Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

September 2005 - Posts

Friday, September 30, 2005 3:02 PM

When technology goes wrong...

Today I recorded three podcast interviews, I've just started reviewing the content and had a surprise - check out the introduction to one of the interviews Whoops.mp3 - looks like I'm going to have to record these interviews again - what's odd is
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under:
Friday, September 30, 2005 8:31 AM

Your Feedback - Windows CE tools - Contact Details ?

Hi, I'd like to follow up on some of the (excellent) feedback on Windows CE tools - if you submitted feedback can you send your feedback on e-mail to mailto:mikehall@microsoft.com Thanks! - Mike
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:17 PM

Scoble: Blogging for Developers, WebCast.

Scoble recorded a WebCast last week titled "Blogging from the Developer's Perspective" - check it out here - Mike  
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:20 PM

Windows CE Core or Pro?

Windows CE 5.0 supports two licensing models, Core and Pro, the difference between Core and Pro is defined here - there are a number of components that are in Pro, that includes ActiveSync, Internet Explorer and other components (check the word
posted by mikehall | 5 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 8:47 PM

CEFileWiz Beta - Adds Shortcut Support - Feedback request.

Hey, I've just finished building a version of CEFileWiz that includes support for mapping shortcuts to files (see image below) - Here's the Beta build of CEFileWiz Notice in the image above that the image file shortcuts are in the \Images folder,
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:40 PM

UI Design Podcast - Uncut, or Edited ?

So, today I recorded an audio interview with Chris To from the Windows Mobile team (and Anil Dhawan crashed the interview towards the end, so we get to hear Anils words of wisdom as well), we were discussing UI design on Windows Mobile devices, the interview
posted by mikehall | 6 Comments
Filed Under: , , ,
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:38 PM

Blogging on Windows Mobile from Latin America.

It turns out that linking can be extremely useful - James Pratt and I both received an e-mail from Fernando Zandona who's been blogging on Windows Mobile in Portuguese and English - Here's a link to James Blog, and Fernandos Blog. - Mike
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under:
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:59 AM

c|net - Intel and Microsoft back HD DVD

From c|net, Intel and Microsoft back HD DVD - I wonder how this move by Intel to back the HD DVD format will pan out - there are two competing formats, Blu-Ray backed by Sony and others, and HD DVD backed by Toshiba, Intel, and Microsoft. -
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under:
Monday, September 26, 2005 9:25 PM

Palm and Windows Mobile 5.0 - Interviews

More information from todays Palm Announcement... Interview with Ken Wirt sr. vp, marketing Interview with Marion Fogelberg director of business development Interview with Nancy Gayed product manager, the new Treo Interview with Jenny
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Filed Under:
Monday, September 26, 2005 9:50 AM

Surprise ! - Palm launches Windows Mobile 5.0 based device.

Wow, what a complete surprise! <g> - Palm/Verizon/Microsoft today announced the launch of a Windows Mobile 5.0 based Palm device - more information available on the Palm Site - also look out for videos on the Video XML Feed - when I have
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under:
Saturday, September 24, 2005 5:03 PM

Presenting at the Microsoft Company Meeting - Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Embedded for Point Of Service Device Demo

Friday September 23rd, 11am (approx), it’s time to walk out onto the stage at the 30th Microsoft Company Meeting and show some of the cool/interesting devices shipping on Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS).
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under: , ,
Saturday, September 24, 2005 12:56 PM

Your Feedback - Windows CE tools.

Windows CE 5.0 has been shipping since July of last year, I believe we've made good progress with the tools used to configure, build, and debug Windows CE operating system images since the initial release of Windows CE 2.0 way back in 1998. I'm interested
posted by mikehall | 8 Comments
Filed Under:
Friday, September 23, 2005 10:05 PM

Podcast/Video : Palm, Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Verizon Wireless Announce Press Conference for Sept. 26

Check this out - Palm, Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Verizon Wireless Announce Press Conference for Sept. 26 - want to watch? Here's the teaser video and the Podcast Feed - Mike  
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under:
Friday, September 23, 2005 8:14 AM

Microsoft Company Meeting 2005

Today we're at the Microsoft Company Meeting 2005, we're also celebrating 30 years of Microsoft (and 20 years of Windows!). What was I doing 30 years ago ? I have some other photo's from the event, more on this later today... - Mike
posted by mikehall | 3 Comments
Filed Under: , , , ,
Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:05 PM

Windows CE : Using Shared Source ?

Windows CE ships with a few Million lines of Shared Source - I'm interested to know whether you've looked at, modified, or rebuilt any of the source... If so, what are you doing with the Shared Source code ? - Mike
posted by mikehall | 8 Comments
Filed Under:
Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:42 PM

New MSDN Column focused on Windows Mobile 5.0

Check out Jim Wilson's MSDN Column A View of Windows Mobile 5.0 from 10,000 Feet - Jim takes a look at what's new for developers in Windows Mobile 5.0, the tools needed to start developing against the (new) Windows Mobile Emulator and devices. -
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under:
Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:53 AM

Windows CE Web Server - Interview with John Spaith

I recorded an interview with John Spaith (a software design engineer in the Windows CE Networking team) some time ago but just didn't get round to posting this. In this interview (300k 90MB WMV) John talks about the Windows CE Web Server - go check
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:45 AM

Business Week - Palm devices running Windows O/S ?

This looks intriguing, check out the Business Week article - are we going to be seeing Palm devices running a Windows O/S ? - Mike 
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Saturday, September 17, 2005 2:16 PM

Portable CE - Windows CE running from a USB Disk on Key.

Go check out this cool concept over on the Furrygoat Experience - Steve has a build of Windows CE running from a USB Disk on Key - user settings are persisted between boots, this means you can carry your IE favorites with you on the go... Interesting.
posted by mikehall | 2 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Friday, September 16, 2005 4:34 PM

PDC05 - Interview: Building a Windows Mobile RSS Reader

I caught up with Marcus Perryman at PDC05. Marcus ran a session titled (something like) building a Mobile RSS Reader using Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, here's a link to the video (30MB WMV file) interview we recorded,
posted by mikehall | 2 Comments
Filed Under: , ,
Friday, September 16, 2005 3:59 PM

Embedded RTOS Comparison

Dedicated Systems have produced a report (not comissioned by Microsoft) that defines what Real-Time means for embedded systems, and compares three RTOS (Real-Time Operating Systems), this includes VxWorks, Montavista Linux, and Windows CE 5.0 - The following
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under: , ,
Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:47 PM

PDC I-Mate JasJar - What are you doing with it ?

If you were one of the lucky PDC attendees to get an I-Mate JasJar I'm curious to know what you're doing with it, and what you think of the device. Options are... Sell it on eBay ! Use this as my primary phone/pda device Use the Visual Studio 2005
posted by mikehall | 6 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Thursday, September 15, 2005 2:25 PM

Embedded Linux Consortium is Dead

Interesting news from alllinuxdevices.com "The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) filed dissolution papers with the state of California yesterday, ending a five year run promoting embedded Linux and developing standards for it. The ELC's primary piece of
posted by mikehall | 6 Comments
Filed Under: , ,
Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:21 AM

Marcus Perryman - Coding a Windows Mobile RSS Reader

Marcus Perryman is delivering a session covering building a Windows Mobile RSS reader using Windows Mobile 5.0, Visual Studio 2005, and C# - You can get the slides and sample code from Marcus's blog and look out for the interview with Marcus being
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under: , ,
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:32 PM

PDC I-Mate JasJar

I blogged about the PDC I-Mate JasJar offer from behind the keynote stage, apparently several thousand people left the keynote room and ordered their devices, within 30 minutes all devices were gone - this reminds me of the 1996 PDC when the first
posted by mikehall | 8 Comments
Filed Under:
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:52 AM

PDC Special Offer on HTC Universal/I-Mate JasJar

Hey, if you're at the PDC then you need to check out the event special offer - the I-Mate JasJar also known as the HTC Universal on sale (limited number of devices) for $149.00 ! - head over to the Big Room to get more information. - Mike 
posted by mikehall | 2 Comments
Filed Under:
Monday, September 12, 2005 6:30 PM

PDC: Sneak Peek - Windows O/S UI

Check this out, images snapped at PDC 2005 - a sneak preview of the new Windows Boot UI and Booted O/S UI Pretty cool, eh? - Mike
posted by mikehall | 4 Comments
Filed Under:
Monday, September 12, 2005 3:32 PM

Dr Neil back on campus.

Looks like Dr Neil was interviewed by Scoble, check out the video here - Remember Dr Neil from TechEd ? - Mike
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Filed Under:
Monday, September 12, 2005 3:28 PM

Channel 9 Video - Bluetooth Enabled Windows CE Media Device.

Anil Dhawan has been busy building a Windows CE 5.0 based media device, and an application running on his Windows Mobile 5.0 mobile device to control the media device - check out the video on MSDN Channel 9 here and of course go over to Anils Blog
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under: , , ,
Monday, September 12, 2005 8:43 AM

Windows Mobile Hardware Directions

James Pratt is running a panel discussion at PDC05 discussing the future of Mobile Device hardware - James is looking for your questions over on his blog - This raises an interesting question, what is the future you would like to see? - Full
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Filed Under: , ,
Friday, September 09, 2005 9:21 PM

Bad Application Architecture.

I've been working on an application using an architecture that has database/storage at the back end, business logic in the middle, and user interface at the front end - today I ran the entire application for the first time, and it crashed! - Is this what
posted by mikehall | 2 Comments
Filed Under:
Friday, September 09, 2005 1:59 PM

Podcast: Interview with Dan Javnozon, Windows CE Product Manager

Dan Javnozon, the Windows CE Product Manager was in my office yesterday, so I threw a mic in front of him and asked some questions about Windows CE, here's a link to the .mp3 file and a link to the XML Podcast file. Let me know whether you find
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Filed Under: , ,
Friday, September 09, 2005 9:58 AM

Latest drop of DUAScriptGen

I've been having some problems with my ISP, so I've moved to a new provider, I'm in the process of moving utilities, podcast XML file and other bits over to the new site - Someone was having trouble getting the latest drop of DUAScriptGen, the latest
posted by mikehall | 2 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:34 PM

Bill Gates interviewed on MSDN Channel 9

Check out the BillG interview over on MSDN Channel 9 - I thought this was pretty interesting! - Mike
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:01 AM

Being Persistent.

MikeCal has posted a series of articles over on the Windows Mobile team blog that cover Persistent Storage on Windows Mobile devices - Persistent storage has been around for a while on Smartphone devices, it's only with Windows Mobile 5.0 (based on Windows
posted by mikehall | 7 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:01 PM

Windows Mobile 5.0 Review on OS News.

From OS News - Windows Mobile 5 sports many new features and enhancements making it a very worthwhile upgrade. Perhaps the most important feature that everyone will love is persistent memory. Your data won't be lost if the battery runs completely dry;
posted by mikehall | 3 Comments
Filed Under:
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:45 PM

Windows Mobile Blog: Color support on Windows Mobile devices explained.

Mike Calligaro has posted an explanation of how color is supported on Windows Mobile devices, make for a pretty interesting read. - Mike
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:34 PM

Windows XP Embedded - Reverse Dependencies.

From WindowsforDevices.com - A recent posting on the Windows XP Embedded Team blog addresses the question of how to determine what dependencies Windows XP Embedded components have on one another. While it is fairly easy to determine what components a
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 7:49 PM

Apple, Music on your phone... now there's an idea...

Apple today announced the Motorola ROKR which combines a phone and media player in one device - sound cool ? - sound innovative ? I wonder if anyone noticed that Windows Mobile devices already have this capability, and have had for quite some time - check
posted by mikehall | 3 Comments
Filed Under:
Tuesday, September 06, 2005 9:51 PM

Who needs an embedded operating system ?

Why would anyone want to build a device that uses an “Embedded� operating system? – after all, MS-DOS and various versions of Windows have been ‘embedded’ into devices for several years now – Windows XP Professional SP2 ships with just about everything
posted by mikehall | 3 Comments
Filed Under: , ,
Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:21 AM

CEFileWiz - Shortcut support - UI Question.

Hey, So, I’m looking to add shortcut support into CEFileWiz, this would mean that you could add one or more files which, by default live in the \Windows folder, CEFileWiz would generate a shortcut for the files and map to the appropriate folder within
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Filed Under:
Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:07 AM

Everything you ever wanted to know about Hopper.

What is Hopper, and why should you be reading Steven Hendersons blog about Hopper ? - if you have no clue what the answer to this question is then perhaps you should be reading the blog! - here's the link. I've taken a whizz through the blog this morning,
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Monday, September 05, 2005 9:29 PM

Podcast: Interview with the CE and XPE Product Managers.

Tomorrow (Tuesday for me) I’m going to be recording a Podcast Interview with Dan  Javnoson (Windows CE Product Manager), and John Doyle (Windows XP Embedded Product Manager) – Let me know if you have any questions ! – Mike
posted by mikehall | 2 Comments
Filed Under: , , ,
Friday, September 02, 2005 9:45 AM

Talking about Mobile application development.

Anil Dhawan dropped by my office yesterday to collect some hardware, we started chatting about a demo Anil is working on for the PDC, the discussion was interesting enough that it would have been rude not to have recorded the conversation. This was totally
posted by mikehall | 4 Comments
Filed Under: , , ,
Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:34 PM

Podcast: Interview with John Eldridge - Windows CE Real Time.

Yesterday I met with John Eldridge, an Architect in the Windows CE operating system group to discuss Windows CE and Real-Time, here's a link to the discussion (mp3 16MB), and the Podcast XML feed will be updated shortly. - Mike
posted by mikehall | 3 Comments
Filed Under: , ,
Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:36 AM

Don Gambrell is talking about Windows CE Networking...

A couple of days ago I asked how much you knew about Windows CE Networking - I don't know about you, but there are some areas that I know *something* about, and other areas that I know absolutely nothing about - it turns out that Don Gambrell is
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Filed Under: ,