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Windows Mobile Widget 101 – Start Menu Icons

In my previous post on Getting Started with widgets I showed how easily you can create a Windows Mobile widget. However, what you would have noticed when you installed the widget is that it uses the default widget icon both during installation and on the start menu (see below). Whilst it’s not a bad...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 12-21-2009
Windows Mobile Widget 101 – Getting Started

Over the past month or so I’ve been working on a number of projects involving Windows Mobile Widgets. If you aren’t familiar with widgets they are essentially a mini-application published as a zip file containing html, js, css and images. They are similar to Windows Vista/7 gadgets; in fact...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 12-20-2009
Power Tools for .NET Compact Framework v3.5

Microsoft have just released the Power Tools for the .NET CF v3.5 B2 that can be download here , which includes: Remote Performance Monitor and GC Heap Viewer NETCF CLR Profiler App Configuration Tool NETCF ServiceModel Metadata Tool Remote Logging Configuration Tool NETCF Network Log Viewer There are...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-12-2007
Visual Studio and Vista UAC with Open With Command

One of the issues of doing development with Visual Studio under Vista is that there are some cases where you need to be running Visual Studio as Administrator. Normally you do this by right-clicking "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005" from the Start menu and selecting "Run as administrator"...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-12-2007
Windows Mobile Security for Developers

Before I get into the talking about a tool that windows mobile developers will find useful I thought I'd start off with a tool for the end users who are worried about loosing their precious device. Earlier this week I was sent a link to the Shadowmite Hacker Team which had an interesting utility...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-01-2007
Pocket PC Controller gets a Face Lift

Having just rebuilt my personal laptop (with a new 7200rpm drive which makes a noticeable different to speed) I downloaded the latest version of Pocket PC Controller . I noticed that they have done a couple of releases since I worked with it earlier in the year but I wasn't expecting a massive face...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-01-2007
Bookmark: Applications for hosting CD/DVD ISO Images

For the most part burning the 5+Gb DVD ISO image of Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 to DVD is not only a waste of time, it's also difficult on low end DVD burners. This is where applications that are capable of hosting an ISO image as an additional drive on your computer come in handy. As a bookmark for...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 05-06-2007
Other useful Mobile resources

A couple of worthy resources for developers wanting to build applications that will work on a variety of mobile devices: Landscape Smartphone Emulator - HERE Treo Windows Mobile Emulator - HERE (you will need to join the Palm PluggedIn developer program)

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-26-2006
SkypeIn service arrives in Australia

A bit of a hidden gem was discovered while reading the Age newspaper this morning (I'm in Melbourne at the moment so I'm catching up on all the rubbish that seems to go into every newspaper at the moment - at least here it is new rubbish about a city that I'm visiting). Anyhow, there was...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-26-2006

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