
There is a smart device programming chat starting in about 45 minutes from now:- MVP chat: .NET Compact Framework and Smart Device Programming You know them from the newsgroups! You love them for their immense knowledge! Please join these amazing Microsoft MVPs in this live chat regarding the .NET Compact Framework and the Smart Device […]
The poster announced in the previous post gives a fairly high-level view of API changes between versions of the .NET Compact Framework. Casey Chesnut has posted a very detailed member-by-member comparison of v1 and v2 of the Compact Framework. This includes some exciting stats of the number of types, methods and properties supported in the base class […]
Its been a bit of a moving target but I’ve finally released a current version of the .NET Compact Framework Versions poster. The aim is to show a fairly detailed view of the functionality available in .NET Compact Framework v1.0, that which is expected in v2.0, and the functionality available in the next version of […]
If you are using the Smart Device Framework in your software then why not take up Neil’s offer of free publicity in an upcoming webcast. Chris and Neil will be giving a webcast next Wednesday, and you can submit your Logo or Screenshots of your app to Neil for a quick showcase of all the […]
I saw this post by Steve and realised that I hadn’t tried NDoc with Whidbey B1 yet. I was able to get it to work flawlessly, though perhaps my particular configuration is unusual. I’m running inside a Virtual PC image, into this I added an absolute bare-bones installation of XP Pro, I’ve applied SP2 RC2 but […]
Chris has announced our Coding Competition on his blog. This is a chance to win some cool prizes including a Smartphone Dev Kit, Visual Studio, Pocket PC, Compact Framework books and more! Looking forward to seeing the cool entries we are anticipating!
This months chat with the Visual Studio for Devices team is due to start in just under half an hour, logon here and bring your tricky questions for the product team members. Full details along with other online chats are listed at MSDN.
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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. This was certainly the most unusual conference idea I’ve ever witnessed. James Pratt and Steve […]
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 to do this the workaround is to simulate a mouse click over the position of […]
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