It's been a little while since I posted one of my favorite command line 'tricks'... Windows XP (NT/2000/2003/etc) has two commands (pushd and popd) that save me huge amounts of time when navigating my machine's file system from a Command Prompt window...

I just heard about (and got my hot little hands on a copy of) Steven Pratschner 's new book on the CLR ( Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Languate Runtime )! Steven is one of the program managers on the .NET Compact Framework team and an...

At times, it's helpful to know if the device running your application is plugged in or on battery power (long duration process, software update, etc). Since the .NET Compact Framework does not provide a managed implementation for this check, you will...

I've seen this asked about recently on the NetCF ( microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework ) newsgroup, and it fits nicely with yesterday's display related p/invoke, too... :) You may have noticed that, in version 1 of the .NET Compact Framework...

Yesterday, the Windows Mobile team posted a handy tip titled " How to check if screen can be rotated ". This got me interested in checking for screen rotation support from managed code. In V1, the structure to be marshalled is not pretty. Since the fixed...