Here is another issue I’ve been banging my head against a brick wall with and the workaround – although it’s not a pleasant workaround by any measure. To read the body text of an email message under WM2003 you open the PR_BODY property of the message and this gets you the plain text body of […]
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When you want to create a meeting request with managed POOM on WM5.0 you start by creating an Appointment and then add Recipient objects to it’s Recipients collection. However what the documentation doesn’t tell you is that you have to ensure that your Recipient has both the Name and Address properties. For example:- Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.Appointment ma […]
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AKU 2 = Woohoo
Some great news from Jason Langridge – not only will AKU 2 introduce the long awaited messaging feature pack, but also introduce the A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) Bluetooth profile to support mono and stereo audio devices such as headphones and some advanced car kits. ETA is early 2006 depending on individual OEM schedules for ROM updates.
Mark has posted the final version of his MSDN article on designing for stylus-free usage on Windows Mobile. This covers both what you get for free in .NETCF v2.0 for navigating around forms with the d-pad and also what you can do to make some of the other intrinsic controls behave. Mark’s sample code includes wrappers […]
I like John Kennedy‘s proposed SDK TOC for Windows Mobile. And since the sample contains valid links, I was surpised at the amount of content I found which I’d not been able to locate before 🙂 While there will always be cases when organising content like this you could end up in heated debates about whether article […]
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All These New Devices
There has been a lot of activity recently on new Windows Mobile 5.0 devices, in a few cases official announcments, in some cases details leaked through common sources such as the FCC site where products sent for testing are publically detailed. One of the interesting models to be revealed has been discussed by WallabyFan, with […]
As has already been shown with some of the other libraries in WindowsMobile In The Hand, the object model is generally designed to follow the Windows Mobile 5.0 APIs. There are a few examples where new functionality is exposed which is not found in the WM 5.0 APIs, some of which was designed specifically to […]
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Restricting Pim Item Collections
This applies equally to WindowsMobile In The Hand and the Windows Mobile 5.0 APIs. On the collection classes there exists a Restrict method which returns a subset of the collection matching your search query. You can use the resulting collection to databind or otherwise enumerate over. The query language used is similar, but not the […]
Some users may find that after installing the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDKs, although no errors were reported, they just don’t show up in the Visual Studio 2005 create project dialog. The reason for this is that sometimes the install script which runs near the end of setup gets blocked by anti-spyware or anti-virus software sometimes […]
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Comparing Windows Mobile APIs
To illustrate how the WindowsMobile In The Hand is a subset of the Windows Mobile 5.0 APIs I’ve modified this class diagram for the Windows Mobile 5.0 APIs to ghost out those which are not supported in WindowsMobile In The Hand on earlier devices. The key differences are in support for system state events and […]
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