Compact Framework / Windows Mobile

Meme IDE(Beta) for Developing Apps for Android , Windows Mobile and iPhone is released

It was just few months back that i wrote about the New IDE for Mobile App Developers ( Windows Mobile , Android , Apple iOS ) where Joe Gregory was working on it . Now the Meme IDE is released yesterday . It still a Beta still and more importantly its free . You can download Meme IDE (Beta) here . Note that you will have to register in order to download on Meme site MEME IDE enables the developers to design, deve Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - June 3, 2011 at 9:05 pm

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Meme IDE Follow up for Windows Mobile , Android and iPhone

In one of my previous posts i blogged about the New IDE for Mobile App Developers ( Windows Mobile , Android , Apple iOS ) where Joe Gregory showed a demo of a Hello world program with the Meme IDE – a new IDE for Mobile App Developers for developing apps for Windows Mobile , Android and Apple iOS . Now , the author has come with a follow up video that adds more detail to the application which includes signat Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 15, 2011 at 10:23 pm

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New IDE for Mobile App Developers ( Windows Mobile , Android , Apple iOS )

Just found this interesting video when searching through IDE’s in google Hello World Hello Meme IDE from Meme Apps on Vimeo. var infolink_pid = 373515; var infolink_wsid = 1; Joe Gregory has been working on a new IDE for Windows Mobile , Android and Apple IOS  . The IDE is named as “MEME IDE” which is a IDE for mobile app developers . The beta launch of the MEME IDE is slated for Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 2, 2011 at 8:40 pm

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From embedded VC++ to Visual Studio for Windows Mobile / Windows Phone 7

Windows Mobile is a Mobile OS from Microsoft that is being used in the smartphones . The Different versions of Windows Mobiles include Pocket PC 2002 Pocket PC 2003 Windows Mobile 5 Windows Mobile 6 Windows Mobile 6.1 Windows Mobile 6.5 Windows Phone 7  . With different flavours of Windows Mobile with touch screens / non touchscreen devices that were / are available what are the Development IDE’s / platfo Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 7, 2011 at 11:16 pm

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Kiosk Mode Library for Windows Mobile

  Some times when developing Windows Mobile Application  you might want to make sure that users cannot navigate to and use any of the other programs except your program . This means that the windows start button in the taskbar must be disabled . There are some predefined functions in the coredll.dll in Windows Mobile <DllImport("coredll.dll")> _ Public Shared Function FindWindow(ByVal lpClassName As String, Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 5, 2011 at 9:53 pm

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How to make your Windows Mobile 6 looks like Windows Phone 7 ?

With the successful launch of the Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 , most of the Windows Mobile 6/6.1 users might be thinking of upgrading or may be going for the new Windows Phone 7 Handsets . I currently own Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 and am planning to go for WP7 in the near future . i am still looking for Dell Venue Pro or LG Optimus 7 model which is yet to be launched here in India . With this being my state , i Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 14, 2011 at 10:40 pm

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Windows Phone 7 Ads

Here are some nice Windows Phone 7 Ads that i was able to browse through in the you tube. Seems like everyone's so addicted to their smart phones :( and many of those in the Ad seems to be less interested in things happening around them .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - October 12, 2010 at 10:46 pm

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Windows Phone Design Day – Recorded Videos

Jaime Rodriguez , WPF Technical Evangelist at Microsoft has posted some videos from the recent Windows Phone Design Day in the MSDN Channel 9 . If you are currently developing Windows Phone 7 Applications or planning to do it any time soon, then its a much watchable videos as it provides a lot of information about Windows Phone 7 . Here are the list of sessions… 1. Windows Phone Design Days – Perceived Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 15, 2010 at 11:03 am

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9th Edition of Microsoft’s Virtual Techdays

Microsoft Virtual Techdays is back . It is one of the India’s premier online technical event and this time its the 9th Edition and will be held from August 18-20 , 2010 . The Microsoft’s Virtual Techdays is an Online event and will have about 30 sessions everyday and is completely FREE. The tracks are categorized by targetting Developers , IT / Infrastructure Professionals , Enterprise Developers etc & Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 13, 2010 at 11:33 pm

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Programming Windows Phone 7 eBook – Special Draft Preview – 2

Charles Petzold 's Programming Windows Phone 7 Special Draft Preview - 2 is now Available! The first preview was released couple of months back and this is one of the first books that is available for Windows Phone 7 as far as my knowledge is concerned .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 4, 2010 at 11:05 pm

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Local Database Support for Windows Phone 7

I Was Searching for some Local Database support for Windows Phone 7 in Google and Ended up with the list here . 1. db4o - Windows Phone database db4o is an object based database that can be used in the silverlight applications / Windows Phone Application .It offers you a lightweight persistence engine that stays close to your .NET objects and is a 100% .NET native code . The db4o site also states that

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 3, 2010 at 10:10 pm

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SMS Server Toolkit for Windows Mobile

Found this nice SDK for the Windows Mobile that can be used with the PC to act as the SMS Server . The Project is from the MSRIndia and allows the developers to write the SMS Applications using their Windows Mobile and the PC . The Project also includes a collection of samples that allows the users to use the Excel and send bulk sms. var infolink_pid = 373515; var infolink_wsid = 1; Prerequisites To Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 2, 2010 at 10:35 pm

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Mono Touch Books for .NET Developers and iPhone Development is out

Mono Touch is a .NET Libary which allows the C# developers to write code in .NET and that runs on IPhone OS .The iPhone Development now offers the hot opportunity for .NET developers too. MonoTouch offers the .NET developers to create Apple iPhone and iPad applications. Seems like one doesn't need to learn the Objective-C , the native language for iPhone to master Mono Touch .:-) ...

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - July 7, 2010 at 10:45 pm

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Silverlight for Symbian Platform , What about Windows Mobile ??..

I found a nice article on "Silverlight for Symbian hits 20K download" The blog states that the "Silverlight for Symbian – Beta hits 20K in successful downloads". Silverlight is the development platform for Windows Phone 7 along with the XNA Framework . Microsoft had announced a Beta version of Developer Tools and Silverlight runtime during the MIX'10 to enable users to run Silverlight applications on the symbian devices.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - July 3, 2010 at 9:05 pm

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No Support for Windows Mobile 6.X Development in Visual Studio 2010 ??…

Recently , i was trying to develop a smart device application in Visual Studio 2010 and found that the template to create them were missing in Visual Studio 2010 . Then with lots of search in Google , i found an interesting article in MSDN that states the following .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 3, 2010 at 8:30 pm

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Auto Implemented Properties in .NET

If we want to create a class with a bunch of public properties , we generally do it by storing the value of the properties in private field. Eg : Class Student { private int id; public int ID { get { return id; } set { id=value; } } }

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 30, 2010 at 9:46 pm

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Different versions of Windows Mobile

This blog post gives an introduction to the different versions of Windows Mobile and small code snippet in C# / .NET Compact Framework to find the version of the Operating system. Windows Mobile is a microsoft's mobile operating system designed for smartphone and mobile devices .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 3, 2010 at 11:07 pm

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Windows Phone 7 Series “Rockstar” Award Contest

Microsoft has recently released the Windows Phone Developers Tools ( CTP ) . With the buzz on the new Platform is getting higher day by day , Here's an opportunity for the students to get going with the Windows Phone Development and get recognised . Yes , this is the Windows Phone 7 Series "Rockstar" Award that is included with the Imagine Cup 2010 .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 2, 2010 at 10:13 pm

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Getting Started with Windows Mobile Development

Windows Mobile is a platform for running applications on mobile devices built on top of WINCE 5.0 . There are 3-different platforms available Windows mobile standard targetting the the Non touchscreen devices . Windows Mobile Professional targetting the touch screen devices . Windows Mobile Classic - Similar to Windows Mobile Professional but without the phone functionalities.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 26, 2010 at 6:45 pm

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Windows Phone Developer Tools ( CTP ) Released

Recently , Microsoft announced the release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP . The development platform for the applications are Silverlight based .The GUI looks good and clean too. The runtimes supported are Silverlight, XNA Framework and .NET Compact Framework .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 18, 2010 at 11:42 pm

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Windows Mobile Developer Contest

Do you have a cool idea for a Mobile Application? Here is a lifetime opportunity for you to showcase your development skills to the rest of the world and in the process, become a Millionaire. Pick any of the monthly themes and create a Windows Mobile Application which best showcases the versatility of the Windows Mobile platform. By doing it, you can help yourself win fabulous Cash Prizes, Phones, Certificates, Publicity

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - July 18, 2009 at 6:19 am

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