.NET Compact Framework
Last week I updated PocketMaps to support GPS. Once the GPS receiver is connected to your Windows Mobile device, PocketMaps can: Map your current location on the map Auto-refresh the map as you move to plot your move Display details regarding your current location, like altitude, wind speed, etc. You can download it from http://www.wintoolzone.com/... Below are some screenshots: Displaying current location's details Support for GPS - mapping current location, autorefresh to...
I just finished authoring PocketMaps, a .NET CF 2.0 based application for Windows Mobile 5.0 based Pocket PC devices that does address mapping on the device using the Yahoo! Map Image API. You can enter the address as free text, or with city/state/zipcode details or as latitude/longitude combination and PocketMaps will map it for you. Particularly useful when you are on the move and want to know the location of an address. It also lets you save the map image that you can send via email/bluetooth,...
CSLMail is my pet project on which I have been working for past few years. I have recently worked towards updating, feature enhancing and bug-fixing it, resulting in v2.0. CSLMail 2.0 is a free and feature rich .NET based email component, which supports the SMTP and POP3 protocols, completing the need to design a complete email client. Its comes with complete documentation and features include: SMTP Complete SMTP support for sending emails SMTP Authentication supported Attachments supported using...
[Original Post Date: 6th December 2005] AutoReply for PocketPC 5.0 is a Windows Mobile 5.0 based application that will automatically send a SMS to the caller when you are unable to answer their phone call for some reason. This saves you from manually sending a SMS when you get a missed call. Instead, simply set a pre-defined message and activate the application. Any calls that you miss (or not answer) from that point on will be automatically sent a SMS with the message that you set. This application...
[Original Post Date: 17th October 2005] Below are the presentations for the sessions delivered at TechED Sri Lanka: What's new in Windows Mobile 5.0 Developing High Performance Applications with .NET Compact Framework VC++ 2005: New Features For Better Performance Building Bluetooth Applications with Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Mobile SQL Mobile 2005: Overview...
[Original Post Date: 9th October 2005] I just finished implementing WIVisualizer, a WindowsIdentity debugger visualizer for Visual Studio 2005. It displays important details like: Username Authentication type Impersonation Level Account type - System or Guest Anonymous or Authenticated identity Windows groups the identity is member of Here's a screen-shot for the same: It has been built using the Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate and can be downloaded from here. To install, simply copy the DLL...
[Original Post Date: 26th September 2005] Few weeks back, I had written ShareContacts - an application for Windows Mobile 5.0 based PocketPC that could be used to share contacts, using the vCard format, with other devices. Since it was done using .NET Compact Framework 2.0, and also used some APIs specific to Windows Mobile 5.0, I decided to work upon it and get the (almost) same functionality to Windows Mobile 2003 platform. The result is vCardCE10 - class library that allows you to set few properties...
[Original Post Date: 28th August 2005] One of the features I miss in PocketPC is that of sharing contact details with other people without requiring to beam them off Bluetooth - basically meaning sending the data as a message to the recipient in question. A lot of other devices support such a functionality and I have had more than one occasion when I wished that such a feature was present in PocketPC device. This lead me to explore on how to implement such a functionality and that too, in a standardized...
With TechED 2005 India over, I have got sometime to work on the feedback I have got on the various components I have made available at http://www.wintoolzone.com/. Amongst them was to fix the tab order of CalendarSP - the date picker for SmartPhone 2003 and SmartPhone 5.0 platform. Download the updated control from http://www.wintoolzone.com/...
Just finished with the demos of another of my session at TechED 2005 India - Introducing .NET Compact Framework 2.0. There's a ton to talk about the new features of .NET CF 2.0 and in this talk, I would be talking about: Generics, Anonymous Methods COM Interop Support Marshalling Support Enhancements in System.Threading Enhancements in cross-thread control access One of the better things in this version of .NET CF is a good amount of COM Interop support that has come in - within VS IDE as well. So...
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