Peter Foot

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• Mobile In The Hand 4.2 Released

  This latest update includes a number of performance enhancements and wider device compatibility. A new SystemEvents class is added in the InTheHand.Win32 namespace which allows you to monitor power changes on devices which do not support the State and... Posted May 10 2010, 02:20 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Mobile In The Hand 4.1

  While this week has very much been focussed on Windows Phone 7 so far we also released the latest version of our Mobile In The Hand suite for the .NET Compact Framework. Along with some bug-fixes (several around EmailMessage functionality) and performance... Posted Mar 16 2010, 08:54 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Application and File Icons with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  There are a number of scenarios in which you want to retrieve the icon associated with a particular executable or other file type. One example is when building a file browser, you might also want to extract the icon associated with your application or... Posted Jan 26 2010, 05:16 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Email Configuration with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  One of the new items introduced in version 4.0 is a wrapper for the Email configuration provider. This provides a one-stop-shop to access and modify email account settings. This is used for all email account types except for Exchange synchronisation.... Posted Dec 30 2009, 09:48 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Internet Connection Sharing with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  In Mobile In The Hand 4.0 all the Windows Mobile networking features are found in the InTheHand.WindowsMobile.Net assembly. This contains support for Connection Manager, Internet Sharing and Wireless Manager. This post will look at the Internet Sharing... Posted Dec 22 2009, 01:47 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• More on "My" Functionality in Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  In the last post on "My" functionality I showed you how to get started adding the My Extensions to your project. In this post I have assembled a detailed tree of all the "My" functionality added in Mobile In The Hand 4.0. My Application... Posted Dec 15 2009, 05:44 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Vibration and Profiles with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  One of the goals of the Mobile In The Hand library has always been to provide a consistent managed API regardless of which specific flavour of Windows Mobile device you are using. One example of this is using the Vibration feature used to alert the user... Posted Dec 14 2009, 04:58 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Using Bluetooth Headsets with Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  A commonly requested feature is the ability to switch audio to play through a Bluetooth headset device. Mobile In The Hand 4.0 brings this functionality to .NET Compact Framework developers allowing you to play any device audio through a paired headset... Posted Dec 11 2009, 12:31 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Windows Mobile Provisioning using Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  In the last post we saw the new My Extensions template which adds access to new Visual Basic features. In this post we will look at another new item introduced with Mobile In The Hand 4.0 - Provisioning XML. Visual Studio has a rich XML Editor built in... Posted Dec 09 2009, 05:53 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• New "My" Functionality in Mobile In The Hand 4.0

  This blog post will walk through the process of adding the additional "My" functionality added in InTheHand.VisualBasic. To start off, open Visual Studio 2008 and create a new Visual Basic device project (or open an existing one). At this point... Posted Dec 07 2009, 10:38 PM by PeterFoot with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4

• Mobile In The Hand 4.0 Released

  Today we put the final touches to Mobile In The Hand 4.0 and have released this latest version of the suite. This is a major reworking of the code and the library is now broken into 10 separate dlls so you only need to deploy the specific functionality... Posted Dec 07 2009, 10:29 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Mobile4