Much as we try to reduce the differences between the Pocket PC and Smartphone, there are still some things that are unique to each of these flavors of Windows Mobile from a developer’s perspective. These differences cause problems when porting a Pocket...

As a comment on my last post, Matthew pointed out that he generally only uses the emulator for simple apps and generally uses real devices for testing. Our long term goal for the emulator is to make it good enough for many developers to build and test...

Since we announced Windows Mobile 6 at 3GSM last Monday, a couple of people have asked me "where are the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs?". The good news is that for most developers, their existing Windows Mobile 5.0 application will just work on Windows Mobile...

Everybody who has worked at Microsoft for long enough has their war stories. I'll share one of my first, from Windows Mobile 6 development. It Sounded Simple Enough My first full feature at Microsoft was the storage card encryption feature in...

No new OS from Microsoft is complete without a great developer story. The new Windows Mobile 6 SDK will be available for download very soon. Our good friend Jim Wilson has just published an excellent MSDN white paper that describes in great detail what...

As faithful blog readers already know, there were several limitations related to certificates that caused tons of customer pain on WM5. Now that WM6 is public, it gives me great pleasure to announce the following changes that we made in WM6: Certificate...

Say you’re a business that sells flowers over the phone. And say that, while picking a phone number for your business, you’ve got the choice between 1-800-356-9377 and 1-800-444-4444. Which do you pick? You’d pick the first one, because, while 7 seemingly...