John Mendez

So here are some screenshots of my twitter client I made for my HTC Touch Pro. I'm excited about it because my specialty is ASP.NET. I'm a beginner when it comes to windows forms, and windows mobile forms..well..geez is there something below beginner?! Anyway here is how it turned out. The problem I still have is why the profile images won't download correctly. For some reason I'm still getting a timeout after it downloads a couple of them. It's weird. Oh well I'll worry about that later. 

Slim Twit and images below are copyrights of XDev Software, LLC

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So since I'm so intelligent (ha ha..oh how I wish), I couldn't figure out how to install the .NETCF 3.5 onto my windows mobile 6 professional phone.  Well I did what MS said (which is always a 50/50) and downloaded the MSI for the .NETCF 3.5 onto my computer. So it said go ahead and run the MSI and Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) will take care of the rest. Oh how I should have known.  Here was my config before starting the install:

• Visual Studio 2008
• Windows Mobile 6 Pro SDK
• .NET Compact Framework 3.5

As you can see, I already had the framework installed on my computer. And since I'm not as comfortable with Windows Mobile Development I was a bit hesistant to go foward.  Well turns out this is all I had to do:

• Connect phone to my PC
• Open WMDC (don't know if that is required still)
• Run the MSI I downloaded
• Select Modify
• Expand the options and select "Deployment"

And that was about it.  WMDC automatically installed it onto my phone.  However, on my phone since I have a storage card I just had to tell which directory to install it on. The storage card, or the device.  I did the device.

That was that, now I have the .NETCF 3.5 on my phone.

Here are some helpful links as well:

http://tiltmobility.com/how-to-install-net-compact-framework-35/
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxcompact/thread/f51d6fdb-2758-4b60-9527-149a18498481

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So I am working on making this twitter client for my mobile phone and I realized I don't even know how to configure my emulator to connect to the internet?! Kind of a problem huh? So here were the steps I took to make this happen. I'll also list out my environment.

Environment:

 - Windows Vista Utlimate
 - Visual Studio 2008
 - Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1
 - Windows Mobile 6 Professional App
 - .NET 3.5 compact framework
 - Windows Mobile 6 Professional Emulator

Steps How I Enabled Internet Connection on the Emulator:

- Downloaded and install Virtual PC 2007 (this is because it has to install some driver for the network card to work for the emulator)
- Open Windows Mobile Device Center and allow DMA connections.
       this can be done by going to Mobile Device Settings ->Connection Settings -> Allow Connections to one of the following -> Select DMA
- Opened Visual Studio and opened my mobile app
- In the toolbar selected Device Options Icon (located next to dropdown with the emulators to select from)
- Under Device Tools -> Devices I selected my Windows Mobile 6 Pro Emulator then clicked on Properties
- Clicked Emulator Options
- Select the Network Tab
- Checked the first box (enabled NE2000 PCMCIA network adapter and bind to:)
- Selected the name of my network card
- Ran the emulator by running the application
- Went to Connection Settings in the Emulator
      Start -> Settings -> Connections Tab -> Connections -> Advanced Tab -> Select Networks -> Choose My Work Network for both drop downs

That should do it to get internet going on your emulator.  Quite a few steps to get on the Internet, but oh well.

So since I don't consider myself an excellent mobile developer by any means, if someone can prodive an easier way please let me know I would love it!

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