May 2006 - Posts
Here's the solution for the first spot the bug contest from last week. The application compatibility issue, as many of you pointed out, is clearly hard coding the 'My Documents' path. Instead of hard coding it as shown in the bad code sample, the path
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I've been using Windows Vista Beta 2 for a few days now. Someone posted a comment on my blog asking how to build a .NET Compact Framework 1.0 application on a Vista machine. It is possible to use Visual Studio 2005 on Vista, but there are a few additional
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I just arrived in Tokyo for the MEDC 2006 world tour. MEDC, as most of you might know is Microsoft's annual Mobile & Embedded Developer Conference . The main US event was held earlier this month in Las Vegas. The show is now on the road, and we'll
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Here it is - the first "spot the bug" contest. See my earlier post for what these contests will be about. In general, the "bug" will not necessarily be a memory leak or syntax error. Instead, something more subtle. Things that may seem trivial, but cause
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My goal is to make this blog a resource that developers can turn to for improving the overall quality of their Windows Mobile applications. The focus will be on application compatibility (app compat) and usability. I'd like to tackle issues such as: What
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Welcome to MelSam's Blog - a new blog for Windows Mobile developers. First, a quick introduction. My name is Mel Sampat and I work as a Program Manager in the Mobile & Embedded Devices (MED) division at Microsoft. Depending on whether you're an Xbox
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