The link to my web cast on custom control in Visual Studio for devices is: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032284322&Culture=en-US and you can get the source code used in the demo from: http://www.msnusers.com/xinyanblog...

I will present a web-cast on how to create custom control in Visual Studio 2005. The link is: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032284322&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US See you there!

When doing custom control development, here are some frequent design-time issues: 1. Why my custom controls are added to the form designer as an empty box? Most likely your custom control is device specific (the assembly that your custom control...

In the past few months I gave a talk in MEDC 2005, did a web cast in MSDN and wrote an article in sys-con.com. All these are about creating custom controls for .Net Compact Fraemwork in Visual Studio 2005. The following topics are coverred: - Why you...

Whidbey SmartDevice WinForm designer has much better support for adding your custom control to the toolbox. Unlike Everret (Visual Studio 2003) that requires developer to create a design time assembly in addition to the runtime assembly, in Whidbey we...

After couple of months intense work, we are almost done with Whidbey Beta 1. Check out these new features related to smart device programing! - Create C#/VB.Net for Pocket PC 2003 and Windows CE (target .Net Compact Framework V2.0) and SmartPhone 2003...

Do you know how to create a maximized form (a form without title and occupies the whole screen area) in a Pocket PC application using .Net Compact Framework 1.1? There are couple properties you need to set to get it work. First, make sure the following...

Are you developing Pocket PC application using .Net Compact Framework 1.0? If so, do you know how to enable or disable the smart minimize button on a form? By default, a form will use the smart minize button ( the X button). This button doesn't close...

Hi, I am a developer in Visual Studio for Smart Devices team. I am working on managed designers - platform specific design time support for windows form controls and designer extensibility support are my main focus area. We have been working very hard...