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by Oz Solomon
Window and File Management add-in for Visual C++
by Ana Carolina Zambon
This is a demonstration of how to use the basics of Mono.Cecil by adding method calls to existing assemblies.
by Ernest Laurentin
Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.
by Davide Calabro
The reference control for MFC flat buttons with text and icons. Give your CE applications a professional look!

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How to develop patient monitoring systems based on a WinMobile device
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11 Jul 2002 by Oz Solomon
Window and File Management add-in for Visual C++
24 Apr 2012 by Ana Carolina Zambon
This is a demonstration of how to use the basics of Mono.Cecil by adding method calls to existing assemblies.
5 Mar 2009 by Ernest Laurentin
Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.
18 Dec 2001 by Davide Calabro
The reference control for MFC flat buttons with text and icons. Give your CE applications a professional look!
9 Oct 2008 by Paul M Watt
Macro based framework written for C++ applications that will allow basic instrumentation and profiling features
21 Apr 2009 by Fredrik Bornander
How to implement an iPhone style icon menu using the .NET Compact Framework.
7 Sep 2009 by Tamer Oz
PocketPcAgent is an application that can be installed on Windows Mobile devices that are running Windows Mobile 5.0 or higher. The application listens to events such as SMS Received, Call Missed, E-Mail Received, Battery Strength Changed, and much more on the Pocket PC.
30 Oct 2009 by mstruys, dougturn
Learn to create web based apps for Moble Devices with AJAX support enabled using browser controls.
12 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok
Our applications – no matter whether games, productivity tools or business software – are all about data.
28 Feb 2015 by Pooja Baraskar
Make your app usable by people who have limitations.
12 Jul 2009 by Eric J. Smith, Shannon Davidson
Easily detach entities when using LINQ to SQL
19 Dec 2007 by Bryan Sachdeva
This article describes how to create a wrapper class for the native Phone API, and then uses it to retrieve and store the call history.
25 Jul 2009 by emranallan
A Windows Mobile Spy.
3 Jun 2000 by Chris Maunder, Fred Ackers
A new class that adds hyperlink support to the MFC Grid Control
24 Jun 2014 by BC3Tech
OCD Windows Phone photogs, beware
27 Apr 2012 by Agon Avdimetaj
the HTML5 Canvas can be used as a background in websites modified as needed to design.
19 Jun 2015 by Emiliano Musso
Geolocalize a device and store coordinates on webserver
11 Jan 2018 by Dirk Bahle
Tips & Tricks on using checkboxes within a WPF treeview.
13 Aug 2012 by gggustafson
This article discusses two lessons learned during the development of a mobile application.
31 Mar 2013 by Azim Zahir
This article describes how we can develop pocket PC applications using Pelles C IDE.
23 Jul 2014 by Saad_Mahmood
Expression Blend - Playing with Sample Data (WPF , Windows Phone)
14 Jan 2009 by Anil_gupta
This article describes how to get notification when a Windows CE based device is connected or disconnected from a desktop machine.
15 Dec 2010 by EFEaglehouse
Windows CE/Mobile printing client for LPR, LPRng, and Socket API.
16 Jan 2011 by Nikos Baxevanis
How to use types implementing the IAsyncResult interface on Windows Phone 7.
29 Apr 2011 by Midhunlal G
Converting HTML Color Code to System.Drawing.Color(WinMobile application)
2 Dec 2013 by Hadrich Mohamed
This article shows you how to use the Geolocation feature in Windows Phone 8.
12 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok
In a recent post I have covered several approaches to store data in a Windows Phone application. Another important problem is presenting data in an easy and controllable way that would not interfere with other layers of your app.
13 Jan 2015 by B. Clay Shannon
Simple way to warm boot a Windows CE device
14 Sep 2015 by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga
Display objects and get user input with Corona SDK and Lua
26 Sep 2015 by Piyush Manharlal
Using integer instead of Enum for ComboBox and Radio Button in XAML
16 Apr 2009 by MiamiCoder
How to create a real-world BlackBerry application.
7 Sep 2010 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Continuation of a blog post on Windows Phone 7 programming. This part covers playing sounds using XNA
6 Oct 2010 by guidebee
Code example on how to draw enhanced graphics 2D pictures on Windows Mobile
30 Nov 2011 by saharkiz
Generate Front end screens and database on a Windows Mobile 5 for data collection
23 May 2012 by Sergeant Kolja
This is an alternative for "Memory leak detection for WinCE".
9 Sep 2013 by Praveen Maniyath
A SOAP WebService communication sample.
4 Nov 2013 by Erick Garcia
i found the solution using the google places api, and installing on the project solution the nugget package of httpClient, you can do this on the next link.https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Net.HttpAnd the final code is in here -HttpClient client = new HttpClient();string...
30 Jun 2015 by OriginalGriff
Google is your friend: Be nice and visit him often. He can answer questions a lot more quickly than posting them here...A very quick search gave over one million hits: "export my data from sql server to sql compact"[^]On the first page is an article from this site explaining how to do it:...
23 Jun 2009 by trxStudio
A Duckworth Lewis calculator for Windows Moblie and .NET 3.5.
7 Aug 2008 by Mike Dimmick
There is a way to change the clip region: set the Clip property of the Graphics object. Supported since .NET Compact Framework 1.0. DoEvents: Generating unexpected recursion since 1991
14 Jun 2010 by Paul Heil
Using the RAPI2 interface safely and effectively.
6 Feb 2011 by mbcrump
Quick run through of the WP7 Developer Tools January 2011
27 Jul 2011 by TheyCallMeMrJames
First, to be clear, it's a dev unlock, not a carrier unlock (just ran into someone who was confused over that).Use the Windows Phone Developer Registration tool that comes with the SDK. If you have Win 7, just type in "Developer" after pressing the windows key and you should see...
3 Aug 2011 by TheyCallMeMrJames
You need to tombstone your application. Your app needs to be aware of when the phone is waking it up.Try this example.[^]Cheers.
9 Feb 2012 by Christian Graus
Assuming that your HTML page works inside a mail reader, the most likely way to do this, is an AJAX call. I suspect you're going to run in to trouble, though.
6 May 2012 by emranallan
Add your local inside windows local to be supported for unicode
7 May 2012 by emranallan
Lock Device Screen ,to prevent an one working on the device
18 May 2012 by emranallan
Server Application to remote your mobile device through wireless/wire connection not based on RAPI
7 Jul 2012 by CJ Kent
Create an Interpolating Timer and use it to fade textures in and out in XNA 4.0
31 Jul 2013 by Ayush001
Traditional game which becomes more interetsing.
2 Dec 2013 by Hadrich Mohamed
This tip shows you how to easily retrieve your local images, playlists, and music in Windows Phone 8.
28 Jan 2014 by Manoj.Kumar12
This article is Part 2 of the series of the article on Windows Phone 8 app developments - Quick Start-up guide with best practices.
28 Jan 2014 by DeepsMann
Hi,I have created a WP8 application with phonegap. Now i need to create same application for Windows 8. PhoneGap says to create it using Html5/Javascript metro app. There i need to use windows Runtime Component to call C# code. I tried to use WebRequest in a windows Runtime Component class,...
30 Jan 2014 by Bogdan Bujdea
Working with Caliburn.Micro
19 Jan 2015 by matthewproctor
Bolo8 - Retro Gaming revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA
21 Apr 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea
Access Violation Crash on Windows Phone Devices
30 Jun 2015 by Suvendu Shekhar Giri
Here is a custom converter tool developed by @liron.levi for this kind of purposes.Check if this meets your requirement else do the necessary modification in the code and if you need help in doing so, come back and let us know.Convert SQL Server DB to SQLite DB[^]Hope, it helps :)
24 Sep 2015 by brain2cpu
The way x:Bind is (not) working in universal Windows applications
6 Jun 2002 by Ray Kinsella
How to use the Microsoft Mail API to insert messages into the Window CE Outbox.
26 Mar 2009 by BalintN
This mini-series is a pair of articles on two scenarios using SHCameraCapture.
22 Sep 2009 by Gong Liu
This is a TreeView based options component for Windows Mobile
30 Dec 2009 by AspDotNetDev
Use a TextBox...You can add scrollbars (vertical and/or horizontal) and/or enable wrapping. If you want it to be readonly, you can do that too. You could also use a RichTextBox, but a TextBox is probably your best choice unless you have the need for more advanced features.
13 Jan 2010 by Rick Shaub
You can use the RegistryKey[^] class in the .Net CF to edit a registry value through code. So in your case, you could have a button that edits the registry key and then does a reboot.
25 Feb 2010 by hjgode
I have been asked, how one can see, if a device has been clean booted. Here is an answer.First, there is a registry key you can check:[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Performance]"Last Boot Type"=dword:00000002after a coldboot this value is 0. For warmboots the value is 2.and another...
21 May 2010 by Bee Mobile
Download data from the local mobile database within sdf file. Create iPhone-like GUI on Windows Mobile to display the data. Create functionality to search the table data. Polish the app by adding some cool features such as round buttons, vibration, glass effect. Find out how to detect the current re
18 Aug 2010 by Chief Endian
Creating Macros in VIM Editor
19 Aug 2010 by Uwe Keim
How about using the Google Chart API [^]?With this API, you can do wonderful things like this chart [^] by simple passing different parameters to an URL.
8 Oct 2010 by hjgode
SetSystemTime and DST, better disable DST before using SetSystemTime
23 Nov 2010 by Alimjan Yasin
I am working on a windows mobile application. I want to design a setting dialog in which I placed two group box and I placed radio button and combo box in group box. problem is those controls I placed in group box did not appear when I run the program. I am using c++ and it is MFC application. I...
23 Nov 2010 by Alain Rist
Hi Alimjan,problem is those controls I placed in group box did not appear when I run the program.It is very likely that your controls are under the group box and so hidden. In your dialog editor, change the tab/Z order and set the controls in groupboxes at the very beginning (smallest...
4 Jul 2011 by Christian Graus
You need to show it at the correct size, so that it is not resized by the program. Then it should scan fine.
8 Jul 2011 by harish85
This would help you- Step by Step: Writing Device-Independent Windows Mobile Applications with the .NET Compact Framework( You have already written your app in .NET compact framework ) from your tag (not java app )http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb278110.aspx[^]To deploy...
7 Aug 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Don't serialize controls! Serialize data model.You need to have a separate data layer and bind it with the UI controls. The UI will be populated based on data and the data will be updated by the user's manipulation with the UI.You can serialize the whole data layers at once, if it is...
8 Sep 2011 by hjgode
How to start an application by just hitting some keys in sequence? The answer: Just use a keyboard hook.
15 Sep 2011 by #realJSOP
You mean a ListView? ListView.Columns.Add("Title", width, HorizontalAlignment);
15 Sep 2011 by BillWoodruff
See this CP article that seems to suggest WinMobile can use a ListBox[^].Windows Mobile is an unknown to me, but I do know the WinForms ListBox supports Columns, although very crudely, compared to a ListView.best, Bill
1 Nov 2011 by TorstenH.
check the internet - ther is a new action going on "Google AdWords". Pretty cool.best is: they even know what an OpenX Server is: read more about it[^]
2 May 2012 by Sandeep Mewara
Here you go:Video: Windows Phone 7 in 7: Push Notifications[^]MSDN: Push Notifications for Windows Phone[^]
20 May 2012 by hjgode
How can you achieve a kiosk mode application, where the user is only allowed to do what you define.
11 Jun 2012 by hjgode
Windows Mobile: Kiosk Mode Series - Part 2
26 Feb 2013 by Mohit Gupta 2013
I am working on drawing app for windows phone 8.I want to capture video while I am drawing in screen is it possible? please give me any idea if u have, Actually it's possible in iOS I had worked on that but I was searching a lot in internet there is no help please let me give any idea how it...
12 Mar 2013 by AnouarDjerba
I'm trying to get route using google map directions serviceUri uri = new Uri("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/xml?origin=adrori&destination=adrdest&waypoints=adr1|adr2|....|adr8&sensor=false"); HttpWebRequest httpRequest =...
5 Jun 2013 by Sudhakar Shinde
Following library allows you to create charts easily in Windows Phone, and it's free.[amCharts-Quick-Charts]There are few tools available to buy as follows.[1.RadControls For Windows Phone][2.Visfire For Windows Phone]
21 Jul 2013 by Simon Jackson
After playing a lot with Parse over the last few weeks, I thought I’d share some of my findings.
1 Nov 2013 by Ranjan.D
If you are looking for US HealthCare Providers then you can have a look intohttp://www.factual.com/products/healthcare[^]
2 Jan 2014 by sameer549
http://social.msdn.microsoft.c...
2 Jan 2014 by Archit9373284448
You need to know the process name , go to taskmanager and look for the process name that you want .replace sublime_text with your process name Dim pName As String = "sublime_text" Dim psList() As Process Try psList = Process.GetProcesses() ...
31 Jan 2014 by Bogdan Bujdea
I will show you how to create the project for the unit tests, and I will write a small test to see if it all works.
25 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok
How to fail your brand new Windows Phone application
13 May 2014 by Saad_Mahmood
Parsing XML File in WindowsPhone in NO TIME Using BLEND for VS 2013
23 May 2014 by Prasad Khandekar
Hello,Have a lok at FreeRDP and WinPR[^]. You can try using this library to get things done.Regards,
1 Aug 2014 by B. Clay Shannon
Sending commands in a Compact Framework app via C# to a Zebra QLn220 printer
8 Jan 2015 by User 271009
Windows Phone 7 – Application Lifecycle – Ocean for the Phone
26 Aug 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea
Why I am a happy Windows Phone developer
21 Jan 2016 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to build a simple Toast Notification in #UWP apps? (Part 1)
30 Nov 2016 by Alvin Bunk
How to dynamically format Phone field with JavaScript