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Chris Craft's 30 Days of .NET for Windows Mobile

Published 11 June 8 11:1 AM | William

Chris sure is talking softly and carrying a big stick . The 30 days thing is a great concept and he's doing a bang up job.

Filed under: Compact Framework, Windows Mobile

Looking for some .NET Developers

Published 6 June 8 10:19 PM | William

A client of mine located in the Aiken/Columbia South Carolina Area has asked me if I had any friends who are .NET Developers and looking for a job. They are looking for at least one Junior Developer, on Mid-Level Developer and several Senior developers...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Web Services / WSE, .NET Basics, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, Biztalk, WPF, WCF, .NET 3.0 Framework, WIX, Sql Server Integration Services, SSIS, Silverlight, Sql Server, Sql Server 2008, Sharepoint, LINQ To ADO.NET, .NET 3.5 Framework, LINQ, LINQ Training, ADO.NET 3.5, C# 3.5, Windows Mobile, Job Stuff

Filtering data ADO.NET Synchronization Services

Published 13 November 7 9:20 PM | William

If you dabble in Orcas or are a data aficionado, then you have probably at least heard of Synchronization Services . If you haven't heard of it, let me try to pique your interest. The business case for Sync Services is simple. You have data in one...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Coding Techniques, ADO.NET Synchronization Services, .NET 3.0 Framework, DBServerSyncProvider, Synchronization Services, SyncAgent, Microsoft.Synchronization

Leviton, Microsoft's Z-Wave/Windows Solutions

Published 28 January 7 10:37 PM | William

This is very very cool.

Filed under: News, Compact Framework, .NET General, Mindless Babbling

How to be really annoying with Pocket Outlook

Published 25 January 7 6:8 AM | William

If you've been following my coding tonight, you can probably tell what I'm up to. If you call me regularly, you probably are already familiar with this little project, aka the CuckooBot. He's up to Version 4.0 and about to be released into the wild. Yes...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

Password Protection != Encryption on SqlCe

Published 25 January 7 3:50 AM | William

I know this probably seems pretty obvious, but believe it or not, it's a very common area of confusion. Take a look at the following declaration: String ConnectionString = String .Format( @"Data Source=\BlueCuckoo.sdf;password={0}" , "SomeValue" ); SqlCeEngine...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

SMS Messages with Windows Mobile 5.0

Published 25 January 7 2:40 AM | William

A while ago, I was playing around creating a bot, a Snarkier version of the Mobile Secretary Application . Well, it was late and I got sloppy. So basically, my little app sent out a text message to everyone on one of my company's Outlook distribution...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

A very slick Smartphone Emulator feature

Published 25 January 7 1:25 AM | William

I'm finishing up some SmartPhone articles I should have posted soon but figured I could discuss this one very quickly. Any professional application should be thoroughly tested on a physical device that it will be run on. However that's not practical for...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

Professional Microsoft SmartPhone Programming

Published 23 January 7 12:59 AM | William

I just got a copy of Professional Microsoft SmartPhone Programming and all I can say is NICE! I always worried that the first real SmartPhone book would not go into enough depth to be useful. Not an issue here. Basically, the book is a list of "What would...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Books, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Misc Technology

Musings on the database formerly known as Sql Everywhere

Published 2 November 6 2:53 AM | William

The IM volume I received today about the Rollback to SqlCE issue was enough to border on overwhelming. Between PMs and some lazy SOB CRM guy trying to get me to do all his work for him, it was hard focusing on work today. (And seriously, if you are a...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

A mobile database by any other name...

Published 1 November 6 2:1 AM | William

I'm really torn about this post. On the one hand Microsoft has repeated one of their most annoying feats. However they did it with a product that I love, so I feel a little bad dogging it out. What am I talking about? They renamed that little database...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access

Cool things you can do with Windows Mobile

Published 24 October 6 1:11 AM | William

There's a lot of possiblity to create cool stuff like this on Windows Mobile . Devices are waiting for a compelling app and stuff like this, or like Casey often does are going to drive us to finding it (my money is on Casey to actuall invent it but...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology

Just activated my Motorola Q

Published 4 June 6 2:14 AM | William

One more thing I 'needed' was the Motorola Q. Well, I just got it activated and have already used it. So far, I'm in absolute awe of the thing. Personally, I've been a bigger fan or Pocket PC Phone Edition devices than I have been of Smartphones, but...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Misc Technology

MEDC Update

Published 5 May 6 2:12 PM | William

I'm flying out to http://www.medc2006.com/ early Tuesday morning. Last week when I went to Atlanta, i left about 4:00 AM and the trip was awful. The worst radio time in the world is the time in between 5:00 AM and 6:00 AM. They were having some satellite...

Filed under: Compact Framework, MEDC

ActiveSync 4.2 Now Available

Published 27 April 6 8:40 PM | William

I meant to post this last night but got sidetracked. Anyway, download it here .

Filed under: Compact Framework, Misc Technology

Motorola Q

Published 4 April 6 6:55 PM | William

I don't really think I can say I *need* one with a straight face, the a new Motorola Q is just what I need. Well, either a Q or a Samsung i1320 but either way,they look really damn cool. One of the really kick a55 features about it is the fact the resolution...

Filed under: News, Compact Framework, Misc Technology

MEDC 2006 - I'll be there.

Published 26 March 6 12:12 AM | William

MEDC 2006 kicks a55 and I'm lucky enough to go this year. Last year I had issues with not being able to get off of work, but that won't be a problem this year. If you're going to MEDC 2006 , let me know and hopefully we can hook up. I'm trying to be a...

Filed under: News, Compact Framework, Me

The new JASJAR Arrived

Published 2 November 5 3:39 PM | William

I just got Jas Jar and it's too cool for words. It's Tablet PC meets PDA meets phone. Really, it is. You can friggin video teleconference on the friggin thing. I gotta lot of learning to do, will post pics and my new killer app shortly. Mike Fosmire has...

Filed under: Compact Framework

Oracle 10g Lite ADO.NET Adapter

Published 18 July 5 10:36 PM | William

Ok, so I read about it on Mike's as well as the Compact Framework Team but I sure can't find it anywhere. I'm probably just having a case of idiocy flare up, but I've been trying to find it for 30 minutes now. If you know where I can grab it, please let...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Chris Tacke is the Man

Published 19 May 5 1:0 PM | William

Skicow just sent me this SPOT Link from Chris Tacke . I remember the first time I met Chris back at the MVP summit and he was discussing throwing the CLR on a PIC and possibly creating OpenNet.PIC which would be cool indeed. If there's a more impressive...

Filed under: Compact Framework, MVP Stuff