In The Hand LtdThanks to all your support and feedback so far we’ve reached 50,000 individual downloads of code and binaries here at OpenNETCF.org. We are also currently rolling together a number of bug fixes and a raft of new features into a v1.1 release of the Smart Device Framework – stay tuned for more details.
A new article on using the Virtual Radio feature of the 2003 generation of device emulators is now available at MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/callevents.asp It shows how to simulate incoming calls and SMSs using the Fake RIL on the emulator.
So its been two weeks since MDC in San Francisco, in which time I’ve been back to the UK and then out to Seattle for the MVP summit. Today the article I wrote summarising the event has gone live on Pocket PC Thoughts and you can view it here:- http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/articles.php?action=expand,26374 Its difficult to cover everything […]
So at the MVP summit I made the mistake of showing off my party trick, which unfortunately Neil caught on camera. If you check out his blog post you can enter a caption competition to win an item from the OpenNETCF store. You’d better be quick in entering before my legal team forces Neil to […]
This blog entry (courtesy of Robert Levy) shows how to programatically reset a device:- http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2004/04/01/105878.aspx Here is the VB.NET equivalent:- Declare Function KernelIoControl Lib “coredll.dll” (ByVal dwIoControlCode As Integer, ByVal lpInBuf As IntPtr, ByVal nInBufSize As Integer, ByVal lpOutBuf As IntPtr, ByVal nOutBufSize As Integer, ByVal lpBytesReturned As Integer) As Integer Declare Sub SetCleanRebootFlag Lib […]
If you are writing a desktop application to talk to your device-side software, chances are you’ll need to work with the Remote API (RAPI). This article by Larry Roof describes RAPI and uses OpenNETCF’s Communication library to copy files, launch programs and query settings on the device.
The Windows Mobile “Developer Experience” team have launched a new blog, Robert has already made a few posts regarding developing for Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition.
I’ve got back home from MDC, my immediate task is to clear the backlog of emails and serious sleep deprivation! I’ll also be pulling together all my notes on the event for a Smartphone / Pocket PC Thoughts article. The event included a great mixture of short term and longer-term announcements. Windows Mobile 2003 Second […]
Thanks to Geoff Schwab for the heads up. My article on working with files covering Storage Cards and File Dialogs is now up in the MSDN library.
You can determine the total size of a Storage Card and available free bytes using the GetDiskFreeSpaceEx API function. Below is a “mini-wrapper” around the function which returns a structure with the three return values. You’ll notice in this example I’m marshalling longs (64bit Integers), values greater than 32bit cannot be marshalled by value but […]
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