Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

February 2007 - Posts

Porting woes - what to do about the PropertySheet?

Much as we try to reduce the differences between the Pocket PC and Smartphone, there are still some things that are unique to each of these flavors of Windows Mobile from a developer’s perspective. These differences cause problems when porting a Pocket Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 17, 2007 10:00 AM by MelSam | 8 Comments

When Do You Switch From The Emulator To A Device?

As a comment on my last post, Matthew pointed out that he generally only uses the emulator for simple apps and generally uses real devices for testing. Our long term goal for the emulator is to make it good enough for many developers to build and test Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:20 AM by jamespr | 38 Comments

Where are the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs?

Since we announced Windows Mobile 6 at 3GSM last Monday, a couple of people have asked me "where are the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs?". The good news is that for most developers, their existing Windows Mobile 5.0 application will just work on Windows Mobile Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 4:55 PM by jamespr | 38 Comments

The Curious Case Of The Four-byte Writes

Everybody who has worked at Microsoft for long enough has their war stories. I'll share one of my first, from Windows Mobile 6 development. It Sounded Simple Enough My first full feature at Microsoft was the storage card encryption feature in WM6. My Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:34 AM by Scott Yost | 6 Comments

What's New for Developers in Windows Mobile 6

No new OS from Microsoft is complete without a great developer story. The new Windows Mobile 6 SDK will be available for download very soon. Our good friend Jim Wilson has just published an excellent MSDN white paper that describes in great detail what's Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007 2:38 PM by MelSam | 13 Comments

Certificate Improvements in Windows Mobile 6

As faithful blog readers already know, there were several limitations related to certificates that caused tons of customer pain on WM5. Now that WM6 is public, it gives me great pleasure to announce the following changes that we made in WM6: Certificate Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:07 PM by Scott Yost | 63 Comments

How do you dial 1-800-FLOWERS?

Say you’re a business that sells flowers over the phone. And say that, while picking a phone number for your business, you’ve got the choice between 1-800-356-9377 and 1-800-444-4444. Which do you pick? You’d pick the first one, because, while 7 seemingly Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:14 PM by MikeCal | 68 Comments
 
Page view tracker