Managed Services and Today Screen Item with .NET Compact Framework

I'm .NET addicted and never felt comfortable to realize that I can't solve my problem in pure managed manner.
Well, the "native" is a native part of the mobile developer, but anyway I prefer managed.

I was happy to see that some mobile folks here work for my comfort :)

Peter Nowaks has a post about creating Managed Services in Windows Mobile by using .NET Compact Framework. He has created a managed library, hosted in CodePlex. His work is based on article by Pavel Bánský

Christopher Fairbairn also published  a very handy library, which may help you creating a managed Today Screen Item.

 

Great work guys!

 

Links
Peter Nowaks on Creating Managed Services in Windows Mobile
Pavel Bánský on Creating Managed Services in Windows Mobile
Christopher Fairbairn on Creating Managed Today Screen Item

PowerShell Windows Mobile Provider

I'm still interested in automating most of my daily dev tasks , because I am always behind the schedule.

A time ago I've publushed a post about a possible way to automate some windows mobile related tasks by using PowerShell and RAPI ( OpenNETCF wrapper implementation)

Oisin Grehan (Microsoft MVP) kindly informed me few days ago about the PowerShell Windows Mobile Provider developed by him. It is hosted in the CodePlex

It provides the following features:

• Copy, Move, Delete items between folders on your device (including Storage Card) with standard PowerShell Cmdlets

• Move/Copy files to/from your device and your desktop with ConvertTo-WMFile and ConvertFrom-WMFile

• Get device information and manipulate and explore the registry with a rich device object returned from Get-WMDevice

• Invoke-Item against remote items to or execute or trigger their associated applications

• Invoke-Item with -Local switch to attempt to execute a remote file in the context of your local desktop (e.g. office docs or images/videos)

• New "Mode" attributes specific to Windows Mobile file attributes: (I)nRom, Rom(M)odule

• File/Folder objects' attributes can be modified with .Attributes properties just like FileInfos etc.

• Tab completion with MoW's PowerTab

 

Links

PowerShell Windows Mobile Provider on Oisin Grehan's Blogs
PowerShell Windows Mobile Provider on CodePlex
Neil Cowburn on Windows PowerShell,RAPI and devices's GAC
RAPI and PowerShell on My Blog

My PPT files from Microsoft Days 2008 in Sofia

I've just uploaded my PowerPoint presentarions files from Microsoft Days 08 in Sofia

The presentations are targeted toward Bulgarian speaking audience.

 

Links
PowerPoint presentarions files

Microsoft Days 2008

You may register for the Microsoft Days 2008 in Sofia from the event's web site. It will be held on 24 and 25 April 2008 at the Inter Expo Center. The event is payed this year (again), however you will be able to hear about the latest Microsoft products and technologies for the 2 days of the event. There will be a great prizes this year - check out the detail on the Martin's blog.

If you are in the mobile development check out my sessions or just come and say 'Hi'. My sessions this year will be :

Mobile Development with Visual Studio 2008 and Compact Framework 3.5
I will talk about the latest Microsoft development tools in the mobile area. This includes the new features in CF 3.5 , the tools included in VS2008 and some of the newest SDKs and APIs

Windows Mobile for Developers
I will talk about the various features provided by Windows Mobile 6, which makes it the ultimate mobile platform these days. I will outline the features, which every developer shoud know in order to sqweese the best of it. We will discuss device security, management and provisioning and even more "trivial" features like Today screen, Auto Start, Services,Registry ,etc.

Although the time of the sessions will be limited, you may drop a comment of you like me to cover a particular topic.

Robotic arm may help disabled people

I'm usually avoiding to blog about robotics on this blog, althought robotics is one of my favourite tech areas.
I have seen a lot of news/articles about robotic arms, but this video just striked me. It shows functional tests of a robotic arm from DEKA (still in development) and it looks pretty amazing.
They called it the Luke's arm, because its creators was inspired by the artificial arm of Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars movie.

Links
Check out the video
Short article about the arm