Mark Arteaga

Looking to deploy Windows Mobile?  Want $10,000 worth of software and devices to deploy Windows Mobile within your organization?  Microsoft Canada is having a "Mobile Business Makeover Contest" to help organization deploy Windows Mobile by giving Windows Mobile devices, Exchange, Office worth approximately $10,000.

If you are a Canadian company and interested go here to get more details and to sign up!

EnergizeIT 2008 is happening this Saturday May 24, at the Toronto Congress Centre.  I'll be there participating at the ATE Booth plus I'll be doing a short demo on WCF and Windows Mobile under the "Grok and Load Visual Studio 2008" track.

Here are some more details for the event:

EnergizeIT is all about recognizing and realizing the potential of you and the IT industry. We start the day by looking at how great your potential as an individual working in the IT field is, and provide insight into how the field is changing so that you can take control of your career and continue to realize your potential. We will also take some time to recognize the potential achieved and accomplishments of your peers whose hard work will be rewarded at EnergizeIT. Phil Sorgen, the President of Microsoft Canada will present the MSDN Code Award and TechNet Innovation Award to these accomplished winners.
Finally, working in the IT field, you also understand the potential of technology and the real possibility to make anything possible. Before the morning is over you will see and be a part of three examples of technology impacting the way you live and work. Don’t miss it.

Date: Saturday May 24, 2008
Location: Toronto Congress Centre - Toronto, Ontario MAP IT
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm. Registration starts at 9:00am
Cost: Free of charge. Come and enjoy the day!

Register Now.

With TechEd 2008 quickly approaching wanted to point out some sessions OpenNETCF partners (well one partner :) ) will be doing related to Compact Framework and Windows Mobile

Building CustomDraw and OwnerDraw Controls Using the Microsoft .NET Compact Network (Alex Feinman)
Standard Windows controls allow a degree of customization that offers significant UI flexibility, while relying on proven and robust foundation of existing OS controls, such as TreeView, ListView. This session shows how to build such controls in managed code, using the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 or newer.

Using Microsoft DirectDraw in Windows Mobile Applications (Alex Feinman)
As GAPI becomes deprecated, the recommended approach to building high-speed, device-independent Windows Mobile applications is using DirectDraw API. This session provides information on DirectDraw for mobile devices basics, as well as common problems and pitfalls associated with using it.

Hope you are able to attend!

For those not familiar, Windows Mobile 6.1 comes with a new application called Welcome Center which basically is a help system for users. 

I was running some hopper tests on Task Manager 2.0 and looking through the hopper.log file I noticed the following line:

STATS: \Windows\welcomecenter.exe -> #NETCF_AGL_PARK_\Windows\welcomecenter.exe: Time in State =          0 secs ( 0.0%); Actions =      2; Visits =      2; Last visit =    196 actions ago

If you noticed #NETCF_AGL_PARK_ then you know that this means the application WelcomeCenter.exe uses Compact Framework and this is a welcoming surprise.  Let's hope this trend continues with other apps from the Windows Mobile team and other teams within Microsoft!

As for Task Manager 2.0 here is a screen shot of the new version.

And yes we do know that Windows Mobile 6.1 has a Task Manager included but ours does not filter out any processes or applications, allows you to terminate processes, end applications, terminate threads, change thread priorities and view all threads and modules loaded for a process.  The same binary also works on different platforms such as Windows CE, Pocket PC 2003, Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6. It's also written using Compact Framework  and leverages the Smart Device Framework.

Just finished my session at DevTeach Toronto.  Thanks to all those that came out at 8am this morning to listen to me blab on Windows Mobile and Compact Framework.

Most demos were similar to my CodeCamp session with the exception of the WCF Demo.

The presentation can be found here and the code can be found here.

Here is a summary of the demos:

SMSInterception - Demo showing how to intercept a message, automatically respond to a message and call back the sender of the message.  Used the Cellular Emulator.

SNAPI - Demo showing some of the functionality of SNAPI, changing battery level, adding headset and detecting incoming calls.

WISPPic - Sample showing some of the WindowsMobile.Forms classes, selecting a picture and displaying it, and using the InkPicture class from Mobile Ink Library and articles can be found here.

WCFDispatch - Sample Dispatch application using Push Email for Windows Mobile and WCF Exchange Server Mail Transport for .NETCF 3.5.  There is a good article here on WCF for Compact Framework which I based WCFMessagingManger from, there is also a lot more info on WCF using Exchange. (Requires Smart Device Framework Community Edition)

If there are any followup questions email me at mark[dot]arteaga[at]opennetcf[dot]com.