Compact Framework – In The Hand Ltd

December 7, 2015

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 & Visual Studio 2013

The latest update to Windows Embedded Compact 2013 was a bit of a surprise as besides the usual cumulative bug fixes and tweaks it adds development support with Visual Studio 2015. Since the days of Windows Mobile 6 and even… Continue reading

January 16, 2015

Binary incompatibility in Silverlight for Windows Embedded in May 2014 Update Onwards

Last Year Michel blogged about a binary incompatibility introduced in the May 2014 update of Compact 7 which broke existing Silverlight for Windows Embedded code including pre-compiled system apps. https://guruce.com/blogpost/windows-embedded-compact-may-2014-update-35-breaks-binary-compatibility-of-silverlight The XAML In The Hand library was also affected. It… Continue reading

June 7, 2013

Moving from WinForms to XAML Runtime on Windows Embedded Compact

I recently found an old set of slides I created for TechEd NZ a few years ago which collected together useful information for moving from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone. It struck me that some of this would also be… Continue reading

April 20, 2013

Use Team Foundation Service for Embedded Projects

Microsoft’s hosted TFS (http://tfs.visualstudio.com/) provides a cloud hosted TFS project collection which is free for small teams. It works neatly with VS2012 which is fine for Windows Store and Windows Phone project types but for .NET Compact Framework development we… Continue reading

October 15, 2012

WriteableBitmapEx for Windows Embedded Compact 7

I have ported René Schulte‘s excellent WriteableBitmapEx project to run on Windows Embedded Compact 7. The original library supports drawing across various XAML user interfaces – Silverlight, Windows Phone, WPF and Windows 8 Apps. Because XAML In The Hand exposes… Continue reading

September 3, 2012

Connect Visual Studio 2008 to TFS2012 or Team Foundation Service Preview

Now that there is a new release of Team Foundation Server you may consider upgrading. However if you still work on projects for the .NET Compact Framework you’ll still be using Visual Studio 2008. Luckily there is an update available… Continue reading

May 2, 2012

Windows Marketplace for Mobile 6.x to be Discontinued

If you publish apps on the old Marketplace for Windows Mobile 6.x you should have received reminders that the service will be discontinued in two weeks. If you have been using our Mobile In The Hand product with a managed… Continue reading

April 19, 2011

Managing Processes and Memory With Mobile In The Hand 7.0

.NET Compact Framework The Compact Framework provides the capability to start a separate process from your code, and stop it but it doesn’t give you more detailed information about what is running and what components are in use. Windows CE… Continue reading

April 15, 2011

Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding with Mobile In The Hand 7.0

This is the first in a series of posts about Mobile In The Hand 7.0 which brings a collection of reusable components to the .NET Compact Framework. This latest version is updated to support all versions of Windows Mobile including… Continue reading

May 10, 2010

Mobile In The Hand 4.2 Released

This latest update includes a number of performance enhancements and wider device compatibility. A new SystemEvents class is added in the InTheHand.Win32 namespace which allows you to monitor power changes on devices which do not support the State and Notifications… Continue reading