Will’s Blog

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).

I’ve downloaded and installed the Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer January CTP (formerly known as Sparkle) and it is looking quite impressive. Have a read of this blog post on Expression Interactive Designer by Manuel Clement (who works on the team that is responsible for the product). Oh, and the Expression Graphic Designer January CTP (formerly known as [...]

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 [...]

Just browsing around Memeorandum again and saw this post by Loren which links to a page titled “SearchTIP” which looks really promising. It works quite well. It tries to mimic the Tablet PC Input Panel (hence being called Search TIP).

I saw this on Memeorandum yesterday.

Wilco Bauwer has posted an Atlas Class Browser which will show the public properties/events/methods of each Atlas type. It includes the Web, Web.Net, Web.Data, Web.Services, Web.UI, Web.UI.Data namespaces. If you prefer, however to explore the actual Atlas JavaScript files, but prefer a more “spaced out” version, check out Ralph Sommerer’s post. He’s got some funky [...]

Just noticed that the Service Pack 2 for exchange has been released. Cool! What’s got my attention the most about this service pack is the enhancements for mobile devices. Saw a demo if it at MEDC (Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference) Melbourne. The feature which allows you to do a remote “wipe” of the device [...]