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NETCF

  • Building the Latest SDF v1.3 Source

    We get a lot of requests asking for the very latest code for the SDF since tons of exciting stuff has been added (and many issues resolved) since our v1.2 release last year specifically from users starting to work with… Continue reading

  • Control and Component Designers Part Three – Extending Existing Controls

    Using these techniques it’s possible to extend existing controls and add attributes to improve their designer experience. To illustrate this I’ve taken the example of the ComboBoxEx control. This extends the ComboBox control by overriding runtime behaviour to overcome a… Continue reading

  • Control and Component Designers Part Two – Hanging the Decorations

    How the designer interprets your components is from a mixture of reflection to actually see what properties you expose, but also attributes which allow you to override this behaviour. The first attributes which are required for any component to appear… Continue reading

  • Control and Component Designers Part One – Building for Design Time

    Introduction When developing desktop .NET forms projects the toolbox contains a number of components you can drag across to your form and setup via the designer. A component in this case is any class which inherits from System.ComponentModel.Component. Visual Studio… Continue reading

  • Determine Current GSM Network

    This VB.NET code will work on Smartphone and Pocket PC Phone devices and return details of the current GSM operator (though it probably works on CDMA also). It relies on Alex Feinman’s excellent TAPI wrapper whish you can download here.… Continue reading

  • FolderBrowserDialog for Windows CE

    To follow up from a recent enquiry on the newsgroup, neither .NETCF v1.0 or v2.0 include the FolderBrowserDialog component. The main reason for this is that this functionality is not implemented in all flavours of Windows CE, for example Windows… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Remote Control

    Mike Hall posted a link on his blog to a channel9 interview with Anil Dhawan from the Windows Mobile team discussing Bluetooth programming, which I recommend you check out. Anil gave a demo of a native code application to remote control… Continue reading

  • Patterns & Practices Survey

    Announced on Jono’s blog the Patterns & Practices team are looking at what guidance they can provide for device development. They have now setup a formal online survey to capture your wishes and needs, so I recommend you stop by and… Continue reading

  • Upcoming .NETCF Chat

    Tomorrow the .NETCF MVPs will be hosting a developer chat at MSDN. Start time is 10am PST (6pm GMT). As usual any questions related to .NETCF, Smart Device Development or OpenNETCF are welcome. Full details along with other upcoming chats… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Library (February Edition)

    Not a huge amount of change since last months release but I just wanted to post the latest update. The download includes the same Chat application samples along with the complete solution for the library itself. Downloads The main changes… Continue reading