We had a great turn out for the Mobility group, but had a rocky start.  It was a cold winter day, ok so it wasn’t winter and it wasn’t really cold, but Matt and Michael were not able to make it.  They both had circumstances beyond their control, so I went ahead and ran the show. 

We had a great time learning about Mobility development for Pocket PC and had some great hands on demos.  The first presentation was a great introduction to the problems of the current CF.NET Framework and some of the “missing” features.  Venkat showed us how to add context menus for Cut and Paste to TextBoxes.  He showed how OpenNETCF has implemented a lot of the “missing” features for Compact Framework.  After a quick demo and showing the code required to make this work, we had our second presenter Kirk Evans come up.  He claimed he was going to show the new “missing” features that CF.NET 2.0 will be adding and the enhancements that will make it worth checking out.  If you are a mobility programmer and want to know what is coming in the next version you should have been at this meeting, I think they will post the slides on the Mobility site.  Kirk went over what is coming in Visual Studio 2005 and showed some of new IDE features like being able to skin your app for the device you are using (cool).  Even though Kirk was not feeling well he managed to give a great presentation that he claims he could do in his sleep.  My guess is that he is that smart and probably could. 

Once all the questions had finished we gave away some great prizes that Kirk had brought for us.  Also we had someone announce a position for a Mobility programmer and if you are interested send the Mobility leaders an email and they will put you in contact with him.

--Brendon Schwartz

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Great post about the first presentation and source code

http://vpolisetti.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/03/24/enable_contextmenus_automatically_for_opennetcf_textboxex_co.html