If you have ever bugged. why your Listview doesn't have a fancy gardient item selection from your actual themer, nor a nackground image probably wants to take a look at Alex Yakhnins post on his MESDN blog over here!

Definitly worth reading!

The fourth and last MSDN webcast from our webcastseries Windows Mobile: Applications at your fingertips from Patrick Getzmann, Simon Hackfort and myself has gone online today.

The topic covers this time the Consumer Accelerator App "Meeting Assistant".

The webcast, in german, can be found here.

New to Windows Mobile Development? Want to speed up fast?

In this case you shall have a look at the rampup modules at MSDN.

In 7 courses you will learn:

• Level 1: Mobile Development Introduction
• Level 2: Device Emulators
• Level 3: Mobile Windows Forms Development
• Level 4: Advanced Mobile Windows Forms Development
• Level 5: SQL Server CE Introduction
• Level 6: Security and Deployment
• Level 7: Mobile Web Development

The rampup modules can be found here.

Thanks Maarten for pointing out!

Very often I get asked via Mail or Messenger “Can you help me”, “How do I…”, “Can you tell me how…” or similar questions.

My general reply is (especially for german based persons) to use the Windows Mobile Forum on MSDN. There is even a localized forum for those who aren’t that familiar with the english language… (Okay, in that case they aren’t able to read that post, but this is another story ).

The reason I tell people to use this forum has several reasons:

• Probably there is someone out on the Net, who has the same problem. Documenting it that way makes it easy for others to find THAT solution.
• Searching the forum minimizes the questions.
• I don’t know all the answers. On the forums are several other people around, who can answer questions even better than I do.
• You can ask in native german language.

Even those of you who tried it earlier and haven’t been satisfied with it shall give it another try: The Forums have been reworked at the beginning of this year.

This doesn’t only mean a facelift but new functionality as well. If you are interested in a breif german overview I suggest reading Kai’s blogpost on this.

As I’m a Moderator on this Forum as well seeing forward to see you there.

Link: German Windows Mobile Forum on MSDN

The recording of the Webcast Series on Mobile Development has been finished, yet the last part is about to being published soon.

Simon, Patrick and I are actually thinking about setting up a new series. We have actually assembled some ideas for new topics but give you the opportunity to have some influence on this. Share your ideas as comments on this page and we will think about, if we will have the chance to include this topics.

 

Unfortunatelly it is going to be in native (german) again….