I'll skip the "blog the vote" poll this week and encourage you to respond to Jason's question below about the "talk" button. I've been somewhat inactive this week because of a motorcycle crash I had on Tuesday (I managed to come out of it with some very...

A question came up during development, and I so I'd like to do a quick poll: Does your Smartphone app make use of the Talk (Send) hardware button? Respond only if it does, and tell us how you use it. [Author: Jason Fuller]

The trend is spreading! Two of the teams we work very closely with have launched their own blogs recently. Check out the .NET Compact Framework Team Blog and the Visual Studio for Devices Team Blog . [Author: Robert Levy]

How much of your development/debugging do you do on the emulator? [Author: Dave Stewart]

Someone asked a question today about my whitepaper and blog post for marking .NET CF applications as orientation/resolution aware: I thought the obj\debug dir was for intermediate files and therefore you'd want to run res2exe on EXEs under the BIN...

Well, mostly your comments on the polls. I don't know what it is, but today I've had about 5 emails from folks on the mobile team asking me more about the polls, and what trends I'm noticing, etc. I said, "Just read the comments, it is all there to see...

I just registered our team blog with the new Community Blogs Portal . You can use this portal to find blogs by Microsoft folks who work with/on various technologies. There is a list of the blogs registered as being Windows Mobile-related (sorted by freshness...

Here's one of interest to me: Which transport do you use to sync mail most frequently? ... feel free to leave comments as well, of course! [Author: Dave Stewart]

In response to a request from the comments on this blog, I've posted my SmartBlogger tool to a GotDotNet workspace. Source code in C# and EXE are available. In order to make this work with any generic .Text blogging site, you'll need to change a couple...

This week's poll, as suggested by Brian Cross, who if you can believe it is an even bigger C# junkie than me (but don't let that influence your vote) is: which language do you use to write your mobile device applications? Pick the one you use the most...

Wow... We launched this blog a little more than three months ago as a way to maintain a higher level transparency and engagement with people developing software for Pocket PC and Smartphone devices. This marks our 100th post and, by pure coincidence...

David McNamee noticed that the emulator in VS 2005 now works from within Virtual PC. Yup! Also check out the much improved rotation capabilties... hopefully this will put an end to the requests that we include a licensed chiropractor with every download...

There's a new system in place to collect bugs and suggestions from users of VS 2005. You can make submissions, see what others have submitted, add comments or workaround steps, and track it's status. Here's the page that shows all the current submissions...

First time posting on this blog :). Thanks for writing this posting app, Dave (I'm actually running this from the PPC Emulator :) )! Hi everyone, I'm a developer on the Partner Response Team - basically, if any OEMs, ISVs, or operators have problems or...

This time, from PocketPC. [Author: Dave Stewart]

eating some dog food and posting on my smart phone :-) [Author: Dave Stewart]

A question on ShNAPI (the Shell Notification API - it's fun to say the acronym!): Will the OS remove the notification if pCurrentNotification->hwndSink = NULL when the user clicks the OK button i the bubble, or do I have to keep my application...

Someone asked this: What is the proper way to find the localised name of the "Program Files" directory? The SHGetSpecialFolderPath have no constant for this folder. I currently use the registry setting: HKLM/Pmail/Attachments/TopDir value ...

Hi - my name is James Drage. I work on the Windows Mobile Shell Dev team. I've been working on mobile devices since Pocket PC 2000 and I've seen all sorts of interesting ideas come into fruition in our devices! It's been a challenging and fun journey...

I've been getting a bunch of mail asking about this lately so here's a quick summary of what's going on with developer betas for mobile devices: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 allows you to build .NET CF v1 apps for Smartphone 2003 and .NET CF v2 apps for...

The first three articles in Jim Wilson's new “You Can Take It With You” column went live on MSDN recently. Here are the details: Windows Mobile - A New Era Has Begun http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en...

Riki, the dev behind Sprite Backup, posted an interesting document on his website which could save you a lot of time if you're getting started as a native Smartphone developer. Check it out . [Author: Robert Levy]

In my "free time," I'm putting together a .NET service to do quick surveys. This means: Weekly polls! Maybe a Friday thing? Today's question: Which mobile device type do you use? [Author: Dave Stewart]

While I was at TechEd someone asked me how you detect a hardware keyboard on Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition devices. This could either be a clip-on keyboard or an integrated keyboard, depending on the device. Typically if the keyboard is attached you'll...