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Friday, July 3, at 1pm (Sydney time) is the first of a series of 3 Live Meetings to help Australian developers get started developing for Windows Mobile 6.5 – and to get those apps in Marketplace ( Windows Marketplace for Mobile – Open for Developer registration...
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I was scrolling through the SMH site this morning and noticed the article “ Windows Mobile takes a bite at Apple ”. Whilst this article talks about a lot of positive aspects of the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform it really annoys me when there are glaring...
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I noticed Frank’s post on the new Touch Controls Suite 1.0 from Mirabyte . It’s hard to do the UI justice, particularly because the YouTube video they have on the page uses such horrible colours. I do like how it appears in Visual Studio and...
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This is going to be the question that is often raised when developers start building widgets for the Windows Mobile 6.5. Whilst this MSDN article covers some of the basics, it doesn’t cover which common frameworks are supported. For example...
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Two really interesting downloads to help you build real world Windows Mobile applications: 1) SyncComm ( http://synccomm.codeplex.com ) is designed to provide you with a starting point for building WCF sync framework applications. 2) Microsoft® Windows...
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In my previous post I talked about the ColourPicker, the ProgressBar and the OpenSaveDialog controls. Now, in an effort to assist Windows Mobile developers build stylish applications they have released another swag of controls. First is the iWheel...
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Having shown how easily you can build a widget that wires up some data using Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and the new Ajax4 javascript classes, DataView and DataContext, I thought that I would take a shot at getting my widget to work as a gadget...
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I had to laugh at this….. Browsing YouTube I happened upon a Google Ad for none other than Microsoft’s new Bing search . I guess it doesn’t matter that Bing is a major competitor to Google search.
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Step 1: Creating Your Projects Create a new ASP.NET Web Application (new solution) called DataWidgetDemo. You can delete the Default.aspx page as this is not required. Add new web site to your solution. Select the Empty Website template, change...
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If you are planning to build a widget for Windows Mobile 6.5 there is quite a useful page of documentation available at MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd721906.aspx
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Over the past week we have seen a number of posts from Jorge and the team at Microsoft covering what’s new for developers in Windows Mobile 6.5. This was kicked off with the release of the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit which includes both...
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That’s right, whilst there is no official release data for Windows Mobile 6.5 yet, you can go and download the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit today. Probably the largest component of which are the emulators. If you haven’t had the opportunity...
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When I first saw that Widgets were going to be included in Windows Mobile 6.5 I thought that Microsoft had completely lost their minds. If you look at a couple of the investments Microsoft has made into widget-like components in my mind they all...
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I was wandering around some of the shopping malls here in Singapore last night and noticed that a couple of the stores were actually stocking a range of Windows Mobile devices (a bit of a surprise coming from Australia where trying to find a WM device...
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Today was the third and final day of the Windows Mobile Metro training here in Singapore and I got a bit of a chance to look out of the window of the Microsoft office. It appears there is a significant amount of development going on around the port...