Peter Foot

July 2007 - Posts

• A backpack fit for an anchorman?

  Read More... Posted Jul 30 2007, 09:31 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Oddities

• Multiline Button

  On the newsgroup somebody asked how to have multiple lines of text on a .NETCF Button control. The native control supports this but the appropriate style is not set by default. The following code snippet shows how to enable this:- private const int BS_MULTILINE... Posted Jul 27 2007, 05:24 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• More POOM Anomalies

  Every version of POOM (Pocket Outlook Object Model) brings great improvements, however there are always a few things which just have you screaming "Why!". One of those examples is the implementation of IItem::Edit. This method is used to open... Posted Jul 25 2007, 02:02 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• More Facebook Progress

  I'm now a member of the CodePlex workspace for the Facebook Developer Toolkit . I've been working on porting across my modifications into the codebase. The .NETCF v2.0 version uses a project called Facebook.Compact but refers to the existing source... Posted Jul 24 2007, 04:21 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF, Facebook

• Facebook API and the Compact Framework

  The Facebook API allows third-party web and desktop applications to interact with Facebook features. There is an excellent shared-source library for .NET to wrap the Facebook calls but currently it only supports the full framework. I did some work converting... Posted Jul 20 2007, 04:52 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• Summer Rain

  As I walked to the local Tesco's to pick up something to eat for lunch today it was, unsurprisingly, raining steadily. Keeping my head down and a stiff upper lip etc I kept going. As I looked down at the pavement to avoid the puddles I spotted a metal... Posted Jul 17 2007, 08:46 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Oddities

• Context Menu Extensions Windows Mobile 2003 versus Windows Mobile 5.0/6

  One of the features of Mobile In The Hand is the ability to add context menu extension handlers for the PIM applications from managed code. One of the problems with implementing this feature is that the behaviour of these applications varies subtly between... Posted Jul 13 2007, 11:05 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Visual Studio 2008 Launch Date Announced

  At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference Kevin Turner announced the "2008 Global Launch Wave". This will include Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server). The occasion will be marked on 27th... Posted Jul 12 2007, 06:40 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Events

• .NET Micro Framework Book on special offer

  Rob Miles has just blogged that his book "Embedded Programming with the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework" is currently on special offer at Computer Manuals through the MSDN Flash email newsletter . So if you have a wobbly table, or a door you... Posted Jul 06 2007, 10:17 AM by Peter Foot Filed under: Books