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I heard someone say they wished it were possible to create a speed dial entry for text messaging in Windows Mobile. As most of you might know, text messaging is not a standalone app - it's just another account within the Messaging client, which also supports
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Thanks to everyone that attended Microsoft TechMela in Mumbai last week. It was great meeting all of you, hearing your development experiences and realizing just how much Windows Mobile has grown in India over the last year. The feedback I gathered from
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Great news for Vista users: Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 was launched last night and is now available for download from our Windows Mobile site as well as from Windows Update. We had run into a couple of speed bumps on the final stretch drive, but
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Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I've been heads down with MEDC and a bunch of other projects. I will be at MEDC in Las Vegas all of next week so if you see me at the conference, do say Hi. James Pratt and I are delivering the session APP211 (" It's
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Much as we try to reduce the differences between the Pocket PC and Smartphone, there are still some things that are unique to each of these flavors of Windows Mobile from a developer’s perspective. These differences cause problems when porting a Pocket
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No new OS from Microsoft is complete without a great developer story. The new Windows Mobile 6 SDK will be available for download very soon. Jim Wilson has just published an excellent MSDN white paper that describes in great detail what's new for developers
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I got an email from a customer asking about device connectivity using the pass through feature in ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC). In this settings dialog, what's the difference between Automatic , Work Network and The Internet ? Specifically,
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Here are some desktop keyboard shortcuts you can use on the Device Emulator. Learning these keys should make debugging your Windows Mobile applications a lot faster! If you're not a developer but simply interested in playing around with Windows Mobile,
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There was an announcement made this week about Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and support for Vista. In a nutshell, SP1 won't resolve all the issues of running VS on Vista. However, I want to point out that if you're developing Windows Mobile applications, there
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Remember that cool developer tool Dependency Walker that shows you which .dlls a given .exe depends on? It's invaluable for debugging and packaging purposes and it's free! I've used this tool for years as a desktop Windows developer. Turns out that it
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Live from the Handango Summit in Los Angeles, I'm proud to announce ScreenLib , a new library for native Windows Mobile developers. It takes away a lot of the pain of designing user interfaces for multiple screen sizes, orientations, form factors etc.
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Microsoft released Vista RC1 last week and some of you are already using it. If you use a Pocket PC or Smartphone device, you may be disappointed to find that the Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) is missing from Vista RC1. I've seen a few posts about
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OK I'm back to blogging after a brief hiatus. I'd like to begin with a quick example of small things you can do to ensure that your application is screen size and orientation independent. I've covered a few of these in the past and will continue bringing
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During an internal discussion about .CAB files, someone mentioned that a Windows Mobile CAB can contain upto 998 files. I was curious to know what's special about the number 998. After some follow up, I found the answer: If you've ever looked at a CAB
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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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