The Local Authentication SubSystem (LASS) is a new feature in Windows Mobile 5.0. This feature is available for both PPC and SP. Using LASS, applications can force users to authenticate. The most interesting LASS API is VerifyUser. To play with LASS...

Starting with Window Mobile 5 the SCRM is included in the default configuration. This means when you purchase a smartcard reader for WM 2005 you will be able to access it using the SCard APIs that are exported from winscard.lib. The SCRM on Windows...

If you've ever searched through the public sample code of Windows CE, you may have noticed the headerfile svsutil.hxx being included and weird "SVSBlahBlahBlah" classes and functions being called. SVSUtil.hxx is a set of common programming utilities that...

It's always cool to get to add new features, especially when they're a little outside your comfort zone. For Windows Mobile 5 (i.e. PocketPC 2005) I added the GPS Intermediate Driver (GPSID) and corresponding GPSAPI. I usually do networking servers (web...

The ServiceIoControl API on Windows CE should be avoided. The way it works (not that you'll use it now that I've warned you, right :)) is that an application that wants to access a service running in services.exe use this API. The app passes in an IOCTL...

When running Pocket IE (PIE) on a PocketPC, in versions PPC 2000 and PPC 2003 to open up http://localhost/ to open a web server running on the device you needed to do some workarounds first. The problem was in PIE itself, and not the Microsoft web server...