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Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:55 PM

NetCF application hanging when remote server disconnects from the network?

I've been seeing a few reports of NetCF web service applications hanging when the target server disconnects from the network. If you are experiencing this, I may have a solution for you. What we have found is that if the server disconnects before sending
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004 3:43 PM

Major Flashback....

Today brought me back the mid-1980s big time.... I stopped by my local book/CD/DVD store and picked up Season 1 of “ Sledge Hammer! ”. Now, while I did know this was coming, I had forgotten just how funny the show was... For those who have
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Thursday, July 22, 2004 4:30 PM

Debugging NetCF applications with CorDbg - Part VI: Function evaluation

Previous debugger series entries: I , II , III , IV , V This week's installment of the debugging NetCF applicaitons using CorDbg series covers function evaluation ( funceval). Commands referenced f[unceval] Function evaluation newo[bj] Create a new object
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:40 AM

RichInk control being removed from NetCF version 2

The .NET Compact Framework team is looking at removing the RickInk control from our version 2 product (it currently still exists, as of v2 beta1). For those not familiar with the RichInk control, it allows you to save the contents of the control in text/Unicode
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Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:50 PM

NTLM authentication support in NetCF

Many folks have asked the .NET Compact Framework team when our HTTP client was going to support NTLM authentication. For version 1 (and all service packs) our answer was: 'Sorry, we do not support NTLM. You may wish to locate a third party solution or
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Friday, July 16, 2004 4:59 PM

New Hawking theory on Black Holes!!!

This is seriously cool stuff! I once went to a lecture by Dr. Hawking... one of the most amazing nights I have ever spent. Now he has a new theory around black holes -- and it may actually have cost him a bet on the subject. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5452537
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Friday, July 16, 2004 9:41 AM

Congrats, NASA, on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch

Thirty-five years, today, since Apollo 11 took off and headed for the moon! http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11/index.html Here's to hoping we, as a species, goes back.... soon. -- DK
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Friday, July 09, 2004 4:46 PM

Vacation time

Just a note to let you know I will be on vacation starting tonight. I will be back on Monday July 19. Feel free to comment with requests for my next topic. See you in a week. -- DK
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Friday, July 09, 2004 2:40 PM

.NET Compact Framework V1.0 SP3 Beta Release

For those who may have missed the announcement from Jonathan Wells.... The NetCF team invites you to test drive the V1.0 SP3 beta release. Jonathan's page has the details on how to get the beta and the issues addressed. Please give this a spin and send
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Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:48 PM

Debugging NetCF apps with cordbg - Part V: Breakpoints, stepping and setip

In the first four parts of this series, we have covered the background data needed to debug .NET Compact Framework applications with cordbg.exe ( getting connected , handy modes , unsupported commands and v2 beta 1 ). For the remainder of this series,
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Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:41 AM

Why coffee is the elixer of life...

In our industry, it appears that coffee is often more important than blood, food, just about anything... Why is this? From my experience the reason is one of the following: We work too many hours to get enough sleep. We aren't smart enough to go to bed
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Tuesday, July 06, 2004 4:17 PM

IPv6 and the NetCF v2 beta

One of the new features of the .NET Compact Framework v2 beta is support for IPv6. Unlike the full .NET Framework, you do not need to explicitly enable IPv6 in NetCF -- if your device has support for IPv6 installed, it will be available to NetCF applications.
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Thursday, July 01, 2004 3:42 PM

Debugging NetCF applications with cordbg - Part IV

In the first three parts of this series, I discussed the preliminaries of using cordbg to debug NetCF projects: getting connected , debugger modes and unsupported commands . In today's installment, I want to introduce NetCF v2.0 beta 1 and the changes
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Thursday, July 01, 2004 8:49 AM

Thirteen years? Already?

Thirteen years ago today, I arrived in building 15 (now demolished) on the Microsoft campus for new employee orientation -- as a new support engineer for MS-DOS 5...Now, I'm one of the "old guys" (as a current team member so kindly called me) and have
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