Start Mobile Developer Nuggets David Goon 27 October 2005

Programs Autorun Installing Compact Framework 2.0 Pocket PC Security State and Notification Broker Managed Pocket Outlook Object Model SMS Interception Compact Framework Performance Counters Application Localization

Autorun Build native or for Compact Framework 1.0 Directories for Autorun.exe MIPS (41xx series and 3910)4000 SH SH StrongARM2577 XScale1824 Execution InsertionInstall RemovalUninstall

Installing CF 2.0 Redist files are in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SmartDevices\SDK\CompactFramework\2.0\v2.0\ WindowsCE Check version on the device first System.Environment.Version Use WCELoad.exe to launch CAB

Pocket PC Security IDPolicy Value 4101Default is SECROLE_USER_AUTH (16) 0 unsigned.cab files cannot be installed unsigned applications not allowed to run 1 unsigned applications allowed to run indicates user prompted. 1 indicates user not prompted.

State and Notification Broker New in Windows Mobile System States Transient and Persistent Notifications Conditional Notifications Currently stored in the system registry

Managed POOM New in Windows Mobile 5.0 Easy to access and manipulate PIM items Add Custom Properties To Extend Use State and Notification Broker to be advised of changes

SMS Interception Use to loop back on emulator Intercept based on a tag Can be made persistent Sample Business Requirement Customer calls Sales Office Office obtains details and locates sales person Sales person needs to be alerted with accurate information

CF Performance Counters.stat Enable through Device registry setting HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETCompactFrame work\ PerfMonitor Value is Counters (DWORD) = 1 More details at us/dnnetcomp/html/netcfperf.asp What does.stat tell you? Working set and performance statistics

App Localization New strongly-typed resource manager Create strings in RESX files Files can then be sent away for translation Then incorporate into project All access through generated class

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