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New Developer Portal

As you can see the blog has a fresh new look. I think it looks great I suggest you also check the new portal at http://developer.windowsmobile.com - Learn all about developing apps for Windows Mobile. From Start, Develop, Test to Release - Got interesting Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:38 AM by Luis Cabrera | 8 Comments

Random Thoughts from TechEd 2008

It looks like the topic of TechEd this year evolves around new rendering/layout technologies, like WPF and Silverlight. There are already many ISVs out there selling controls built on top of these new technologies. I was listening to a presentation about Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:04 PM by Luis Cabrera | 9 Comments

Free Professional Development Tools for Students

A few years ago when I was getting my Bachelor's Degree I decided to learn how to write code for mobile devices (I had Compaq Ipaq at that time that was running Pocket PC 2003 version of the software). I downloaded eVC 4 and wrote my first little program Read More...
Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 9:11 AM by Luis Cabrera | 3 Comments
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What does the D in SDE stand for?

When I was in college and heard about some of Microsoft positions (PMs, SDETs, SDEs) I thought immediately that I liked writing code and solving problems, so I wanted to be a Software Development Engineer (SDE). But what do SDEs do? What does the D in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:42 AM by Luis Cabrera | 6 Comments
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Imagine Cup 2007 Embedded Development Invitational.

Do you like Embedded development? If you are 16 years of age or older, and enrolled as student at an accredited educational institution you may be able to participate in the world's premier student technology competition. This year’s theme is "Imagine Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:11 AM by Luis Cabrera | 0 Comments
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Inking on your Windows Mobile Device

While at MEDC I had the chance to present a new addition to the Windows Mobile APIs: WISP Lite WISP stands for Windows Ink Service Platform and it is the technology for ink recoginition used in other platforms like Tablet PC. In the Windows Mobile 6 SDK Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:30 PM by Luis Cabrera | 10 Comments
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Security Configuration Manager Powertoy = an Orcas Feature

A few months ago I wrote a blog post showing the Security Configuration Manager Powertoy. http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/06/22/643027.aspx . This powertoy allows you to see standard security configurations, provision your device, see Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:38 PM by Luis Cabrera | 4 Comments
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Windows Mobile Competition at NTCC 2007

A while back a few of us had a chance to help out in a Dell and Microsoft sponsored programming competition at NTCC 2007. NTCC is a conference held by SHPE (Society of Hispanic and Professional Engineers). We had a blast and a chance to share some of Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:56 PM by Luis Cabrera | 3 Comments
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IE7 and Smart Device Projects in VS 2005

Coming back from the Holidays, my Visual Studio 2005 installation would fail trying to create a new native Smart Device Project. Uninstalling the Windows Mobile SDKs and reinstalling them... and even uninstalling/reinstalling Visual Studio did not solve Read More...
Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 5:45 PM by Luis Cabrera | 15 Comments
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Have you asked or answered a question at the Windows Mobile Forums?

Sometimes people ask questions as replies to blog entries. That works sometimes, but if you have general programming questions, I suggest you will have more visibility and better ability to know when your question gets answered by using MSDN Forums. Also, Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:09 AM by Luis Cabrera | 5 Comments
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Writing Better Managed Code

Did you know there is a managed code analysis tool in VS 2005? Well, now you do. The managed code analysis tool can warn you when your code does not follow a set of good practices. For those of you that are familiar with FxCop, the managed code analysis Read More...
Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 1:29 PM by Luis Cabrera | 7 Comments
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WM Geek Fun (PM+SDE/T match wits with a smart SDE)

So you've all seen blog posts from our brilliant Software Design Engineer Luis Cabrera . He's one of the smartest people in the team. In fact, Luis is so smart that he uses complex mathematical patterns for his device PIN, while the rest of us prefer Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:10 PM by MelSam | 23 Comments
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Windows Mobile SDK Samples: Your feedback is important to us!

Howdy. I own the SDK samples for the Windows Mobile SDK… and I would like to get a feel for what you think of the current SDK samples. In the past there has been concern that there were not enough samples on the SDK. When we released Windows Mobile 5.0, Read More...
Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 1:09 AM by Luis Cabrera | 106 Comments
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Security Configuration Manager Powertoy for Windows Mobile.

At MEDC 2006 this year, I had a chance to give an instructor led lab regarding Windows Mobile Security. At the lab we unveiled a tool that allows you to understand the security configuration on your device a little better. The Security Configuration Manager Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:49 PM by Luis Cabrera | 28 Comments
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Mobile Client Software Factory - Community Technical Preview.

At the keynote at MEDC 2006 in Las Vegas there was a demo regarding the Mobile Client Software Factory. Today I had a chance to look at the documentation and play a little bit with it for the first time. (You can get to the download page from http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/mcsflp.asp Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:38 AM by Luis Cabrera | 2 Comments
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