Hodentek Mobile

Microsoft Windows Phone is getting serious A new training kit was released recently. You have to know XAML if you are thinking of developing for Windows Phone. No XAML No Windows Phone. The program comes with an emulator built in. In earlier versions you needed to download emulators and it was an hassle. I tried out a couple of samples provided in the kit. Here is a slightly modified Hello World sample screen shots. This is the UI you design in the Main page which is in XAML The keyboard is built in. You enter your text in the text box after bringing up the emulator and type in your text using the soft keyboard. You may need to navigate to have the full functionality of the keyboard. You get somehting like this typed in. There is a little bit of code behind to hook it up to the click event. Now I click. Voila! the phone displays the message.

I have had continuous problems with the Tilt's display and hang ups. You need to reset by taking out the battery and putting it back. This is not a solution. This can happen when someone s trying to reach you and it drives you crazy. I want to send it back to AT & T. I will work on it. The pictures tell the story. Right in the middle of an incoming call (nothing works):

In three steps you will see how you can add a video clip to your AT & T Tilt Step1: Import Clip Import the Video you created to Microsoft Windows Movie Maker. I have Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_Sp3_gdr.090206-1234: SP3). Use File | Import into Collections... My computer is a laptop, Toshiba Satellite P105-S6134 with SP3. Step 2: Edit the clip Edit the movie. You can add a title and select a smaller portion of the video if it is too big. Step 3: Save File Click File | Save Movie File... Here are some screen shots Save them to the format shown. When it is saved connect your AT & T Tilt to the desktop/laptop. Drag and drop the saved file to the Tilt. That is all folks! Here is a small movie I created

Actually it is pretty good. Here is a sample. This video was captured with tilt. The scene is from the recently held Code Camp 2009.1 held at De Vry University in Philadelphia. Well sometimes the video upload icon disappears from the Posting page. You can see the video on my other blog: http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2009/04/codecamp-philly-april-2009-de-vry.html

Scrolling screens in AT&T Tilt is very rough. Compared to dragging screens up and down, or from right to left in the more recent cell phones is so neat that should you think twice about buying AT & T. Well, I bought it because it was cheap and had the right OS on it.

SAP is a recognized leader in business applications and Sybase is a world leader in mobile software and they have taken the step to go hand-in-hand, looking forward to greater co-operation. For full story read this on the  Sybase Site. Also read Ian Thain's article

This is the second time I had to completly remove ActiveSync 4.5 and reinstall it. Repair does not work . I have checked the connectivity as much as I can, it is not a connection problem. It is something to do with the program associated with file transfers. Connection details that you may see on your My Network Connections on your computer Here is the display of the PING results. I pinged both the default gateway as well as the device according to the above. Well, ActiveSync is not all that 'Active' is it? Look forward to my next article on PACKT  with the tentative title, "Deploying SQL Anywhere 11 to the Mobile Platform" The previous article on PACKT was at: A Simple Pocket PC Application using Visual Studio 2005