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February 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:18 AM

Determining the type of a device at runtime

There are times when it is useful for an application to know on what type of device it is running. An application may wish to modify it's user interface depending on device type (suppress button controls on SmartPhone devices, for example), or may be
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:52 PM

Are you having issues with Application Configuration files on the .NET Compact Framework version 2?

I've talked before about application configuration file support in the .NET Compact Framework version 2. I've discussed promoting version 1 applications to run on version 2 , and some of the elements of the file's format . Today, I'd like to spend some
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:50 PM

Checking for Screen Rotation Support using version 2 of the .NET Compact Framework - Visual Basic .Net version

Last year, I posted a snippet on how to determine whether or not your device supported screen rotation using the .NET Compact Framework . I have recently been asked for a Visual Basic .NET version of the snippet. Other than some minor reordering / reformatting,
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:45 AM

MEDC 2006: Getting started

The Windows Mobile team has talked about it . Mike Hall has talked about it . Seems like everybody is talking about MEDC 2006 these days. :) As with last year, the .NET Compact Framework team has some great sessions lined up and I have the honor of presenting
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Thursday, February 09, 2006 12:06 AM

Quick Creation of Text Files From the Command Line

It's a sunny day here in the Seattle area, so let's have some command line fun. :) Have you ever needed to create a small text file while working at a command line? I've been using the following technique since my MS-DOS days. Creating files at the command
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Friday, February 03, 2006 2:33 PM

Using the Interop Log to Diagnose P/Invoke Call Issues

Sometimes, determining why an unmanaged function call (P/Invoke) has failed can be challenging. Fortunately, version 2 of the .NET Compact Framework has a new diagnostic log for this data -- the Interop Log. In June 2005, Steven Pratschner wrote a great
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