Archive for May 2009

What is an AKU?

Only a short post about AKUs.

As I wrote about Internet Explorer Mobile 6.1.4 it would be of interest, when this is part of the OS image on your device. With ‘when’ I mean the AKU number, when IEM is part of the OS image.

Adaption Kit Updates are described here.

A list of AKU s is posted here and here

Enhanced GPS sample

First, the GPS sample provided by MS is a very good starting point for C# programmers getting GPS to work. GREAT!

I used the sample and modded it to get more informations on the screen.

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Windows Mobile RFID VB sample code for ITC IP4 and IP30

Unfortunately ITC don’t provide a VB example on how to use there RFID resource kit. So I started to migrate the existing example “CF_IP4ReaderSampleFor700” to VB. It is still basic but shows all you need to program a mobile RFID reader.

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AJAX and Windows Mobile 6

Some time ago MS announced an extended Mobile Internet Explorer (sorry, it has to be called Internet Explorer Mobile now, nor Pocket Internet Explorer. Thanks to all these new terms for the same thing to MS. PIE, MIE, IEM is all the same) with the release of Windows Mobile 6.1.4: Internet Explorer Mobile.

I did a short test and will still recommend Access Netfront for professional use. IEM runs slow and I can not see the ((un-)documented) enhancements for web programmers.

Josef