Peter Foot

February 2007 - Posts

• Programmatically Activating Speakerphone

  Windows Mobile devices, both Smartphone and Pocket PC support Speakerphone functionality. When operating through the Phone application the end user can toggle the state, up until now there has been no documented way to achieve this through code. Last... Posted Feb 26 2007, 07:08 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF, Windows Mobile

• Richard Jones is Blogging

  Richard has just started blogging, starting with a sample for maximising screen space by creating a Vista style textbox with integral label, and a description of what he has been up to in the fight against " Monkey Code ". I've subscribed to his RSS feed... Posted Feb 21 2007, 08:34 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• Emulator Images in the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs

  The Windows Mobile 5.0 SDKs shipped with a number of emulator images, and additional form factors were made available in separate packages at a later date when they were introduced with AKU2. Below is the list of emulator images which will ship with the... Posted Feb 17 2007, 11:36 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Windows Mobile 6 SDKs Update

  Turns out the SDKs haven't been abducted by aliens, James Pratt reveals the story here on the Windows Mobile blog . So if you missed them you'll have to wait until 1st March for their official release. The good news is that there will be an update to... Posted Feb 15 2007, 09:12 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• What's New For Managed Developers In Windows Mobile 6 (Part 2)

  When I previously posted the list of additional system properties I was using the Windows Mobile 6 SDK Documentation as a reference. Well it turns out that there are even more new properties, you can view them using Object Browser in your project but... Posted Feb 14 2007, 05:09 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF, Windows Mobile

• 32feet.NET v2.1 Released

  Yesterday I released the latest update to the personal area networking library to the 32feet.NET site . This release focussed on bug fixes and improved compatibility and error handling. This release supports device discovery on the latest WM5.0 AKU3 devices... Posted Feb 12 2007, 11:32 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Bluetooth

• What's New For Managed Developers In Windows Mobile 6

  At first glance it doesn't appear there are any new goodies in the managed code libraries for Windows Mobile 6. But wait, there are - SystemState has gained a few new properties which allow you to monitor the state of:- BluetoothStateA2DPConnected BluetoothStateDiscoverable... Posted Feb 10 2007, 11:48 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Am I Running on Windows Mobile 6

  Following Daniel's post announcing the appearance of the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs on Microsoft's download site, I headed off to get the SDKs and start poking around. A common question I can see arising is how to detect if you are running on WM6 from your... Posted Feb 10 2007, 11:32 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Windows Mobile 6 for Developers

  You've probably not managed to miss the barrage of reports announcing the upcoming Windows Mobile 6. One in particular caught my eye which was by Loke Uei on new developer features:- http://blogs.msdn.com/lokeuei/archive/2007/02/07/windows-mobile-6-what... Posted Feb 08 2007, 09:38 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Windows Mobile Device Center Released

  A couple of days after Vista's official release we now have the final version of Windows Mobile Device Center. This news comes hot off the press from Josh at Windows Connected . If you are running the Beta release grab yourself the final version here... Posted Feb 01 2007, 04:46 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile, Vista