In The Hand Ltd

NETCF

  • Multiline Button

    On the newsgroup somebody asked how to have multiple lines of text on a .NETCF Button control. The native control supports this but the appropriate style is not set by default. The following code snippet shows how to enable this:-… Continue reading

  • More Facebook Progress

    I’m now a member of the CodePlex workspace for the Facebook Developer Toolkit. I’ve been working on porting across my modifications into the codebase. The .NETCF v2.0 version uses a project called Facebook.Compact but refers to the existing source files from the… Continue reading

  • Facebook API and the Compact Framework

    The Facebook API allows third-party web and desktop applications to interact with Facebook features. There is an excellent shared-source library for .NET to wrap the Facebook calls but currently it only supports the full framework. I did some work converting… Continue reading

  • Guid.NewGuid Performance

    João Paulo was investigating Guid performance when used as identifiers in a SQL Compact database and discovered that the performance of Guid.NewGuid() left a lot to be desired. The reason for this is that the function uses lowest-common-denominator support, using… Continue reading

  • Waiting for a Process

    There have been numerous occasions where I’ve needed to write code to launch another process and wait for it to complete, usually taking some action based on the exit code. Therefore I’ve got a handy helper method to do this.… Continue reading

  • New Sounds sample in Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh

    The Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh is available today. It includes some documentation enhancements and new samples. One of these is called RingtoneManager and is a C# application which wraps all the Sound APIs for ringtone management and sound playback,… Continue reading

  • TomTom In The Hand 6.1

    I’ve been a bit quiet over the past few weeks, on vacation and at the Microsoft MVP Summit. I’ve also been working on the TomTom In The Hand library and today have released a new version. It turns out that… Continue reading

  • Programmatically Activating Speakerphone

    Windows Mobile devices, both Smartphone and Pocket PC support Speakerphone functionality. When operating through the Phone application the end user can toggle the state, up until now there has been no documented way to achieve this through code. Last year… Continue reading

  • Richard Jones is Blogging

    Richard has just started blogging, starting with a sample for maximising screen space by creating a Vista style textbox with integral label, and a description of what he has been up to in the fight against “Monkey Code“. I’ve subscribed… Continue reading

  • What’s New For Managed Developers In Windows Mobile 6 (Part 2)

    When I previously posted the list of additional system properties I was using the Windows Mobile 6 SDK Documentation as a reference. Well it turns out that there are even more new properties, you can view them using Object Browser… Continue reading