I saw this great post on encrypting your data using Windows Phone 7 by Rob Tiffany. Rob makes several great points, including how easy it is to accomplish this task in Windows Phone 7. Keep in mind that not only passwords and connection strings should be encrypted - anything that your application uses...

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After having several discussions at CodeCamps, seeing the debate on Twitter and even the comments on Charlie Kindel 's recent post " Hey, You, Get Off of my Cloud " on the Windows Phone Developer Blog , I felt compelled to answer a few of the points that quite a few people, including quite...

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Thanks to everyone who came to my session this morning at Richmond CodeCamp! The Presentation and Demo Code can be downloaded here: ( link ) (6.9 MB) Please email me with any questions you may have....

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I'm working on a graphics conversion utility for use in my mobile projects as well as for a friend's web based application. My goal has been to write code that I can run both on the compact framework as well as on the full-featured version of the .Net framework. Let's say we have an Enumerable type in...

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A friend recently asked how to delete an email account from her Windows Mobile 6.1 device. Like a good techie, she searched for the answer, only to find useless forums posts of unrelated babble. Here's a quick step through of how to do it. Video is here at the top, or step by step pictures below. Download...

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There's a great wealth of knowledge in these short "How Do I" videos on MSDN. Check out the latest videos here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb495180.aspx Want to know how to do any of these 77 things? (all links open in a new tab/windows) #1 How Do I: Enable Windows Mobile...

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Kind of feel like I'm opening a present before Christmas Eve since I don't have the phone yet, but here is a link to where to download the manual. ( click here ) Also, if you haven't seen it yet, here is a link to the Panels SDK ( click here )...

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Here's a quick video of how to setup the internal GPS on the Ultimate 9502 by iMate . Download here (Right Click, Save As)...

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Picked up the following iMate phones: SPL, SP3 ( I Finally got one!) , SP5 and the Ultimate 9502. Top: Nokia 770 Left to Right: iMate SP3, SP5, SPL, JAM, HTC Touch Enhanced, O2 XDA Trion, iMate Ultimate 9502, iPhone 3G My collection now includes: iMate JAM (128mb upgrade by PocketPcTechs.com) SPL SP3...

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Microsoft just published the Windows Mobile API Usage Tool ( Click here to go to the download page ). This is development tool that requires Visual Studio 2005 or 2008. Once you install the tool, you need to manually navigate to your Program Files directory to find the tool - it's command line only,...

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