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• Home and Visiting Clocks in Professional Edition

  In Professional Edition (Pocket PC) devices the Clock control panel allows you to set a home timezone and a visiting zone and lets you toggle between them. If you need to retrieve the current settings they are stored in the registry in a key called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE... Posted Aug 13 2008, 12:47 PM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Disable Windows Mobile 6.1 Threaded SMS View

  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... Posted Apr 08 2008, 06:12 AM by PeterFoot with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile

• New Windows Mobile 6.1 Screen Resolutions

  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... Posted Apr 02 2008, 06:45 AM by PeterFoot with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Fix: SMS Interception on T-Mobile Dash

  A number of customers have been reporting issues with SMS interception on the T-Mobile Dash handset. On these devices the SMS interception does not work through either the Microsoft or In The Hand class libraries. This is specific to the T-Mobile ROM... Posted Oct 02 2007, 06:15 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• HTC S620 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrade Experience

  Late last week HTC quietly released the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for the S620. A few eagle eyed bloggers posted about it. The first thing I found was that the upgrade process doesn't work with Windows Vista, when it reboots the device into bootloader... Posted Sep 03 2007, 08:14 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Using the UnInstall Configuration Service Provider

  Among the Configuration providers in Windows Mobile is one which allows you to programmatically uninstall package from the device. The UnInstall provider is documented here:- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa455977.aspx To see if your package... Posted Aug 14 2007, 10:23 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Desktop ActiveSync Registry Settings

  In March I showed how to get the version of a connected device from the desktop . This post documents the rest of the registry settings used to store device information. There are two registry locations, the first at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft... Posted Aug 14 2007, 08:30 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile, Desktop Code

• More POOM Anomalies

  Every version of POOM (Pocket Outlook Object Model) brings great improvements, however there are always a few things which just have you screaming "Why!". One of those examples is the implementation of IItem::Edit. This method is used to open... Posted Jul 25 2007, 02:02 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Context Menu Extensions Windows Mobile 2003 versus Windows Mobile 5.0/6

  One of the features of Mobile In The Hand is the ability to add context menu extension handlers for the PIM applications from managed code. One of the problems with implementing this feature is that the behaviour of these applications varies subtly between... Posted Jul 13 2007, 11:05 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Windows Mobile Standard Landscape Shortcut Keys

  On a traditional Standard (nee Smartphone) device the start-menu items are arranged into a 3x3 grid, you can navigate these quickly using the numeric keypad. On a landscape device the items are arranged in a 4x2 grid so this is impractical. Instead the... Posted Jun 04 2007, 05:13 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• New Sounds sample in Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh

  The Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh is available today. It includes some documentation enhancements and new samples. One of these is called RingtoneManager and is a C# application which wraps all the Sound APIs for ringtone management and sound playback... Posted May 01 2007, 04:14 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF, Windows Mobile

• Deprecated APIs in Windows Mobile 6

  Over on the Windows Mobile Developer Wiki is a topic listing all the APIs and technologies which are deprecated in Windows Mobile 6. This is essential reading for any Windows Mobile developer: http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/MobileDeveloper... Posted Apr 03 2007, 08:39 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• What's New For Managed Developers In Windows Mobile 6 (Part 3)

  Thankfully after the previous false-start the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs are now back online and here to stay . In the last post, I looked at new properties in the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status namespace. It turns out that there are some minor improvements... Posted Mar 01 2007, 10:10 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• 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

• 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