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Monday, February 28, 2005 1:30 PM

Orange C550 Device Rumour

Did you see this over the weekend? Allegedly, a new HTC device due to ship from Orange . It’s covered here on MoDaCo as well, with a suggested ship date of May! There are two interesting things about this device (if it actually turns out to be true):
Posted by marcpe | 2 Comments
Monday, February 28, 2005 1:08 PM

Windows Mobile Application Contest

Win $25,000 and Application Distribution. Enter Your Best Applications in the Microsoft Windows Mobile™ Application Contest Today. Start building “work” and “play” applications for Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs or Smartphones, and enter them into the
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Monday, February 28, 2005 1:01 PM

Free Mobile Application Development Toolkit (UK only)

News for developers in the UK – this is UK only! : Take advantage of the new features in the Microsoft Mobile Application Toolkit – Order the DVD today. The Mobile Application Development Toolkit from Microsoft provides all the resources you need to start
Posted by marcpe | 2 Comments
Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:05 PM

On the subject of security...

... just seen the first blog post from Mike Ormond reporting on how to defend ASP.NET from attacks. Mike heads up the Developer and Partner team here in the UK and has a long (and I mean long!) history of working in developer related groups at Microsoft.
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Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:54 PM

Exploring Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

The concepts of buffer overrun attacks are well documented and most developers are aware of the technique and broadly how it works, but have you ever tried to write code to demonstrate buffer overrun? I have a session to present next month on a generic
Posted by marcpe | 2 Comments
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:19 AM

Mobile and Embedded Devcon site now open

Just reading Mike Halls blog and picked up about US MEDC: this years combined Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded show has just opened its web site for registration. No detailed agenda as yet. This year’s event looks set to be a real gem: It’s been extended
Posted by marcpe | 0 Comments
Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:02 PM

Device provisioning with XML [UPDATE]

I was talking to Rick Engle from Microsoft this evening about the DMProcessConfig managed wrapper code I posted before . He needed to get the results of a param-query out from the function into managed code and the previous code I posted doesn’t cut it.
Posted by marcpe | 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:32 AM

GSMWC Day 2

Did you see the HP anouncement yesterday of the h6500? Mike Hall covered it in his blog entry so I wont duplicate the pictures but its worth a look. Square screen OS support was introduced with "Windows Mobile 2003 Second Eddition software for Pocket
Posted by marcpe | 0 Comments
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 6:22 PM

New MSDN article available

How to Develop Orientation-Aware and DPI-Aware Applications for Pocket PC http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwm2k3/html/orientation_dpi_aware_apps.asp?frame=true Author: Microsoft Article Summary: The objective of this
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005 5:10 PM

Tooltip control for .NET CF

I went to see a company in the UK (ATOS Origin) in December and they need a tooltip class that works binary compatible on desktop and device - they are sharing all code in the project between both environments. Should they be using a tooltip on Windows
Posted by marcpe | 3 Comments
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 7:17 AM

HTC Universal device pictures (more from GSMWC)

Here are some pictures of the new HTC landscape / portrait + keyboard device code named Universal on the msmobiles web site. This device is announced to sell as the MDA IV from TMobile and might make it out with other manufacturers as well. The device
Posted by marcpe | 2 Comments
Monday, February 14, 2005 9:51 AM

What Operating Systems does the .NET platform ship natively now?

Got this question over the weekend: "What Operating Systems does the .NET platform ship natively now?" So the obvious ones first: Windows XP Pro SP1 Windows XP Pro SP2 Windows Server 2003 What about embedded and mobile? WinCE 4.0 and above has the optional
Posted by marcpe | 9 Comments
Monday, February 14, 2005 9:22 AM

3GSM World Congress

I've only been down to Cannes ( France ) once for this event to present a very short session about Pocket PC Phone Edition to a mostly non developer audience. I spent most of my time on the Microsoft stand answering techie questions and showing off the
Posted by marcpe | 1 Comments
Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:12 PM

MSDN (UK) Nuggets

You may have already heard about this new initiative from Microsoft in the UK to push out short, technically focused video clips covering very speicifc 'howto' type topics. If not here is the blurb from the site and the link : "Don't have the time to
Posted by marcpe | 5 Comments
Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:12 AM

Custom Soft Input Panel (SIP) for Pocket PC

SIP - Soft Input Panel is the term used to describe the popup software keyboard provided on Pocket PC devices to simplify input. SIP's are generally 80 pixels high and shown at the bottom of the screen just above the menu bar. 'Can I write and install
Posted by marcpe | 18 Comments
 
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