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Windows Mobile: Wizard vs. Freestyle

Remember in the old days, how almost everything you did on a computer was driven by a series of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/06/2006

Windows Mobile: Simplicity = Power

I recently moved from using a Palm Treo to a Motorola Q device as my everyday device. This isn't due...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/05/2006

Windows Mobile: Debugging Tip when Developing in Managed Code

If you are developing a Windows Mobile 5.0 application in C# (or even Visual Basic .NET), here's a...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/18/2006

Mouse with a frickin' laser on its head

This is just too cool: the latest Microsoft mouse has been released, and it's amazing. Not only does...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2006

XNA: Beta available now

If you are looking for a way of practicing your C# programming skills, you might want to hop over to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/31/2006

XNA: Demo Scene Revisited!

Ok, so this is cool. Want to develop your own games for the Xbox? Well, in this Autumn, you can,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/14/2006

Windows Mobile: .NET Compact Framework v2 SP1 Patch goes Live

The .NET Compact Framework v2 SP1 patch can now be downloaded from MSDN. You can get to the download...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/04/2006

Windows Mobile: MSDN for free, MSDN magazine, and more patterns & practices.

One thing I've recently discovered is that you can download the entire MSDN reference library for...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/03/2006

Windows Mobile: Add your own graffiti to the official docs!

Have you ever wanted to share your opinion about the official Microsoft documentation? Well, now you...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/25/2006

So be honest: when you look for Windows Mobile documentation while you are programming, what do you...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/11/2006

Windows Mobile: Device Security Powertoy

One of the biggest pain-points for ISVs.. ok.. enough marketing speak. We know that device security...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/05/2006

Missing Windows Mobile 5.0 Documentation

From time to time, we find that we accidentally didn't publish some topics in the Windows Mobile SDK...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/03/2006

Windows Mobile: MEDC Hands-on Labs on MSDN

These labs are a must-see for Windows Mobile developers. They were originally created for MEDC in...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/30/2006

Windows Mobile: Adapt Your App

The fact that Windows Mobile is so flexible that it can be used on Smartphones and Pocket PCs of all...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/14/2006

MSDN Bloggers make BBC News

As an ex-UK person, the BBC is the definitive source of all my information, so it was interesting to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/12/2006

Mobile Client Software Factory

The Patterns & Practices group is a team at Microsoft creating fundamental building blocks of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/08/2006

Windows Mobile and Ajax. Oh yes.

Every time I hear of "Ajax", I think of a kitchen cleaning product. Or at least, I did until a few...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/25/2006

Windows Mobile Starter Kits

Well, it's taken a lot longer than I had hoped, but we've finally got our Windows Mobile Starter...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/23/2006

Developing Managed Applications for Palm Treo 700w

I've been lucky enough to have a Palm Treo 700w to play with, and of course, that means writing some...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/22/2006

Windows Mobile Emulators - Standalone! and MSFP!

Woot! This is great - the Windows Mobile device emulator has been released in a standalone format,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/19/2006

Windows Mobile AKUs

Windows Mobile 5.0 is the operating system used by a huge variety of amazing pieces of hardware, but...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/19/2006

Windows Mobile SDK - Updated Documentation

As you can read on the Windows Mobile Documentation blog, the SDK docs on MSDN recently got an...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/12/2006

Windows Mobile event - MEDC 2006. The Content Publishing Perspective.

Well, the team is now back from MEDC in Las Vegas, and apart from some nasty colds, coughs and very...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/12/2006

Windows Mobile Documentation: New Docs, New Samples, New Videos

I've not posted for a while, mostly because I've been busy working away with the rest of the Windows...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/02/2006

New Windows Mobile Smartphone Landscape Emulator Available

Good news for Windows Mobile developers eager to test their applications on (presumably) forthcoming...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/31/2006

Windows Mobile Video Blog 2, and MEDC Update

Have you seen the new Palm Treo device running Windows Mobile 5.0? I have, and I made another video...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/26/2006

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Well from an Irishman (*) displaced to Redmond, a Happy St Patrick's Day to youse! I was updating my...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/17/2006

UMPC (Origami) vs Pocket PC

Wow, after all the hype, the details are finally out: and those UMPC's look smart - a complete...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/09/2006

Windows Mobile MSDN Forums & a Kids Programming Language

Just a reminder in case you weren't aware, but MSDN hosts its own forums which include a healthy...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/03/2006

What makes a GREAT application on a Mobile device?

Folks here at work were discussing how to make a popular blog posting, and top of the suggestions...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/02/2006

MEDC and the UA Team

MEDC - the most important event of the year, well, at least for Mobile and Embedded Devices...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/02/2006

I've just posted a short video blog entry, and I'd be interested in whether is works - both in...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/27/2006

New SDK Doc Release - But do you want to know?

Over on the Windows Mobile Doc blog, I just posted an entry about the freshly-released February...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/20/2006

Hopper

What's Hopper? A serious debugging tool for Windows CE, that's what. Hopper will stress out your...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/10/2006

What's your favourite format?

I've been lucky enough to get to play with a Universal Pocket PC Phone, and I think I like it a lot....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/09/2006

Windows Mobile Survey Results - Project "More Code!"

At the end of last year, we performed one of most successful surveys ever of Windows Mobile SDK...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2006

Windows Mobile Developer Wiki - Updated

This post to inform you that the Developer Wiki has been getting some serious content input, and is...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2006

Experimenting with Windows Mobile Topic Designs

One of the big nuisances with Windows Mobile / Windows CE documentation is that it can be hard to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/20/2006

AYGShell.. wait.. I get it.. doh!

I've been tinkering on Windows CE-based devices since.. um.. well, let's see, my first one was a...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/16/2006

My Article in Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine

Wow, I can't believe how long it's been since I was last in print. I used to make my living writing...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/13/2006

Happy Holidays!

This is my last blog post for 2005, as I'm off to visit family in Europe. Of course I'll have a...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2005

Mobile Development: Which version of Visual Studio 2005?

As I've been careful to mention on the Windows Mobile Developer Wiki, in order to develop...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/15/2005

My New Spot

Don't worry, I'm not sharing epidermal skin care tips, rather I'm just very pleased with my new...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/08/2005

Windows Mobile Developer Wiki - Latest Updates

Material is still flowing into the Windows Mobile Developer Wiki, and the number of hits is growing...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/06/2005

Looking for a job in the home of amazing gadgets?

Here in the User Assistance team in the Mobile and Embedded Devision, we're looking for a...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/30/2005

MSDN and You

Someone from our team, the Mobile and Embedded User Assistance team, came back from a customer visit...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/23/2005

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