Peter Foot

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• Use Team Foundation Service for Embedded Projects

  Microsoft's hosted TFS ( http://tfs.visualstudio.com/ ) provides a cloud hosted TFS project collection which is free for small teams. It works neatly with VS2012 which is fine for Windows Store and Windows Phone project types but for .NET Compact... Posted Apr 20 2013, 03:23 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Compact Framework

• WriteableBitmapEx for Windows Embedded Compact 7

  I have ported René Schulte 's excellent WriteableBitmapEx project to run on Windows Embedded Compact 7. The original library supports drawing across various XAML user interfaces - Silverlight, Windows Phone, WPF and Windows 8 Apps. Because... Posted Oct 15 2012, 08:32 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Compact Framework

• Connect Visual Studio 2008 to TFS2012 or Team Foundation Service Preview

  Now that there is a new release of Team Foundation Server you may consider upgrading. However if you still work on projects for the .NET Compact Framework you'll still be using Visual Studio 2008. Luckily there is an update available to allow VS2008... Posted Sep 03 2012, 11:52 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Compact Framework

• Windows Marketplace for Mobile 6.x to be Discontinued

  If you publish apps on the old Marketplace for Windows Mobile 6.x you should have received reminders that the service will be discontinued in two weeks. If you have been using our Mobile In The Hand product with a managed code app there are a couple of... Posted May 03 2012, 12:25 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework

• Managing Processes and Memory With Mobile In The Hand 7.0

  .NET Compact Framework The Compact Framework provides the capability to start a separate process from your code, and stop it but it doesn’t give you more detailed information about what is running and what components are in use. Windows CE includes the... Posted Apr 19 2011, 11:38 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework

• Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding with Mobile In The Hand 7.0

  This is the first in a series of posts about Mobile In The Hand 7.0 which brings a collection of reusable components to the .NET Compact Framework. This latest version is updated to support all versions of Windows Mobile including Windows Embedded Handheld... Posted Apr 15 2011, 03:00 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Windows Phone

• Mobile In The Hand 4.2 Released

  This latest update includes a number of performance enhancements and wider device compatibility. A new SystemEvents class is added in the InTheHand.Win32 namespace which allows you to monitor power changes on devices which do not support the State and... Posted May 10 2010, 02:20 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Mobile In The Hand 4.1

  While this week has very much been focussed on Windows Phone 7 so far we also released the latest version of our Mobile In The Hand suite for the .NET Compact Framework. Along with some bug-fixes (several around EmailMessage functionality) and performance... Posted Mar 16 2010, 08:54 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• 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 Jan 26 2010, 05:16 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• 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 Jan 04 2010, 12:12 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Compact Framework

• Email Configuration with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  One of the new items introduced in version 4.0 is a wrapper for the Email configuration provider. This provides a one-stop-shop to access and modify email account settings. This is used for all email account types except for Exchange synchronisation.... Posted Dec 30 2009, 09:48 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Internet Connection Sharing with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  In Mobile In The Hand 4.0 all the Windows Mobile networking features are found in the InTheHand.WindowsMobile.Net assembly. This contains support for Connection Manager, Internet Sharing and Wireless Manager. This post will look at the Internet Sharing... Posted Dec 22 2009, 01:47 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• More on "My" Functionality in Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  In the last post on "My" functionality I showed you how to get started adding the My Extensions to your project. In this post I have assembled a detailed tree of all the "My" functionality added in Mobile In The Hand 4.0. My Application... Posted Dec 15 2009, 05:44 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Vibration and Profiles with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  One of the goals of the Mobile In The Hand library has always been to provide a consistent managed API regardless of which specific flavour of Windows Mobile device you are using. One example of this is using the Vibration feature used to alert the user... Posted Dec 14 2009, 04:58 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Using Bluetooth Headsets with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  A commonly requested feature is the ability to switch audio to play through a Bluetooth headset device. Mobile In The Hand 4.0 brings this functionality to .NET Compact Framework developers allowing you to play any device audio through a paired headset... Posted Dec 11 2009, 12:31 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4