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Thursday, Nov 12
Windows Marketplace for Mobile – Updates go live
There have been a set of upgrades go live on Windows Marketplace for Mobile through today – full details are on the updates is available on the windows team blog. To come later this month is extension of the service to Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1 customers.
Windows Marketplace for Mobile – Updates go live
2. Browse & Buy applications from the PC There are a growing number of great applications appearing on Marketplace, and with the coming extension to WM6 & 6.1 devices the opportunity to monetise your application is growing.
Wednesday, Nov 11
Best Party at PDC09! Free Registration!
Feature Keynote, Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer PlatformNewly released PDC 2009 announcements & technology roadmapNetwork with hundreds of local developers, architects, designers & communitySignature savory pan Latin cusine & cocktails...
Thursday, Nov 5
CWR Mobility and Microsoft Dynamics CRM on the Zune HD
I’m now using an HTC Verizon Imagio with the WinMo (Windows Mobile) 6.5 platform and everything just works. You can beat the drop from Microsoft Outlook of over 200 contacts in seconds. And the calendar just works both from work using Outlook and home using Windows Live.
Friday, Oct 23
HTC Snap – 6.5 Upgrade for Australia available
If you’ve purchased an HTC Snap in Australia in the last few months you can now get the official Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade from HTC - http://www.htc.com/au/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=262&act=sd&cat=all Technorati Tags: HTC Snap,Windows Mobile 6.5,Update
Sunday, Oct 18
Western Australia – Day Light Savings changes : patch for Windows Mobile
1. MSI file - which can be installed from your PC can be found here (note, your device has to be connected to your PC to do this, and if you have multiple devices you have to do the same process for each device) DonK Technorati Tags: Windows Mobile,Day Light Savings
Sunday, Oct 4
The Windows Phones have arrived!
• A new enhanced Windows Live experience with What’s New feeds and improved Windows Live photo sharing across major social networking sites (such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Flickr) • The power to sync files on the phone through Windows Live Media Manager and play media files seam...
Sunday, Sep 27
The Hidden Message Queue on your Windows phone
So how does any of this relate to Windows phones? A number of years ago, an MSMQ client was made available for download and installation on Windows phones. Additionally, the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 included classes to work with MSMQ. Unfortunately, the installation of MSMQ was far fro...
Saturday, Sep 5
Windows Phone @ TechEd : HOLs & Interactive Theatres
HOL IDTitleAbstract/OverviewWMB01-HOL WMB01-HOL Building Real-World-Ready Applications for Windows Mobile with the Microsoft Device Emulator 3.0 and the Device Emulator Manager Automation API Technorati Tags: Windows Mobile,TechEd
Friday, Sep 4
Windows phone @ TechEd Australia : The session overview
Loke Uei Tan (Technical Product Manager – WM Product team Microsoft Corp)Thur08:15DEV310Make some Magic! Shake, Flip & Flick your application for Windows Mobile 6.5Get a depth understanding of the new gestures API & more in Windows Mobile 6.5 and spark your applications.
Sunday, Jul 26
Windows Mobile RampUp track is now available on MSDN
To access the Windows Mobile track for RampUp, click here. The Windows Mobile RampUp track consists of 7 modules, each of which takes you one step further to master Windows Mobile Application Development. These modules range from a basic introduction to Windows Mobile Application Devel...
Wednesday, Jul 8
Codemasons’ Guild – Jumpstart Live Meeting #1 Q&A
A: Yes, where a Windows Mobile (6 or greater) phone is configured for Exchange ActiveSync then that handles synchronisation of your Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Email. My Phone will then Sync/Backup other elements – SMS, Photos, Music, Video, Documents.
Tuesday, Jun 16
Twisted Pixels #4 – A Button-Mashers Guide to Input
WM_KEYDOWN: WM_KEYUP: WM_SYSKEYDOWN: WM_SYSKEYUP: WM_CHAR: WM_SYSCHAR: WM_DEADCHAR: WM_SYSDEADCHAR: In actual practice, the only messages that Windows Mobile applications are usually interested in are: WM_KEYDOWN: WM_KEYUP: WM_CHAR:
Saturday, May 16
MemMaker for the .NET Compact Framework
This is pretty cool and has the potential to unleash the largest, most powerful games and applications Windows phones have ever seen. So the big question is, how is this happening? Is it magic? Technorati Tags: Windows Mobile,.NET Compact Framework,Windows CE,Memory Management,Ga...
Thursday, May 7
just say no to GAPI – What you need to know about AllKeys and input management.
The Games API (GAPI) was a technology that allowed Windows Mobile 2003 applications to quickly draw graphics onto the device screen. It also contained functions that allowed an application to request all button press messages, even the ones that were normally intercepted by the Window...
Wednesday, Apr 29
My Notes (a small application between notepad and OneNote)
And last but not least... I’ve put my My Notes to the Live Mesh folder and synchronized my content to other devices. It’s simple and since I’m saving my note content to Rich Text Format (RTF) I can open up my notes even in my Windows Mobile. So now I have pretty good solution for my notes.
Monday, Apr 20
How do I get FREE Software from Microsoft?
Windows Vista® operating system 2007 Microsoft Office system Windows Server® 2008 or Windows Server 2003 Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 or SQL Server 2005 Microsoft Dynamics™ business management solutions Windows Mobile software Does Your Software Development Company Qualify?
Saturday, Mar 28
Resolving Common Crashes Seen in Windows Mobile Watson data
What you might not know is that this window is generated by Watson, which is a component of Windows Error Reporting (WER). Specifically, Watson is the client-side executable that is activated when an unhandled exception occurs on your phone. Watson is responsible for preparing an error r...
Friday, Mar 27
Tech Days and Windows Mobile Development
Developing Mobile Applications with Visual Studio 2005/2008 Distributing and Monetizing Windows Mobile Applications through the Windows Marketplace for Mobile Creating Compelling and Attractive UIs for Windows Mobile Applications
Microsoft Unveils Its Developer Strategy for the Next Generation of Windows® Phones
Developers can utilize familiar tools and technologies to build unique experiences for the Windows Mobile platform through Windows Marketplace for Mobile, including the Windows Mobile 6 SDK, .NET Compact Framework 3.5, and SQL Server Compact 3.5.
Thursday, Mar 5
MyPhone
Voila. The Palm Treo Pro was a functional clone of the Samsung Omnia. The best thing was that all of my threaded SMS conversations were just there. “So how does this differ from Live Mesh?” I hear you ask. If you have a Windows Mobile Phone – indispensible…
Monday, Feb 16
Introducing Windows® Marketplace for Mobile…
At Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona, Steve Ballmer announced a number of upcoming additions to the Windows Mobile® family. In addition to great consumer-focused services such as Microsoft® My Phone, he also announced a new on-device application marketplace for Windows Mobil...
Hello Windows Mobile 6.5
Windows Mobile 6.5 (.doc file, 359 KB) Microsoft Recite Technology Preview (.doc file, 131 KB) Microsoft Communications Sector (.doc file, 44 KB) Microsoft Tag (.doc file, 406 KB) Related Links Windows at Mobile World Congress GSMA Mobile World Congress Windows Mobile Newsroom Microsoft...
Friday, Feb 13
Opinion: Windows Mobile Blog Article Suggestions
Hello world. My name is Luke Nyswonger and I manage the Windows Mobile SDK documentation team in addition to promoting an active blogging community here at Microsoft. Over the past 3 months we’ve tried to put a steady stream of consumer and developer focused content out to the community for...
Friday, Jan 16
Developing Location Aware Applications for Windows Mobile
Another great online resource is a webcast by Windows Mobile Community PM Constanze Roman and MVP Maarten Struys. As part of their 24 Hours of Windows Mobile Application Development series, Constanze and Maarten presented a webcast on location-aware applications. The webcast discuss...
Wednesday, Jan 14
Opinion: New Version of Windows Live Search for Windows Mobile
There are many examples of this approach, and one of the best is the Windows Live Mobile client, which we’ve discussed before on this blog. The Windows Live team has released an improved version of the client for Windows Mobile (as well as other devices).
Monday, Jan 5
Opinion: Survey of Web Browsers for Windows Mobile
My name is Jim Causey, and I work on Core OS developer documentation for Windows Mobile. I’ve been working as a Windows developer in both higher education and private industry for 15 years, and have worked as a writer and editor for SAMS, Microsoft Press, and now Microsoft for most of that t...
Monday, Dec 22
24 Hours of Windows Mobile Application Development
MSDN Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Mobile Application Development: .NET Compact Framework Asynchronous Programming Techniques (Level 300) MSDN Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Mobile Application Development: Windows Mobile Networking (Level 300) MSDN Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows M...
Tuesday, Dec 16
How To: Windows (Outlook) Mobile: Using Hotmail & Gmail
I read this interesting blogpost which talks about how to use your Hotmail or Windows Live account with Outlook Mobile. It gives detailed information like what are the sync’ing with Windows Live support, how to set up, limitation and its mobile related ms forum details…
Friday, Nov 14
Thoughts about the “Windows Embedded” renaming
But this renaming is definitively NOT about merging Windows CE and XP Embedded technologies. Windows Embedded Compact (a.k.a. CE ;-)) will remain a modular low foot print real time embedded operating system based on an architecture running on a variety of CPUs, while Windows Embedded Stan...
Windows Mobile MVP Spotlight
Dr Neil Roodyn and Nick Landry | MSN Video Windows Mobile MVP Spotlight: Peter Nowak | MSN Video Windows Mobile MVP Spotlight: Ginny Caughey | MSN Video Additionally, we have published an interview with PDC co-presenters Amit Chopra and Giorgio Sardo regarding their session Microsoft...
Tuesday, Nov 11
Patch Tuesday: WM 6.1 SMTP fix released!
As some of you have noticed, a bug recently appeared on Windows Mobile 6.1 devices that prevented certain users from being able to send e-mail. It took more time than we expected to investigate the cause, create a fix, and finally test it across the various flavors of Windows Mobile 6.1 out th...
Friday, Oct 31
Windows Mobile for Australia
Requirements: Windows Mobile Device - preferably version 6.1 Windows Media Player 11 (found on Microsoft.com or included in Windows Vista) Software to manage podcasts i.e. Zune, Zencast or ITunes (my favourite is Zune and you don't need a Zune to download the software). http://www.zune.ne...
Thursday, Oct 30
Live Mesh goes Beta, adds preview for Mac client and Mobile client
Added new synchronization status indicators. If you’ve been using Live Mesh to sync a lot of data, you’ve probably found yourself wondering at some point how far along the synchronization process was. We’ve added an icon to the notification area of the taskbar and a progress bar so that you...
“I Like Windows Mobile and Am Not Ashamed To Admit It”
A new Windows Mobile site has launched called Windows Mobile Developer Network and shows you upcoming events, featured applications, Windows Mobile team websites, and featured content articles along with a bunch of other content that helps people use their device to the fullest. The s...
Tuesday, Oct 28
Microsoft Delivers Pre-Beta Release of Windows 7 and Previews New Web Applications Based on Office Software
• Feature: Microsoft to extend Office to the browser • Windows Vista Developer Center Web site • Microsoft Office Live Workspace Web site • Live Mesh Web site Windows 7 Preview The Best of Web and Windows Development With Visual Studio and .NET
Monday, Oct 27
MARK YOUR CALENDARS: MSDN Webcast on .NET CF 3.5 PowerToys is coming up on October 22nd, 2008 at 10 AM PST!
Please join us tomorrow, October 22nd, 2008 at 10 AM PST for part 8 of our 24-hours of Windows Mobile Application Development webcast series. This week, MVP Maarten Struys, Joshua Partlow, and Constanze Roman will show you how to use the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 PowerToys. If you are develo...
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 can find the top-ten tip list at th...
Thursday, Oct 16
Welcome to the New Windows Mobile Developer Center
4. The “Rich Internet Applications” box is a bit of a mystery and looks to be pretty vacant place at the moment. Don’t think of it like you would an “Under Construction” web site. Think of it as the big tease that it is. Who knows for sure what’s to come in the RIA space for Windows Mobile...
Opinion: Old School Windows Mobile :: Getting Started with Java on PDAs
At the same time, Microsoft has been trying to hit one out of the park for years with its Windows CE operating system running on a variety of handheld devices. As with everything else at Microsoft, it usually takes them three times to get something right, and the Pocket PC is no exception.
Introducing the Windows Mobile Connection
The Windows Mobile Connection tries to be that place—something that's truly by and for sales professionals. We've launched with a discussion forum, photo gallery, and home page news—all built and moderated by technical experts and others who work directly with the Windows Mobile team....
Opinion: Random Thoughts from TechEd 2008
It looks like the topic of TechEd this year evolves around new rendering/layout technologies, like WPF and Silverlight. There are already many ISVs out there selling controls built on top of these new technologies. I was listening to a presentation about Silverlight running on Windows M...
Monday, Sep 8
Opinion: Roadtest: Samsung SGH-i780 Windows Mobile Phone
There is much hype and hullabaloo about the Apple iPhone right now. You'd think that it was the first mobile phone ever invented, or the one with the most features/functionality, or the best design.... So onto my new Samsung. Features GPS WiFi Bluetooth
Monday, Aug 25
Windows Mobile @ TechEd Australia - the Hands on Labs
So to complete the "Windows Mobile guide to TechEd 2008", here is a list of the Windows Mobile focused Hands-on-Labs; HOL IDNameDescriptionMBL01-HOLBuilding a Compelling Windows Mobile User InterfaceIn this lab you will learn how to build great looking Windows Mobile applications...
Friday, May 4
Opinion: Dogfood Doesn't Always Taste Good
Windows Mobile 6 continued to use the 5500 for a while but switched to its replacement, the HTC SDA (Tornado). We also used the HTC MDA (Wizard). At the tail end, we got some HTC Dashes in. In all of these cases, we didn’t have access to any of the source code. An HTC engineer made changes for us.
