jamespr's WebLog : Windows Mobile Technical Articles

Jim Wilson's Column Comes to MSDN!

jamespr — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:01:00 GMT

Jim Wilson writes a regular column for Windows Mobile Solutions Partner Program members giving tips and tricks for developing and deploying Windows Mobile solutions. We've just got the first three installments of that published to MSDN! If you want to read Jim's column as it is published, make sure to sign up for WMSPP.

Windows Mobile - A New Era Has Begun

Article Summary: In this first installment of "You Can Take It with You," Jim Wilson looks at the new mobility features of Whidbey, and how they affect the future of Windows Mobile. (7 printed pages)

SQL Server CE and Scalability

Article Summary: This is the second article in the "You Can Take It with You" column. This article offers tips that developers can use to improve the scalability of Compact Framework-based applications accessing SQL Server CE. (10 printed pages)

Jim's Mobile Developer Tool Belt

Article Summary: This is the third article in the "You Can Take It with You" column, and it presents tools, utilities, and downloads that are helpful for developers. (8 printed pages)

Article : Creating Call Events

jamespr — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 05:57:00 GMT

Reed Robison has written a great article on how to make the Windows Mobile emulator simulate incoming calls and receiving SMS messages. Really useful for testing your applications SMS interception and for how it handles incoming calls!

It's been out a few weeks but you can find it here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/callevents.asp

Where'd all the articles go?

jamespr — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:29:00 GMT

Any of you who follow www.msdn.com/mobile or www.msdn.com/windowsmobile will have noticed that we haven't had many new articles go live for a while. Obviously we've been working hard on getting everything ready for MDC but don't despair. While we've been doing that we've also been writing articles in the background and you'll see the fruits of our labor go live on 3/24. Stay tuned to MSDN.

Tech Article : Writing Services for Pocket PC 2003

jamespr — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 03:27:00 GMT

Our latest technical article has been published at :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnppc2k3/html/ppc_services.asp

This article deals with how to write services for Pocket PC 2003 devices. This is useful for applications which need to run in the background and don't have any UI. Why is this a good idea? Windows CE has a limit of 32 processes running on the device at time. If you write your app as a service it runs as a thread under the services.exe process meaning that you aren't occupying a valuable process slot. And you want to be a good Pocket PC app citizen don't you?

Smartphone Application Security White Paper

jamespr — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:26:00 GMT

I wanted to use this blog to draw attention to some of the technical articles that we produce around Windows Mobile. That's part of my responsibility here at Microsoft. Since I actually wrote this one - and that's a rarity - I thought I'd start by drawing attention to this one. I've tried to pull all the relevant information together about Smartphone Application Security model in one place. It took a little while for me to wrap my head round some of the tougher concepts but I think it's all there now. There's prescriptive guidance on setting up your tools, querying information out of your phone as well as plenty of background theory. If it helps you, please rate it kindly!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsmtphn2k3/html/smartphone_security.asp