01-07-2004, 10:16 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Develop Screen Orientation-Aware Applications
The Mobility & Embedded Home sub site of Microsoft Developer Network has some very interesting articles right now. One of them is "Developing Screen Orientation-Aware Applications" which provides information developers need to develop mobile applications for portrait and landscape screens.
The article has some nice screenshots so even if you're not a developer, you should check them out! Interesting things will follow.
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01-07-2004, 10:30 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I was once talking to a Microsoft person and I was told that a SP is being prepared for the WM 2003 OS to support landscape format directly from the OS. This plus other tidbits that I can not say now. It seems like things are coming out...
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01-07-2004, 11:01 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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It would be nice if the apps could detect the orientation change from .Net wthout a C wrapper.... :?
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01-07-2004, 11:38 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by freitasm
I was once talking to a Microsoft person and I was told that a SP is being prepared for the WM 2003 OS to support landscape format directly from the OS. This plus other tidbits that I can not say now. It seems like things are coming out...
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I know that hp will have this available within a reasonable time frame if it was to be released, but can you imagine all the other ppcs out there that people will be stuck wondering and waiting for a service pack for their model. I can already see the steam :lol:
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01-08-2004, 01:35 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2003
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If the Service Pack is a generic system patch as some of the EUU updates for Pocket PC 2002 then there's a great chance for everybody with enough guts to run an update theoretically not intended for their hardware. 
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01-08-2004, 04:12 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Will my dreams comes true? Good lord I will die for such implenation in the OS, and none one of this herzats that we can find now.
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01-08-2004, 10:59 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Hmm. It sounds logical, that they should roll out this new feature (portrait/landscape switching) earlier than the next version of WM, otherwise everybody would be quite dissapointed when a new version of WM is released and no 3rd party app. would support it. On the other hand, if they roll out a service pack, 3rd party developers would be forced to update their software and if they do not - customers will get mad with them, not with MS. Clever, even if it requires additional work/testing from MS side too...
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01-08-2004, 04:13 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 713
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Originally Posted by darrylb
It would be nice if the apps could detect the orientation change from .Net wthout a C wrapper.... :?
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Shouldn't be a problem to handle from within the .NETcf. Just handle the Size event in your form.
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