In The Hand Ltd

Windows Mobile

  • Reading E-Mail Through MAPI on Windows Mobile 5

    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… Continue reading

  • Issue with Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.RecipientCollection.Add()

    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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • One-handed Pocket PC Applications

    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… Continue reading

  • Making the SDK Documentation more discoverable

    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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • Functionality in InTheHand.WindowsMobile.Forms

    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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • Manually run Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK script

    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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading