December 2005 - Posts
Windows Mobile 5.0 Security Model FAQ
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.NetCF 2.0 has great support for hi-dpi devices, but v1 does not have anything built in. Luckily, it's not that hard to add hi-dpi support to Forms-based apps. Just add a call to DpiHelper.AdjustAllControls(this); to the end of your form's constructor.
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I was wondering if there would be any demand for a product that allowed you to call managed code from JavaScript. It seems like it should be doable, using a technology like Mirror , and would allow you to rapidly create apps with a rich HTML UI and deploy
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There's a good description of the trust levels in Windows CE at this MSDN page, so for this post I'll discuss how the security policies in Windows Mobile 5 affect what trust level an application will get. Privileged Applications policy (or two-tier policy)
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Forgive me this indulgence. Today is my 12th Anniversary at Microsoft. I actually started as an electrical engineer hired to build a super computer to do video on demand. Strangely, the whole, "Microsoft builds a supercomputer" thing didn't go very far.
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