Leon's blog

Reboot or Shutdown WM6 Smartphone

2008-02-11T08:08:00Z

Hi,

I wrote little utility to either quickly shutdown or to reboot my WM6 BlackJack2 Smartphone. This utility should install and work on any WM6 and WM5 device - landscape or portait screen mode. Sources, cab and a screenshot all attached.

Thanks

Leon

Screen shoots for WM6 Battery utility

2008-01-16T08:39:00Z

As promised these are the screen shots for WM6 Battery level utility

A CAB file only for WM6 battery utility

2008-01-16T08:37:00Z

As promised, this is just a CAB file for the WM6 Battery Utility.

Copy CAB file to the device (via ActiveSync or any other means) and run it.

A battery status utility for your Windows Mobile 6 powered Smartphone

2008-01-16T08:20:00Z

Hi,

I just got WM6 powered Smartphone and discovered that it requires no less than 5-6 clicks to see a graphical view of the battery. And even then I still can’t see actual percentage of the charge left. Long story short I have written a utility which shows battery charge for only WM 6.0 Powered devices which run in landscape mode (Blackjack II, new Motorola Q Global from Cingular, etc).

Depending on the charge you will see one of the following screen. Don’t worry about existing, if you don’t click Exit, application will exit after 7 seconds, so precious resources won’t be wasted.

To install application:

1. Connect device via ActiveSync to your PC. ActiveSync has an option to explore your phone, where you can see Smartphon’s file system.

2. Copy attached file to the Smartphone and run it

You can then use functionality of the Smartphone to add shortcut to the application (which you will find under Start menu as a green battery icon “Battery Meter”) to either a Speed Dial or Fn key (on Blackjack II).

This will allow you to hit one key and see battery status in glance.

I will be posting sources for this application as well. Is was very simple to write. I have used two great references:

1. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa457088.aspx

2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816195

Attached is a complete project. I will also attach just a CAB file and screen shoots

Developing for PowerShell

2006-10-10T19:34:00Z

If you have installed latest SDK for Vista (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=117ecfd3-98ad-4d67-87d2-e95a8407fa86&DisplayLang=en) and trying to write an applications for Windows PowerShell (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx) you may be looking for System.Management.Automation.dll assembly.

It is located in c:\program files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0

PowerShell Rules!

2006-08-31T20:37:00Z

I have started to experiment with Windows PowerShell (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx).

I have notice interesting fact. Compare the output format of two commands below.

PS C:\> Get-Process | where {$_.processname -eq "svchost"}

Command above produces nicely formated output in form of the table.

Command below produces output like this, albiet in red color:

PS C:\> Get-Process | where {$_.processname -eq "svchost"} | Write-Host -ForegroundColor red

System.Diagnostics.Process (svchost)

Why is table lost?

Write-Host converts output to the string.

Solution is to use out-string cmdlet. Command below will show formated table in the red color.

PS C:\> Get-Process | where {$_.processname -eq "svchost"} | out-string | Write-Host -ForegroundColor red