A collection of classes for CE that do not use ATL or MFC, plus an FTP client, database viewer, and sample application that solves beam deflection equations.

A Cool Vista Sidebar Gadget Style CPUInfo Animate Control! (Fixed)

by Davidwu

A Cool Vista Sidebar Gadget Style CPUInfo Animate Control! (Fixed)

A custom configuration file AppSettings reader class

by Daniel Fisher (lennybacon)

This article describes how to create a custom configuration file AppSettings reader class.

A custom list view control with custom scrollbar control, using WTL

by Shunix

This article is intended to show an opportunity for customizing the list view control (report view, single-line mode) using the custom scrollbar control.

A Date and Time formatter

by João Paulo Figueira

A class to format COleDateTime objects into strings using standard formatting codes.

A DIBSection wrapper for Win32 and WinCE

by Chris Maunder

A class that makes using DIBSections as simple as using a CBitmap

A Dictionary Collection Sorting By Value

by Hannes Foulds

An article on creating a custom collection like the SortedList that sort entries by value instead of by key.

A File Open Dialog for the PocketPC 2002

by João Paulo Figueira

An implementation of a full-browsing file open dialog.

A Flashlight App for Your SmartPhone or Pocket PC

by Don Kackman

A simple, fully functional flashlight to help you see in the dark.

A font chooser dialog for the Pocket PC

by João Paulo Figueira

Implementing a font chooser dialog with preview and ClearType support.

A Generic - Reusable Diff Algorithm in C#

by aprenot

A generic algorithm that can be used to find the difference between objects.

A Generic Mobile Data Collection Control

by saharkiz

Generate Front end screens and database on a Windows Mobile 5 for data collection

A GPS Keep-alive Utility and Tester for Windows Mobile

by Sam Rahimi

Keeps the GPS active in Windows Mobile, allowing for instant, accurate location determination. Also a tutorial on how to access GPS data with almost no code.

A GPS tracer application for Windows Mobile CE 5

by leonardosalvatore

A simple GPS tracer developed for Windows Mobile 2005 on Compact Framework 2.0 SDK

A Gradient Button for Windows Mobile

by Ravenet

A gradient button for Windows Mobile and the .NET Compact Framework.

A light stack implementation for Win32

by Daniel Junges

A simple and very small stack implementation for any type.

A lightweight base class for MDI UI

by fftz

The CMDIBase template provides multiple view UI support for WinCE WTL-based projects.

A Lightweight Image Viewer for Windows Mobile (WinCE)

by Ciro Sisman Pereira

Demonstrates how to show any size BMP or JPEG image on a Pocket PC screen and scroll it up to its limits

A Master Detail DataGrid

by xicoloko

Implements a DataGrid with a Master/Detail view on data.

A MFC/GDI+ LCD Control

by Frédéric Pailloux

Nice 7/16/Matric Segment LCD Control derived from CStatic and using GDI+ library

A Non Full-Screen Dialog Class for Windows CE

by Tanzim Husain

This article describes a non full screen dialog class that does not switch to full screen when the SIP is activated.

A not so simple firewall.

by gamitech

A not so simple firewall if I can call it so. This application will ask you if you want a certain program to start.

A Picture Viewer for the Pocket PC 2002

by João Paulo Figueira

Putting imgdecmp.lib to work with a few extras.

A Proposal for an Enhanced C# Property syntax

by Salil Pitkar

Proposal to make C# properties flexible whilst maintaining the Smart Field syntax.

A prototypical PocketPC program

by ljw1004

A complete PocketPC app in plain Win32/C++.

A quick way of implementing a Pocket Outlook - type letter strip

by João Paulo Figueira

Implementing a letter strip control for record selection.

A Remote Windows Mobile Screen Grabber

by João Paulo Figueira

Capture your Windows Mobile device screen via ActiveSync or WMDC.

A Scrolling Credits Dialog

by Mark Findlay

Scrolling credits the easy way, under MFC.

A Selection Bar for the PocketPC 2002

by João Paulo Figueira

An implementation of the selection bars found on PocketPC 2002 applications.

A set of ADOCE classes

by João Paulo Figueira

Porting Carlos Antollini's ADO classes to the Pocket PC.

A simple POC using ASP.NET Web API, Entity Framework, Autofac, Cross Domain Support

by Anand Ranjan Pandey

The purpose of this article is to create a proof of concept to demonstrate the feasibility of ASP.NET Web API Beta Version.

A Simple Template Based Smart Handle Class

by Paul Ranson

A template class that allows Win32 object lifetimes to be managed 'smartly', includes an example memory mapped file wrapper.

A Thread-Spanning Workflow

by Marc Clifton

Easily declare workflows that can span threads.

A Tool to View a LIB

by Ramanan.T

Useful tool to view functions in a library (.LIB) file and export them to a header (.H) file

A TreeView Based Options Component for Windows Mobile

by Gong Liu

This is a TreeView based options component for Windows Mobile

A Wizard-like property sheet for the Pocket PC

by João Paulo Figueira

Implementing a wizard-like dialog on the Pocket PC using property sheets.

A WPF-powered 3D graphing library

by Dustin Metzgar

Create 3D bar charts and pie graphs using WPF

About CObect , CRuntimeClass and related macros.

by Mahfuzur Rahman.

What is the useful of CObject , CRuntimeClass and related macros.

Accepting Signatures from Hand-Held Devices

by Zeeshan Haneef

An article on drawing graphics on a hand-held device touch screen.

Access Active Directory - The .NET Way

by Manas Bhardwaj

Accessing Active Directory

Access Your Pocket PC Over the Internet

by paulyhop

A DynDNS updater for the Compact Framework.

Accessibility for Universal Windows apps

by Pooja Baraskar

Make your app usable by people who have limitations.

Accessing MS SQL Server CE v1.0/v2.0 without ADO

by CT CHANG

Add, edit, and delete records/table/database in MS SQL Server CE v1.0/v2.0.

Add zooming to WTL CScrollImpl

by Alain Rist

CZoomScrollImpl extends WTL CScrollImpl to allow continuous zooming.

Adding Hyperlink support to the MFC Grid Control

by Chris Maunder, Fred Ackers

A new class that adds hyperlink support to the MFC Grid Control

Adding Icons to the System Tray

by Chris Maunder

A class for adding icons to the system tray

Administrate SQL Server2000 from Pocket PC

by rasheed1979

This article demonstrates administrating SQL Server 2000 from Pocket PC on the fly.

ADO.NET Asynchronous SQL Calls

by gbd77rc

How to use asynchronous calls to SQL to receive progress information

Advanced critical section

by 0xdeadbeef

Advanced critical section which features TryLock and timeouts

Advanced JavaScript Typing Test System

by Travis Howle

Calculate the typing speed and accuracy of your users easily!

Advanced WPF TreeView in C#/VB.Net Part 6 of n

by Dirk Bahle

Tips & Tricks on using checkboxes within a WPF treeview.

affine transformations for images

by luker7

image transformations for C# .NET CF

AlphaView

by Noel Frankinet

A virtual WTL ListView control on an SQLite3 table or view.

Alternative Timestamp Class with no MFC

by metcarob

This article describes a timestamp class that can be used as an alternative to the standard C date time functions.

Alternative way to support languages under the .NET Framework

by Mark Johnson

A suggestion to an alternative way to support languages under the .NET Framework.

An Asynchronous HTTP Request WinINet Wrapper in C++

by crazybit

An asynchronous HTTP download class for C++

An Encoder class derived from a stream

by Andrea Cacciarru

How to implement a class that derives from a Xstream class and how to serialize from and to it.

An Introduction to Palm Handheld Development

by Jason Henderson

Your first Palm application using the venerable "Hello World!" example.

An introduction to the Palm platform

by Christian Graus

An overview of the Palm world, including a list of C functions which have preferred equivalents in PalmOS

Animating View Transitions on Windows Mobile

by João Paulo Figueira

How to animate child view transitions on a Windows Mobile WTL application.

Another serial port enumerator

by Joaquín M López Muñoz

A library for enumeration of serial ports that works on 9x, NT 4.0 and 2000, XP and CE platforms

Apache Cordova: Powerful Framework for Hybrid Mobile App Development

by Jitendra_Jain04

The Objective of this article is to provide hybrid mobile application development approach for mobile platforms using one of the most powerful open source framework : Apache Cordova.

API Hooking revealed part 3 and 4 - Thread Deadlock Detector

by xryl669

The final article about API hooking, with a working example of a thread deadlock detector.

Arabization Controls for Smart Devices

by Hani Gamal Eldeen

.NET controls to be used for development of Arabic applications for smart devices.

ARM Assembly for eVC with the Mono Jit Macros

by Sjoerd_B

ARM assembly for eVC with the Mono Jit macros

ASP.NET Outlook Style Toolbar Control

by Ashish Kaila

An outlook style toolbar control in ASP.NET

ATL OLE DB Consumer Template Schemas

by João Paulo Figueira

Exploring SQL CE 2.0 schema information with the ATL OLE DB Consumer Templates.

ATL Windowless ActiveX Media Container

by Ernest Laurentin

Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.

Audio Book Player

by brochpirate

Audio player designed specifically for listening to audio books

Automatically Install Multiple CAB Files to a Windows Mobile/Pocket PC Device

by Agola Kisira Odero

A solution that uses threading and ActiveSync to automate the process of installing multiple CAB files to a Windows Mobile or Pocket PC device

Automatically Starting Your Application on Windows Mobile

by Joel Ivory Johnson

An article discussing the various methods that you can use to automatically start an application on Windows Mobile, either by schedule or in reaction to a system event.

Automating the Installation of .NET Compact Framework applications

by Girish Nurani Sankaranarayanan

An article on automating the installation of .NET Compact Framework on Pocket PC devices.

BackgroundWorker in Silverlight

by Valentin Billotte

Why not create our own BackgroundWorker for use with Silverlight?

Basic Instrumentation and Profiling Framework for C++

by Paul M Watt

Macro based framework written for C++ applications that will allow basic instrumentation and profiling features

Beginning Hybrid Mobile App Development with Corona SDK - Display Objects

by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Display objects and get user input with Corona SDK and Lua

Binary Serialization to Isolated Storage in Silverlight - BinaryFormatter vs. sharpSerializer

by Pawel idzikowski

How to serialize binary data to IsolatedStorage in a Silverlight client when there is no BinaryFormatter in Silverlight? Why not with sharpSerializer? - An open source XML and binary serializer for .NET and Silverlight

Binary Sorting Into a std::list

by #realJSOP

One technique for performing a binary insertion sort on a std::list

Black Box for the Pocket PC

by rb01usa

A cool puzzle game for the PocketPC.

Bluetooth for Microsoft Device Emulator

by Dmitry Klionsky

Bluetooth for Microsoft Device Emulator enables Bluetooth communication from and to the emulator.

Bluetooth Simulation in C# with Serial Ports

by Florin Badea

This article presents a mobile device application that uses serial ports to simulate a Bluetooth connection.

Bob Custom XML Serializer

by Babak Ansari

A custom XML serializer using .NET.

boolean_cast

by mb2sync

Performs conversions between values of type bool, BOOL and VARIANT_BOOL.

Bringing DCOM remoting functionality to Windows CE and .NET CF2.0

by Werner Willemsens

This article shows how to use DCOM on Windows CE 5.0. We will add full DCOM rich error information, and implement a DCOM interface between a Windows XP .NET 2.0 client and Windows CE DCOM server. With this code, it is possible to code .NET remoting alike functionality through DCOM interop.

Build Dynamics CRM Mobile Apps that Work on WM, TabletPC, iPhone or iPad

by Resco Developer Tools

No doubt, Microsoft Dynamics CRM is one of the world's most popular CRM systems. It's unique because of its customization capabilities allowing enterprises to adjust it to their specific needs whether their main focus is selling goods, providing services, or something completely different.

Building a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game

by Daniel Vaughan

Get a head start with the new Windows Phone 7 developer tools. Learn how to create a Sokoban game in Silverlight for the WP7 platform.

Building applications with Mono

by victor vatamanescu

Developing .NET cross platform applications using mono and IBM DB2

Building COM Objects in C#

by Mubbasher Adeel

Building COM Objects in C#.

Building Custom Windows Embedded Xp Operating System using Windows Embedded Studio

by ravi_pothuraju

This Article discuss about windows embedded Studio and how to develop custom windows embedded xp operating system for a device using Microsoft Embedded Studio

Case-Insensitive Sort of UTF8 Data Using System.Data.SQLite

by Dimitri Witkowski

SQLite lacks case-insensitive sort of UTF8 data. In this article, you will see how to get rid of this limitation in .NET.

CCeButtonST v1.2

by Davide Calabro

The reference control for MFC flat buttons with text and icons. Give your CE applications a professional look!

CCeFileFind - A FileFind class for Windows CE

by Ray Kinsella

CCeFileFind - A FileFind class for Windows CE.

CCeListCtrlEx for Pocket PC 2002

by Daniel Strigl

A owner drawn list control to emulate a single select list box with a little icon at the beginning of each line.

CCESocket: a general purpose TCP/UDP socket class for WinCE

by Marco Zaratti

This article presents a new socket wrapper class specifically designed for the WinCE (PokcetPC) platform that solves the issues of asynchronous notifications and more.

CDList

by Anne Saouter

Application useful to archive your CD

Challenges and solutions - Architecture of a Modern Web Application - Mobile App - Part 3

by Syed Rafey Husain

Mobile app development for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry.

CHandleT - A HANDLE wrapper for WTL

by isemenov

A simple Win32 HANDLE type wrapper.

Changing the color of PPC controls

by Fernando A. Gomez F.

How to change the color of Windows CE components without modifying your program.

CHM Reader for Pocket PC 2003

by Peter Tewkesbury

Allows the reading of CHM files on a Pocket PC2003.

CmenuModifier - An Owner Draw Image Menu

by includeh10

CmenuModifier - an owner draw image menu

CObjBroker - Limited Resource Broker class

by Cho, Kyung-min

If you are working with limited resources in a multithreaded scenario, ObjBroker will help you...

Code that debugs itself

by Andrew Schetinin

A set of macros for detecting and reporting critical errors, combined with a technique of writing solid code.

Coding for Logo Certification Across Both Windows Mobile Platforms

by Dr. William J. Blanke

This article shows how to abstract some of the most common issues a developer will encounter when creating a native code application that must be logo certified for each platform.

Color Button for the .NET Compact Framework

by Jonathan Nethercott

Shows how to write a color button control for the .NET compact framework.

Colour Picker Control for Windows CE

by João Paulo Figueira

An implementation of the Office 97 style Colour Picker control for Windows CE.

Command-line utility for PocketPC

by Alexander Silonosov

RAPI based utility for copying files and folders PC->PocketPC (and vice versa). There is also - "Dir, Del, Db" commands.

Compact Framework - PHP Writer

by K-19

Use your PDA to write to PHP Server

Compact Framework Configuration XML File Read & Write like appSettings

by Alejandro Barrada

How to use an XML file to read and write aplication settings in a Window Mobile development

Compact Framework Process class that supports fully specified file paths

by Frank Th. van de Ven

Terminate a process, or check if it is running, using the full file path. It also enumerates processes returning the full path to the running EXE file.

CompactFormatterPlus: Generic Serializer for Full and Compact Framework

by Alex_1

Generic serializer for full and Compact Framework

Config Customization at Build Time in Visual Studio

by Jim Rogers

Modify config files with machine- or build-specific differences at compile time.

Control your PC with Mobile Phone

by rasheed1979

Shutdown your PC from anywhere in this universe using mobile phone, with lesser cost.

Controlling Hardware Buttons on Pocket PC

by Mick Doherty

Controlling hardware buttons, the easy way...

Cool Owner Drawn Menus with Bitmaps - Version 3.03

by Brent Corkum

This class implements an owner drawn menu class that mimics the menu style used in XP, Office and Visual C++

CPathSplit

by Kochise

CString based path splitter.

Create a SQL Database Programmatically

by Moustafa Refaat

In this article, I will explain how to use Microsoft SQL Management Objects (SMO) to create a Microsoft SQL database from C# code.

Creating a 3D Image from a DepthMap

by Soroush Falahati

Introducing a class for generating 3D images (Stereoscopic and Anaglyph) from DepthMaps.

Creating a Casual Puzzle Game in Managed Code for Windows Mobile Devices

by BillLange1968

This article shows how to create a casual (easy, simple, and fun) puzzle game in managed code for Windows Mobile devices.

Creating a Custom Control in Expression Blend with Custom Properties (WindowsPhone & Store)

by Saad_Mahmood

Creating custom control for Windows Phone and Store Using Expressions Blend

Creating a HeaderBar Control in MFC

by EK_Kiwi

Creating and using a header bar control in MFC in Windows CE.

Creating a Mobile AJAX Process Using SQL Anywhere Web Services

by LeanneStuive

This article explains the basic AJAX technique, and explains the HTML, JavaScript, and SQL needed to use AJAX to access SQL Anywhere web services. It also covers how to use the AJAX process with a Windows Mobile 6 Device and the SQL Anywhere HTTP Server.

Creating Custom DirectShow SampleGrabber Filter for Windows Mobile

by Angel Kafazov

This article explains how to write your custom DirectShow SampleGrabber filter for Windows Mobile.

Creating MDI programs with eVC++ 3.0

by Stober

An article to illustrate how to create multiple views in WinCE using eVC++ 3.0 compiler for PocketPC 2002

Creating Pocket PC Application Setup Packages Using CAB Wizard - 1

by Girish Nurani Sankaranarayanan

A beginner level article describing the creation of Pocket PC application setup packages using the CAB Wizard application.

Creating Slick User Interface for Windows Mobile

by Resco Developer Tools

With rise of iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms, plenty of mobile developers are starting to question the future of Windows Mobile platform. Is it gonna last or is it already dead??

Creating Transparent Controls in .NET Compact Framework

by DotNetIdeas

This article explains how to create transparent controls in .NET Compact Framework

Creation and Update Comment Stamps Macro

by Modesty Zhang

This is a Visual Studio .NET 2003 macro, it can automatically insert comment blocks to your source files about copyright, creation date, author and update, etc., basically anything you want for your source files’ header.

CThread

by PEK

CThread simplifies the process to start, run and stop threads. You can use it to work with threads in the same way as you do in C# or Java.

CTokenizer class

by Eddie Velasquez

A simple tokenizer class that can be used on CStrings

Currency Converter for the Pocket PC

by Stefan Repas

Learn how to write a useful smart currency converter tool with Visual Studio .NET 2003 for the Pocket PC 2002/2003, which works both in offline and online modes.

Custom Control For Common RequiredField Validator

by Gaurang Desai

Common validation conrol for more than one Required Field on the page. The simple and most eligant way to validate required fields.

Custom Data Binding Through Reflection

by Nick Parker

Using reflection and a custom attribute to bind data to UI elements.

Custom Enumerators

by Jaime Olivares

Modify the behaviour of any enumerator to make it circular, constrained or stepped. Also reversible enumerator.

Custom String Formatting in .NET

by Heath Stewart

Discusses the implementation of custom format providers for existing types and custom formatting for user-defined types.

Custom VScrollbar to make DataGrid finger flickable

by Ming_Lu

A custom VScrollbar to make DataGrid finger flickable.

Custom Web Visitor Tracking using C#

by Haja

When the IIS log is not sufficient for your web analytics , you can use this simple technique to track the extra data about visitors of your web page

Customize the task bar in Windows Mobile Devices

by Ravenet

Disable/enable task bar in a handheld device using a flag

Customizing the DocList

by ljw1004

Manipulate the "Folders" drop-down in a PocketPC 2002 application.

Customizing Visual Studio's Code Generation Templates

by sh856531

A simple tutorial showing how we can customise the templates used by VS when it generates source code for us.

CVariantArray

by Ancient Dragon

A Two-Dimensional Array of VARIANTs

CWaveBox - WAI wrapper for playing PCM multiwaves, useful in game development

by zenith__

Multiwave player ('Waveform Audio Interface' PCM wave wrapper).

Date and Time Formatting in JavaScript like .NET C# or VB.NET

by Sunasara Imdadhusen

Custom Date and Time formatting in JavaScript like in .NET C# or VB.NET

Debugging Managed Applications in Windows CE Devices

by Sreekesh NK

Debugging Managed applications in Windows CE devices without using ActiveSync.

Decompress and display an animated GIF on PC and PPC

by OdeeanRDeathshead

A class to allow animated GIFs to be displayed, manualy scanning and decompressing.

Deleting a directory along with sub-folders

by Feroz Zahid

Function that deletes whole of a directory structure.

Demonstration of Windows Mobile App without Visual Studio

by Arindam Sinha

Ways to demonstarte any Windows Mobile Application through emulator with out Visual Studio

Deploy Own Certificate Built in Our Application's Cab

by crino

Deploy own certificate built in our application's cab

Design Metro App using windows 8 and Visual studio 2011

by Umesh Khandelwal

Design Metro App using windows 8 and Visual studio 2011

Design State Machine Engine for embedded system development

by Jerome_D

This article discovers how to design a hierarchical state machine engine for embedded system development.

Detect If Window is Split

by Randy More

A function that tells you whether a window is split

Determine the Row and Column of a View

by Randy More

A function that tells you where on a split window a view is located

Determining Threading Limits For Multi-Threaded Network Applications

by John Aldrich

This article will explain a method of benchmarking a W9X/W2K/XP based computer to determine the maximum safe level of thread usage while keeping the system able to process other input without entering into a freeze condition.

Develop embedded systems based on UML state machines

by Jerome_D

This article discovers how to develop and simulate cross-platform embedded systems using the UML State Machine Wizard.

Developing a wireless workflow automation client on Pocket PC/PDAs with a Web Service

by Zenab_Zenab

This article focuses on developing a workflow client device application for Pocket PC in C# 2003.

Developing and Deploying Pocket PC Setup Applications

by Microsoft - Compact Framework

Learn how to create a single .msi file that is run from the desktop to install an application on different Pocket PC devices. The development process is automated so it's easy to build and package all of the necessary components into the .msi file. Sample code is provided for C# and VB.NET.

Developing Orientation-Aware and DPI-Aware Smart Device Applications in .NET

by DotNetIdeas

This article will show you how to create an Orientation-Aware and DPI-Aware Smart Device application.

Directory file listing utility

by Shup

An article about methods to recursively list all files in a given directory.

Disable WM2003 CAB Install Alert

by Chad Cheng

How to disable WM2003 CAB install alert

Disabling top-level popup menus in the PocketPC 2002

by João Paulo Figueira

How to eneble and disable top-level popup menus in the Command Bar of PocketPC 2002 applications.

Display device memory information using P/Invoke

by Ravenet

P/Invoke with Compact Framework to get the memory status and storage card information.

Display PNG, JPG, etc. on Pocket PC

by Jim Koornneef

Combine CXImage and DibSectionLite on Pocket PC.

Display Server Logical Disks Remotely on a Mobile Device

by aleksisa

A Web Method to display a server's logical disks remotely on a mobile device.

Double-click on the Trace Message in the Output Window in Developer Studio to Get to the Line of Code

by Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

Take advantage of the output window in Developer Studio

Download a Google Map with Win32, C++ and WinInet

by Paula Scholz

Using pure Win32, WinInet, and STL Vectors, we open an Internet connection, download, and display a Google map on a Windows Mobile phone.

Drawing Qubic Bezier-splines on Pocket PC

by Henrik Pettersson

Functions for drawing Bezier splines on Pocket PC. Since they are missing in GDI for Pocket PC.

Duckworth Lewis Calculator for Windows Mobile

by trxStudio

A Duckworth Lewis calculator for Windows Moblie and .NET 3.5.

Easy Time Management Application

by aa2max

Simple web-based time management application using ASP and MS Access.

Easy to use Performance Testing Component

by Jonathan Nethercott

A component to enable performance testing and timing of code in .NET.

Enable floating SIP control in IPAQ/Windows CE .NET

by CT CHANG

Enable floating SIP control in iPAQ/Windows CE .NET devices.

Encapsulating Win32 threads in C++

by Ciprian Miclaus

This article presents a class to encapsulate threads, leaving the user to focus on project details.

Endian Conversion in ARM and x86 Assembly

by kingsimba0511

How to solve Endian conversion in multiplatform application

End-to-End Real World BlackBerry Application, Part 6

by MiamiCoder

How to create a real-world BlackBerry application.

Enumerating Serial Ports On Pocket PC

by advatronix

C++ Class to enumerate COM ports on Pocket PC

Event Handling / Generating Basics

by Derek Bartram

A quick start guide to custom event generating and handling

Exposing asynchronous features to client code: Windows Phone 7

by Nikos Baxevanis

How to use types implementing the IAsyncResult interface on Windows Phone 7.

Expression Blend - Playing with Sample Data (WPF , Windows Phone)

by Saad_Mahmood

Expression Blend - Playing with Sample Data (WPF , Windows Phone)

Extend Built-In Classes

by Mohamed M. El-Kalioby

How to extend built in Classes

Extreme Designing

by RedSunBeer

test the apps design

Fast and Compact HTML/XML Scanner/Tokenizer

by c-smile

HTML/XML scanner/tokenizer, also known as a pull parser

Fast region creation on WinCE/PocketPC

by dzolee

A fast solution to create custom-shaped windows from a bitmap mask.

Flight Log Book

by Nicolas Gaillet

Log Book for Flight Planner.

by Alain Rist

Message map macros, split frames, full screen implementation, and automatic mapping of UI elements.

FTP Server for XP Embedded

by Dmitry Ivanov

A minimalistic FTP server for XPe-powered systems.

Full Multi-thread Client/Server Socket Class with ThreadPool

by Ernest Laurentin

Complete Client/Server Socket Communication class with threadpool implementation. Easy to use and integrate into C++ application. Linux/UNIX port available.

Full Screen Application: Windows CE and Pocket PC

by Oleg Levin

Making a full screen application for Windows CE and Pocket PC devices.

Full screen feature in .NET Compact Framework

by CT CHANG

Enable full screen mode in .NET compact framework applications.

Fullscreen Windows in Windows CE

by Barney L. Parker

Fullscreen Windows in Windows CE without using SHFullScreen.

Games with GameDrawNet.dll

by User 2261474

For games on Pocket PC, you shouldn't use GDI+. One solution: Gapidraw!

Gausian and Alpha Blurring

by Matthew Hazlett

Step by step instructions and theory

Geolocalize a Device and Store Coordinates on Webserver

by Emiliano Musso

Geolocalize a device and store coordinates on webserver

Get useful directory paths

by Shup

An article on easily finding the paths of commonly used user specific directories.

Getting Started With Intel Realsense 3D Technology

by Pooja Baraskar

This Article will help you in Getting Started with Intel Realsense 3D Technology

GPS and Web Service using C++ ATL/WTL (Windows Mobile 6, Standard)

by Valentin Ivanov

This article explains how to use the GPS API and Web Service on a SmartPhone to show demographics information for the current location.

GPS Runner Track

by Philipos Sakellaropoulos

An application for Windows Mobile with GPS to keep track of your runs. Saves tracks in GPX format.

GPS Tracking with Windows Mobile 5.0+

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Use a Windows Mobile Professional phone with a GPS receiver to create a simple SMS based location tracking program.

Graphics2D Drawing on Windows Mobile

by guidebee

Code example on how to draw enhanced graphics 2D pictures on Windows Mobile

Grid Control for .NET Compact Framework

by RescoDeveloper.Net

The article points out several key differences between desktop and mobile application development. The differences are compared on an example of standard Visual Studio DataGrid and Resco SmartGrid for .NET CF.

GridView Custom Paging with PageSize Change Dropdown

by Saifi Hasan

A GridView control with custom paging.

Gynoid: Framework for Mobile Development

by Vince Ricci

Gynoid is a wrapper around mobile phone APIs (WinCE, symbian, iPhone)

Handling connection notification between a desktop machine and Windows CE based devices

by Anil_gupta

This article describes how to get notification when a Windows CE based device is connected or disconnected from a desktop machine.

Handling tap-and-hold

by João Paulo Figueira

Tips on how to handle tap-and-hold user commands.

Having full screen without accessing the SHFullScreen API

by CT CHANG

Add full screen capability in your PocketPC applications.

Header Bars in Windows CE Using Win32

by EK_Kiwi

Creating and using a header bar style control in Windows CE.

Head-to-head benchmark: C++ vs .NET

by Qwertie

How fast is C++ compared to C#? Let's compare code ported directly between the two languages.

Help File Integration in Windows Mobile Pocket PC

by PavanPareta

Help file integration with Windows Mobile applications programmatically.

HexaLines - Original Strategy Puzzle Game

by Tomas Slavicek

New version of the popular game, with multitouch support

Highlight View with Focus

by Randy More

Adding visual feedback on which pane in a split view currently has the focus

How to Configure Visual Studio 2008 for Compiling Drivers

by Andrey Sergienko

How to configure Visual Studio 2008 for compiling drivers without using DDK's console tools.

How to Debug the Exception

by nicolas_chang

Help us to find the position of the exception in the source code

How to detect a connection loss in .Net Sockets

by Fade (Amit BS)

Explains how to detect when a remote peer closes the connection

How to encode/decode URLs to the UTF8 format (with %20 and so)

by Daniel Cohen Gindi

This article shows how to encode/decode URLs to the UTF8 format (with %20 and so) if you have to have web support in your application.

How to establish communication between mobile phone and PC

by nitzbajaj

This article deals with building a communication link between your mobile and your PC. It also deals with the ways to execute commands on your mobile phone interpreter from your PC.

How to estimate a software project in man-hours?

by RedSunBeer

Some thoughts on estimating before having a design in place.

How to generate a log file in VC++ or Embedded VC++ (For Pocket PC or WinCE devices)

by kishore Gaddam

Log generation functions including COM error information logging and MFC exception information logging.

How to perform fading transitions on Textures in XNA 4.0 using Interpolation Timers

by CJ Kent

Create an Interpolating Timer and use it to fade textures in and out in XNA 4.0

How To Query Miniport Driver Information (802.11 OIDs) using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Mechanism

by Maju M

Query 802.11 OIDs using WMI mechanism

How to serialize data effectively? Custom serialization of Bitmap, Cursor, Icon, Font, and other objects without a default constructor with...

by Pawel idzikowski

Is it better to serialize types without default constructor with Custom Serializer or a Substitute Pattern? Example of serialization of FontFamily into isolated storage in WP7.

How To Use a Single Resource Component for your Images and Mixing C# and VB in the Same NETCF Solution

by becker666

Snippets show the steps and workarounds of issues while implementing it

How to Write Your Own Siri Application (Mobile Assistant Application)

by Yildirim Kocdag

This article helps you to understand how you can write your own Siri application.

Icon Menu for the .NET Compact Framework

by Fredrik Bornander

How to implement an iPhone style icon menu using the .NET Compact Framework.

Implement Phonetic ("Sounds-like") Name Searches with Double Metaphone Part V: .NET Implementation

by Adam Nelson

Presents a C# implementation of Double Metaphone, for use with any of the .NET languages.

Implementing a memory efficient search tree for a wordlist

by Silviu Simen

This article describes a method of storing a wordlist into a compressed form while providing a relatively quick word lookup functionality.

Implementing a smoothly animated ListBox

by Fredrik Bornander

An article on creating an iPhone style ListBox.

Implementing the DT_END_ELLIPSIS flag on the Pocket PC

by João Paulo Figueira

Extending the DrawText function to display truncated text with a terminating ellipsis

Implementing XOR cipher encryption / decryption in C#

by mightyCoCo

A theoretical and practical implementation of the XOR encryption technology in C# which is extended from the Vernam cipher

Importing Type Libraries

by Heath Stewart

Using alternatives to importing type libraries and COM objects can improve the portability of your source code.

Index XML Documents with VTD+XML

by Jimmy Zhang

Introduces a simple, efficient, human-readable XML index called VTD+XML.

Infrared Communication with your Mobile Phone

by Daniel Strigl

Learn how to make your Pocket PC speak with your mobile phone.

Inject My DLL Into a Process

by emranallan

A Windows Mobile Spy.

Injecting Method Calls to Existing Methods of an Assembly

by Ana Carolina Zambon

This is a demonstration of how to use the basics of Mono.Cecil by adding method calls to existing assemblies.

Install and Configure SQL Server for SQLCE replication

by Garth Tissington

After pulling my hair out for several days I finally figured out how to install and configure SQLCE with SQL Server for replication to a Windows CE device. I hope this saves you some pain

Intercom Pattern

by saiful_vonair

Defines many to many relationship between different types of classes.

Introducing Lucene.Net

by AndrewSmith

A plunge into creating a fast, full text index, with advanced searching capabilites.

Introduction to BREW - A Mobile Handset Application Development Platform

by Girish Nurani Sankaranarayanan

An article giving a general introduction of BREW - a mobile handset application development platform like Symbian, Windows Smartphone etc.,

Introduction to Pocket PC Development

by Girish Nurani Sankaranarayanan

An overview of Pocket PC development, including information on development tools and languages available.

Introduction to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

by Girish Nurani Sankaranarayanan

An article giving a high level overview of Radio Frequency Identification technology, its characteristics, its applications, and its relevance to Windows CE.

Introduction to SmartPhone 2002 for Pocket PC developers

by Yaroslav Goncharov

We have got a new mobile phone platform, MS SmartPhone 2002 that is Windows CE-based. Will it be easy to migrate to the Smartphone 2002 platform from other Windows CE-based platforms?

Introductory Mobile Tracker Application for SmartPhones

by Santosh Ingawale

IP Relay for Visual Studio Mobile Device Web Development

by R%S

Enable access from mobile phone emulator to Visual Studio WebDev.WebServer listening on localhost

iPhone UI in Windows Mobile

by Dr.Luiji

It's an interface that works with transparency effects. As a sample, I used an interface just like the iPhone one. In this tutorial, I explain how simple it is to work with transparency on Windows Mobile.

iPhone-like Database GUI on Windows Mobile

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

iPod touch UI

by Dr.Luiji

It's a Media Player that works with transparency effects, plays MP3 and Wav files, displays the tag if present, and displays the album art image if present.

iTunes Bar Look-a-Like

by Snews

A control that mimics the look-n-feel of iTunes and the iPod manager.

JavaScript DateTime and TimeSpan Wrappers

by JoseMenendez

A couple of JavaScript classes with the well known .NET's classes capabilities

Keyboard hooks in WinCE

by Prathamesh S Kulkarni

An article on using keyboard hooks in WinCE.

Launch an Executable Programatically on Windows Mobile using CreateProcess and C#

by Liam Cavanagh

The following article explains how to launch an executable from within your application on Windows Mobile using C#.

Learn How to Find GPS Location on Any SmartPhone, and Then Make it Relevant

by TylerBrinks

A step by step tutorial for getting GPS from any SmartPhone, even without GPS built in, and then making location useful.

Linear and Logarithmic Display of 2D Data, An Enhancement

by Guenther Klenner

The DataPlotter is a .NET control for graphical display of 2D data. For both the X and Y axis, a linear or logarithmic (any base) scaling can be selected.

LINQ to SQL - Detach Entities

by Eric J. Smith, Shannon Davidson

Easily detach entities when using LINQ to SQL

Loading images with an undocumented API in PPC 2002

by Tanzim Husain

This article describes an undocumented API that enables you to load images (bmp, gif etc.) from files under Pocket PC 2002

Localization in Windows Universal Apps

by Pooja Baraskar

Making the App World-Ready by adapting it for a specific culture and language.

Location Aware Phone Book

by Joel Ivory Johnson

An article on using the Microsoft Live Search API to make a location aware phone book

Luhn' s Algorithm

by wapnethr

Calculating checksum number using Luhn's algorithm

Manage Handheld Device Files from Desktop

by Paul Brower

Using the OpenNetCF RAPI wrapper class to manage files on a Handheld Device running the Windows Mobile OS.

Managed DirectDraw with Windows Mobile

by Ziad Elmalki

Using Managed DirectDraw with Windows Mobile.

Managed Wrapper to Connection Manager and How to Bypass the Connection Planner

by Naynesh Shah

This article explains how we can bypass the Connection Planner and establish a connection using the Connection Manager APIs on Windows Mobile devices.

Manual uninstaller for PocketPC

by ljw1004

If you don't want to use CAB, this is how.

Manually validating an ASP.NET user account with a SHA1 hashed password

by Malcolm Swaine

How to manually validate an ASP.NET Roles and Membership password using SHA1.

MarbleMaze

by Ayush001

Traditional game which becomes more interetsing.

Mastermind for Windows Mobile

by Wu Xuesong

Develop the Mastermind Game using the .NET Compact Framework.

MD5 Hash Calculator Pocket PC 2003/Windows CE 4.x

by mwahlberg

A small tool for calculating a MD5 hash.

Memory leak detection for WinCE

by Ciprian Miclaus

This code detects memory leaks in embedded VC++ almost the same way crtdbg does in VC++.

Memory Leak Detector for C++

by klein_jr

Simple plug-in code for debugging memory leaks.

Memory mapped files and flat table primitives.

by c-smile

Source C++ classes for persisting flat table data.

Merge Replication between SQL 2000 or SQL 2005 using SQLCE

by ihsanps

Merge Replication using SQL 2000 or 2005 using Compact Framework

Merge Replication between SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server CE

by sebagomez

An article on how to configure a SQL Server 2000 and SQL CE on different PPC that syncronize their data with the SQL Server 2000

Minimalistic Driver-less Native MySql Client

by Ladislav Nevery

Native MySql Client not requiring any special driver or library

Mobile Agents - Software on the move

by Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu

What if objects could move from machine to machine? Not just automated downloads, or remotely controlling objects as in remoting, but a system in which the object actually moves about. Mobile software agents do exactly that. In this article I will provide an introduction to this fascinating concept.

Mobile Application Development Lessons Learned

by gggustafson

This article discusses two lessons learned during the development of a mobile application.

Mobile Birthday Reminder and Automatic SMS Sender

by Wild-Programmer

This code sends automatic SMS to birthday boys/girls :) from phone

Mobile Processor Usage

by Paul Heil

Discover how to calculate the processor usage of every running process in your Windows mobile device

Mobile TouchPad

by Dr.Luiji

Mobile TouchPad lets you control your PC through your touch pad phones. You can easily connect to your desktop without configuration.

MobileLPR - An LPR Client for .NET Compact Framework 2.0

by EFEaglehouse

Windows CE/Mobile printing client for LPR, LPRng, and Socket API.

Monitoring with a WebCam on a WAP phone

by icerrato@libero.it, pmarco72, Bartolomeo Sorrentino

An article about WAP architecture and a sample application.

More than strcmp(): similarity in strings

by Rui A. Rebelo

A function which returns the similarity between two strings (how much they're equal).

MS SQL Server mail queue

by Dan Glass

Mail queue using a SQL database

Multiple Toolbars in the PocketPC 2002

by João Paulo Figueira

Handling multiple toolbars - Pocket Word-style.

My Experience with the Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Windows Mobile 6

by Joel Ivory Johnson

My experience with the Windows Marketplace for Mobile for 6.x devices and the certification process.

Native DLL for GPS communication

by werner.keilholz

Giving full control over the communication with a GPS device in a limited environment.

Need a flashlight for your PocketPC?

by MichaelCoder

This is an article on how to make a flashlight out of your PocketPC

NetDbExplorer : Demo for mj10777.DataBase Class

by Mark Johnson

The use of mj10777.DataBase to Connect, Create (Database/Table), Read and Fill Tables, Update, Insert and Delete Records and show results in a TreeView / ListView Application.

Network Connection Manager - Select Network Connections from many Networks Available

by Pradeep Kothari

How to select network connections from many Networks available like BlueTooth, Active Sync, 3G, Wireless Lan

Network socket programming using the NetLib library

by Software Developer's Journal

The Palm OS operating system provides a library called the NetLib, allowing easy access to netowrk sockets. The library makes developing network-enabled applications for Palm OS very similar to writing such programs for Unix based systems (and equally easy).

Normal Casing of an Upper Case Paragraph Using .NET Regular Expressions

by Steve Killick

Illustrates a method of taking a multi-sentence string that is in all caps, and converting to to normal case.

Object Mapping For Hand-held Basic (HB++)

by C.Olivera

Creating a Data-Access layer and Business objects for HB++

Office Style Flat ComboBox

by Kirk Stowell

A drop-in replacement combobox that gives your apps the flat Office-style look

OOP in JavaScript.

by aakaab

OOP aspects of JavaScript programming language.

OpenTheme : An open source graphic user interface (GUI) toolkit

by weiqj

An innovative alternative to XAML and XUL

OverLibWrapper -- C# wrapper of the overLIB DHTML popup JavaScript library

by ThaddParker

An article on the use of the OverlibPageControl and OverlibPopupAnchor for extended manipulation of the overLIB popup JavaScript library.

Own your phone - Taking back control of your mobile phone

by BrainThump

We'll build a call management application for Windows Mobile 5.x/6.x which can programatically ignore, send to voicemail, or SMS-respond to unwanted calls.

Packaging and Deploying Pocket PC Applications

by Simon Kittle

Step by step instructions for creating an MSI Windows Installer for Pocket PC applications.

Packaging and Deploying Pocket PC Applications and SQL Server CE 2.0

by JacobEgholm

This article is about making a package containing a Pocket PC application and a SQL Server CE. The package will be of type MSI. When you click it, it will first install SQL Server CE 2.0 and then it will install the Pocket PC application.

Palm databases - how to persist data on a Palm hand held

by Christian Graus

Continuing our series of articles, we discuss how to create databases, and create, modify and delete records

Palm OS 3.5 Development -- Part 1, Introduction to Palm OS

by Shawn Poulson

An introduction to Palm OS development.

Palm OS 3.5 Development -- Part 2, HotSync Conduits

by Shawn Poulson

An introduction to Palm OS development - HotSync conduits.

Parse DataSet via Reflection

by NeoPunk

This article shows how to bind relational data model with object design model

Passing Values Between Multiple Projects using Interface

by Jayson Ragasa

Passing Values Between Multiple Projects using Interface

Password Safe Reader for Windows Mobile

by Svante Seleborg, Alphons van der Heijden, Dave Shaw, katakana2

A Windows Mobile C# reader for the popular Password Safe archive files.

Patch my Arabic Locale on Windows Mobile

by emranallan

Add your local inside windows local to be supported for unicode

PDA / Pocket PC Signature Capturing and Saving as BMP

by Agha Zair Ali

A way to capture signature on Pocket PC and saving as BMP file

Persistent Mobile Device Application

by Gurpreet111

Permanent Storage of a Mobile Device Application

pfront: A utility for Windows Mobile

by Paul Heil

A small addition to the popular command-line itsutils for Windows Mobile.

PlanetFinder for Windows Mobile

by Giannakakis Kostas

PlanetFinder application for Windows Mobile Smartphones

Pocket AniEd - Pocket PC Based Animation Editor

by Lewey Geselowitz

Pocket AniEd allows anybody to quickly and easily make beautiful and smooth animations without a background in computer animation or any unnecessary complexity.

Pocket PC 2003 File transfer - The OBEX way

by MBuehrer

A sample application that pulls files from an OBEX server.

Pocket PC Development using Pelles C

by Azim Zahir

This article describes how we can develop pocket PC applications using Pelles C IDE.

Pocket PC Memory Card Based Installer

by wduros1

A sample software installer for the Pocket PC that installs software when a memory card is inserted into the device.

Pocket PC Numeric Key Pad

by João Paulo Figueira

An easier way to accept numeric input on the Pocket PC.

Pocket Personal Health Record

by rasheed1979

Personal Pocket Health Record (PPHR) application helps to store and track a user's personal details and visits information on Windows powered pocket PC.

PocketPcAgent

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.

Podium

by rudigrobler

Podium is a PowerPoint add-in and Windows Phone 7 app for controlling Powerpoint from Windows phone 7 devices

Polymorphism in JavaScript

by Joe BTrez

How does Polymorphism work in JavaScript.

Porting a registry viewer application from Pocket PC to SmartPhone 2002

by Yaroslav Goncharov

Porting process of the registry viewer sample from the user interface design to the implementation details.

Post mortem C++ exception analysis in embedded applications

by Werner Willemsens

An article on analysing a program exception or software crash.

Power of Visual Inheritance in .NET – “Best”

by Saurabhdotnet

This article helps in exploring the power of Visual Inheritance and makes your application development very easy.

Power up the TCP/IP capability in your PocketPC application

by CT CHANG

Establish a TCP/IP connection to other applications.

Priority queue

by BenDi

Another addition to the System.Collections namespace - a priority queue, also known as a heap.

Programming control point application using the UPnP Control Point API

by amatecki

The article describes how to use the Microsoft's UPnP Control Point API for finding and controlling UPnP devices, and includes a description of simple library to facilitate the application of Control Point API in your own programs, together with an example of MFC and WinForms applications.

Project Wizards for Embedded Visual C++

by trevor.hart

An article on creating Project Wizards for Embedded Visual C++

Properties in C++

by Mohammad Shuaib

Simulating C# Properties in C++

Property Header Control for Windows Mobile

by Simon Hart

Ever wanted to create a standard look and feel property header type control as seen in many Microsoft applications on Windows Mobile? Well, here is the code to do it.

Property sheet callbacks in the Pocket PC 2002

by João Paulo Figueira

How to insert title and footer links in Pocket PC property sheets, using MFC

PropertyGridCE - Mobile version of PropertyGrid

by Jaime Olivares

A useful control that mimics most of the PropertyGrid functionality in the .NET Compact Framework.

Prototype In Javascript - Basic

by Sunasara Imdadhusen

The prototype property allows you to add properties and methods to an object.

PSD for PocketPC Windows Mobile 2003

by ihaml

A generic class to import Adobe's Photoshop (.psd) images under PocketPC Windows Mobile 2003.

Push and Run .NET Code on Remote Machine

by Jim Wiese (aka Spunk)

Execute an assembly on a remote machine without any special hooks - works on existing assemblies!

Push Notification For Windows, iOS & Android - Quick, Easy and Flexible

by Sunasara Imdadhusen

FlexiPush (Push Notification) is a Quick, Easy and Flexible way to send a Push Notifications to the different platforms like Android, iOS and Windows instantly with your custom Payload as well

Quick and convenient way to build STL strings.

by Taka Muraoka

A quick and convenient way to build STL strings.

Quick tool : A minimalistic Telnet library

by Tom Janssens

Send commands to your servers from your programs using the Telnet protocol

Radio Power

by Paul Heil

An in-depth view in to monitoring and controlling the power of your Windows Mobile device's wireless communications systems.

Ramblings about your own, fast C# Maths library

by Inaki Ayucar

Why not building your own C# Maths library instead of using the ones included in APIs like DirectX or XNA?

RAPI2 - Part II: Loving the Stream

by Paul Heil

Using the RAPI2 interface safely and effectively.

RAPI2: The Friend You Never Knew You Had

by Paul Heil

Using the RAPI2 interface safely and effectively.

Rating of Open Source AOP Frameworks in .NET

by V.GNANASEKARAN

This article provides a methodology to rate the available open source AOP frameworks in .NET

Reading given number of bytes with RSocket::Read()

by luweiewul

Exploring how to read given number of bytes with RSocket::Read() on Symbian.

Reading SMS (MMS) and Emails on Windows Mobile (5, 6) Devices Using CEMAPI

by Sergey Timoschuk, Apriorit Inc

In this article, I would like to tell you how to read the SMS, MMS, and Emails data from your Windows Mobile device. Also I’ll describe some differences between reading message body in Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6 devices.

Real Time 2D Graph for CE

by B.Manivannan

A 2D graph for CE. To run this application, you must have installed eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0.

Registry Editor for Windows CE

by srinivas vaithianathan

A Registry editor for a Windows CE device.

Remote windows mobile Device Using Winsock

by emranallan

Server Application to remote your mobile device through wireless/wire connection not based on RAPI

Resort Companion

by umuhk

Presenting the Resort Companion, a data-navigation application for vacation resorts

Restaurant and Waiter project! (WPF - Windows Mobile)

by Ali-DN

Restaurant and Waiter project! (WPF - Windows Mobile)

RESTful proxy-less WCF clients for .NET, .NET Compact Framework, and Silverlight

by Paul B.

Sample WCF clients for three different platforms with no code duplication and no generated proxies.

Retrieving and Storing Call History

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.

Reversi for Windows Mobile

by Ziad Elmalki

The game Reversi for Windows Mobile using the Compact Framework.

Robotics/Embedded Systems - Part I

by Vahe Karamian

This article is the first part of a series of articles which will discuss embedded systems and their applications. It will use the BASIC Stamp II microcontroller for the creation of a simple robot.

Robotics/Embedded Systems - Part II

by Vahe Karamian

This article is the second part of a series of articles which will discuss embedded systems and their applications. It will use the BASIC Stamp II microcontroller for creation of a simple robot.

Robotics/Embedded Systems - Part III

by Vahe Karamian

This article is the third part of a series of articles which will discuss embedded systems and their applications. It will use the BASIC Stamp II microcontroller for creation of a simple robot.

RPN Dynamic Registration Model

by Don Laverdure

An article implementing RPN in a Pocket PC application.

Scraping Text from the Screen

by Paul Heil

How to programmatically read text from any process at any point on the screen

Scratchpad/Signature Capture as BMP on Pocket PC

by RajeshNayak

A way to capture signature or scribble on the Pocket PC.

Scroll the contents in windows and Multi-Undo and Redo in controls

by Iven Xu

Scroll the contents in windows and multi-undo and redo in controls.

ScrollableControl with Scroll Events

by Martin Randall

A ScrollableControl extension to generate horizontal and vertical scroll events.

Sending an SMS using CEMAPI

by EK_Kiwi

How to send an SMS using the CEMAPI APIs.

Sending mail using the Microsoft Windows CE Mail API

by Ray Kinsella

How to use the Microsoft Mail API to insert messages into the Window CE Outbox.

Sending SMS on Pocket PC

by John.Jiang

Easy way to send a message using C#.

Serial driver for Pocket PC

by Eugene Ochakovsky

How to add a new serial port to a Pocket PC device and how to drive this port.

Serial Port Enumeration on Windows Mobile

by João Paulo Figueira

How to enumerate serial ports in a Windows Mobile device (including the virtual ports created by the Microsoft Bluetooth stack).

Service Browser Application for Windows Mobile

by Valentin Ivanov

Helper application for managing services running under Services.exe process on Windows Mobile platform.

ShakyVoice - A voice stress analysis tool

by Vladimir Ralev

This is an implementation of a simple voice stress analysis tool for Pocket PC; it can be used on the road as a lie detector.

Sign Code

by crino

How to sign the code by your own certificate and install the certificate on device

Signature User Control: Graphics Programming in Smart Phones, PocketPCs, and PDAs

by litsonjose

In this article we are going to see the use of graphics in Smart Phones and PDA applications.

Simple and Multithreading queue classes

by Alexander Kovachev

Simple and Multithreading queue classes

Simple Class to get Currency Exchange Rates

by Vitaly Zayko

Explains how to get the latest currency exchange rates from the Internet.

Simple GridView Radio Button Row Selector

by Adam Crawford

A custom web control to add radio button selection to the GridView control.

Simple Logger for Applicative and ASP.NET

by Yves

Limit the size of your logging

Simple Prism Application Templates

by StevenHawkes

VS2008 templates to create simple WPF Prism based applications.

Simple Serial Communication

by Idael Cardoso

A C++ class to allow simple serial communication in Win32 platforms

Simple SQL Connection String Manager Class

by Pawel Zarzycki

Simple class that helps accessing and managing SQL Connection Strings.

Simple Windows Service Sample

by Mahmoud Nasr

A simple application to show how to create a Windows service.

Simple Yet Custom Configuration File

by hsongrice

With very little coding, you have a customizable configuration and it is extendable

Singleton Design Pattern with the Compact Framework

by JSaunders

Create single instances of forms using the Compact Framework.

SIP(soft input panel) Overlapping Controls

by copmac

How to solve input panel overlapping problem

Small and Simple TRACE/Log support for your Windows application

by suggam

This header file will provide you with the smallest and simplest way to log some trace messages from your MFC application.

Smart Alarm Using OpenNetCF and C# for SmartPhone (Windows Mobile 2003)

by Hermit Dave

An application for SmartPhones to create multiple alarms.

Smart Device Login Application Using the SQL Server CE Database

by saurabhmsoni

A comprehensive guide to development of .NET 2.0 Smart Clients with SQL Server CE Database

Smart Device Print Engine for Compact Framework

by Orkun GEDiK

Printing support for .NET Compact Framework.

Software Architect Simple Way 1 of ??

by The DevMan

A series for simplifying the learning of software architecture

Speaking Garmin

by David Nissimoff

Covers the basics needed to get a Pocket PC and a Garmin GPS talk in their own language and to graphically display the calculated data.

SPOT - Linking people...

by Girish Nurani Sankaranarayanan

An article giving a high level overview of Smart Personal Objects Technology with emphasis on SPOT wrist watches.

SQL Compact 3.5 Tidbits and Gotchas!

by Jammer

An article detailing with the odd problems and solutions to using SQL Compact 3.5 in desktop applications.

SQL Injection Attacks and Some Tips on How to Prevent Them

by Colin Angus Mackay

Discusses various aspects of SQL Injection attacks, what to look for in your code, and how to secure it against SQL Injection attacks.

SQL Server – Active Directory Interaction

by ThomasMiller

Descripe the SQL Server 2000/2005 interaction with Active Directory on Windows 2000 or 2003 server

Start/Stop Your Music Player with your Headphones

by r.ps

An application that starts your music app when you plug in the headphones and stops it when you unplug it!

Store and forward GPS data for Smart Phones

by Slava Khristich

How to deliver GPS data asynchronously to the server over the internet without queues.

String Formatting in JavaScript

by Sunasara Imdadhusen

String.Format creates strings from a pattern and values

Sudoku and Smart Client techniques

by Arik Poznanski

This article will develop a Sudoku game based on a web service, while presenting useful development techniques of Smart Client applications.

Survival guide to do resource localization using Compact Framework 2.0

by freedeveloper

A small guide to create localized resources with Compact Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.

Switch the wireless adapter state on, to low-power, and off on a Windows Mobile device

by Johan H. Roux

Use PInvoke to control a wireless adapter's power status.

Symbian OS design faults

by Hrissan

This article describes many Symbian OS design faults and searches for better decisions, unfortunately Symbian is too late to be corrected.

Task assigner with Windows Mobile and a Web Service

by Ravenet

Send messages, commands, tasks etc., to all employees from a central administration point.

Task Manager for Windows Mobile and Windows CE

by Werner Willemsens

Source code for writing your own Task Manager for Windows Mobile or Windows CE based devices

Text to Speech in Windows Phone 7

by PavanPareta

How to use the Text to Speech API in Windows Phone 7

The Business Object Hierarchy Tree [For those who can't code or design]

by RedSunBeer

An article on system design

The Companion App- Search Engine, GeoLocation Browser and Language Translator at one Place

by Bishal Goswami

The Companion App: Its basically a utility app proposed for ultrabook which consists of the likes of a search tool, a geo location browsing tool and a language translator tool.

The CxProgress Class - Time, progress and rate estimations made easy

by TomKat

When you download a file from the Internet you have to find the transfer rate. This class does it with 3 easy lines of code !

The Palm Memory Manager API

by Jason Henderson

How to use Palm's Memory Manager API for dynamic memory allocation in palm handheld applications.

The simplest possible memory leak detector

by Bachowny

C++ code showing how to track memory usage to avoid memory leaks

The StateWizard VC++ Add-in and Engine with Source Code

by Alex_Intw

A cross-platform state-oriented application framework and a ClassWizard-like round-trip UML dynamic modeling/development tool that runs in popular IDEs. Aims at providing concurrent, distributed, and real-time application development tools for Win32/Linux

The Umbrella of Windows Embedded and Windows Mobile

by Priyanka_Gupta

This article is a brief insight into different embedded OSs by Microsoft and Windows Mobile

Thin Client for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe on Pocket PC / SmartPhones

by Gerald Naveen A

Thin client for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe on Pocket PC / SmartPhones targeting .NET Compact Framework.

Things to take into account when you deliver applications for Connected Devices – Windows Azure to the rescue (EN)

by NunoGodinho

What we should do to take the best out of Windows Azure for Connected Devices.

This is a simple C# program that illustrate the usage of DataGrid with DataSet

by Mubbasher Adeel

This is a simple C# program that illustrates the usage of DataGrid with DataSet.

Timings for Four Directory Traversal Algorithms

by gggustafson

This article presents the results of timing four directory traversal algorithms.

Tiny Singleton helper class

by Cho, Kyung-min

SingleT will provide you the easy way to get Singleton pattern.

Tiny Template Library: variant

by kig

An article on how to implement and use variant. Variant is useful for creating heterogeneous containers and much more.

ToDoList Viewer - PocketPC Viewer for .dan.g's ToDoList

by Kyle Tillman

A read only viewer of the ToDoList XML for the PocketPC.

Tolerant string matching using the Levenshtein algorithm

by Andreas Muegge

A practical example how to use the Levenshtein algorithm for string matching

TouchPictureBox, Slide Pictures with Fingers!

by SierraMike

Leave traditional scrollbars for picture viewing on small screens.

Tracing for Compact Framework apps

by Jose Luis Balsera

This article proposes a solution that mitigates the lack of debug console, when building Compact Framework-based Pocket PC apps.

Track your position using a Windows Mobile 6 device

by Perry Bruins

Track your geographical position using a Windows Mobile 6 device and some Google Map programming.

Track Your Stocks on your Windows Smart Phone

by ThePintail

Stock quotes from Yahoo! for the Pocket PC/Windows Smart Phone.

Transparent controls with custom image backgrounds on PocketPC

by Hyungchul Shin

Transparent Controls with custom image backgrounds on PocketPC

Transparent UI for .NET and .NETCF

by christ_A

How to make your customized UI using transparent components?

Tray Calendar

by Chris Maunder

A simple application that places a date in the system tray

Tutorial on reading Audio-CDs

by Michel Helms

This easy-to-get tutorial explains in detail everything you need to know about audio-CDs and how to rip the tracks.

Unit Testing Framework for eVC++ Applications

by Abdul Munaf Chhatra

A unit testing framework for eVC++ applications, and its usage.

Universal Remote Control with PDA

by betz231087

Developing a “Universal Remote Control for the PDA”

Unleash GDI+ power on Windows Mobile

by Vince Ricci

How to use GDI+ on Windows Mobile.

Unleashing Grids in Expression Blend and it's Major Role in Responsive Design

by Saad_Mahmood

Unleashing Grids in Expression Blend and it's Major Role in Responsive Design

Unusual but Useful Dialog-based Classes Designed for Specialization

by Alain Rist

Featuring cell menu, in-place editor, single control and split dialogs, Vista shell and Mobile file controls and selection dialogs

Unzip Through RAPI

by João Paulo Figueira

Unzipping files over an ActiveSync connection.

Updating App Tile using Background Agent in Windows Phone 8 App

by Madhur Kapoor

How to update app tile using background agent in Windows Phone 8 app

Usage of LINQ and Datasets in Compact Framework 3.5

by Oleg Levin

Introduction to working with LINQ and DataSets in Compact Framework 3.5 Beta 1

Use a floodgate class to block multiple posts

by Rob van der Veer

A simple class to block repeated attempts to submit comments or logins.

Use Psion Teklogix 753x SDKs to Read/Write RFID Tags

by Babak Ansari

Work with the PtxRfidNet.dll SDKs to read/write RFID tags and Farsi language in hand-helds.

Useful Macros for Pointer Verification

by Andreas Saurwein

A few macros to validate pointers passed to functions

User Interface Localization with the Compact Framework

by Tony Selke

The Compact Framework does not allow for changing the Culture of your UI at runtime. This solution will allow you to switch cultures while still taking advantage of the majority of the features available in the full framework.

Using a Mobile Device's Camera in Business Solutions

by RescoDeveloper.Net

This article describes how to use the built-in camera and microphone of a mobile device in business applications targeting .NET Compact Framework.

Using a system tray application to check , send and configure emails

by Ragavendran Vaidhyanadhan

This article demonstrates creation of a system tray application ,creation of processes , reading and writing XML data

Using MSXML to Read XML Documents

by ljw1004

How to read XML documents using MSXML, in a modern C++/template manner

Using one extension DLL in another

by Randy More

How to avoid link errors when using one MFC extension DLL from another

Using SHCameraCapture from a Pocket PC 2003 Application

by BalintN

This mini-series is a pair of articles on two scenarios using SHCameraCapture.

Using STL to build a simple DOM model and its scripting scheme

by sanjit_rath

Using STL to build a simple DOM model and its scripting scheme.

Using Symbain OS String Descriptors

by itsdkg

This article shows startup usage of Symbian OS descriptors.

Using the ATL OLE DB Consumer Templates on the Pocket PC

by João Paulo Figueira

Enabling the fastest database access protocol for C++ developers on the Pocket PC.

Using the Connection Manager

by Paul Heil

How to effectively use the Connection Manager API to connect to an arbitrary network.

Using the Grid Control in a Doc/View framework

by Chris Maunder

A simple tutorial that demonstrates how to use the grid control in a doc/view application.

Using the Skyhook Wireless XPS Positioning Service in Managed Code

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Wrapper and sample programs demonstrating the use of the Skyhook Wireless XPS SDK (hybrid position system using GPS, WiFi Positioning, and Celltower positioning)

Using WCF in .NET Compact Framework

by Artem S. Dmitriev

This article will show you how to create a proxy client to the WCF web service from PDA device.

Using WinCE for Quality Inspections

by Terence Wallace

A demonstration of what can be done using Windows CE.

Using XML Digital Signatures for Application Licensing

by Heath Stewart

Use XML Digital Signatures for a request- and signing-based licensing mechanism for your applications.

UTF16 to UTF8 to UTF16 simple CString based conversion

by John Paul Pirau

Use CString to convert betwen UTF8 and UTF16.

Utilities

by Shup

An article on simple but frequently used utility functions.

Versioning of executables at build time

by srinivas vaithianathan

A useful tool to incorporate version info during build time

Vertical Scroll Bar Width in a Windows Mobile .NET Application

by TheAvenger

Setting the vertical scroll bar width for a specific control

Video Streaming in Pocket PC 2002

by Tuan Nguyen

An article on creating a streaming video player for Pocket PC.

Views in a Sizeable Docking Control Bar (CSizingControlBar)

by Rob Finch

A fairly simple way to incoporate views into sizing control bars

Views in Full Screen Mode

by Przemyslaw Syrek

Viewing windows in full screen mode.

Visual Studio 2005 and the SmartPhone

by DRLaverdure

Tips on SmartPhone coding the MFC way - Part 1

Visualizing the Windows Mobile Virtual Memory Monster

by Dr. William J. Blanke

This article presents VirtualMemory.exe, a memory monitor application that visualizes Windows Mobile's virtual memory model graphically, and thus allows common memory issues, such as the infamous DLL Crunch, ordinary leaks, and a full device.exe, to be identified quickly and easily.

VMemPool - Virtual Memory Pool Management class

by Cho, Kyung-min

If you deal with same size objects in server coding, VMemPool shows a good way for beginners.

Voice Recording/Playing back using simple classes

by Abbas_Riazi, Shafiee

This article introduces some useful classes that wrap the WAVE APIs.

WBXML Support in C# - Handy

by Tamir Khason

Open source class to handle WAP Binary XML in C# and CF C#

Weather Info

by Shane Church

Weather Info uses Web Services on the .NET Compact Framework to display weather information on the Pocket PC.

WebForms Automatic Generation Using Reflection (2)

by ediazc

This article continues the series on Web Form automatic generation.

What to do if SHCameraCapture Returns E_FAIL?

by BalintN

This mini-series is a pair of articles on two scenarios using SHCameraCapture.

Where Am I?

by S. Senthil Kumar

A Windows Mobile app for location tracking in a route without GPS and internet.

Why .NET?

by Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu

In this article, I will propose why developers like yourself should care about .NET, even if you are not planning to move to .NET.

Why Windows Should Have Tight Control Over The WinExec function

by John Aldrich

A brief description with proof of concept code detailing why finer execution control is needed with the Windows OS family.

Wifi scanner + custom MFC controls

by dzolee

A Wifi scanner with custom slider, tab control, buttons and checkboxes

Win32 API: C++ to .NET

by kbrryder

This is a conversion sheet to go from C++ API calls to .NET P/Invoke. It includes data type conversions and tips.

Window Tabs (WndTabs) Add-In for DevStudio

by Oz Solomon

Window and File Management add-in for Visual C++

Windows CE Hook (GWES.exe)

by emranallan

WINDOWS CE API HOOKING and Replace Function inside GWES.exe on all models since pocket PC 2003 until Windows mobile 6.5

Windows Mobile - Attractive UI Part-II

by Atanu Mandal

Windows Mobile - Attractive UI Part-II

Windows Mobile – Remove the "Backup Battery Very Low" Notification Balloon

by Channa Jayasinghe

How to remove the annoying “Backup Battery Very Low” (bogus) critical notification programmatically.

Windows Mobile App Development Part 1: Creating your first application

by mstruys, dougturn

Correctly install VS2008 and Windows Mobile SDK to create your first mobility app. Part 1 of 7 from www.myrampup.com.

Windows Mobile App Development Part 2: Device Emulator and Device Emulator Manager

by mstruys, dougturn

Using the Device Emulator and the Cellular Emulator to test your applications.

Windows Mobile App Development Part 3: Basic WinForms App Development for Windows Mobile Devices

by mstruys, dougturn

Learn the basics of developing Windows Forms based applications for Windows Mobile devices.

Windows Mobile App Development Part 4: Adding Custom Controls and Making Use of GPS Hardware

by mstruys, dougturn

Learn to add Custom Controls and make use of GPS hardware in your applications.

Windows Mobile App Development Part 5: Intro to using SQL Server CE

by mstruys, dougturn

Learn to access data through DataSets and SQLCeResultSets in your Mobile apps.

Windows Mobile App Development Part 6: Device Security and Application Deployment

by mstruys, dougturn

Gain an understanding of device security, testing, and installation of your application on a Windows Mobile devices.

Windows Mobile App Development Part 7: Mobile Web Development

by mstruys, dougturn

Learn to create web based apps for Moble Devices with AJAX support enabled using browser controls.

Windows Mobile Call Silencer

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Program for displaying CallerID information on computer and muting computer sounds while on phone.

Windows Mobile Development Without Visual Studio

by Joel Ivory Johnson

A guide to get a Windows Mobile Professional dev environment up and running for those who cannot acquire Visual Studio.

Windows Mobile DirectDraw Game Example

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Recreated an old game as a simple demonstration of DirectDraw.

Windows Mobile Interprocess Communication with Message Queues in .NET

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Wrapper demonstrating the use of native message queues within managed code.

Windows Mobile Location ComboBox Controls

by hayes.adrian

A collection of pre-filled Country, Region, and City comboboxes for the .NET Compact Framework.

Windows Mobile Native Thread Synchronization for .NET

by Joel Ivory Johnson

An article introducting the native synchronization objects suppied by Windows Mobile and explanation of how to use them.

Windows Mobile Password Safe

by Thomas Gerber

A password safe with a touch screen UI introducing Fluid Controls.

Windows Mobile Power Management

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Collection of information on interacting with the power manager to take advantage of or disable power saving features in Windows Mobile devices.

Windows Mobile Remote Controller

by João Paulo Figueira

Control your Windows Mobile device from your desktop.

Windows Mobile Secure Communication using WCF with SSL

by Sachin Bansal - Lead Engineer

Securing a WCF service using SSL certificates and consuming it over Windows Mobile 6 (.NET Compact Framework).

Windows Mobile Telnet Client

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Implementation of a Telnet client for Windows Mobile 5 devices.

Windows Mobile, iPhone, Android - Marketplace Comparison

by lepipele

Detailed comparison between Windows Mobile Marketplace, Apple's iPhone AppStore and Android Market from developer point of view.

Windows Mobile: Implement Kiosk Mode

by Suedois

Windows Mobile: Implement kiosk mode

World's Easiest Way to Reveal Control Names

by terpy

Show the name of any control when you mouseover it while debugging.

Writing a 16-bit dummy kernel in C/C++

by AshakiranBhatter

Understanding FAT file system and kernel programming in C/C++

Writing Polymorphic DLL on Symbian platform

by Amit Arvind Limaye

This article demonstrates how to write polymorphic DLL on Symbian.

WTL CString Class Implemented with the Standard C++ Library

by Alain Rist

Plug-in CodeProject's CStdString as WTL::CString and get the WTL CString support with a Standard C++ Library implementation.

XML Serialization of Generic Dictionary, Multidimensional Array, and Inherited Type, with sharpSerializer .NET

by Pawel idzikowski

How to serialize to XML, any generic, derived, or other complex type, which XMLSerializer cannot serialize

XML Serialize Hashtable, Collections and Generics using IXmlSerializable interface

by Romain TAILLANDIER

This article shows how to use XmlSerializer to serialize types that usually cannot be XML Serialized

XMLite: simple XML parser.

by Cho, Kyung-min

Easy to access and simple XML parser

XSLT to transform Excel XML spreadsheet to CSV or HTML table

by jemodurn

XSLT to transform Excel XML spreadsheet to CSV or HTML table.

Your first Palm app - covering GUI components, alerts and forms.

by Christian Graus

Building on previous articles, we develop a simple application and discuss some of the components available for Palm GUI.

Zebra Printing Interface Available in MobileForms Toolkit

by Peter Hanustiak

Resco's solution will significantly decrease the time the developer needs to code such application that will print something on Zebra printer via Windows Mobile or CE device