August 2008 Christopher Tacke OpenNETCF Consulting, LLC Download the Source Download the PDF Introduction Windows CE, and especially Windows Mobile devices have a UI paradigm that’s quite a bit different than the desktop. As a general rule, only one application...

Mark Arteaga OpenNETCF Consulting June 2008 Download the Source Download the PDF Introduction Several new features have been added to .NET Compact Framework 3.5that you as a developer can take advantage of in your applications. An overview of what is...

May 2008 Chris Tacke OpenNETCF Consulting, LLC Download the Source Download the PDF Introduction I recently saw a post in the public Compact Framework newsgroup [1] that is fairly typical. The poster stated that if you want speed and performance for graphics...

January 2008 Christopher Tacke OpenNETCF Consulting, LLC Download the Source Download the PDF Introduction A few months ago a colleague of mine and I were invited to visit a potential customer to give them our thoughts and a expertise in the design of...

An Introduction to WCF for Device Developers Chris Tacke OpenNETCF Consulting, LLC November, 2007 Download the Source Code Download the PDF Introduction With the release of Visual Studio 2008 to MSDN subscribers last week, I decided that it was probably...

November, 2007 Chris Tacke OpenNETCF Consulting, LLC Download the Source Code Download the PDF Introduction One seemingly strange behavior that Windows CE devices (including Pocket PC, Smartphone and Windows Mobile devices) exhibit is that when you query...

Alex Feinman OpenNETCF Consulting October 2007 Download the Source Code Download the PDF What is GDI+ GDI+ is a library created to add rich drawing and imaging feature to the basic set of Windows APIs. It has been introduced in Windows 2000 timeframe...

Mark Arteaga OpenNETCF Consulting September 2007 Download the Source Code Download the PDF Contents Introducation Ink Serialized Format Data Sharing Ink With A Custom Application Sharing Ink with One Note 2007 What’s Next Conclusion Introducation In the...

Mark Arteaga OpenNETCF Consulting September 2007 Download the Source Code Download the PDF Contents Introduction Technical Overview Mobile Ink Library Custom Controls Samples Available with the Mobile Ink Library Conclusion Introduction With the recent...

Chris Tacke OpenNETCF Consulting September 2007 Download the Source Code Download the PDF Introduction Performance of the data access layer of a mobile or embedded application is often viewed by developers in very broad strokes. When we begin designing...

Prashant Dhingra Microsoft Corporation September 2007 Download the Sample Code Download the PDF Introduction The Microsoft .NET SqlClient class provides a consistent set of APIs for both .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework applications. SqlClient...

Chris Tacke OpenNETCF Consulting March 2007 Download CEDebgSetup source and binaries Download the PDF Introduction If you've tried to debug a native or managed application with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 on any device other than a Windows Mobile...

Rob Miles Department of Computer Science, University of Hull August 2007 Download Sample Image Capture Download Full Image Processing Game Download the PDF Introduction Windows Mobile 5.0 offers the prospect of games based on images which the player captures...

Chris Tacke OpenNETCF Consulting August, 2007 Download the PDF Introduction We here at OpenNETCF Consulting just delivered version 1.0 of a plant floor monitoring system running on an x86 device with CE 5.0. Since the application was designed for data...