Compact Framework Developer’s Blog

Hi Developers!

I removed my blog to a better host:
http://winmobiledeveloper.blogspot.com/

Thanks for you understanding!

Our main language is C#, but now we converted plenty of samples into VB .Net. Enjoy them!

New samples of CustomKeyboard:
http://www.resco.net/developer/support/samples_customkeyboard.aspx

Download other samples:
http://www.resco.net/developer/support/samples.aspx

Hope it helps!

Best regards,
Gabriel Minárik

Resco Toolbar control can you use as a navigation bar.
Here is a sample code how to design it:
http://winmobile.euweb.cz/#Post08

Best regards,
Gabriel Minárik

There is a new simple sample project on Resco’s web site.

Best regards,
Gabriel Minárik

Here are two screenshots about the Resco Toolbar Control.
The BETA version comes in February.

Included features:
- Touchscrolling
- Transparent scrollbar indicators
- XML serialization
- Designer support

This control will be a part of Mobile Forms Toolkit.
Our customers with active subscription of MFT will get this control automatically.

Feel free to comment this new control.

Best regards,
Gabriel Minárik

PInvoke.net is allowing developers to find PInvoke signatures, and any other information related to calling unmanaged APIs from managed code (written in C# or VB.NET).
E.g.:
[DllImport("coredll", EntryPoint="GetDC", SetLastError=true)]
private static extern IntPtr GetDCCE(IntPtr hWnd);

http://www.pinvoke.net/

They have an Add-in to Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, to make the insertion of PInvoke signatures an easy and fast operation.

You can download it from their page. It’s FREE

Best regards,
Gabriel Minárik

I think SlickEdit’s ruler is very nice tool in Visual Studio.
The ruler indicates where your cursor is, and you haven’t looking for it.

Here is a screenshot from my IDE:

Of course it is FREE Add-in Thanks for the developers!

Download page:
http://www.slickedit.com/content/view/441

Best regards,
Gabriel Minárik

Where can you download WM 6.1 Emulator Images?
here

New emulator image resolutions:

• Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard
  DPI: 131 – Resolution: 320 x 320 pixels
  DPI: 131 – Resolution: 400 x 240 pixels
  DPI: 131 – Resolution: 440 x 240 pixels

• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
  DPI: 96 – Resolution: 240 x 400 pixels
  DPI: 192 – Resolution 480 x 800 pixels

Best regards,
Gabriel Minárik

Hi Mobile Developers!

Last week I was in Barcelona on TechEd 2008 EMEA.

Resco has a survey, which was created with Resco AdvancedList control.

By tilting the Diamond device, they could answer questions, because it contains G-sensor (Accelerator).

One of the respondents could win an HTC Touch Dual device, and here is the happy winner from Spain:

 

Congratulations!

I enjoyed a lot of great presentations about new technologies, tricks and tips.

Some of our customer met us by Resco’s stand, and they give us lot of ideas and feature requests.

Your feedback is very important to us, so if you weren’t on TechEd you can still write me your ideas.

I’ll try to do my best

Best regards,

Gabriel Minárik

On 27 of October Resco released the CustomKeyboard control which is a part of Mobile Forms Toolkit vol.3.

I want to show you how you can use CustomKeyboard to get input, and disable the InputPanel (SIP) on your device.

Add InputPanel to your Form and handle the EnabledChanged event:

There is a little bug or perhaps a feature on devices: when the user clicks on the place where the icon of SIP in is generally, then the system will show the SIP. But when the user clicks on that place we can hide the SIP immediately.

Source code:
http://www.winmobile.euweb.cz/#Post07

This trick disables the SIP, but doesn’t filter the input from hardware keys.
To read more about the filtering please read my post below:
http://winmobile.blog.com/3855037/

Best regards,
Gabriel Minárik