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I have been invited to speak at the Teched conference ( Platforma 2010 ) in Russia. I will be speaking about a wide range of topics on development for Windows Mobile 6.5 plartform such as UI Framework, Gesture API's and Widgets. Marat is going to help
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Ron and I did a part 1 of the Webcast on the Gesture APIs in the Windows Mobile 6.5 and a managed wrapper that we created. In this Webcast we talked about GestureRecognizer class. You can catch a recording from here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032422141&CountryCode=US
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An interesting article has been recently published on Msdn that describes the real-world experiences of porting the IPhone application to the Windows Mobile platform . When reading the article I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the developers
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Take a look at this great introduction into the world of touch screens and gestures by Marcus . He also starts describing the APIs that are available in Windows Mobile 6.5 for handling gestures.
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There's a new company that has just released a few really nice controls for .NET Compact Framework and which you can use to develop attractive UIs in your Windows Mobile applications: http://www.beemobile4.net/ They where nice to let me know that they've
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The Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit is available for download . It includes the Emulator images as well as the documentation and the samples on Gesture APIs. Enjoy!
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Very often when developing managed applications you need to target both VGA (480x640) and the older QVGA (240x320) type of devices. If the AutoScaleMode property of your form is set to Dpi, your controls such as textboxes. labels, buttons etc... will
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Sean Kelley who is the PM for the Sync Services for ADO.NET has recorded a webcast that walks through the new features of the next version of the SyncServices. The team has collected a lot of the feedback from the customers on the first version and tried
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My article on the UIFramework that I presented during my webcasts has been published on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd630622.aspx
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I've recently made a substantial update to the MobileMVC framework . I've added the ability to utilize a (D)epenendcy (I)njection container by adding IControllerProvider interface into the framework which looks like this: public interface IControllerProvider
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Check out the Rob's blog post in which he describes the technique that can help you to allocate less memory when creating managed applications on Windows Phones: http://blogs.msdn.com/robtiffany/archive/2009/04/09/memmaker-for-the-net-compact-framework.asp
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Would you like to develop applications that utilize the bluetooth functionality on the WM emulator? Now you can. Check out this article on CodeProject: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/bth4devemul.aspx
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I've received a question from the customer the other day asking me how he can implement functionality of "dimming" background effect when a message box is shown in his Windows Mobile application. In fact it should be pretty easy to do utilizing the DrawAlpha
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I will be participating in the TechDays next week on April 1st. It's a 24 hour virtual event with almost a hundred sessions that will be repeated for different time zones for people across the globe. I was asked to repeat the Creating Compelling and Attractive
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Next week I am going to present a second part of the series on creating attractive UIs on Windows Mobile devices. This time I will show you how to customize built-in controls that come with .NET CF, such as TextBox, DataGrid, ListView etc... You can register
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