July 2006 - Posts
You've probably heard this warning before - don't hard-code paths such as "\My Documents". This path has changed in past versions of Windows Mobile so it is not safe to assume the directory structure. The correct way to obtain a device's My Documents
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Confirming rumors that've circulated for a couple months now, Microsoft publicly disclosed plans to release a new music and entertainment player under the Zune brand. It should be in market before Christmas. I'd like to add some perspective to this announcement
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Here's an interesting article about why dogfooding (internal beta-testing) is so important at Microsoft. As employees we're almost perpetually dogfooding upcoming Microsoft products whether we know it or not. For instance my corporate email is hosted
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Within Microsoft, I am part of the team that owns the Windows Mobile Developer Experience. My team brings you the Windows Mobile SDK, code samples, power toys, white papers and other resources to write great mobile applications. We were just told this
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My buddy KintanB , a PM in the Live Communications Server group just sent me a link to the coolest office phone ever. Click here for a larger picture. The entire shell seems to be comprised of Office Communicator , which is a secure enterprise IM application.
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The Visual Studio for Devices blog has some early information about Windows Mobile developer features in "Orcas" (code name for VS 2007). Current information is for managed development only. Native development information will be posted soon. Add support
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Thanks to everyone that participated in Spot the Bug #3 . Sorry about the delays in posting updates. I just got over jetlag from the 2 week trip to Taipei, Beijing and Kuala Lumpur. Without further ado, here are the things that were wrong with the sample
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