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Interesting email from HTC support

I was quite surprised at an email I got from HTC Support today in regards to a specific device update:- “Hello, There will be no Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade for any HTC Touch device. Please do not reply to this email as this email address is not monitored for replies. Best regards, Carolin HTC Europe”

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Live Mesh for Windows Mobile

The Windows Mobile client for Live Mesh is now available. You can download it from your device from http://m.mesh.com I’ve just installed it onto my phone and have been taking a look. On the desktop the Mesh client is quite tightly integrated into the explorer shell – it adds an extra pane alongside your folder […]

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doPDF – Great PDF Printer

I needed to convert some files to PDF format today. While this is possible in Office 2007 products with a free add-in it isn’t an option in other applications. I have an XPS printer and a OneNote writer but no way to produce a PDF. There are a number of solutions available and in the […]

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Motorola Game Developer Challenge

Fancy yourself as a mobile game developer and want to win loads of Motorola kit? If so the Motorola Developer Network (MOTODEV) have a game development contest for you! There are categories for both Java and Windows Mobile games, for Windows Mobile you could choose to write in native or managed code. It would be cool […]

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Determine Version of Connected Device

When your device is synchronised with ActiveSync (or Windows Mobile Device Center in Windows Vista) a number of device properties are written to the registry. This allows you to gather information on the device during a custom installation or from a desktop application. One of these properties is the version number of the device, the […]

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5 Things

Daniel tagged me a couple of days ago and finally I’ve got round to posting. I’ve been enjoying some quality offline time over the Christmas break. I’m in the process of writing a .NET book with Daniel and fellow MVP Andy. I’m double jointed and can put my legs behind my head, but I’m getting […]

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Visual Studio did what?

You are going to hear this a few hundred times over the next 24 hours, so I may as well add another me too post. Visual Studio 2005 final release is available for download for MSDN subscribers. It’s only a matter of days now before it’s officially on the shelves. http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/10/27/485665.aspx First tasks after installing […]

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Designing Class Libraries Series

Brad Abrams’ team at Microsoft have started a series of Webcasts around class library design. The introductory session is available on the site now with a further 13 sessions to follow. A chat session is scheduled to follow on the topic of each week, the first of which will be this Wednesday. There are some […]

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50,000 Downloads and counting

Thanks to all your support and feedback so far we’ve reached 50,000 individual downloads of code and binaries here at OpenNETCF.org. We are also currently rolling together a number of bug fixes and a raft of new features into a v1.1 release of the Smart Device Framework – stay tuned for more details.

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A day of upgrades

I followed Neil and Alex‘s lead and upgraded my blog to dasBlog too. Luckily because dasBlog is an evolution of BlogX the migration was pretty smooth. I may well tweak the theme slightly yet though because I miss my roadsign 🙂 I’ve also flashed my iPaq 2210 with the latest 1.10 ROM (Thanks to Ed at […]