Peter Foot

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• 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

• 070-580: Windows Mobile 6.5 Application Development

  This may be a little late to the party but I thought I would share some information on this exam. Because you sign an NDA when you take the exam I cannot comment on specifics of the exam content, however I can offer some guidance on the study guide:-... Posted May 24 2010, 01:05 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile

• 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

• Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server for Mobility

  If you want to learn about configuring Exchange Server for mobile devices there is an interactive configuration guide which will work through the actions required depending on your platform and your specific requirements:- http://wmexchangesetup.com/launcher... Posted May 03 2010, 08:40 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile

• 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

• 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 Feb 16 2010, 05:33 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile

• 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

• 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 Jan 20 2010, 05:35 PM by PeterFoot with 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 Jan 13 2010, 09:25 PM by PeterFoot with 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 Jan 10 2010, 04:52 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile

• 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