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One Week Out for the One Day Mobile Dev Camp Atlanta Event
We're excited to announce the fourth in a series of barcamp-style events for the upcoming Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 OS! WinMoDevCamp Atlanta | October 30, 2009 WinMoDevCamp is a series of upcoming not-for-profit gatherings to develop applications for Read More...
Windows Phones Have Arrived – Developers, Time to Dive in
October 6th was the big launch day for Windows Phone and there are many great posts on the new devices available.  I have more info on devices here .  As background, since the initial release of Windows Mobile 6, the Windows Mobile team has Read More...
Windows Phones are Now Available!
Find all about the great Windows Phones available at http://www.windowsphone.com . For the first time Windows Phones targets both business and consumer users. Traditionally Windows Mobile has focused on business users but the market has drastically changed Read More...
Occam’s Razor And Getting Data to Windows Mobile Devices
Rob Tiffany recently updated his book available at Amazon on Enterprise Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server Compact 3.5.  This is THE book to read if you need to get data to Mobile Devices.  With the new Marketplace for Read More...
Setting up a Windows Mobile Development Environment
An old teammate in DPE now a new Seattle resident working on Channel 9 / part-time Coding for Fun blogger Clint Rutkas posted some good questions recently on an internal discussion list, thus motivating me to create this post. If you are looking to start Read More...
Windows Mobile – The Race to Market Challenge
Build a Windows Mobile application and submit it to the Marketplace for Windows Phones. This post on the Windows Mobile team blog has more details. Race to Market Challenge Prizes; 4 Microsoft Surface tables (Developer Edition), online marketing & Read More...
Throw Your Mobile App in the Hopper
From the download link: Hopper is a software test tool that simulates random user input on Windows Mobile devices providing a sometimes meaningful mean time to failure (MTTF) number. It is designed to find bugs and is not intended to run scenario tests Read More...
WPC 09 Update on Windows Mobile Development
At the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced that the Windows Marketplace for Mobile will also support Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 phones by the end of the year. This means that you can write an applicaiton that targets over 30 million Windows Read More...
Windows Mobile and the Social Web
With Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft is investing with its partners to bring consumer experiences available on the desktop and other mobile platforms to Windows Mobile.  Here is a great quote from a very interesting blog post on extending social experiences Read More...
Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Toolkit Released!
Download the toolkit here . It is available in six languages for both the the Professional and Standard platforms. It includes the device emulators (details here ) as well as new documentation, sample code, header and library files for Visual Studio. Read More...
Windows Mobile RampUP – The Place to Start
There is a ton of information and resources available on the Internet to get up to speed on Windows Mobile development.  However, it can be daunting to know where to dive in, even for a seasoned developer.  That’s where the Windows Mobile RampUp Read More...
Check out the My Phone Service beta – no more promo codes!
The My Phone service has gone into Public Beta –no more promotional codes!  Anyone with a WM 6.0/6.1/6.5 phone can sign up for free backup and online management of their phone data by visiting http://myphone.microsoft.com .    Read More...
TechEd 09 Update on Windows Mobile 6.5 Development
Quick Facts from links below: You can register for the marketplace now, application submissions will open up soon. The application fee for submission of an application is $99. This applies to both paid and free apps. To lower the cost, we are offering Read More...
Sync Services for Devices Working Sample Download
There is a walkthrough here on how to create a Sync Services for Devices application on MSDN but it doesn’t quite work, at least I had to modify it to make things work. Note: You can download the Northwind database here . Best bet with SQL Server 2008 Read More...
Learn about the new Widget Framework in Windows Mobile 6.5
Today as part of Microsoft tech days 2009 , there is a session that provides a sneak peak at the new widget framework that will be available in Windows Mobile 6.5. Here is the title and abstract: MBL302 Windows Mobile Web and Widgets: Leveraging web technologies Read More...
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