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NETCF

  • ADOCE In The Hand v1.7 Completed

    The ADOCE wrapper is the first of our libraries to be updated with full support for Visual Studio 2005 Beta, integrating both the libraries and the help content. The main update is the v1.7 version of the COM Interop library… Continue reading

  • OpenNETCF.Configuration v1.3 Workaround

    As I suspect many of you will be doing too, I’m recompiling one of our apps against the latest v1.3 release of the SDF. There is a minor bug in this release when using the OpenNETCF.Configuration classes due to the machine.config… Continue reading

  • SDF v1.3 for Visual Studio 2005

    So, I’ve heard a few requests for VS2005 support for the SDF. The reason we don’t have this fully integrated into VS2005 yet is because the extensibility model is significantly changed from VS2003, and since it’s a Beta product is… Continue reading

  • Windows Mobile Managed APIs Diagram

    During his session at MEDC, Robert Levy handed out copies of a cool class library diagram for the new Windows Mobile 5.0 managed APIs, thanks to Robert for allowing me to post the diagram here – simply print to a… Continue reading

  • Windows Mobile 5.0 Managed APIs

    The much anticipated update to Windows Mobile has been announced by Bill Gates this morning. This new platform will be the first platform from Microsoft to include device specific managed APIs in ROM (separate from the .NET Compact Framework itself).… Continue reading

  • Emulate Screen Taps

    You can simulate user activity on your touch-screen device by using the mouse_event API to send the system screen taps. There are a number of reasons you might want to do this from testing your application through to automating some… Continue reading

  • .NETCF v2.0 Beta 2 Redistribuable Package

    I’m sure I don’t need to mention that Microsoft recently released Beta 2 of their Visual Studio 2005 tools. Alongside this release a redistributable version of the .NETCF v2.0 runtime is available so that you can download to your devices… Continue reading

  • The great Media Player 10 Automation Challenge!

    Media Player 10 is the first device version to have an automation model. Previous versions could be controlled via some undocumented windows messages but that was about it. The Media Player 10 Mobile object model is COM based, so you… Continue reading

  • Time to turn out the lights…

    Time to provide a little balance to the previous piece on SetPowerRequirement for Smartphone which looked at the scenario of ensuring the backlight remained on. You might also want to manually turn off the backlight (or another peripherial) to save power.… Continue reading

  • Control and Component Designers Part Four – Events

    This is a quick addendum to part three. In that section we looked at un-hiding some properties in the standard controls which were implemented in .NETCF SP2. As well as adding Fore and Back colour support, SP2 introduced support for… Continue reading