May 2006 Entries

Travel Driven Bug Fixing (TDBF)

The GPS C# sample in the WM5 SDK is extremely useful.  You can get it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mobilesdk5/html/mogrfgpssample.asp However it has a small bug in one of the sample classes: if the longitude is a fraction of zero then a DivideByZeroException will be thrown.  Of course this is only obvious if you live near Greenwich or somewhere else on the longitude zero line.  Anyway I'm worried about Latitude now - so I'm off to Nyeri in Kenya to try it out ;-) What you want the fix?  The example has a bug in the DegreesMinutesSeconds.cs class, ToDecimalDegrees() method public double ToDecimalDegrees() { int absDegrees = Math.Abs(degrees); double val...

posted @ Friday, May 05, 2006 6:49 PM | Feedback (3)

CameraCaptureDialog and device compatibility

We were surprised to find recently that not all Windows Mobile 5 devices that have cameras, support CameraCaptureDialog.  Calling ShowDialog() on an E-ten G500 just fails and the status api reports that no camera is present. This is a real shame because as far as I was aware all WM5 devices with camera's should support this.  The consistency of the CF across devices is one of it's biggest strengths and is a win for us compared to the intricacies of J2ME development. The G500 is one of the first devices with a built-in GPS too so this was a double whammy , because...

posted @ Monday, May 01, 2006 8:20 AM | Feedback (11)

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