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Windows Mobile is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs. Based on the Windows CE kernel and designed to look and operate similar to desktop versions of Microsoft Windows.

Windows Mobile has largely been supplanted by Windows Phone 7.

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Auto detect mobile browser (via user-agent?)

How can I detect if a user is viewing my web site from a mobile web browser so that I can then auto detect and display the appropriate version of my web site?
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How do I get modified date from file in C# on Windows Mobile?

I make a file in PC, and I want to transfer it to a PPC (Windows Mobile). How can I get the modified date of this file? (I need it on Windows Mobile.)
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What are the most valuable .Net Compact Framework Tips, Tricks, and Gotcha-Avoiders?

We work extensively in the .Net Compact Framework and Windows Mobile. I've seen plenty of questions come up regarding specifics to development of ASP.Net apps or other .Net based desktop apps but nothing CF specific. Anyone else a mobile developer…
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How to estimate the thread context switching overhead?

I am trying to improve the performance of the threaded application with real-time deadlines. It is running on Windows Mobile and written in C / C++. I have a suspicion that high frequency of thread switching might be causing tangible overhead, but…
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Visual studio the project needs to be deployed before it can be started

When starting to test the application on Windows Phone (even a blank app) on emulator or device, this error is poping out "The project needs to be deployed before it can be started". "verify the project is selected to be deployed in the solution…
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Can I write native iPhone, Android, Windows, Blackberry apps using Python?

Is possible to develop Android and iOS mobile applications in Python? I am a newcomer in mobile applications and want to develop mobile applications in Python.
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How to loop through WebHeaderCollection

How do you loop through a WebHeaderCollection got from HttpWebResponse in Windows phone 7 to get keys and values? We've tried Enumerator.Current; with this, we are only getting the keys, not the values. We are doing this to get a redirected URL.
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ListView Headers Don't Show Up

I am doing a windows mobile application 6.1. I dragged in a listview and went to columns and added columns to my list view. When I run the listview they do not show up. I then tried to add them through C# code on page load with the follow…
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How to connect a Windows Mobile PDA to Windows 10

Does anyone know how I can get a Windows Mobile 6.5 PDA to connect up to a Windows 10 PC? Before upgrading the PC from Window 8.1 I was able to use Windows Mobile Device Center to link up to the PDA over USB. This allowed me to access files on the…
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Programmatically launch IE Mobile favorites screen

Is there any way to launch IE Mobile's "Favorites" screen directly by specifying any command line parameter?
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Menubar + Commandbar on WM 5.0 and WM 6.5.3

I'm developing a Windows Mobile application, and I faced a problem with CCommandBar, which combines toolbar and menubar. Well, I mean the following: m_wndCommandBar.InsertMenuBar(IDR_MAINFRAME); m_wndCommandBar.LoadToolBar(IDR_MAINFRAME); I have…
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What mobile platform should I start learning?

What mobile platform should I start learning? What matters is: ease popularity of the platform low cost of the SDK and actual handheld
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Windows Mobile Development - Where to begin?

Okay, I will shortly be starting down the path of windows mobile development. I know nothing about the subject really and I am looking for people with experience to let me know of any gottchas you may know of. Right now I dont even have a breif of…
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How to write my C++ function so I can call it from C#?

I have C++ code. That code contains Windows mobile GPS enable/disable functionality. I want to call that method from C# code, that means when the user clicks on a button, C# code should call into C++ code. This is the C++ code for enabling the GPS…
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Visual Studio compiles but the exe isn't there

Source code that compiles fine on other peoples environments won't correctly work in my environment. When I do a rebuild the compile occurs but when visual studio goes to move the exe from /obj/debug/{solution} to /debug/{solution} it cannot find…
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