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For those who couldn't join my webcast yesterday, "Exploring the Inner Workings of a Database-Driven Application Built with Visual Basic and SQL Server Mobile Edition", it's now available on-demand from MSDN at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=44152
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Here's a code snippet for using the camera capture dialog. To use this snippet save it to a text file called "CameraCaptureDialog.snippet" and put it in your My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\VB\My Code Snippets folder. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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For those who attended my SqlMobile webcast today, here is the code snippet I used to get the current record for a binding source. You may have to update the name of the bindingSource variable to match the name used in your application. To use this snippet
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Below is the source for the ChooseContactDialog that I mentioned during my webcast on SqlMobile development. To use this snippet save it to a text file called "ChooseContactDialog.snippet" and put it in your My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\VB\My Code
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If you attended my session at MEDC 2005 (Exploring the Dirty Details of Building a Database Driven Application using VB and SQL Mobile) and want to mess around with the sample application on your own, now you can! The sample code is now posted at GotDotNet:
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I spent all day today on location as part of the filming process for an episode of The Code Room . Hop on over to my MEDC2005 space for a picture and some details. [Author: Neil Enns]
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I've been tapped to get up on stage with BillG at MEDC 2005 to show off a bunch of new Visual Studio stuff. Eek. I'm blogging about the experience over in a new MSN Space, which hopefully be able to fill up with a ton of pictures of the prep work. My
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Jeff was quite taken with my pink hair yesterday and decided to show off his artistic skill. This lovely piece of, uh, art, is now on the whiteboard in my office: It's a good thing Jeff doesn't draw for a living. [Author: Neil Enns]
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I've never encountered this issue before, but apparently there's no NewGuid() method in .NET CF v1. Peter Foot, one of our MVPs, has written a little class that will generate a GUID for you with a simple P/Invoke. [Author: Neil Enns]
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I challeged my feature team a couple of weeks ago to hit their (agressive!) bug goal for 10/15. Much to my hair's chagrin, they made it. [Author: Neil Enns]
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Three new articles on developing for Windows Mobile devices just went live on MSDN. One of them is the first in a series on migrating eVB applications to VB.NET. Architecting Disconnected Mobile Applications Using a Service Oriented Architecture The Windows
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Robert's posted a nice little write-up over at the Windows Mobile blog on the different tools available for developing apps on Pocket PC and Smartphone devices. This is a bit of a tricky subject, since depending on the release of Windows Mobile you're
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Another great question from the Smartphone developer newsgroup today. The gist of it is: "Why does the Smartphone home screen pop in front of my application every 10 minutes, and how can I stop it?" The Smartphone Home screen pops forward after the device
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MSDN has a new article up on migrating your application from one Windows Mobile version to another. To ensure we are providing maximum information to our developer community, this article addresses a few of the most common issues and frequently asked
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Every so often someone asks on either an internal alias or our public newsgroup about the right way to establish a data connection using the Compact Framework. Most of the time you don't have to do this since many of the built-in classes will bring up
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