Mike Francis' Weblog

One of the most powerful controls in the Windows Mobile developer toolbox is the Web Browser control. With this control, you can create applications as simple as displaying HTML, to more complex apps that interact with the DOM manipulating elements, and...

Thanks to those of you that attended Reed and my presentation at the Windows Mobile Partner Summit . As promised, here is the PowerShell Script used in the demo. Click Here . Here is a quick summary of the purpose of this script and how to run it. Adapt...

I just helped a customer with a problem he was having with this web application : when correcting an entry in an edit field by pressing the 'back' key, instead of the last character getting deleted and the cursor moving one space to the left, the application...

Here a list of the questions and answers asked during Wednesday’s Webcast: WILLIAM Asked:: In the real world there seems to be a much larger presence of iPhone and Blackberry touch screen mobile devices than Windows mobile touch screen devices. What...

In my previous post ( Windows Mobile 6.5 Web Browser Control: Enabling Gesture support ), I discussed how you can enable the built-in gesture support of the web browser control in Windows Mobile 6.5. Basically you disable selection support when creating...

I’ve setup my own blog in order to have more control over the presentation and since I develop, wanted to try embracing and extending a .Net based blogging platform. I’ll continue to cross-post here. Check out my blog at http://blog.mjfnet.com Thanks...

I’ve had a couple of clients that ran into a problem where their SMS Message interceptor would fail to fire. (For an introduction to this pretty cool technology see here .) This was a hard to track down problem, because the interceptor would work on some...

Norm Sohl points out in his post on the Windows Mobile Team blog that Microsoft is taking further steps to deprecate the GAPI APIs. Check it out here . Norm’s post includes a native code sample. Some folks have asked if AllKeys() can be used from managed...

Hi there! My name is Mike Francis. I've worked at Microsoft for twelve years in various roles including Technical Account Manager for Windows Mobile OEMs, Customer Support Services for C++, and now as an Application Developer Consultant (ADC) working...

Thanks for attending my MSDN Webcast today “Top Developer Tips for Windows Mobile” . As promised, here are a list of links mentioned in the talk: Web Applications: Download: Windows Mobile 6.1.4 Emulator Images (Includes Internet Explorer Mobile...

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Want to use your Mobile Operator branded phone on a different network? You might not be able to. Why? Because many phones come SIM locked , preventing SIMs from other MOs from being used on those phones. John Dvorak on is twitter feed ( http://twitter...

This is a great deal for Windows Mobile Developers: Free Certification Testing and Code Signing Vouchers. Free Technical Support. These are a couple of the benefits of the just launched Innovate On Windows Mobile site: http://www.innovateonwindowsmobile...

I just posted on the Windows Mobile Developers team blog: The Windows Marketplace for Mobile Client and your Setup code . This article reviews some potential ‘gotchas’ if you include custom UI in your setup DLL that is being called by the Marketplace...

Some developers are reporting a problem with the PNG icon not displaying in the Start screen.The usual symptom is that it does not show up immediately after installation but is seen after a device reset. This problem occurs if following the ... Note:...

Need to create PNG files for your Windows Mobile 6.5 applications? Check out my blog post on the main Windows Mobile blog here . Mike