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OpenID is gaining ground, and with good reason. A cross-platform, cross-browser single Internet sign-on using a distributed network is very appealing. I’ll assume though that you already know what OpenID…
The .NET Compact Framework has had several loggers (error, interop, loader, networking, and security) in previous versions. NetCF 3.5 introduces the finalizer logger, which is useful for performance tuning your…
Pocket PC’s have touch screens. Smartphones don’t. While it is straightforward to determine which of these a Windows Mobile device is, there are Windows CE devices that are neither. Some…
While both Smartphones and Pocket PCs are based on Windows Mobile, there are some very important differences for developers who are targeting both platforms. Not the least of which are…
When you develop your Windows CE or Windows Mobile application in .NET Compact Framework, you probably do a lot of testing on the Microsoft Device Emulators for Smartphone and Pocket…
This article is intended to be a store for some fair comparisons between the Windows and Linux operating systems. It’s not a Windows versus Linux document. Comments are allowed, but…
The SystemParametersInfo function in Windows CE can be tricky, even deadly, when it comes to passing in buffers for SPI_GETOEMINFO or SPI_GETPLATFORMTYPE. Each of these uiAction values fill a given…
After spending two hours searching for good documentation for using OpenID as my authentication for my Ruby on Rails app and being disappointed in lack of examples and other documentation,…
I am not an expert in WSE3 by anyone’s definition. So when I went looking for a way to add authentication requirements to my web service that tied into the…
Ayende’s NHibernate.Generics is truly an incredible advance in supporting generic collections with NHibernate, and solving the two-way relationship problem at the same time. I switched all my projects to use…