The other day someone dropped into my office and asked about the Type.MakeByRefType() method. Neither I nor my other visitor are experts in reflection on .Net, but we investigated and found the following: Imagine this situation: public class foo...

As you may know, much of System.Drawing on the desktop/full framework is based on GDI+. Because GDI+ is not implemented on PocketPC/Smartphone/WindowsMobile, the functionality of System.Drawing in the Compact Framework is somewhat constrained. As we...

We recently had a customer let us know that the difference between keyboard navigation on PocketPC and Smartphone was causing them trouble. I thought I would take little time to work up a workaround for this issue. I'll present a solution using the recommended...

Not long after V1 of the Compact Framework went out we started getting questions about support (or lack thereof) for advanced graphics and drawing functions available on the desktop framework but missing from the Compact Framework. For V1 we made a decision...