The Mobile Minute 116

 ..and this one is mostly dev stuff (and darn good stuff, too).

Software / Hardware 

• Pocket PC FAQ has a nice matrix listing new application names in WM 5.0.  One correction to note: They have the browser listed as “Internet Explorer”.   It used to be called “pocket Internet Explorer”  and is now called “Internet Explorer Mobile”.

 Development

• MSDN Webcast: Implementing Security for Mobile Device Solutions  Monday, September 26, 2005 11am PDT by Bill Steele.
• The Visual Studio for Devices (VSD) team  talks about the roadmap for mobile web development w/ ASP.NET
• My colleague Daniel Moth blogs about the .NET CF 2.0 differences between beta 2 and the Release Candidate – an important read if you’ve been doing .NET CF 2.0 development!
• David Kline publishes the first of a multi-part series on Debugging Multi-Threaded Applications.  This one is on Deadlocks.
• Marcus Perryman posts about his PDC session on consuming RSS on a mobile device.  Be sure to check out the C9 video.
• Luis Cabrera from the WM team posts about using connection manager and WinInet with native code
• Peter Foot talks about 32feet.NET and v1.5 of the Bluetooth.NET library
• The Windows CE Networking team talks about Bluetooth Notifications on WM 5.0, in particular getting notifications.
• Check out, via Mike Hall, this interview with John Spaith about the Windows CE Web Server (aka HTTPD).
• Alex Y writes a great piece about implementing AUTD with .NET CF (1.0, even).
• Finally, some info on WPF/e w/r/t .NET CF (via Mike Hall)
• A View of Windows Mobile 5.0 from 10,000 feet by Jim Wilson

In Other News . . .

• SmartphoneThoughts.com has a piece on Picking the right e-mail strategy for your Windows Mobile device
• Steve Makofsky talks about his super-spiffy Portable CE 2.0  and Portable CE 2.0 w/ WM5.0

-Nino