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Learn how to support touchscreens in your applications on handsets running Qualcomm Brew.

Memory-map files to save valuable RAM or simplify file parsing in embedded Qualcomm Brew applications.

Learn how to rapidly develop applications and add-ins using ATL for Windows CE.

Drill deeper into Mobile Development in C++ and go through the development and debugging of a Windows Mobile 6 application with a focus on MFC.

Try a no-embedded-background-needed introduction into developing Windows Mobile applications in C++. With comprehensive support for smart device development in Visual C++ and great device emulation features in the Windows Mobile SDKs, mobile development is well within the reach of all Visual C++ developers.

The application that runs on everything—this would be a dream of every developer! Use Java, one might say. But even Java has different implementations, is limited in features, and so forth, not to mention the differences for mobile devices. This article offers you few simple receipts you can use to effectively port your mobile C++ applications back and forth between several mobile platforms.

Windows PowerShell replaces the outdated batch files and Windows Scripting Host with a brand new object-oriented shell and scripting language. In this article, you will learn how to retrieve directory and filenames from a specific drive.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005: Why Be Bothered with It?

Does your application need to get called at some point in time? Do you want to inform the user regarding what's going on? Learn how to use Windows Mobile Notifications and Power Manager, and benefit from both!

Learn how to select multiple items without pressing the CTRL or SHIFT key on a touchscreen app or Windows CE app.

Have you ever wanted to show video clips in your application or maybe play audio files? Learn how to do it easily with the Windows Media Player Control!

The new State and Notification Broker API provides the Windows Mobile 5.0 environment with a built-in notification broker structure. Learn to use this API to implement code that monitors and responds to changes in client system states.

MS ActiveSync has many great features you can utilize in your applications. This article will guide you through an implementation of custom File Filters to make possible file conversions to pass the data back and forth between the PDA and desktop computer.

With the help of POOM (Pocket Outlook Object Model), you can implement sophisticated and customized mobile applications with rich functionality.

Learn how to parse XML files by using MSXML 3.0, an XML parser from Microsoft.

Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 released to manufacturing. Windows mobile features just improved!

Explore the wide world of TAPI programming... telephonic hardware, intertnal modem, and GSM, to name a few. TAPI provides a powerful mechanism for operating on those devices and hides all low-level details from the application developer.

Floating point operations are the one of the biggest pains under Palm OS. Even though it's getting better with new OS versions, it is still a good point to be confused. Learn what Palm OS offers you in floating point math support.

Create an HTML viewer control on a CE device. Once animated, this control allows you to pass any data that is capable of being rendered by using HTML tags from the desktop device to the CE device. The power and elegance of this approach can hardly be overstated.

Learn how to progmatically restrict access to the Shell by running your application full screen.

Have you ever used Control Panel? Definitely yes. Now, learn to create your own Control Panel applets to serve your needs.

Create a DLL to contain your own remotely invoked function. The key to this job is creating the correct header file.

Devices powered by Pocket PC 2000 and later provide a Today screen, which by default displays Owner Info, Calendar, and so forth. Windows Mobile has added several new cool features for Today's panel item. With a little effort, you can create your own custom Today plug-in component and put it along with standard ones.

Explore the mechanics of launching an HTML viewer on your CE device.