Windows Mobile Team Blog

I recently sat down with Rory Blyth from Channel9 to talk about some of the new features in Windows Mobile 6 and cool developer features we're working on. Click here to watch the video (approx 28 minutes): I will be at MEDC in Las Vegas all of next...

MEDC 2007 is just around the corner, and I can't think of a better place to debut WiMonet, the newest addition to the WiMo family. A white board is his canvas and a dry-erase pen is his paintbrush. WiMonet I can't believe it's already been a year...

A few months ago I wrote a blog post showing the Security Configuration Manager Powertoy. http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/06/22/643027.aspx . This powertoy allows you to see standard security configurations, provision your device, see...

Practical Use of MAPI Hi everyone, I’m Jay Ongg, ready to do more with MAPI. Last time , I wrote a function that displays the names of all the message accounts on your device. In this article, I’ll go a little bit further. I’ll talk a bit about how...

A while back a few of us had a chance to help out in a Dell and Microsoft sponsored programming competition at NTCC 2007. NTCC is a conference held by SHPE (Society of Hispanic and Professional Engineers). We had a blast and a chance to share some...

I’m Greg Scott and I work as a developer on a team that provides core networking technologies on Windows Mobile. There has been some [negative] feedback from the community about Bluetooth dial-up networking (DUN) being removed in WM5 AKU3. I’ll do my...

Hopefully everyone was able to take advantage of that sweet MEDC registration discount Mel posted last week. I noticed that no-one had posted on the blog for a week. So where is everyone? The answer for a lot of people is "heads down preparing for...

If you haven't registered for the MEDC 2007 conference yet, here's a chance to still get in for a hugely discounted price of $800. MEDC is the biggest official developer conference for Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded developers, and is co-hosted with...

We are in the phone app team. The Phone app is the app that is used to make and manage voice calls. We are trying to understand how the developers use the phone app or would like to use the phone as a platform. We would like you to answer the following...

My manager asked me to write something to convince other Microsoft employees to come work in our division. Originally this was going to be posted internally somewhere and linked from our job descriptions. But I realized that some of this might be interesting...