Will’s Blog

Looks like you can now download the new SDK for Windows Mobile 6 Standard (Smartphone) as well as for Windows Mobile 6 Professional (PPC Mobile). I reckon the new names are far too long. Looks like they were prematurely uploaded. But from what I’ve read, the next version of Windows Mobile will combine the features of both the [...]

Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Edition today screen customisations: – Guide to creating Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC themes via Xda-Developers.com. Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition homescreen customisations: – Homescreen Guide for Beginners via MoDaCo. – Customizing the Microsoft Smartphone 2002 homescreen via MSDN. Although the second link refers to the Smartphone 2002 version, many [...]

Just noticed that there’s a Compact Framework version of the Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit called the Mobile Client Software Factory available now. Francis K. Cheung has a series of posts on his blog about issues relating to porting to the Compact Framework. On a side note, is anyone else heading to MEDC 2006 in [...]

Awesome, looks like there’s going to be even more Windows Mobile based devices hitting the market. See this post at MyPDACafe (via Jason Langridge’s blog) about new devices being manufactured by Chinese device manufacturer, Tech Faith Wireless (TFW), which looks like it will be going head to head with another Original Device Manufacturer (ODM) that [...]

When developing a Windows Mobile based application, you’re often presented with the “I want everything synchronised between my device and my PC” scenario. While yes, it’d be great to have everything synchronised when you’re on the go (via GPRS, etc), and having little changes filtered through to the device. The little changes is fine, but [...]

Most readers who’ve been following some of my past posts will know that my head is currently buried deep in the Compact Framework, and allowed to poke my head up on occassions to get back to the web stuff. Some days I wonder around the web looking at .NET CF related articles (it’s all part [...]

One of the interesting issues with my transition from being a Web Developer (ASP.NET) to being a Windows Mobile Developer (CF.NET) is the issue of memory management. We all know that the little devices don’t have nearly as much memory as our more basic computers sitting around the office.  So naturally, the memory management side [...]

Just found a few Windows Mobile Technical articles in the Microsoft download center. You can download them from here. The articles touch on a few different areas including .NET CF apps using VS2005, introduction to the new Windows Mobile 5 Managed APIs. Mappoint Location Server, developing multithreaded apps using .NET CF 2. As well as [...]

This is really cool. OpenNetCF has released (the Beta 1) version 2.0 of their Smart Device Framework. Haven’t tried version 2.0 yet, but have tried the previous version (1.4).

Chris Tacke has posted a link to OpenNetCF’s Smart Device Framework 2.0 documentation. Chris also mentions in the same blog post that they are “extremely close to a beta release of SDF 2.0″. Cool, that is very good news for all those developing for Mobile Devices using CF.NET 2.0 in VS 2005. I’m definately looking [...]