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February 2005 - Posts

Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:36 PM

Saving time when navigating directories at the Command Prompt using pushd and popd

It's been a little while since I posted one of my favorite command line 'tricks'... Windows XP (NT/2000/2003/etc) has two commands (pushd and popd) that save me huge amounts of time when navigating my machine's file system from a Command Prompt window.
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Friday, February 18, 2005 4:48 PM

Exciting news... New CLR book by Steven Pratschner (NetCF Program Manager)

I just heard about (and got my hot little hands on a copy of) Steven Pratschner 's new book on the CLR ( Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Languate Runtime )! Steven is one of the program managers on the .NET Compact Framework team and an
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Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:55 AM

Is my device running on battery or AC power?

At times, it's helpful to know if the device running your application is plugged in or on battery power (long duration process, software update, etc). Since the .NET Compact Framework does not provide a managed implementation for this check, you will
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:28 PM

How To Get The Display's Color Depth using NetCF Version 1

I've seen this asked about recently on the NetCF ( microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework ) newsgroup, and it fits nicely with yesterday's display related p/invoke, too... :) You may have noticed that, in version 1 of the .NET Compact Framework,
Posted by DavidKlineMS | 5 Comments
Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:49 AM

Checking for Screen Rotation Support Using NetCF

Yesterday, the Windows Mobile team posted a handy tip titled " How to check if screen can be rotated ". This got me interested in checking for screen rotation support from managed code. In V1, the structure to be marshalled is not pretty. Since the fixed
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