The Mobile Minute 12

After recovering from a bout of gluttony yesterday (way too many tasty desserts), yours truly is back on the wagon.

Develop SmartPhone 2002 Applications with Embedded VB (eVB) - Catch the story at msmobiles.com and smartphonethoughts.com. They both link to here - make sure you RTFM as there are a number of Registry edits to make - oh, and this hack cannot co-exist with the Smartphone 2002 SDK. I'm a little conflicted on this one.. I think it is neat that John Cody sorted this out; however, I am not in favor of continuing to use a clearly deprecated language (yes, eVB is deprecated - for example, you must install the eVB runtime on a Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC device, an eVB app won't run natively) despite this opening up this platform to more developers. Your thoughts?
Want to beta test a SQL CE bulk loader library?
Pocket PC Developer Network has published their first newsletter. Subscribed.
Vassili Philippov of pocketpcdn.com has published a Q&A article entitled How to create a spin control like in Microsoft programs?
Also at pocketpcdn.com, Andrey Lebedev published a Q&A that answers a question I've heard asked quite a bit: How to avoid multiple entries in the task list for the .NET application?
From MoDaCo: Database Conversion Wizard Power Toy
Omar Shahine shares his thoughts about buying a Tablet PC fr his father link from tablula pc.
More Omar: He's been running Lonestar (cool!)
Tablet PC Corner has some nifty phots of the upcoming Toshiba M200. (Here's the English translation)
Also from Tablet PC Corner, a review of the new Acer C302MXi (English translation)

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