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  • SQL Server Compact Edition – Coming Tomorrow

    Excellent news from the SQL Server Everywhere blog (those guys need to change the name of their blog again :-)). Tomorrow the runtimes and tools for SQL Server Compact Edition will be released to the web. It will replace the… Continue reading

  • Make Individual TreeView Nodes Bold

    The full framework TreeView control supports setting a Font on a per-node basis, the Compact Framework control doesn’t support this, however with a little interop magic you can mark individual nodes as Bold. Because the .NETCF v2.0 TreeView control exposes… Continue reading

  • Using MessageInterceptor to launch an application on SMS

    First things first a disclaimer, the following code is written for Mobile In The Hand (Professional Edition), it does apply equally to a Windows Mobile 5.0 project with the Microsoft.WindowsMobile managed APIs, you’ll just need to change the namespaces and… Continue reading

  • Bug in GAC Installation from VS2005 Device CAB Projects

    I recently ran into a problem with a Smart Device CAB Project in Visual Studio 2005, which as it turns out is a known issue. You can build a CAB file which will register your .NETCF dlls into the GAC… Continue reading

  • SelectPictureDialog.LockDirectory property

    If you refer to the original Windows Mobile 5.0 documentation (or the Intellisense) when using this component you’ll notice it has a property called LockDirectory which is supposed to prevent the user from browsing outside of the folder you specified in… Continue reading

  • 32feet.NET Reaches v2.0 Milestone

    Although it took a lot longer than I originally anticipated I’ve finally put the finishing touches to v2.0 of the 32feet.NET library. v2.0 is a major re-write of the code so that the single codebase can be built into separate… Continue reading

  • Windows Mobile Context Menu Behaviour On Windows CE

    Although many Windows CE devices include the aygshell.dll component which offers some functionality available in the Pocket PC shell, it’s not directly taken advantage of by .NETCF. For example, when you add a ContextMenu to a control in a Pocket… Continue reading

  • Disable the Touch Screen

    If you really need to disable the touch screen on a device, there is a method available, but you’ll need to soft-reset the device to restore the functionality. You can call the TouchPanelDisable API, it’s not documented in the Windows… Continue reading

  • SQL Mobile Access Sync Coming Soon

    For a while the migration path from Pocket Access to SQL CE / SQL Mobile has been missing a key piece of functionality which many Pocket Access applications relied on – the Synchronisation functionality in ActiveSync which synchronised with an… Continue reading

  • Take a Shortcut

    There are a number of ways you can make use of Shortcuts within your project. You may create a shortcut to your application during your CAB file installation – either on the Start Menu or perhaps in the WindowsStartup folder.… Continue reading