In The Hand LtdOn 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:- private const int BS_MULTILINE = 0x00002000;private const int GWL_STYLE = -16;[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport(“coredll”)]private static extern int GetWindowLong(IntPtr […]
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 desktop project. Then some conditional compilation is used to hide a few unsupported features from […]
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 this source to compile and run on .NETCF v2.0. There are some example screens here […]
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 a random number generator and setting a couple of specific bits to conform to guid […]
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. It has changed a few times and is made much simpler in .NETCF v2.0 by […]
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, the latter of which were introduced with Windows Mobile 6. This is great because it […]
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 TomTom SDK 6 shipped with a known bug that prevents you from passing negative co-ordinates into […]
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 I investigated the issue on behalf of one of my readers and failed on several […]
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 to his RSS feed and added him to the blogroll.
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 in your project but they aren’t included in the documentation. The other new properties are:- […]
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