Backstage at MED

Leisure Suit Larry is BACK!

ZOMG! this game brought me through puberty ;) I spent so much time playing the entire Leisure Suit Larry series starting with the Land of the Lounge Lizards and Love for Sail. You guys remember how you get caught by police if you forget to type "remove condom" ? hahahah

Now Magmic games is bringing us this retro classic on a Windows Mobile phone!

go buy it now! http://www.winplay.com/game/LeisureSuitLarryLoveForSail

Using the Diamond's Accelerometer from Visual Studio

Scott Seligman has spent sometime figuring out how to get access to the HTC Touch Diamond's Accelerometer (Tilt Sensor) and built a sample app that shows off how anyone can do it. Checkout this blog here : http://scottandmichelle.net/scott/index.html?entry=784

 Now will someone build a .NET Wrapper for this?

Interested in Fantasy Baseball?

Checkout the Fantasy Baseball client that the MSN team built for Windows Mobile that connects to the Fox Fantasy Baseball game.

Download it here : http://prb.msn.com/download.aspx

30 Mobile Apps in 30 Days

When we talk about developing applications on Windows Mobile (or any mobile device for that matter), many people think it's rocket science. It's hard, it's complicated, it's troublesome. Our competitors keep injecting FUD into everyone's minds, while we try really hard to do otherwise.

Here comes Chris Craft, one of our MVPs, who spent 30 of his valuable days, using Visual Studio 2008 and our Windows Mobile SDK to build 30 applications.

Checkout his calendar here:

And the article they published on CIO Magazine.

One useful app a day!

Let's see an iPhone, RIM, Java, Android or any mobile developer do this..

Want to sync your Windows Mobile device to a Mac?

Try this solution from Markspace called the Missing Sync (cheeky)

look at all these features:

• Connects with Windows Mobile devices via USB and Bluetooth
• Supports devices running Windows Mobile 2002/2003/5/6
• Syncs with Address Book, iCal, Entourage 2004 and others
• Syncs Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other files
• Downloads iPhoto albums and iTunes playlists
• Imports device-side photos and video
• Encodes QuickTime video for mobile playback
• Provides drag-and-drop install of .cab-formatted applications
• Displays phone call and SMS text message logs on the Mac
• Supports two Macs and any number of Windows Mobile devices
• Universal application provides the best performance

Mobility Workshop in Malaysia done!

Thanks to Yu Tsing & Poh Sze from Malaysia, they completed a series of Mobility Workshops in three states recently and got great results. They ran over 15 workshops in these three states (Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Sabah) covering over 534 developers and 138 students.

here are some pics :

Mobility Training in Vietnam

Hai Le Thanh from Vietnam, recently conducted a Windows Mobile training for their local developer community. It's great to see these activities being run all over the world.

Visit this site for more pics : http://liveclub.vn/news/khai-mac-lop-hoc-mobility-vietnam-ve-lap-trinh-window-mobile.aspx

if you want to run something similar in your area or local community, let me know. email link is on the topleft or leave a comment.

Blackberry. Powered by Windows Mobile.

Thanks Jon!

John L Scott's vision of Mobility and use of Silverlight

Been working with John L Scott on building a prototype application that runs on Silverlight Mobile to deliver on their vision. They see Windows Mobile as an important platform for their sales personnel and for consumers who love to look for and shop for homes. checkout the video here :

 
Silverlight Mobile with John L Scott Real Estate

Windows Mobile Application Development Webcast series

Constanze Roman have been busy setting up a series of webcasts. Here's the list that have been recorded and coming in the next week:

• Part 1: Developing Applications for Windows Mobile Devices (now available on-demand)
• Part 2: Developing Your First Real Windows Mobile 6 Application (Wednesday 21-May)
• Part 3: Using Device Capabilities and Device Functionality (Tuesday 27-May)
• Part 4: Mobile Data Strategies and Synchronization Using SQL Server Compact, XML, and LINQ (Wednesday 28-May)
• Part 5: Windows Mobile Development - Live from TechEd Orlando (Wednesday 4-June)

PDC website is LIVE!

The website for what is considered, the "Mecca for Developers" is open.

Register now! you know you want to!! let me know if you do, I'll organize a party!

How To: Add Windows Mobile 6 and Windows Mobile 6.1 Browser Definitions to ASP.NET

Jim Wilson shows us how to make ASP.NET pages render well on Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1 by adding a custom browser definition file.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc546461.aspx

Two New Windows Mobile Virtual Labs available

We've uploaded two more virtual labs on MSDN that goes in depth on .NETCF Windows Communications Foundation and How to build an application that is future proof. Click on the links below to access the labs directly:

Building an Application using Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) and Store and Forward Transports in the .NET Compact Framework

 

Eternal Application - How to Build for the Future

or click on this link to look at all the available virtual labs today : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/aa740452.aspx

Enable Remote Debugging on NETCF apps

Thanks to Jon Box for figuring out this problem that we encountered during our workshop in Memphis. Users have a problem trying to attach the remote debugger to a running process. David Kline has published a work-around a while ago and it still applies to Visual Studio 2008. Read the full fix instructions here :  http://blogs.msdn.com/mobilitymetro/default.aspx

but essentially:

1. Start the Remote Registry Editor
2. Connect to your device
3. Enable attach to process support
   • In the left hand pane, expand the device
   • Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
   • Expand SOFTWARE
   • Expand Microsoft
   • Expand .NETCompactFramework
   • Expand Managed Debugger
     If this key does not exist, you will need to create it
     • Right click on .NETCompactFramework
     • Select New > Key
     • Type "Managed Debugger" (without quotes)
     • Click Ok
   • Set the value of AttachEnabled to 1
     If this value does not exist, you will need to create it
     • Right click on Managed Debugger
     • Select New > DWORD Value
     • Set the Name to AttachEnabled
     • Set the value to 1
     • Click OK

Mobility Metro site updated

with fixes to the content and latest news.

check it out : http://blogs.msdn.com/mobilitymetro/

you can also follow the event through the use of Twitter Hashtags : http://www.hashtags.org/tag/mobmetro/

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