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  • Microsoft Mobile Dev Con just over a month away

    Kevin Lisota has just posted about his excitement for the upcoming MDC in San Francisco. It’s shaping up to be a really interesting event and of course OpenNETCF will be providing an exciting session:-







    “CLI345 – Developing Real-world Smart Device Applications with Visual Studio .NET 2003, .NET Compact Framework and OpenNETCF SmartDevice Framework

    The .NET Compact Framework is a powerful tool for a mobile developer. To fully utilize its potential in a real-world application, a developer needs access to the native API and intrinsic Windows CE controls. OpenNETCF SmartDevice framework is designed to address these needs.”


    There will also be a number of worldwide events to follow offering MDC content nearer to you.


  • Smart Device Framework released into wild

    The Smart Device Framework, OpenNETCF’s ambitious collection of tools, libraries and
    controls has now been released. If you are a .NETCF developer you have to check this
    out:-

    http://www.opennetcf.org/smartdeviceframework.asp

     

    Enjoy!

  • Find your way around the API maze

    This Win32
    to .NET mapping article     on MSDN caught my eye recently. It’s aim is to show the
    mapping between Win32 API functions and their managed equivalent. This is for the
    full desktop framework, would you be interested in a Compact Framework equivalent?

    Since Compact Framework development generally requires a fair bit of P/Invoke its
    useful to know which functions are already available in managed form (its very easy
    to start P/Invoking functions to find an equivalent is already available in the Compact
    Framework or an OpenNETCF library). It would also be useful to show which functions
    can and cannot be P/Invoked directly…