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Twisted Pixels #3 – Memory Mysteries

Previous post: Twisted Pixels #2: Doing Graphics! What’s going on? To recap – I have a program that works in the emulator, but does not run on real hardware. The question is why. After reading the following memory model posts: Slaying the Virtual Memory Read More...
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 8:08 PM by nsohl | 2 Comments

Twisted Pixels #2 – Doing Graphics!

Previous post: Twisted Pixels - A Mobile Game Development Diary (Day 1) Doing Graphics! What is the best way to do 2 dimensional graphics on Windows Mobile? To some degree, it depends on your development strategy. Silverlight and Flash is getting a lot Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:16 AM by nsohl | 7 Comments

Twisted Pixels - A Mobile Game Development Diary

My name is Norm Sohl, and I work for the Windows Mobile Developer Experience Content Team.  I used to work for a game development company back in the day when a desktop PC had about as much power as the mobile phone that sits in my pocket right now. Read More...
Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 3:54 PM by nsohl | 14 Comments

Microsoft My Phone

Today at Mobile World Congress Microsoft announced a new free service called My Phone . The service is available as part of a limited beta, meaning it’s possible you might get temporarily waitlisted, but the queue should progress quickly as things ramp Read More...
Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 9:30 AM by Joshua Partlow | 34 Comments

Live Mesh and Windows Mobile

As part of PDC , it was announced that Live Mesh will be going into an open Beta over the course of this week. We are pleased to announce that it is live! No pun intended :) For more information about Live Mesh and the Beta, check out the Live Mesh blog Read More...
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 12:42 PM by Luke | 22 Comments

Windows Mobile Application Developer Chat Recap

A few weeks ago we announced the Windows Mobile application developer chat, which took place last Thursday. MVPs and Microsoft employees opened the floor to questions and provided a top-ten tip list for Windows Mobile application development. While you Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 2:31 PM by Joshua Partlow | 4 Comments

Windows Mobile 6.1 device updates

Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed a lot of interest in Windows Mobile 6.1 . Specifically, people wondering how they can upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.1. Well, the following list might not be comprehensive, but it calls out a number of devices I’ve heard Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 4:53 PM by Joshua Partlow | 26 Comments

Getting Started with Windows Mobile Development.

I have heard comments like "I am new to Windows Mobile development. Where should I start? What books do you recommend?" So if you are a complete beginner, let me tell you what you need to get started: 1. You will need to install Microsoft Visual Studio Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:52 PM by Luis Cabrera | 21 Comments

Windows Mobile App Dev Chat!

Do you have questions regarding Windows Mobile application development that you need answers to? Spend an hour with Microsoft employees and MVPs who are experts in Windows Mobile application development. Please join us for a live chat and bring on the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:28 PM by Luke | 4 Comments

Announcing Windows Mobile 6.1

This morning Microsoft officially announced Windows Mobile 6.1 and an upgrade for Internet Explorer Mobile. Windows Mobile 6.1 will start showing up in devices very very soon, and the IEMobile update will be available later this year. Windows Mobile 6.1 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:56 AM by MelSam | 91 Comments

All About "Application Locked"

I have been working on this post slowly for several days, but Reed and Steve are seriously kicking my butt on posting solid developer-focused technical security content. Read their blog - they covered a lot of this material sooner and better than I did. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:06 AM by Scott Yost | 12 Comments

Windows Mobile 6 Storage Card Encryption FAQ

My colleague Jason Langridge wrote a post about the storage card encryption feature in WM6. This is one of the features I worked on, so I'd like to host some FAQs about it here. What scenario is the feature designed to mitigate? It's fairly easy to remove Read More...
Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 6:43 PM by Scott Yost | 161 Comments
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Windows Mobile 6 SDKs Available For Download

I'm pleased to say that the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs went live today as planned. You can download the SDK for touchscreen (Windows Mobile Professional) and non-touchscreen (Windows Mobile Standard) here . Using the Windows Mobile 6 SDK you can test your Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:04 AM by jamespr | 39 Comments
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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

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
 
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