MyPhone

If you have been interested in testing MyPhone on your Mobile Device, you now have the possibility as the beta has been opened to all users.

More Info can be found on the teams blog post.

Windows Mobile Marketplace

1.) As a lot of you have been asking, when the registration will be available to NON US citizens: It’s going to be mid july.
2.) The Windows Mobile Marketplace Forum on MSDN has opened it's doors. You can find it 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!

Are you attending TechEd US and interested in the Windows Mobile Track? Than you shall take a look a this post from the Windows Mobile Blog post for a summary.

I wish everyone a pleasent time over there.

I actually can’t attend the TechEd US but I’m actually looking forward to attend TechEd EMEA, which will take place this year in Berlin from Nov 9th to Nov 13th.

Ever wondered when you will get an optimized Facebook application for Windows Mobile? The time is now.

Some key features are:

• Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list.

• Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them right to Facebook.

• Send messages or call people in your Friends list.

• Manage your profile and post anytime, anywhere.

A more detailed description can be found here.

Or download it directly from your mobile browser here.

 

 
(Source: Microsoft)

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

Yes, I know. I’m old school regarding Web 2.0.

However – haven’t had the chance to resist Twitter any more instead of using the Facebook Status all the time.

So, if you want to follow, you can follow me at: http://twitter.com/PeNoWiMo

Do you want to know, which requirements have to be met for creating Apps for the Windows Mobile Marketplace? Then you should have a look at the Submission Guidelines. This document is actually a 32 pages long Draft in PDF Format.

For a quick overview I’d suggest to head over to pocketnow.com and take a look at the short summary, which gives you a quick overview of which requiremnts have to be met.

Did you ever had the opinion, that GDI drawing operations are slower, when working with a rotated screen?
Probably you are right.
Chris Take from OpenNETCF goes down on this and analyzes it in his blog post.
His testing tool has been published as well.

Good job, Chris.

This is, how you shall be greeted by VS each morning.

 

Nearly every mobile business application uses a database, whether on client side, or on server side.

How you can use a local database, sync with a server database and incorporate in other ways shows this special last edition from the Lost Files series.

Again, this document is kept in german. If anyone is willing to translate it into english, feel free to contact me.

In contrast to the other Lost Files episodes, this time this document is a full featured chapter.

As this german native document has been written at the end of 2006 a few new hot topics are missing, but still it is worth the read.

Happy reading. :)

Please be aware of, that this article and samples are AS IS. No support, no update is being given.