Peter Foot

June 2007 - Posts

• Guid.NewGuid Performance

  João Paulo was investigating Guid performance when used as identifiers in a SQL Compact database and discovered that the performance of Guid.NewGuid() left a lot to be desired. The reason for this is that the function uses lowest-common-denominator support... Posted Jun 25 2007, 03:13 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: NETCF

• Motorola Game Developer Challenge

  Fancy yourself as a mobile game developer and want to win loads of Motorola kit? If so the Motorola Developer Network (MOTODEV) have a game development contest for you! There are categories for both Java and Windows Mobile games, for Windows Mobile you... Posted Jun 19 2007, 09:42 AM by Peter Foot

• Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook at DevDays 2007

  Rob Miles , a fellow MVP who wrote one of the chapters for our book has grabbed a copy at DevDays in Amsterdam, you can see a picture of him proudly clutching the book in his latest blog post . In case you need any further encouragement to purchase the... Posted Jun 13 2007, 04:22 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: Books

• Windows Mobile Standard Landscape Shortcut Keys

  On a traditional Standard (nee Smartphone) device the start-menu items are arranged into a 3x3 grid, you can navigate these quickly using the numeric keypad. On a landscape device the items are arranged in a 4x2 grid so this is impractical. Instead the... Posted Jun 04 2007, 05:13 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Mobile