tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3908700618944385852011-08-04T11:42:12.755+02:00.Net on small and large(r) devicesCarstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11651539904382942031noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390870061894438585.post-89024541042847664452011-08-04T11:31:00.001+02:002011-08-04T11:31:45.200+02:00

…from a 18 month-trip developing enterprise solutions on the full .Net Framework. …Back with a couple of new, hopefully good, ideas in my mind which I want to realize. Ideas, mostly for background and/or backend-services and some, but not so much, for the user-interface. The most powerful and inovative idea is a component for databases on the .Net Compact Framework.

Carstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11651539904382942031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390870061894438585.post-91386612196349334252009-10-05T16:00:00.002+02:002009-11-25T10:21:53.058+01:00

This article describes a kind of interprocess communication between a .Net-application and a native c++-application on WindowsCe/WindowsMobile-based devices. The reason for this project was my current task, a set of native DLLs for an external hardware which should connected to the mobile device. The data structure from the DLLs is very complex and very hard to implement in a .NetCF-application,

Carstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11651539904382942031noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390870061894438585.post-9461824439776296992009-06-12T15:00:00.002+02:002009-06-29T11:15:53.379+02:00

A couple of days ago, I found a little nice potion of software. It’s called pspdisp. This software extends the windows desktop on your Sony PlayStationPortable. The software contains of two parts. You have to install one part on the PlayStationPortable, the second part, you have to install on your Windows PC. Pspdisp allows you to connect the PlayStationPortable with your Windows PC via USB or

Carstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11651539904382942031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390870061894438585.post-4653257092655074342009-02-27T15:48:00.003+01:002009-02-27T15:53:31.455+01:00

Inspired by this article from Kai, I was tried to extend classes for the .Net Compact Framework with methods for the .Net Framework. I had to work with graphics on the .Net Compact Framework. The opportunities in .Net Compact Framework are a little bit rare. So I decided to handle a part of the functionality on the desktop. During my work, I created a class, which originally based on an

Carstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11651539904382942031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390870061894438585.post-79432174265580399452009-01-18T17:35:00.003+01:002009-01-18T17:48:26.103+01:00

During the last days, many people wrote about Microsoft's new operating system Windows 7, which was release as Beta 1 on January 9th 2009. Yes, I was one of them, who tried it to download at these Friday evening… without success. Well, I tried it on the next Monday morning, after Microsoft canceled the download-limit of 2.5 mio. downloads. At first, I would like to say something about my work

Carstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11651539904382942031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390870061894438585.post-70538477495972835052008-12-16T18:56:00.001+01:002008-12-16T18:56:14.334+01:00

In the .Net Framework it's quiet easy to work with transparent images. But if you want to work with transparent images on the .Net Compact Framework it's not so easy. The reason for this behavior is, that System.Drawing.Bitmap from the .Net CF don't support information from the Alpha-channel. You can read Png-files, but these information will be ignored. Some, who know the know more of the

Carstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11651539904382942031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390870061894438585.post-43569348449860283692008-12-11T17:14:00.002+01:002008-12-15T14:41:37.731+01:00

During the last days, I tried to print with an Usb-printer from an Symbol/Motorola MC 70. The .Net CF don't support printing like the full framework. OK, what should happen now, I had to fix that. When I plugged the Usb-cable from the printer into the craddle while the MC 70 is in it, the operating system (Windows Mobile 5.0) creates a virutal port for the printer. The port is called "LPT1:".

Carstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11651539904382942031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390870061894438585.post-91637529513096001712008-10-27T12:01:00.002+01:002008-12-15T14:44:13.717+01:00

Today, I found at DotNetGerman bloggers a nice entry. About a new dev-tool called "Small Basic" from Microsoft. It´s a small tool for beginners, which have just started width developing. The tool demonstrates with just a handful of commands how easy and funny it could be to realize some nice programs. Small Basic reminds me on the Logo-language from the old school computers... with the little

Carstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11651539904382942031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390870061894438585.post-92093302816963106072008-10-22T12:18:00.002+02:002008-12-15T14:43:48.607+01:00

During the last days, I got a lot of trouble with my Visual Studio 2008 Prof. Each time, when I want to reorganize the toolbox for the WinForms-Designer, Visual Studio 2008 crashes completely without an error-message.   I tried it a couple of times, without any success - damn. I tried the same on an other computer - nothing happened, just the normal behavior - Visual Studio opened the

Carstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11651539904382942031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390870061894438585.post-27605303322894935562008-02-20T15:28:00.019+01:002008-12-15T14:43:23.722+01:00

Creating designtime-controls for the .Net CompactFramework isn't so difficult today like in former days. The tools are much better and the documentation also. But only when you just use the 'normal '-.Net stuff.When you plan to create a custom control for the .Net CompactFramework which uses a lot of Api-functions, you will get into a lot of trouble.The reason? The Reason is quiet simple. The .

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