What’s new for developers in Windows Mobile 6 aka Crossbow

Came across this interesting msdn article by James Wilson on what Windows Mobile 6 means for developers.
Summary:
The Windows Mobile® 6 developer platform release focuses on a few core goals: simplify line of business (LOB) application development and deployment, make the task of building a single application that runs successfully across the many different devices in [...]

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VisualStudio 2005 – Error creating project

Yesterday suddenly my VisualStudio stopped creating new native (C++) smart device project. Every time I was getting the error “project creation failed”.
After some hunting on google came across some information. Apparently this problem happens if you have installed Internet Explorer 7 on your system (which I did). This happens as native new project dialog control is [...]

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Windows Mobile 6 aka Crossbow

Finally Windows Mobile 6 ,aka Crossbow, is round the corner. It is going to be realsed   most probably in 3 GSM.
This also heralds a new naming for the Windows Mobile family(Pocket pc,Smartphone,Pocket PC phone edition).Henceforth Smartphone would be known as Windows Mobile 6 standard, Pocket PC would be known as Windows Mobile 6 classic and [...]

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Steve Jobs – DRM should go

Recently Steve Jobs called out to Music companies to do away with the DRM (newyorktimes).It’s a welcome voice.
DRM has long been a bone of contention between Music companies and Consumers. For the music companies it’s like walking on a fine line, before they realize they have stepped on consumers toe,who then starts shouting “blue murder”!!. [...]

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