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  • Using the Smart Device Framework?

    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… Continue reading

  • NDoc with Visual Studio 2005 Beta1

    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,… Continue reading

  • Write cool .NETCF Code and win prizes

    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… Continue reading

  • .NET Compact Framework / Visual Studio for Devices Chat starts soon

    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… Continue reading

  • Automatic Capitalisation Of Words In A Text Box

    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… Continue reading

  • Vibration and Pocket PC devices

    A number of Pocket PC devices support Vibration as an alert method, most (but not all) are Phone Edition devices. The Vibrate class in the OpenNETCF.Notification library is specific to Smartphone devices only. However the good news is that the… Continue reading

  • Smart Device Programming chat starts soon!

    I intended to post this slightly more in advance but have been travelling around all this week, please excuse me 🙂 Chat Date: June 10th10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time1:00pm – 2:00pm P.M. Eastern time17:00 – 18:00 GMT/BSTDescription: You know them… Continue reading

  • Want to know more about OpenNETCF.Security.Cryptography?

    As Sam points out, the OpenNETCF.Security.Cryptography library was donated to the OpenNETCF codebase by fellow MVP Casey Chesnut. So a good source of information about how the library is built is Casey’s original article on the subject. The library is designed in… Continue reading

  • Friday Fun: Automating Windows Media Player from .NETCF

    Windows Media Player for Pocket PC (and Smartphone) doesn’t have a true object model like it’s desktop cousin, so the ability to use it from your own code is limited. However there is an undocumented method of sending commands to Windows… Continue reading

  • Smart Device Framework v1.1 Release Notes

    I thought it would be a good idea to compile a set of release notes for v1.1! You can view the resulting document here:- http://www.opennetcf.org/PermaLink.aspx?guid=a8b2c046-b9fd-4b0b-bd21-f0d03f6bec55 The document lists the new items in this release. I haven’t compiled the more subtle… Continue reading