DISCLAIMER: This was tested on Windows Mobile Standard (no-touch), not WinMo Professional (touch screen).  It *should* work still. I’m creating a small application that will get me out of countless situations I don’t want to be in.  I had one key issue with Windows Mobile that I had to overcome.  The password screen, lock screen, whatever you want to call it.  Here is a screen shot so we’re all on the same page. Now why would someone need to pop above this screen?  Well, if your application sleeps or does work in the background while other...

Just did an article on how to create a full blown cowbell windows mobile professional application over at Coding4Fun.  Shows how to do pInvoke calls, touch screen, image resizing (in source, not in article), resource embedding, creation and deployment. Read the article out and play with the source code.  Also if you want some other windows mobile intro level topics, I have a tag called “Getting Started with Windows Mobile” that has everything I’ve learned step by step.

So you’ve gotten your toy all prepped and ready to rock.  Great.  You can test out the application on as I outlined on the physical device but the issue is as soon as you untether the device, BAM, the application exits. For me and the mass amounts of rocking requires an install for my device, so how do we do that?  MSDN has a nice write up for deploying Windows Mobile applications but I’ll walk through my deployment for you too. We’ll right click on the solution in the solution explorer or we can go to File->New->Project.  If...

An emulator can only do so much.  Now we’d want to directly deploy to our cell phone instead of the emulator. Jon Box has a nice write up on doing just this.  At first, I was all like, “whatever, I do what I want” (complete with Cartman voice) and attempted to launch it without following his steps and lost.  It was worse than losing a match of Slap Face (a new Olympic sport for the Fall along with air hockey). Here is the option: ...

I’m using the landscape skin for my standard Windows Mobile emulator, Windows Vista and Windows Mobile Device Center.  This is important for both just developing applications and your web pages.  This is a way to verify your sites render properly on mobile device.  My site … does not render correctly. To enable network access, we need to first go to File –> Configure then to the Network tab while in the emulator.   Check the “Enable network blah blah blah” but you may get the error below ...

So I’ve been bitten with the developer bug as of late.  First it was playing with WPF with my ToDo application, now I’m going head deep with some Windows Mobile stuff. I’ll be creating a Windows Mobile Standard (non-touch screen) application since I have a BlackJack 2 cell phone.  With emulators, we can do a surprising amount of work on both. Tools Since Visual Studio 2008 ships with Windows Mobile 5 emulators, if you want Mobile 6.0, we need to first download the emulators / SDKs.  They can be found on the left hand side at the MSDN Windows Mobile site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmobile/default.aspx And the...