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For those following the OpenNETCF IoC Framework, I've checked in another set of fixes.  So yes, it's still an active project.
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Ages ago I did a science project where I was reading and writing registers from managed code.  It worked well and there is absolutely no reason that you shouldn't be able to do this kind of thing.  Windows CE is an embedded platform, and affecting hardware is what we do in the e...
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Long, long ago I wrote an article for MSDN on creating a multi-Form CF application that used a Form Stack.  Since we all tend to grow and learn as developers, we find different ways to do things (and generally we scoff at code we wrote years before as inferior crap).  ...
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If you've ever done mstest unit testing with a Smart Device project, then you're painfully aware of how badly Microsoft dropped the ball on this one.  Debugging a unit test requires making device registry modifications, adding a call to Debugger.Break in your code, then telling ...
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For those following Project Resistance, this is probably going to be a week with little progress.  I've got a major milestone on another project that we're trying to prepare for followed by an on-site installation so my activity in the code base will be very, very limited.  I b...
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So my final piece of functionality for the week in Project Resistance was to add key handling to the code base.  The idea is that if you're running on a non-touch device (or for some reason want to use the D-Pad on a touch device) then you need some ability to "select" a resistance ...
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I didn't do much today with Project Resistance, but that didn't stop progress. Alex got all of the background paionting ironed out today while I was screwing around with paying work.  It looks pretty nice (well, except for the lower workspace, which is awaiting artwork): ...
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We've made more today progress on Project Resistance.  It turns out that the earlier bug was indeed due to the fact that in the Compact Framework Color.Transparent is not a transparent color.  How intuitive.  If you do Graphics.Clear(Color.Transparent) what actually occurs is th...
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Today has been a slow day here for Project Resistance because I'm neck deep in writing other code.  I did manage to get the gesture events for the Tolernace band on the ResistorView plumbed in so now you can swipe up/down with your finger and it actually changes the band color ...
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Alex made some headway over the weekend on Project Resistance with the ResistorView and doing some drawing.  Now (on the WinMo classic emulator) it looks like this: ...
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Well, last night I got an email from Microsoft: ...
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I didn't have a whole lot of time today to code on Project Resistance, so it didn't progress as far as I'd have liked, but I did get a few important things done.  First off I got the unit test project added to SCC after being admonished by Nick.  ...
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So today OpenNETCF is embarking on a new project: Project Resistance.  Project Resistance is intended to be a fully transparent view into the process of conceiving, developing and selling an application for Windows Mobile....
OpenNETCF Consulting
Today I did some of the preliminary work for Project Resistance (well I did it yesterday and today, but we'll call it Day 1)...
OpenNETCF Consulting
Recently I got feedback from Nick Randolph, another device developer MVP, regarding the OpenNETCF.IoC framework and handling the lifecycle of IDisposable objects (well we taked about a few things, but this is the one I tackled first).  The problem is that if you add an IDisposable o...