Windows Mobile Team Blog

Welcoming Palm to Windows Mobile

If you missed the webcast yesterday morning, Bill Gates (Microsoft), Ed Colligan (Palm) and Denny...

Author: Soyale Date: 09/27/2005

2-state icons in WM5

We did a great job of adding support for 2-state icons in Windows Mobile 5 so you can have an icon...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/25/2005

State & Notification Broker 101

Not sure when it was published, but I just stumbled across this excellent article from Don that...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/25/2005

Persistent storage and the registry

This came up in the newsgroup yesterday but I think it's worth noting here as well... For...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/24/2005

Monday

Mike Hall has a teaser <sarcasm> I bet you'll never guess what it's for </sarcasm>...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/24/2005

.NET CF, AxHost, and PDC

Saw the keynote this morning? I did! Like the demo that included hosting the Windows Media Player...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/13/2005

Get a Windows Mobile 5 device at PDC

Jim just announced that the HTC Universal is being sold at the event at a mind boggling price of...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/13/2005

Comparing Static and Dynamic Linking of the VS 2005 Run-Time Libraries on Windows CE and Windows Mobile

There's a new article on MSDN. It's a good read when you're trying to decide between static vs....

Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/09/2005

Having More Colors Is A Good Thing, Isn't It?

When was the last time you saw a Windows Mobile device that couldn't do color? (It's a trick...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/07/2005

Calling managed code from native

A question that always pops up is "Can I call managed code from my native process?" And the answer...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/07/2005

Using the Talk button

Ever wanted to use the phone's green Talk key (sometimes called the Send button) in your...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 09/02/2005

Windows Mobile Help

Hi, I'm John Kennedy from the Mobile Embedded Division's UA team - in other words, Help files. I...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/25/2005

Unifying MessageBox and OpenFileDialog

A few days ago, I had a discussion on the pocketpc.developer newgroup with Tristan of PocketTV about...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/21/2005

Was I just in a Smartphone commercial?

First off, let me introduce myself. My name is Brian Cross, and I’m a member of the Windows Mobile...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/19/2005

Microsoft developers are fallible

Snicker, snicker. No really, we are. <innocent look> I discovered a bug in the Animate3 which...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/12/2005

Power to the System

In Power to the People we learned some of the differences between how PocketPCs and Smartphones...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/10/2005

WindowsMobile In The Hand

Speaking of new API's in Windows Mobile 5.0, the most common piece of feeback I got during the MEDC...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/08/2005

Hacking the Emulator

Clearly, somebody isn't giving Marcus enough real work to do so he's decided to figure out how the...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/05/2005

Power to the Developers part 1

In my recent Power to the People entry I talked about how bad it is for an application to burn CPU...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/03/2005

Power to the People

In 2002 when we released our first Smartphone OS, there were quite a few fundamental differences...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 08/01/2005

Vibrating Profiles & Missed Calls

As a long time Smartphone user, I'm really excited about the quality of Windows Mobile 5.0 and most...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/23/2005

embeddedFlorida.net

David McNamee, who I worked with at Smartphone Thoughts before joining Microsoft, has launched a new...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/22/2005

More RSS feeds

Not sure when this happened, but I just noticed that we now have a set of RSS feeds for the various...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/22/2005

Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Forms Class Diagram

Despite many many complaints from Neil, I never got around to adding the...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/21/2005

Managed Direct3D Mobile

Not sure how this slipped through my radar before, but Casey Chesnut has written a fun article on...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/21/2005

Beating up your PPC with the web...

In my recent Persistent Storage entries I talked about the issue that if you do extensive web...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/20/2005

More Persistent Storage Stuff part 2

A continuation of my "More Persistent Storage Stuff" entry, which is a follow up to "Why Persistent...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/18/2005

More Persistent Storage Stuff part 1

There have been a lot of comments to my "Why Persistent Storage Is A Good Thing" entry, as well as a...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/18/2005

Why Persistent Storage Is A Good Thing

Here's a quick primer on why you want Persistent Storage on your Pocket PCs. Persistent Storage (PS)...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/14/2005

"Migrating Applications to the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and Windows Mobile 5.0"

Don Sorcinelli has a good article up on developer.com that goes over some important things to think...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/14/2005

Migration FAQ Update

We added this to the Migration FAQ today, prefacing the existing entry about CAB files on Windows...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/13/2005

Webcast Wednesday

For those that missed MEDC or got overwhelmed by all the interesting sessions happening...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/11/2005

Small change to SMS interception

Until a question in the smartphone.developer newsgroup brought it up, I had forgotten about a small...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 07/09/2005

MEDC tour update

Today was the 4th stop on our tour in Kuala Lumpur. We'll spend this weekend making our way to...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 06/16/2005

The MEDC World Tour has begun

The first event isn't until tomorrow but James, Sean and I got settled into our hotel in Berlin last...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 06/05/2005

Updated Windows Mobile Tool Support Matrix

A while back, I posted a diagram illustrating how our tools map to versions of the platform. That...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 06/02/2005

Mobilizer Madness

Going to Tech Ed? Want to win a new Windows Mobile device? Enjoy the thrill of frantically running...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 06/02/2005

27,469

I know what you're thinking (assuming you think like my mom (hi mom!)): "How is Robert going to...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/27/2005

What new APIs do you want?

Now that Windows Mobile 5.0 has shipped, it's time to plan the next version. We want your...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/26/2005

Security Model

Are you a developer? Are you confused by the security model of Windows Mobile 5.0? I was, too, so I...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/26/2005

Migration FAQ

Backwards compatibility is super important. For Windows Mobile 5.0, we established several new...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/22/2005

DMA Transport Update for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

Playing with VS 2005 Beta 2 and the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK? Having trouble getting VS to connect to...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/22/2005

WiFi Debugging

You've probably read that the wifi/ethernet sync capabilities had to be removed in ActiveSync 4.0...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/22/2005

ARM Assembly Language tutorial

I originally wrote this tutorial on how to debug ARM code at the assembly level for my team, but...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/10/2005

Porting applications from CEDB to EDB

Howdy from MEDC! If you are porting your apps to target Windows Mobile 5.0 you might be interested...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/10/2005

My Podcast Debut

I did a podcast interview with Mike Hall last week which I've been told will be up on his blog later...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 05/03/2005

Smartphone Security Configurations

Did you know that the Mobile2Market website includes a list of the security configurations that...

Author: windowsmobile Date: 04/26/2005

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