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How to be really annoying with Pocket Outlook

Published Thu, Jan 25 2007 6:08 | 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 Thu, Jan 25 2007 3:50 | 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 Thu, Jan 25 2007 2:40 | 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 Thu, Jan 25 2007 1:25 | 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 Tue, Jan 23 2007 0:59 | 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 Thu, Nov 2 2006 2:53 | 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

Oracle 10g Lite ADO.NET Adapter

Published Mon, Jul 18 2005 22:36 | 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

The Utter Coolness of Sql Mobile

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 15:44 | William

I've been writing for a while about this Proof of Concept I've been doing at work and today, I just finished a major milestone. The only thing left to do now is Ink Enable the thing and actually, that's the easy part. I can't really divulge the code I...

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

SqlCeResultSet Teaser

Published Thu, Mar 10 2005 16:50 | William

Just in case you were wondering - here's the mimnimum you need to get it running on the desktop --- SqlCeCommand cmd = new SqlCeCommand ("SELECT * FROM Offenders", this .Connection); if ( this .Connection.State != ConnectionState .Open) { this .Connection...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005

SqlMobile on Full Framework

Published Thu, Mar 10 2005 16:40 | William

In case you were wondering, yes it does work. No, at present you don't need a Tablet PC to run it. There's been a myth that I've heard that it would run on Tablet 2005 but not any other OS other than of course , CF Stuff. Ok, that's already been proven...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Compact Framework Tricks

Published Tue, Feb 15 2005 23:44 | William

It's been a few days since I've blogged but yes I'm alive. I'd like to tell you that something just really pissed me off last week and after throwing a temper tantrum - I needed to just chill. But that wouldn't be true. In reality - I was out snowboarding...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005

http://www.everythingado.net

Published Sun, Jan 30 2005 2:45 | William

Well, I finally bit the bullet and purchased my site from Brinkster. I'm going to be hosting blogs for a few of my disaffected DNJ friends - but well, due to the nature of the site - I'm not handing them out to everyone - If I know you, or you can convince...

Filed under: News, Humor, Compact Framework, Data Access, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

Requests for Content

Published Sun, Jan 23 2005 22:40 | William

I've finally started to get a little free time these days and I'm going to be doing some quality Travelling in the next few weeks - if you're interested in something in particular, I'm taking requests. Anything ADO.NET, Anything Compact Framework, (Not...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Remoting, MVP Stuff, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

Generics in the Compact Framework

Published Sun, Jan 9 2005 14:40 | William

Neil Cowburn posts a killer link to Roman who has a interesting piece on Generics and the Compact Framework

Filed under: Compact Framework, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

What's new in the 2.0 Compact Framework?

Published Mon, Dec 27 2004 12:43 | William

Thanks to Peter Foot for this excellent list of new features

Filed under: Compact Framework, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Backgournd Worker for the Compact Framework

Published Thu, Dec 9 2004 10:54 | William

Daniel Moth just tipped me off to this little component he wrote which looks pretty cool. Haven't had a chance to play with it yet - until I can convince my apartment complex to let me live their for free I have to work and all to pay the rent - but it...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005