In the first part of this series, I discussed how the WebCrawler uses an HTTP HEAD request to determine if the URL can be crawled (points to an HTML page). The Visual Studio.NET 2003 version of the WebCrawler used a very simple check of the Content-Type...

Have you ever wondered, while debugging, what the exact version of the .NET Compact Framework was being used by the debuggee? If so, Visual Studio's Immediate Window can help. Several months ago, I discussed how to cause a NetCF v1 application to run...

Several months ago, I posted on using an application configuration file to instruct your NetCF v1 application to run against NetCF v2. As with Beta 1, this file must be named <appname>.exe.config and must be located in the same directory as your...

Just a note that the .NET Compact Framework v2 Beta2 release is now available! You can either get it as part of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 or the .NET Framework SDK Beta 2. The version number for Beta 2 is 2.0.5056. If you are using Visual Studio 2005...

A week or so ago, I posted on using Visual Studio's Watch window to modify an application's user interface. This week, I'd like to show you another of my favorite Visual Studio debugger features: Run to Cursor . Once again, I will use the NetCF WebCrawler...

If you've ever used a Pocket PC device, you are likely familiar with the SIP keyboard -- it's that little mini keyboard that pops up on the bottom of the screen. When debugging, you can save yourself some time by entering data into your text boxes using...