Tom Krueger has started a blog. Tom works in the developer division here at Microsoft. He spends a lot of his time dreaming up and working on all types of Smart Client samples, so I'm sure that his blog will be full of all sort of interesting nuggets...

Netscan is a really cool online tool, which I use quite often to see what is going on in USENET'averse. If you have not played with it yet be sure to check it out at the link below. I typically start using it by filtering for newgroups with “dotnet“...

Cool Smart Client code from the Intel Developer site. Although I don't know who is responsible for all of this code (I would like to give them credit for it), it appears that Larry O'Brien is at least responsible for some of it. From what I have seen...

Vote and you could win a free iPaq ! “Voting for the Mobile Developer Competition continues until next week. Please take a moment to check out the articles eligible for voting here . In order to avoid voting battles I've refrained from posting...

“The FotoVision sample allows you to easily share photos on the web and demonstrates a variety of .NET technologies including Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Web services, and the .NET Compact Framework. It consists of a desktop, web, and Pocket PC sample...

Lest writes: Hi guys, Sorry for the performance of the Learn247 site when trying to download the WeRock247 code recently, we have been inundated with users looking to download the code and it has slowed us down a little. I am often asked when...

The iPodSoft team have create a bunch of Windows Forms -based applications to help you get more from your iPod. iStory Creator : Using this program, you can create your very own interactive text games for the iPod! iPod Agent : Your one stop...

The original download location for We Rock 247 .NET has not been performing so well due to demand. The download is now available on the microsoft.com download cluster: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cf7c3420-6e92-4f90-87dd-425094637c49&displaylang...

Bubble.NET Game , by BenoitM - on CodeProject.com Benoit makes use of GXInput for intercepting the hardware keys. GXInput ships as part of Geoff Schwab's “ Dancing Particles: Adding Points, Lines, Fonts, and Input to the Managed Graphics Library...

Whether or not you are new to Smart Client development be sure to check this site out: http://www.learn247.net/werock247 “This project contains material based around developing Smart Clients for .NET and is based around a virtual rock group....

I get this question quite a bit... One trick to ensuring a single instance of your Windows application is to create a Mutex on startup. Mutexes can cross process boundaries so they provide a great mechanism for checking if your application is already...

I took my eyes off the CodeProject.com site for a week during Tech.Ed and upon return this week find that there has been a massive proliferation of .NET Compact Framework samples, including Pocket 1945 - A C# .NET Compact Framework Shooter . Thanks...

Checkout the new MSDN Smart Client Developer Center launched last week. To learn more about what Smart Clients are jump straight to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/understanding/ In a nutshell Smart Clients take advantage of XML to combine the...