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With Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU2.0 (Messaging & Security Feature Pack) a new feature was implemented called RemoteWipe. This allowed an administrator to remotely wipe a device if it may have got lost and was designed to remove all sensitive data from...
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I've posted a number of links relevant to the session I gave last week on our Tech-Ed page here . This includes the sample code which is an additional selection of samples than those which appear in the 32feet.NET package itself. The session covered...
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I just got word from David Chang that the Chinese translation of our book is now complete. You can order it from Amazon.cn here:- http://www.amazon.cn/mn/detailApp?pageletid=newpromote&prodid=bkbk820876
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Amit Chopra's Visual Studio for Devices team has grown to include Silverlight Mobile and .NETCF and the team have a new blog to cover all these areas. I'm looking forward to some great content from the team:- http://blogs.msdn.com/mobiledev/
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Mobile In The Hand 3.2, the latest version of our suite of .NET Compact Framework tools for Windows Mobile, is now available for download to registered users of 3.x. The main changes and enhancements in this release are:- Support for Pocket PC 2003 through...
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There may be an occasion where you want to restore the original chronological view for the SMS Inbox rather than the new threaded view. One example is where a system programmatically moves or inserts SMS messages into the system because these are not...
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On the newsgroup, a developer asked if it was possible to use antialiasing on a Label font. By default on Windows Mobile the text does not use antialiasing unless you turn on the global ClearType option under Settings > System > Screen > ClearType...
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The release of Windows Mobile 6.1 brings a number of improvements for users but retains the same SDK and libraries as 6. The devices ship with .NETCF 2.0 SP2 in ROM. This release adds additional screen resolutions to both the Professional (touchscreen...
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Martijn Hoogendoorn provides a description of how to avoid the message:- " An error message is available for this exception but cannot be displayed because these messages are optional and are not currently installed on this device. Please install...
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A question came up on our forums and so I investigated writing a wrapper for the GetSystemPowerState API function. This allows you to retrieve the power state name, and also a bitmask of flags - Is the backlight on, is the device password protected etc...
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In The Hand Ltd are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Mobile In The Hand Version 3.1. This is the latest version of the definitive suite of .NET Compact Framework APIs for Windows Mobile. The product provides a superset of the managed...
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I was delighted to find out this week that my session on Personal Area Networking was selected for Tech-Ed Developers this year. The session will cover a range of networking topics including of course Bluetooth. There will be a selection of demos which...
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From today we have changed the way we sell our developer products. We will no longer be using Handango for online sales, instead you can purchase directly from us using PayPal which supports payment through either a PayPal account or all common types...
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A number of controls within .NETCF have built in ScrollBars. Occasionally you may want to operate these programmatically on behalf of the user. When you do this you want both the control to scroll and the scrollbars to correctly reflect the current position...
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Rob Miles has finished his book on XNA development and it will be out in the wild soon. Although we don't have XNA support for mobile devices it is a cool framework which allows you to build games for both PC and XBox 360 with managed code. You can...