The Mobile Minute 168

Posted on 2008/11/09 by ngb

No blogging last week on account of the MVP Summit, but we’re back at it this week…

Jon Box lists reasons for running WM 6 and WM 6.1
Carlo Longino’s well-written piece about the mobile web, in response to the Mowser situation.
Dan blogs about an issue with CF 3.5
Erik EJ gives us a sample of importing SQL Compact data into Excel
Raffael gives us four gems: A three part series on GPS Programming Tips for WM, and a post on debugging Connection Manager code.
Pavel gives us one way to simulate a Windows service on Windows Mobile using managed code

The Mobile Minute 175

Posted on 2008/11/09 by ngb

Free ‘control your device from your desktop’ software MyMobileR has released v1.23 with several new goodies and fixes. PocketController is getting some competition! (although you can’t [yet] skin the MyMobileR window)
Dash has opened the API to their GPS receivers. (via BGR) Now you can send a tweet with your actual location..and the GPS seems pretty decent, too (check out earlier reviews).
BlackJack III ? (BGR seems to think so – touch screen, too!)
Om has a great post about GPS commoditization
Speaking of GPS, Microsoft has recently announced Windows Embedded NavReady. Here’s the PressPass post.
AuthenTec has announced fingerprint reader for waterproof phones.
The folks at EQATEC have released version 1.2.41 of their excellent profiler for .NET CF.
Fellow Device AppDev MVP Chris Craft has started a 30 days of .NET [Windows Mobile Applications] series (ok, he’s now 3 weeks in..). Check it out – a lot of great samples here. Way to go, Chris!

Posted on 2008/11/09 by ngb

Software / Hardware

NewsGator Mobile is now in public beta. Check it out. Thanks to Neil Cowburn for the link.
Jason Fuller of the Windows Mobile team gives us some guidelines for setting up GPS on WM5

Development

SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition is now in CTP (via Steve Lasker) and from the SQL Server Everywhere blog. Download here. BOL is here. Here’s one piece of the functionality that I love: “Full support for all of the Sql Mobile features, including the SqlCeResultSet and RDA”. Sweet.
P&P’s Mobile Client Software Factory (MCSF) is has reached CTP stage.
Alex Yahknin shares how to make a .NET CF label control transparent. …and how to use MSXML2 in .NET CF 2.0
John Kennedy tells us about Adapt Your App – a collection of items to help you make sure that your app adapts to the latest screen resolutions and orientations. Here’s a list (nicely organized by OS and resolution) of emulator images for Device Emulator 1.0 Speaking of.. here is a Standalone Device Emulator 1.0 that contains WM5.0 images with MSFP
Also from John Kennedy is a link to the MobileDeveloper wiki that gives us some guidelines for writing Ajax apps targeted to Windows Mobile devices.
Check out the Windows Mobile Starter Kits And don’t forget to check out the eHow-Tos – see John Kennedy and Jenny Kays (they’re swell!) and other folks and learn a thing or two!
Neil Cowburn welcomes us to the new OpenNETCF
Peter Foot tells us how to disable the touch screen

In Other News . . .

Posted on 2008/11/09 by ngb

TGIF!

Software / Hardware

Development

In Other News . . .

Posted on 2008/11/09 by ngb

Happy Pi Day!

Outlook Mobile team blog. Subscribed.
Loke notes that Newsbreak 2.0 is out. He talks about his experiences after two days. Hanselman digs it, too. Stay tuned for my forthcoming mobile RSS reader review.
Check out the AT&T WS SMT5700 over at Engadget Mobile. Looks like someone cross-bred a Treo, a BlackJack, and a N62.

SQL CE 2005 BOL has been updated; get the March 2007 .chm.
The February 2007 monthly updates are now available for Windows Embedded CE 6.0, Windows CE 5.0, 090-015008ccc1dc%26DisplayLang%3den”>Windows CE 5.0 Network Media Device Feature Pack, and Windows CE.NET 4.2
Neil C. shows us RPM running under Vista and how to interact with interactive phone services in 3 lines of code.
I got an e-mail last week that the Red FIVE Labs team has released a CTP of their .NET CF 1.0 port to Symbian. Write once, run everywhere? Um, no. Read their FAQ.
Mike Lipp from the CF team talks about app compat with NETCF v2 SP2. As you know already, .NET CF 2.0 SP2 has been released; keep an eye on this post from the .NET CF team. They will be updating it as the releases (QFEs, etc) become available.
Anand talks more about networking support on Vista for Device Emulator v2. And Richard shows how to send your GPS location.

Cincinnati/Dayton Code Camp: March 24, 2007 Are you registered? Check out the sessions.
Next CINNUG meeting: March 20, 2007 on Guidance Automation Toolkit