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Over on the microsoft.public.smartphone.developer newsgroup there was an interesting discussion about connecting to corporate networks using Smartphone devices. One of our customers wanted to VPN back into his corporation to get his mail, but was having
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Two folks from the ActiveSync team have a webcast tomorrow (8/4) on how to configure and troubleshoot Exchange ActiveSync for always-up-to-date support. This is a pretty common question on the newsgroups so if you're at all interested stop by! Here are
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While I was at TechEd someone asked me how you detect a hardware keyboard on Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition devices. This could either be a clip-on keyboard or an integrated keyboard, depending on the device. Typically if the keyboard is attached you'll
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This morning at the lovely hour of 8:30am I did my first TechEd session, which was all about UI design for Pocket PC and Smartphone. Robert took a great picture of me getting hooked up for audio which you can see at my TechEd Moblog . My second session
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I've made it to Amsterdam and have some level of network connectivity, so it's time to start posting :) I'll be blogging my time at TechEd Europe using Textamerica. Check out the blog at http://mdc2004europe.textamerica.com/ . [Author: Neil Enns]
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Today I was once again reminded how hard it is to find POOM documentation in MSDN. For those who also have this frustration, here's the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcepoom/html/ceoriPocketOutlookObjectModel.asp
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If you've been hanging out at Channel 9 this week you've probably seen a couple of clips from an interview I did about Smartphone. Here's a screen cap from one of the videos: We didn't plan it, but the camera angle had a nice side effect: you can see
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Yay! The first part of my interview with Channel 9 is now available for your viewing pleasure. It's a quick tour through some of my favourite parts of my Smartphone device. Stay tuned over the next couple of weeks as the wacky Channel 9 crew posts more
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Since several people seemed interested in the older posts on inbox API usability I thought I'd point everyone to Steven Clark's blog on API usability. It looks like he's going through each of the cognitive dimensions and explaining them in detail. Very
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One of our MVPs was having some trouble recently with POOM and traced the problem back to our device images. We didn't get the POOM type library into the ROM images in our 2003 release, unfortunately. If you're doing POOM development and need the type
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We just got out of a meeting where we did a quick API usability mini-study of one of our new managed APIs. This is somewhat related to my earlier post on the joys of API design , so I thought folks might be interested. Henry, our usability engineer, got
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Yesterday one of our developers stopped by my office and asked me how to write a custom home screen and colour scheme for Smartphone. Time to dig up the old links :) If you've ever wondered how to do it there are a couple of good references you can use.
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Thanks to everyone who wished Amy well in my earlier post. For those who are curious her birthday turned out to be quite the event. Last night elves left bags of confetti printed with “adoration” in every office in our building. My guess is
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If you attended MDC or saw any of the agenda you'll know that we're working hard on providing some great managed classes in the next platform release of Pocket PC and Smartphone. Two big pieces of these are managed access to PIM data and managed access
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Who the heck is Amy? Amy (a.k.a. “Princess Amy) is our Release Program Manager. Her job is to make sure that we ship when we say we're going to ship. It's a pretty tough job! Imagine wrangling dev, test, PM, design, usability, and user education all down
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