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Managed Library to boost your Compact Framework development productivity

2008-09-05T14:55:00.005+03:00

Here comes a short list of managed classes/libraries developed by the community members , which may speed up your regular dev activities.

Note that some of them are not complete solutions, but they may give you a good idea how to acomplish tasks considered as hard for the regular managed dev.

1. Managed Today Item
by Christopher Fairbairn
http://www.christec.co.nz/blog/archives/281

2. Managed Notification With Soft Keys
by Christopher Fairbairn
http://www.christec.co.nz/blog/archives/150

3. Improved OpenFileDialog
by Christopher Fairbairn
http://www.christec.co.nz/blog/archives/286

4. Managed Services
by Peter Nowak
Actually it isn't possible to create Windows Services for Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded CE in managed code.
Pavel Bánský's shows in his blog post, how Services in Windows Mobile in managed code can be created...
http://blogs.compactframework.de/Peter.Nowak/2008/05/31/Dienste+Mit+Dem+NET+Compact+Framework+Erstellen+Creating+Services+With+The+NET+Compact+Framework.aspx

5. DynamicDNS Library
by Peter Nowak
Library to update dynamic DNS providers like DynDNS.org , NoIP.com and others. Usefull in some "push" scenarios
http://blogs.compactframework.de/Peter.Nowak/2007/11/29/nahtlosmobilde+DynamicDNS+Library+10+Released.aspx

6. PowerShell Windows Mobile Provider
by Oisin Greham
Explore and manipulate your mobile device with Windows PowerShell. Supports PocketPC and SmartPhone devices; WM2002, 2003, 2003SE, 5, 6 and 6.1...
http://www.nivot.org/CategoryView,category,WindowsMobile.aspx

7. AlphaMobileControls
AlphaMobileControls is a .NET Compact Framework 2.0 API offering WinForm Controls for Windows Mobile 5 or 6 able to handle images with alpha channel and alpha blending.
http://www.codeplex.com/alphamobilecontrols

8. P/Invoke Library
by Warren Tang
http://www.cnblogs.com/WarrenTang/archive/2008/08/28/1278853.html

Projects from OpenNETCF

9. Smart Device Framework 2.2 (Community Edition)
Compact Framework developers know that they have a subset of the full framework to work with, and often it can be frustrating and even crippling for a project. Version 2.2 of our award-winning, industry standard libraries for .NET Compact Framework helps bridge the gap between the .NET Compact Framework and the .NET Full Framework...
http://opennetcf.com/Products/SmartDeviceFramework/tabid/65/Default.aspx

10.OpenNETCF Advanced Debugging Toolkit (ADT)
Advanced Debugging Toolkit -- Addins and libraries to enable faster, more efficient debugging of .NET Compact Framework applications...
http://www.opennetcf.com/FreeSoftware/tabid/84/Default.aspx

11.OpenNETCF.Desktop.Communication
The Desktop.Communication Library contains classes used for communicating with a CE device from a PC such as Microsoft's Remote API (RAPI)...
http://www.opennetcf.com/FreeSoftware/tabid/84/Default.aspx

12.OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework v 1.4
Targeting Compact Framework 1.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2003
http://www.opennetcf.com/FreeSoftware/tabid/84/Default.aspx

13.Mobile Ink
The Mobile Ink Library is a .NET component that provides support for the new Windows Mobile 6 WISP Lite API in your .NET Compact Framework applications...
http://www.opennetcf.com/FreeSoftware/tabid/84/Default.aspx

14.OpenNETCF QRCode Library for .NET Compact Framework
The OpenNETCF QRCode Library is a .NET Compact Framework component that allows developers to decode QRCode images on a Windows Mobile or Windows CE device...
http://www.opennetcf.com/FreeSoftware/tabid/84/Default.aspx

UPDATE

15. 32feet.Net
by Peter Foot
A shared-source project to make personal area networking technologies such as Bluetooth, Infrared (IrDA) and more, easily accessible from .NET code. Supports desktop, mobile or embedded systems. The project currently consists of the following libraries:-
http://www.codeplex.com/32feet/

Did I miss something? Ping me if you know other useful non-comercial third party managed libraries

Interview with Ilya Tumanov

2008-09-03T13:46:00.001+03:00

Christopher Fairbairn published a short interview with Ilya Tumanov:

I am a Software Development Engineer (SDE) within the Developer Division (responsible for development tools like Visual Studio). I have been with the .NET Compact Framework team almost from the start and helped shipped version 1.0 of it.

I used to own numerous portions of the .NET CF base class libraries (BCL), for example ADO.NET and LINQ and was responsible for the .NET CF installation story on both the desktop and device sides.

Recently I’ve moved on to another position and now I’m with Microsoft’s Office Labs. My line of work is around mobile productivity, so I’m still working with NETCF, now as a regular developer.

Read the rest here...

Managed Services and Today Screen Item with .NET Compact Framework

2008-06-10T10:13:00.001+03:00

I'm .NET addicted and never felt comfortable to realize that I can't solve my problem in pure managed manner.
Well, the "native" is a native part of the mobile developer, but anyway I prefer managed.

I was happy to see that some mobile folks here work for my comfort :)

Peter Nowaks has a post about creating Managed Services in Windows Mobile by using .NET Compact Framework. He has created a managed library, hosted in CodePlex. His work is based on article by Pavel Bánský

Christopher Fairbairn also published a very handy library, which may help you creating a managed Today Screen Item.

Great work guys!

Links
Peter Nowaks on Creating Managed Services in Windows Mobile
Pavel Bánský on Creating Managed Services in Windows Mobile
Christopher Fairbairn on Creating Managed Today Screen Item

PowerShell Windows Mobile Provider

2008-06-09T12:30:00.001+03:00

I'm still interested in automating most of my daily dev tasks , because I am always behind the schedule.

A time ago I've publushed a post about a possible way to automate some windows mobile related tasks by using PowerShell and RAPI ( OpenNETCF wrapper implementation)

Oisin Grehan (Microsoft MVP) kindly informed me few days ago about the PowerShell Windows Mobile Provider developed by him. It is hosted in the CodePlex

It provides the following features:

Copy, Move, Delete items between folders on your device (including Storage Card) with standard PowerShell Cmdlets
Move/Copy files to/from your device and your desktop with ConvertTo-WMFile and ConvertFrom-WMFile
Get device information and manipulate and explore the registry with a rich device object returned from Get-WMDevice
Invoke-Item against remote items to or execute or trigger their associated applications
Invoke-Item with -Local switch to attempt to execute a remote file in the context of your local desktop (e.g. office docs or images/videos)
New "Mode" attributes specific to Windows Mobile file attributes: (I)nRom, Rom(M)odule
File/Folder objects' attributes can be modified with .Attributes properties just like FileInfos etc.
Tab completion with MoW's PowerTab

Links

PowerShell Windows Mobile Provider on Oisin Grehan's Blogs
PowerShell Windows Mobile Provider on CodePlex
Neil Cowburn on Windows PowerShell,RAPI and devices's GAC
RAPI and PowerShell on My Blog

My PPT files from Microsoft Days 2008 in Sofia

2008-05-11T22:40:00.000+03:00

I've just uploaded my PowerPoint presentarions files from Microsoft Days 08 in Sofia

The presentations are targeted toward Bulgarian speaking audience.

Links
PowerPoint presentarions files

Microsoft Days 2008

2008-03-08T13:57:00.007+02:00

You may register for the Microsoft Days 2008 in Sofia from the event's web site. It will be held on 24 and 25 April 2008 at the Inter Expo Center. The event is payed this year (again), however you will be able to hear about the latest Microsoft products and technologies for the 2 days of the event. There will be a great prizes this year - check out the detail on the Martin's blog.

If you are in the mobile development check out my sessions or just come and say 'Hi'. My sessions this year will be :

Mobile Development with Visual Studio 2008 and Compact Framework 3.5
I will talk about the latest Microsoft development tools in the mobile area. This includes the new features in CF 3.5 , the tools included in VS2008 and some of the newest SDKs and APIs

Windows Mobile for Developers
I will talk about the various features provided by Windows Mobile 6, which makes it the ultimate mobile platform these days. I will outline the features, which every developer shoud know in order to sqweese the best of it. We will discuss device security, management and provisioning and even more "trivial" features like Today screen, Auto Start, Services,Registry ,etc.

Although the time of the sessions will be limited, you may drop a comment of you like me to cover a particular topic.

Robotic arm may help disabled people

2008-02-23T13:31:00.008+02:00

I'm usually avoiding to blog about robotics on this blog, althought robotics is one of my favourite tech areas.
I have seen a lot of news/articles about robotic arms, but this video just striked me. It shows functional tests of a robotic arm from DEKA (still in development) and it looks pretty amazing.
They called it the Luke's arm, because its creators was inspired by the artificial arm of Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars movie.

Links
Check out the video
Short article about the arm

Visual Studio 2008 Web Dev Hot Fix

2008-02-21T21:13:00.002+02:00

I just noticed there is a hot fix for Visual Studio 2008.
The patch fixes number of issues related to the Web Development.
So if you are unsatisified from the VS2008 HTML Designer poor performance go and get it.

Links
Download link
Info about this hot fix on the ScottGu's Blog
Info about this patch on the Visual Web Developer Team's blog

Sony Ericsson and Windows Mobile

2008-02-20T12:39:00.003+02:00

Sony Ericsson announced a Windows Mobile based device, called XPERIA X1.

Quote from the official press release:

Sony Ericsson XPERIATM X1 – energised communication, the premium experience.

Convergence of multimedia entertainment and mobile Web communication

Unique arc slider with wide pitch easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard

XPERIA™ panels - arrange as you want for easy access

Enjoy multimedia entertainment on bright wide VGA display

Windows Mobile® capabilities

XPERIA™ panel interface – experiences just the way you want themEnjoy access to different experiences – Web, multimedia, applications – from your desktop. Navigate with the tip of your finger. Configure and have your XPERIA™ panels just the way you want them.

Multiple navigation – the choice is yoursXPERIA™ X1 lets you interact with yourphone in different ways. Touch, full QWERTY keyboard, 4-way key and optical joystick navigation. Switch seamlessly between operation modes.

Arc slider design – makes it stand outThe arc design gives a distinct and unique feel. Slide the screen upwards to reveal the wide pitch QWERTY keyboard. Ample distance between keys makes writing fast and easy.

Ultimate mobile experience – performance on the moveWith Windows Mobile®, the highest data transfer rate (HSDPA/HSUPA) and WiFi™ support, you can enjoy your favourite entertainment and work efficiently on the move. Mobile access to everything that is important to you. aGPS gives you the freedom to explore the world. XPERIA™ X1 is a premium mobile experience.

Via Jason Langridge's blog

Links
Official press release
XPERIA X1 web page

My Top 10 Posts for 2007

2008-02-19T16:39:00.004+02:00

I had to do this summary long ago and finally found some spare time:

Following are my top(by number of visits) ten posts:
1.Resolved: Explorer crash on Vista
2.CCR(Concurrency and Coordination Runtime) samples
3.Sql Server 2005: Change schema for all tables
4.“How to” Series: Automating Windows Mobile with Windows PowerShell
5.Visual Studio Toolbox Icons Mess
6.Configuring Symbol MK1100 Micro-Kiosk
7.NET Compact Framework: Mutex vs Critical Section
8.Visual Studio 2008: Device Security Manager
9.Windows Mobile Device Management
10."How To" Series: Retrieving IMSI and IMEI on Windows Mobile

Obviously my most visited posts are not related to the mobile development - May be it's time to change my focus...

Sofia. NET Group Monthly Meeting (Nov 2007)

2007-11-28T10:17:00.001+02:00

We will have our regular monthly meeting on 29.Nov.2007(Thursday) at 18:30 in the local Microsoft office.
Galin Ilivev will talk about IIS7 and will cover the following topics:

1. New tools in IIS7 as well as new administration options
2. New tracing and diagnostics options
3. New integration pipeline
4. Deep example that:

use custom IIS module written in C#
extend IIS configuration schema
extend IIS Manager by adding UI component>

See you there!

When Compact Framework fails to make HttpWebRequest ...

2007-11-28T10:10:00.000+02:00

Andrew Arnott has an interesting post about a bug found in CF.NET . It may fail to call some web servers with the following error:
System.Net.WebException: Unable to read data from the transport connection.

Want to know why? See the details here...

(via .NET Compact Framework Team's blog)

Microsoft Days in the universities

2007-11-03T13:15:00.000+02:00

A series of "Microsoft Days" events will be held in the local(Sofia) universities as follows:
5 Nov 2007 : Technical University, Sofia , 10:00h, hall 2140, block 2
see the agenda
6 Nov 2007 : Colledge of Telecommunications and Posts
see the agenda
18 Nov 2007: University if Sofia,The Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
see the agenda

I will talk about the newest additions in the Microsoft's mobile technology stack. The session is called "Mobile Development with .NET Compact Framework 3.5". Be there if you're starving to see what to expect from Visual Studio 2008 when dealing with mobile applications

Sofia .NET User Group Meeting

2007-10-17T09:29:00.000+03:00

We will have another meeting in the local Microsoft office on 18.Oct.2007 at 18:30.
This time Valdimir Chalkov will talk about analyzing and solving problems in production environment with the help of the Debugging Tools for Windows.
The topic will be presented by Vladimir Chalkov, C# MVP and CEO of Crossroad

Mobile & Embedded Developer Chat,October 24

2007-10-03T17:08:00.000+03:00

Neil will host another Mobile & Embedded Developer Skype Chat on 24.Oct.2007 at 3PM GMT.
Click here to add Outlook Reminder(via Neil's post)
You may ask the experts your mobile&embedded dev questions.

The chat may be accessed from the following url:
http://chat.opennetcf.com
Note that you may say hi at any time in the chat room.

The original announcement may be found here on the Neil's blog

I just noticed that Neil got his MVP status back. Contragts Neil! You deserved it!

DevReach Summary

2007-10-02T19:58:00.000+03:00

I just came from DevReach and decided to pour my fresh impressions over my blog.
I liked this year issue more than the previous. I guess the feedback from the previous one was analyzed and used. We had session levels this time, and many folks used it to choose the right topic for them.
I attended to several sessions from level 100 to level 300 (there were not many level 400 and I was not able to attend one). There were many presenters, who participated the last year like Stephen Forte, Carl Franklin,Richard Campbell and some local guys like Branimir, Martin ,Vlado Chalkov , Hristo ,etc. It's good to see known faces.
There were many non-bulgarian attendees and this gave the conference a cosmopolitan soul.
I enjoyed again the simple and informative style of Carl and laughed on the emotional and funny sprint of Steve.
What I was missing again is a mobile dev track. Hey, mobile solutions are not another universe - they are natural extensions of every mission critical business solution!

Anyway, you guys did a great job this year. I already expect the next one.

Here comes some low-quality :-D pictures from my phone's camera:

Random CF.NET links

2007-09-23T01:19:00.000+03:00

I was too busy lately in order to blog and read blogs(never do this at home). I had to "read" hundreds of posts, which popped out of my agreggator. I decided to post a bunch of links that came to my attention.

The compact framework team published a post called:
Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 CTP Released
Andrew Arnott discusses the WCF features supported by .NET CF on his blog
via David Kline
A new community website was launched by OpenNETCF
Check out the details from Neil's website
IBM announced support for Windows Mobile in domino 8.01
via Jason Landgridge's blog
Here somes a psot about one of my favourite Windows Mobile topics - provisioning
Marcus Perryman's has a post about the Default GPRS Settings
Satter Ramblings has a post about controlling iPhone via .NET
via Peter Nowak's blog
Steven Pratschner is talking about creating our own GC Heap Viewer for .NET CF
via Daniel's blog

There were other interesting ones ... stay tuned for more.

.NET Compact Framework chat on Skype

2007-08-24T15:11:00.000+03:00

Neil will host a CF.NET chat on Skype the next Wednesday, Aug 29 2007 from 6:00 pm to 7:00pm (London)
CF.NET team members, MVPs and epxerts will hang out there. if you have device development questions this is the place to find the answers.

You may enter the chat at http://chat.opennetcf.com

Click here to update your Outlook calendar

The Bulgarian timeframe of the chat is from 20:00h to 21:00h

Check out the Neil's announcemnet for few more details.

How to upgrade HTC P3600(a.k.a. Trinity) to Windows Mobile 6 and unlocking the GPS

2007-08-16T21:45:00.000+03:00

FOLLOW THE STEPS BELLOW ON YOUR OWN RISK.!
IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THIS PROCEDURE MAY TURN YOUR DEVICE TO A USELESS BRICK!
NO WARRANTIES AT ALL!

I use HTC P3600 as a phone/PDA which is armed with Windows Mobile 5.0. The device has a camera, 3G,WiFi,Bluetooth and more. It does not have a GPS(officially).
I noticed recently that the guys from xda-developers.com have published Windows Mobile 6 image for Trinity. It is important to note that HTC does not provide official upgrade for P3600.

So, I read some posts on the xda forums and finally managed to upgrade my device. I have now WM 6 on my P3600 and the most interesting part is that I have a GPS support.

I followed these steps:

1. Downloaded the WM6 image and ROMUpgrade utility on the PC:
http://ax3l.volospin.com/AX3L_OS%20v2.0.8.2.rar
Check out other available WM images here:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Trinity_Upgrades

2. Downloaded the following tool(SSPL-TRIN.exe) on the PC.
It allows to bypass the CID and signature check.
Download link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34180&d=1171153073
The following post gives more details:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=293632

3. Connected the device to PC
4. Copied SSPL-TRIN.exe on the device
5. Launched SSPL-TRIN.exe from the device.
The screen turned-off anf a strange colorful screen appeared(bootloader mode)

6. Launched the ROMUpdateUtility.exe from the PC
I performed the upgrade on Vista so I needed to download the ROMUpdateUtility for Vista:
http://203.162.89.207/Ruu_3.13.3.2.zip
I just needed to replace the extracted files from Step 1

7. Followed the steps provided by the ROMUpdateUtility

And ops! I have the WM6 on my device! The big surprise is that the device has now a GPS support!

IMPORTANT NOTES:

it is a risky operation and you may render your device unusable. Do it on your own risk
do not launch any application on your PC during the upgrade process
do not disconnect/turnoff the device
do not restart/turn off PC
make sure you have device battery charged over 50%
disable PC hibernate/sleep features - or just move the mouse to prevent it
carefully read the redme.doc before starting the upgrade process

More info may be found on the following places:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=359
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Trinity

Links:
Windows Mobile 6 Image for Trinity
SSPL-Trin - tool to bypass the CID/signature checking
ROMUpdateUtility for Vista
Trinity Wikki
Trinity and Windows Mobile 6 Forums

"How To" Series: Configuring Network Adapters with Compact Framework

2007-08-06T10:00:00.000+03:00

There was a question in the forums, if there is a way to configure a network adapter automatically - without an user interaction. Using the UI, the user may select "My network card connects to" value for every adapter in the adapters list. It may be changed to point one of the available network destinations like "The Internet" , "Work", etc. So, is there a way to this automatically?

In short the answer is YES! There is a way. We may prepare an OMA Client Provisioning File and pass it to the appropriate configuration provider in Windows Mobile.
An appropriate configuration file would be like this:


<wap-provisioningdoc>
    <characteristic type="CM_NetEntries"> 
        <characteristic type="Adapter Name"> 
           <parm name="DestId" value="{A1182988-0D73-439e-87AD-2A5B369F808B}"/>              
           <parm name="Adapter" value="Qualified Name"/>   
        </characteristic> 
    </characteristic>
</wap-provisioningdoc>

This file will bind a network adapter named "Adapter Name"
to the "Work" destination. We have to change the "Adapter Name" value with
the name of the adapter as it is seen in the adapters list. The "Qualified Name" should be changed with the fully qualified name of the adapter - it may be obtained by using the GetAdaptersAddresses routine

If we want to change the destination to "The Internet" , we have to supply different GUID for the DestId parameter. Following network identifiers as configured by default on Windows Mobile:

The Internet: {436EF144-B4FB-4863-A041-8F905A62C572}
Work: {A1182988-0D73-439e-87AD-2A5B369F808B}
WAP Network: {7022E968-5A97-4051-BC1C-C578E2FBA5D9}
Secure WAP Network:{F28D1F74-72BE-4394-A4A7-4E296219390C}
CurrentDTPTNetwork:{A1182988-0D73-439e-87AD-2A5B369F808B}

What we have to do in order to apply this configuration setting?
We have the following options:
1. Preparing the provisioning Xml file , save it as _setup.xml, and place it inside a CAB file. We may "execute" the file on the device, then. Check out this post for details about deploying provisioning files with CABs.
2. We may apply these settings through code(Compact Framework) by using the managed Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Configuration.ConfigurationManager class from Windows Mobile 5 SDK:


            string configurationXml = "<wap-provisioningdoc><characteristic type=\"CM_NetEntries\">"+
           "<characteristic type=\"Adapter Name\"><parm name=\"DestId\" "+
           "value=\"{A1182988-0D73-439e-87AD-2A5B369F808B}\"/><parm name=\"Adapter\" value=\"Qualified Name\" /> "+ 
        "</characteristic></characteristic></wap-provisioningdoc>";
            // Load XML
            XmlDocument configurationXmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
            configurationXmlDoc.LoadXml(configurationXml);
            // Send to Configuration Manager
            ConfigurationManager.ProcessConfiguration(configurationXmlDoc, false);

Also the unmanaged version DMProcessConfigXML may be used
Check out this post for unmanaged wrapper of DMProcessConfigXML

Links
CM_NetEntries Configuration Service Provider Examples for OMA Client Provisioning
Injecting Provisioning XML into a cab using VS 2005 on the Windows Mobile Blog
DMProcessConfigXML on the Marcus Perryman's WebLog
Windows Mobile Device Management for more configuration options

Visual Studio 2008: Device Security Manager

2007-07-29T02:05:00.000+03:00

In my post “How to” Series: Windows Mobile Security Configurations, I said that if you want to deal with the device security configurations you may download the Security Configuration Manager Powertoy for Windows Mobile.(there are some other options as well)
If you have the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 installed, you do not need this powertoy anymore. It is part of VS 2008,now.

Just cradle the device( or emulator) , launch the Device Security Manager and start locking,unlocking and installing device certificates :).

I just noticed Mark Arteaga has collected some resources related to Windows Mobile Security. Check them out.

Links:
“How to” Series: Windows Mobile Security Configurations
Windows Mobile Security resources from Mark Arteaga

"How To" Series: Reading Device Owner Information on Windows Mobile

2007-07-24T17:46:00.000+03:00

I noticed recently, that some guys asked(in the forums) how to read the device owner information from .NET Compact Framework.

The Device Owner information may be obtained from the device's registry. It is stored under the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Owner

Note that, this key may be missing on a fresh device. The key is populated after the owner sets his/her information.

The registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Owner has two interesting values:
"Owner" and "Owner Notes". These values holds binary data.
The "Owner" value contains the following owner information attributes: Name, Company, Phone, E-mail, Address. The "Owner Notes" value contains the Notes of the owner :)
Reading Owner notes is simple like:
RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("ControlPanel\\Owner");
byte[] data = key.GetValue("Owner Notes") as byte[];
string notes = UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetString(data, 0, data.Length).TrimEnd('\0');

The tricky part is to "decode" the "Owner" binary data, which contains multiple fixed-length values. In order to deal with it , we have to know the exact length of every device owner attribute:

Name: 72 bytes
Company: 72 bytes
Address: 372 bytes
Phone: 48 bytes
Email: 74 bytes

So, reading the "Owner" info is easy as:
RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("ControlPanel\\Owner");
byte[] data = key.GetValue("Owner") as byte[];
string name = UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetString(data,0,72).TrimEnd('\0');
string company = UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetString(data,72,72).TrimEnd('\0');
string address = UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetString(data, 144, 372).TrimEnd('\0');
string phone = UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetString(data, 516, 48).TrimEnd('\0');
string email = UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetString(data, 566, 74).TrimEnd('\0');

You may obtain the full source code from here

Internet Explorer Mobile:One-Column Layout

2007-07-16T11:56:00.000+03:00

Fig 1. One Column Layout

I had a complaint from a customer of mine, that the Internet Explorer Mobile(Windows Mobile 5.0) does not render their HTML reports in a tabular form.
At first, I was wondering if they found a defect in our custom HTML exporting feature.Then I realize what happened.

We're using a sequence of TABLE,TR and TD tags to have our HTML content rendered into a tabular form. Some of the users accidentally had switched on the One Column feature of the Mobile Internet Explorer. This layout forces the Mobile Internet Explorer to render all content in a single column without horizontal scrolling.

Fig.2: Default layout

Links
IE Mobile Team Weblog
Wikipedia for IE Mobile