I'm currently doing a design review for a SQL CE + SQL 2000 mobile system developed by Thomas Granath and Anders Lundstedt that uses merge replication as the basis for sending data to the device. The exercise was prompted by slow perf seen during replication...

I've just finished delivering a session on CLR support in SQL 2005 and had several people ask for the demos. Here they are. Grab the zip file here , and the slides here . You will need SQL 2005 beta 2 or later and VS 2005 Beta 2. To install the...

Just catching up on my mail and saw the plans for a second DDD event due to take place 22nd October (yes, thats a Saturday) at the Microsoft campus in Reading, UK. This is a community lead day with no Microsoft speakers at all! That means you will get...

It’s well overdue but Jason has finally started blogging: http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan Let me tell you a bit about Jason: he has worked at Microsoft UK for many years and has a knack of knowing the 'right' people, mostly around device, to always...

I have been playing around with deviceemulator.exe today, trying to install a new device image and have it show up in the "Device Emulator Manager" (can be found from VS 2005 menu: Tools->Device Emulator Manager). Setting up an emulator should be...

This Business Week article is an interesting read discussing where Moto is headed and how they intend to get there. It’s great to see Microsoft Smartphone OS powering some of the coolest new phones such as the 'Q'. I liked this quote: 'And the Q phone...

Download v1.1 By popular demand I've updated the tool already! Now it actually extracts the files and shows the directory location they would have gone to on the device. Regarding the GetFileSize issue, it looks like I was using a bad cab file on...

Have you ever built a cab file and then lost the original INF? Or ever wondered just exactly what settings a Pocket PC theme uses? Windows XP includes shell extensions that can show you the raw files inside a CAB but at first glance what you see bears...

MSDN TechTalk – Windows Mobile 5.0 Developer Nuggets Date/Time : Thursday 27th October, 6pm – 9pm Venue: Microsoft London Register at : https://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=118761178 F ed-up wasting...