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Windows Mobile SDK Documentation Update

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The Windows Mobile SDK Documentation has been updated today, with a release dated September 2006.

Please use this update as your primary source of information on the Windows Mobile SDK. This release replaces all others, especially the out-dated documentation that ships by default with the Smartphone and Pocket PC SDKs.

The easiest way to use this documentation is to make sure that Visual Studio is configured to use Online Help. You can also go to MSDN directly (links below) which will always display the latest documentation.

As well as many smaller corrections, this latest update includes:

Topic

Description

Configuration Service Provider Reference for Windows Mobile-Based Devices

All references to "formerly WAP" have been changed to "formerly WAP Client Provisioning".

Battery Reference

Provides descriptions of programming elements that allow an application to interface with the platform's battery.

Device Interface Notifications Reference

Provides descriptions of programming elements that allow an application to receive notifications when devices are ready to be used by an application, and when devices can no longer by used by an application.

Device Manager Reference

Provides descriptions of programming elements that allow an application to interact with and manage devices.

Keyboard Reference

Provides descriptions of programming elements that allow an application to interface with the platform's keyboard.

LASS Reference

The following LAP-Exported function topics are new:

· LAPCancelVerifySequence

· LAPDisplayCodeword

· LAPDisplayPreWipe

· LAPLockoutUser

The following LASS Reference topics are new:

· LASSClose

· LASSGetResult

· LASSGetValue

· VerifyUserAsync

Notification LED Reference

Provides descriptions of programming elements that allow an application to interface with the platform's notification LED.

OS Services Reference

The OS services reference describes the programming elements that are available to use for debugging, managing DLLs, handling exceptions, managing memory, using synchronization primitives, and so on.

Power Management Reference

The power management reference describes the following types of programming elements that can be used for managing power:

· Power Management IOCTLs

· Power Management Structures

· Power Management Enumerations

· Power Management Functions

 

Please feel free to send feedback (there's a link on every page in the documentation). We enter each piece of a feedback into a database that automatically assigns bugs to writers: that's how serious we are about getting you the best reference documentation possible.

Links:

· Windows Mobile SDK Documentation

· What’s New in September 2006

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2006
    You need to check your links as they are internal links to http://msdnprod rather than the public url - http://msdn.microsoft.com Peter

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2006
    Thanks Peter. That always catches me out. Should be fixed now.

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2006
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    October 11, 2006
    As reported on the US Windows Mobile team blog, the Windows Mobile SDK Documentation set has been updated

  • Anonymous
    November 02, 2006
    I don't suppose these updates are available in download form so I can update my local help?  MSDN online is all well and good until I'm sitting on an airplane. :)

  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2006
    I reformulate the previous comment. Is there any way to update the locally deployed documentation?

  • Anonymous
    December 20, 2006
    No, not at this moment. Not having local help that's current is painful. We know it, and we're trying to fix it.