The guys at Business Anyplace have come through with another big one. This time, they’ve ported the .NET Data Access Application Block to the Compat Framework. Sweet! Check it out here . -Robert

Lot’s of great stuff on Daniel Moth’s blog lately. Here are a few: His collection of P/Invoke declarations Differences between desktop and Pocket PC development. Part A / Part B Various .NET CF multi threading topics A .NET CF “Memory Problems” FAQ -Robert

Our friends in Visual Studio for Devices team has posted a cool plug-in that works with the Whidbey beta (you are using the beta, right?) The Device Command Shell (DCS) provides a command-line interface to several useful functions for developing Smart...

Pocket PC Developer Network has the scoop on a new tool that is going to make a lot of developers very happy: Primeworks has just released the latest preview version of SqlCeConsole, a desktop application to create and edit SQL Server CE 2.0 databases...

Wei-Meng Lee ties all three together nicely in this article . -Robert

This just came up in a discussion and I figured it’s worth passing on. With Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition, OEMs are able to build devices that are either square-only, portrait-only, or portrait/landscape-rotatable. To figure out if a device supports rotation...

We got a bunch of people together in a room today to brainstorm topics for the Windows Mobile track of MEDC (some stuff that would fall under other tracks also came up but we tried to focus on Windows Mobile today). Below are the (mostly uncensored) notes...

Do you think you've got what it takes to educate application developers and device makers on delivering compelling devices and cool applications? Well, MEDC 2005 might be your chance to prove it. We're looking for experienced conference presenters who...

Long time Windows Mobile support wizard Marcus Perryman just started blogging. Marcus has worked for many years helping customers build and deploy applications and solutions built around Windows Mobile. He has a unique insight into the issues facing business...

Hi, folks ... I know it's been a while since I posted, but I think you're going to LOVE this one. On a personal note, I've made a move from the Windows Mobile team over to the Windows Stationary team (i.e., the desktop). But that doesn't mean I don't...

Nauman Leghari has scoured the web and put together a nicely categorised collection of Smartphone programming articles . Awesome resource! (via Doug Reilly ) [Author: Robert Levy]

For all the developers out there who came up with the excellent idea of writing an app that transfers Journal files from Tablet PC to Pocket PC but quickly ran into a wall after discovering that there was no way to extract data from Journal… this...

A few weeks ago James updated the download page for the eVB runtime to give users the option of first answering a few questions (anonymously) about why they need the runtime. The data we’re getting back from that simple survey has so far been incredibly...

Here’s another item that’s been stuck in my “stuff to blog” folder for months. Peter describes some new features you can grab from the OpenNETCF source code (I don’t think they have an updated binary release that includes...

Peter Foot (a .NET CF MVP) has a new article up on MSDN which discusses how to host a native control like the WebBrowser control in your .NET CF v1 application. Good stuff! [Author: Robert Levy]

In the eVB newsgroup, Robert Corrigan has posted instructions on how to migrate from eVB to VB.NET by using VB6 as an intermediary. I wouldn’t recommend this approach myself considering all of the subtle and not-so-subtle hurdles you’ll run...

If you have Active Directory deployed in your enterprise, you’ve probably noticed that while ActiveSync does a great job of syncing contacts that you have saved in Outlook there is no built in way to sync your GAL down to your Windows Mobile device...

Windows Mobile MVP’s Andreas Sjöström & Christian Forsberg have posted another great article over at businessanyplace.net . This time they discuss compressing web service communications in order to save bandwidth, reduce costs, and potentially...