Enumerating DirectShow filters on WM5 device/emulator

To build the application to enumerate the DShow filter enmerator you need to first set the build environment in the VS2005 IDe.
1.Add strmbase.lib strmiids.lib mmtimer.lib in Project Properties->Linker->
Input->Additional dependencies
2.Include streams.h file.
This takes care of setting the build environment and interface definitions.

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Standalone version of WM5 emulator released

Its one of the long awaited release from Microsoft.Finally Standalone version of the ARM based emulator ,that ships with VS 2005,has been released.See the following link for download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C62D54A5-183A-4A1E-A7E2-CC500ED1F19A&displaylang=en

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US State dept says NO to Lenovo Pc’s

According to this article on register,
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/19/us_govt_pulls_lenovo_pcs/
 ,US state departments has decided not to buy Lenovo PC's as it may lead to security breach.Talk about Global economy and free market!What's next China saying NO to windows,IBM,Dell etc. , as it may lead to potential security breach!

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Takes two to Tango

Java and .Net doing a Tango?.Seems strange but this is what they seem to be doing or atleast plan to do.For long there have been two camps of .Net and Java developers but now sun has started the process of building a bridge named TANGO to connect the two camps.Project Tango the opensource initiative started [...]

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Windows Mobile 5 Device ID

A Windows Mobile 5 Device ID is unique.It is of 16 byte in length,and made of two parts a platform id and preset id,both in combination are supposed to be unique.
Now how to get the Device ID of a windows mobile 5 based device?
There are 2 methods.2nd method is recommended.
1.You can use KernelIOControl method.
KernelIoControl(IOCTL_HAL_GET_DEVICEID, 0, [...]

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Windows Media Player not recognising WM5 device

When trying to synchronize Windows Media Player with Windows Mobile device ,Windows Media Player doesn't recognise the device.If you have installed Windows Media Player after you have installed Active Sync then do a repair install of Active Sync again.

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