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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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At a partner event yesterday I was asked if it was possible to generate compressed CAB files for Smartphone and Pocket PC. It turns out the answer is yes and no. All Smartphone devices support compressed CAB files, and cabwizsp.exe (the tool for creating
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Over in the news:microsoft.public.smartphone.developer newsgroup today someone asked a common question: "When I'm developing for Smartphone in eVC, which processor should I select?". The answer is straightforward: ARMv4. All Pocket PC and Smartphone devices
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Chung Webster's written a new article for MSDN about security and development on Windows Mobile devices: This article looks at what development and deployment security options are available for the Pocket PC and Smartphone, including Public Key Infrastructure,
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An update for WindowsXP was just released that resolves an issue with USB device connectivity to USB 2.0 ports. In particular this can affect Pocket PCs if you power-cycle them while they're connected. Here's the writeup from the KB article: When you
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“Where are the APIs for programming Windows Media Player on Smartphone?“ This question has come up a couple of times in recent weeks on news:microsoft.public.smartphone.developer . Unfortunately the answer is “there isn't one at the
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Over in the news:microsoft.public.smartphone.developer newsgroup someone asked how to localize the application name that appears in the program list. This is really not an obvious thing to do, and I know we documented it once but I couldn't find the information.
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A pretty common question on our developer newsgroups is how to run code during the installation of an application to Pocket PC or Smartphone. This can be particularly helpful on uninstall where you need to remove files that are created by your application
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Welcome to the Visual Studio for Devices team blog :) One of my first projects in my new role is to think about extensibility in Visual Studio as it relates to devices and device projects. In using previous versions of Visual Studio where do you wish
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