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Windows Mobile

  • Unlock Orange SPV C600 AKU 2.0 For Development

    When Orange released their AKU 2.0 ROM for the C600 it introduced a much tighter security policy. A previous loophole for changing security policies involving a signed registry editing application was closed by black-listing the app. Also the online unlocking page from… Continue reading

  • Writing Provisioning XML for Windows Mobile

    This recent article discussed one of the ways you can use XML provisioning data – through a cab file installation. You can also pass the XML to DMProcessConfigXML or ConfigurationManager.ProcessConfiguration in the managed world. But how about creating the XML?… Continue reading

  • Contact.WebPage

    The Managed APIs in Windows Mobile 5.0 expose the Contact.WebPage as a Uri. The problem with this approach is that the user forms are free text and you can enter anything into this field. Probably 9 times out of 10… Continue reading

  • GetDeviceUniqueID For VB

    To complement the C# version posted Here,  here is a working VB translation:- <System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport(“coredll.dll”)> _Private Shared Function GetDeviceUniqueID(ByVal appdata As Byte(), ByVal cbApplictionData As Integer, ByVal dwDeviceIDVersion As Integer, ByVal deviceIDOuput As Byte(), ByRef pcbDeviceIDOutput As Integer) As IntegerEnd FunctionPrivate… Continue reading

  • Any Port in a Storm

    A user posted an important observation on the Bluetooth COM support in Windows Mobile 5 here on the microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer newsgroup. The problem is that while the system allows you to create virtual COM ports for all your paired devices which… Continue reading

  • Determine WM5.0 AKU Version Programmatically

    The full build and AKU version of a device is shown on the Start > Settings > System > About screen, however what if you want to determine the version from your code. Well starting with Windows Mobile 5.0 there… Continue reading

  • KeyboardPresent always returns false

    This bug affects both managed and native developers working with the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK. Native Due to an error in snapi.h the location of the registry key used to indicate if a hardware keyboard is present is incorrect:- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////… Continue reading

  • Bug in Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Telephone.Phone.Talk

    Luis Cabrera has posted the details of a bug identified in the Talk method to the Windows Mobile Team blog. The workaround (see the original post) is to append a null character to the end of your dial string. Note: this bug… Continue reading

  • The ItemId in Managed PocketOutlook

    The ItemId type is introduced to the managed APIs to represent either a POOM Oid (int) or MAPI ENTRYID (16/14 bytes). It doesn’t directly expose the underlying data but there are a couple of useful behaviours:- ItemId constructor accepts an… Continue reading

  • PocketOutlook Native Managed Map

    Windows Mobile 5.0 introduces a managed API which wraps both POOM and a subset of CEMAPI (enough to send an Email / Sms). The table below is designed to show how the managed objects map to the interfaces which will… Continue reading