In March I showed how to get the version of a connected device from the desktop. This post documents the rest of the registry settings used to store device information. There are two registry locations, the first at HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows CE Services contains information about the currently connected device. The second, HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows CE ServicesPartners contains information for […]
Category Archives: Desktop Code
.NET Framework 3.0 Released
I’m still not a huge fan of the naming system used – v3.0 is the v2.0 framework with what was previously known as WinFX added – Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Workflow. You can download the redistributable here:- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10cc340b-f857-4a14-83f5-25634c3bf043&displaylang=en
Indigo Reaches Beta 2 And Gets Go-Live License
Indigo (Yeah I know I’m supposed to call it Windows Communication Foundation), has reached the Beta 2 milestone. With this release you can apply for a Go-Live license to deploy the technology in live environments* Read all about it here:- http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/getthebeta/golive/ *Terms and conditions apply. Your small print may go down as […]
Bluetooth Remote Control
Mike Hall posted a link on his blog to a channel9 interview with Anil Dhawan from the Windows Mobile team discussing Bluetooth programming, which I recommend you check out. Anil gave a demo of a native code application to remote control PowerPoint on a desktop PC. This inspired me to put some finishing touches to a […]
System.Net.IrDA for the desktop (Part 2)
Following my previous post, I did some further development to the code to make it fully match the .NETCF assembly (yes, in my haste I’d missed a few properties and cut a couple of corners). So now I have compiled a System.Net.IrDA.dll assembly which has exactly the same classes and methods as is available in […]
System.Net.IrDA for the desktop
Following on from a question which cropped up on today’s MVP chat. I did some investigation into IrDA support on the desktop framework. Turns out you can’t use System.Net.IrDA.dll from .NETCF on the desktop as I had read on some blog, but since the basic Socket class supports the IrDA address family, it is necessary […]
Hosting a Native Windows Control – The desktop approach
Following Neil’s recent post on my control hosting article, I realised that the article had not gone into detail on the differences between the Control class in the full framework and Compact Framework. The Control class in the full .NET framework is incredibly powerful, and when I built the ControlEx class to enable hosting I tried to […]
