The Mobile Minute 86

Software / Hardware 

• Quick!! What platforms does the .NET runtime shitp natively with?  Answer.
• More pictures of the HTC Universal device (yes, ‘Universal’ is the code-name).   Droool.
• Check out Mike Zintel’s list of .NET CF apps
• Tweak your Smartphone from your PC (via the comment from this Smartphone “Tip-o-the-Day” post)
• Also from Smartphone “Tip-o-the-day” is little ditty – live TV on your smartphone. Not too shabby.. but the URL is a pain to type..
• Hey iPAQ h6300 series owners: ROM update

 Development

• Marcus blogs about deploying applications to Windows Mobile (thankfully the make cab functionality is improved in Whidbey)
• Some common questions about WM security (via Marcus P)
• Geekzone has an article entitle Defining a security policy for Windows Mobile Pocket PC (via MP).  Thinking about security on devices.. check out this article.  How many of you WM Smartphone users have PhoneLock enabled?  (I do.. and yeah, it can be a pain in the arse..but when I’m traveling or at a customer site no one should have access to my phone.. (and I lock my laptop, too).  Note: some folks have mentioned to me that locking my device(s) and my laptop convey a lack of trust for the customer [to the customer].  Quite the opposite, I’ll argue…
• Device provisioning info (via Marcus P)
• Here’s a real gem from Marcus – MSDN (UK ) Nuggets  Very cool!.. Listing starting ..now.
• How to Develop Orientation-Aware and DPI-Aware Applications for Pocket PC (MSDN)
• Do Threading? Then you likely know WaitHandle – see what Daniel has to say..
• greggm has a great blog on debugging / exception handling..  check out this particular post on reporting exception (via The Moth)
• Daniel Moth has two posts in which he discusses challenges that desktop developers face in writing .NET CF code / code for devices. I think I’ll write a separate post adding some items of my own and elaborating on some of these..
• VS2005 brings us a new tool: the Device Command Shell (via the Visual Studio for Devices team)
• Steven Pratschner delivers Part 2 of his .NET CF versioning, strong names, and GAC series

Information / Services

• mobilemonday.us  – Meetings about Mobility, the first Monday of the month