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Windows Phone Sessions at MIX Announced

The covers have been lifted off of the twelve sessions at MIX in the Windows Phone track. Following on from yesterdays announcements that Windows Phone 7 development consists of Silverlight and XNA, these session descriptions tell more about the entire...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 03-05-2010

Filed under: #MIX10, Windows Phone, #WP7

New Windows Mobile 6.5.3 DTK

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c0213f68-2e01-4e5c-a8b2-35e081dcf1ca&displaylang=en This Developer Tool Kit acts as an add-on to the Windows Mobile 6 SDK. It adds in Windows Mobile 6.5 and 6.5.3 samples, APIs and Emulators...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 02-16-2010

Filed under: Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Developer Tool Kit

The Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Developer Tool Kit has been released, and is available at the Microsoft Download Center The Windows Mobile 6.5.3 DTK provides documentation, sample code, header and library files, emulator images, and tools to Visual Studio that...

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 02-16-2010

Filed under: Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Developer Tool Kit, Windows Mobile, 6.5.3, DTK

Windows Phone 7 Series announced.

Just in case you missed it, and don't read my colleagues' blogs Microsoft anounced the new Windows Phone 7 Series at MWC in Barcelona. You can see lots of videos with full details and demos here No announcement about development environments,...

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 02-16-2010

Filed under: Windows Phone 7 Series, MWC Barcelona, MIX10

Windows Phone 7 Series Announced

Yesterday, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft announced their new mobile phone strategy and platform. As Peter Foot has already reported in his blog ( http://mobileworld.appamundi.com/blogs/peterfoot/archive/2010/02/15/developing-for-windows...

Posted to Andy Wigley by Andy Wigley on 02-16-2010

Bluetooth changes in Windows 7

Since Bluetooth APIs were introduced into Windows (we are talking about the desktop OS here, not Windows CE / Windows Mobile / Windows Phone) there have been numerous updates and changes. Confusingly not all of these have been in Major updates or service...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 02-15-2010

Filed under: Bluetooth

Developing for Windows Phone 7

I've already had a couple of questions about how to develop applications for Windows Phone 7. At the moment the "developer story" has not been announced but over on the Windows Mobile Developer Blog they have announced that MIX10 will be...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 02-15-2010

Filed under: #MIX10, Windows Phone, #WP7

Error handling in .Net Compact Framework - And more

Error handling and tracing has always been a challenge, and many attempts have been made to automate error handling. I have tried various methods in the past, including writing my own error handler, that bolted in after the application had been written...

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 02-08-2010

SQL Search

I am a great fan of Redgate tools for both SQL Server and .Net development. They write superb tools for developers - I find SQL Toolbelt invaluable for working with SQL Server. The have just produced a new FREE tool call SQL Search which does exactly...

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 02-08-2010

Filed under: SQL Search, Redgate, SQL Server

Win a trip to PDC in Los Angeles

Microsoft New Zealand are running a competition to win a trip to the next Microsoft PDC event in Los Angeles. It is open to all developers living in New Zealand. All you need to do to enter is help them out with questionnaire:- “Targeted towards NZ developers...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 01-31-2010

Application and File Icons with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

There are a number of scenarios in which you want to retrieve the icon associated with a particular executable or other file type. One example is when building a file browser, you might also want to extract the icon associated with your application or...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 01-26-2010

Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

Interesting Windows Phone News for MIX10

There have been rumours floating around all over the web about Windows Phone future versions. Microsoft have remained tight lipped allowing various tech sites to come up with all sorts of fanciful stories. However a tantalising news snippet has appeared...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 01-20-2010

Filed under: Windows Mobile

New Development Certificates

Microsoft have now released some replacement developer certificates for Windows Mobile. See this post for details and a download link:- http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/wmdev/archive/2010/01/12/new-windows-mobile-developer-certificates.aspx

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 01-13-2010

Filed under: Windows Mobile

Expired Development Certificates

As some of you may have noticed the development certificates which are shipped with the Windows Mobile 6 SDK all expired on 31st December 2009. There have been no updates provided yet so the only official workaround is to fiddle with the date on your...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 01-10-2010

Filed under: Windows Mobile

Replacement for Type.GUID

A question came up on the newsgroups of how to get the Guid assigned to a Type via a GuidAttribute. Typically this will be defined when creating a manged Class/Interface to match a COM exposed CoClass/Interface. The desktop exposes a GUID property of...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 01-04-2010

Filed under: Compact Framework

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