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Thursday, June 04, 2009

Windows Mobile 6.5 Dev Toolkit and Widgets by Peter Nowak

I’ve been quite astonished to find out, that the Dev Toolkit for WM 6.5 doesn’t have any documentation on how to create Widgets for WM 6.5 included.

Instead of finding it within the Dev Toolkit, an article can be found under Getting started with widgets on Windows Mobile 6.5 on MSDN. This article is supposed to be a starting point of an article series, as the information provided isn’t fully covered. Topics around the included Widget API are missing.

A small remark on the article: If you have already installed the Dev Toolkit instead of the WM 6.5 Emulator package, the description on how to use the emulator isn’t correct.

Instead of using this entry:

you have to use one of the Windows Mobile 6.5 Emulators, listed under the Windows Mobile 6 Professional / Standard SDK entry.

Thursday, June 04, 2009 6:56:48 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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Saturday, June 06, 2009 9:52:15 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

I was pretty gobsmacked by that myself. The idea that we're supposed to go out and create widgets after they publish one example on the web of deploying static content as a widget is laughable.
They need to provide documentation for the widget API, and also let us know which DOM methods and objects are supported.

It's not (sadly) after all like .NET where you can find out a lot between Intellisense and Reflector.

Kevin Daly

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