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How To: Get System Power State Name and Flags

A question came up on our forums and so I investigated writing a wrapper for the GetSystemPowerState API function. This allows you to retrieve the power state name, and also a bitmask of flags - Is the backlight on, is the device password protected etc...

Published Sat, Feb 23 2008 11:29 AM by Peter Foot

Filed under: NETCF, How To
Tech-Ed 2008

I was delighted to find out this week that my session on Personal Area Networking was selected for Tech-Ed Developers this year. The session will cover a range of networking topics including of course Bluetooth. There will be a selection of demos which...

Published Thu, Feb 21 2008 1:45 PM by Peter Foot

Filed under: Events
How To: Programmatically Scroll Controls

A number of controls within .NETCF have built in ScrollBars. Occasionally you may want to operate these programmatically on behalf of the user. When you do this you want both the control to scroll and the scrollbars to correctly reflect the current position...

Published Tue, Feb 12 2008 6:00 PM by Peter Foot

Filed under: NETCF, How To
Great XNA Book Coming Soon

Rob Miles has finished his book on XNA development and it will be out in the wild soon. Although we don't have XNA support for mobile devices it is a cool framework which allows you to build games for both PC and XBox 360 with managed code. You can...

Published Fri, Feb 01 2008 4:43 PM by Peter Foot

Filed under: XBox

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