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A C# wrapper for nearby Bluetooth devices discovery under Windows Mobile

by Amir Krifa

A C# wrapper for nearby Bluetooth devices discovery under Windows Mobile that uses a C++ DLL built based on the Winsock 2 API.

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 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.

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A C# wrapper for nearby Bluetooth devices discovery under Windows Mobile

by Amir Krifa

A C# wrapper for nearby Bluetooth devices discovery under Windows Mobile that uses a C++ DLL built based on the Winsock 2 API.

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 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.

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A C# wrapper for nearby Bluetooth devices discovery under Windows Mobile

by Amir Krifa

A C# wrapper for nearby Bluetooth devices discovery under Windows Mobile that uses a C++ DLL built based on the Winsock 2 API.

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 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 Gradient Button for Windows Mobile

by Ravenet

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

A MFC/GDI+ LCD Control

by Frédéric Pailloux

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

Access Your Pocket PC Over the Internet

by paulyhop

A DynDNS updater for the Compact Framework.

ADO.NET Asynchronous SQL Calls

by gbd77rc

How to use asynchronous calls to SQL to receive progress information

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.

Bluetooth for Microsoft Device Emulator

by Dmitry Klionsky

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

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.

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.

Creating Transparent Controls in .NET Compact Framework

by DotNetIdeas

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

Custom VScrollbar to make DataGrid finger flickable

by Ming_Lu

A custom VScrollbar to make DataGrid finger flickable.

Directory file listing utility

by Shup

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

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.

Duckworth Lewis Calculator for Windows Mobile

by trxStudio

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

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.

Get useful directory paths

by Shup

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

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.

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.

Gynoid: Framework for Mobile Development

by Vince Ricci

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

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.

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

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.

LINQ to SQL - Detach Entities

by Eric J. Smith, Shannon Davidson

Easily detach entities when using LINQ to SQL

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Patch my Arabic Locale on Windows Mobile

by emranallan

Add your local inside windows local to be supported for unicode

PlanetFinder for Windows Mobile

by Giannakakis Kostas

PlanetFinder application for Windows Mobile Smartphones

Pocket PC Development using Pelles C

by Azim Zahir

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

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.

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.

PropertyGridCE - Mobile version of PropertyGrid

by Jaime Olivares

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

RAPI2: The Friend You Never Knew You Had

by Paul Heil

Using the RAPI2 interface safely and effectively.

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.

Remote windows mobile Device Using Winsock

by emranallan

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

SIP(soft input panel) Overlapping Controls

by copmac

How to solve input panel overlapping problem

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

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!

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.

Task assigner with Windows Mobile and a Web Service

by Ravenet

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

Text to Speech in Windows Phone 7

by PavanPareta

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

TouchPictureBox, Slide Pictures with Fingers!

by SierraMike

Leave traditional scrollbars for picture viewing on small screens.

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.

Transparent UI for .NET and .NETCF

by christ_A

How to make your customized UI using transparent components?

Unleash GDI+ power on Windows Mobile

by Vince Ricci

How to use GDI+ on Windows Mobile.

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)

Utilities

by Shup

An article on simple but frequently used utility functions.

Vertical Scroll Bar Width in a Windows Mobile .NET Application

by TheAvenger

Setting the vertical scroll bar width for a specific control

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.

Where Am I?

by S. Senthil Kumar

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

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 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 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, iPhone, Android - Marketplace Comparison

by lepipele

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

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