Todd helpfully re-published the Windows Mobile Silverlight roadmap recently.  It does not make exciting reading.  In amongst news of Impressive Google Android Apps, (and here) a T-Mobile Android phone this year (from HTC) and endless twitter about iPhone and 3G, the road map is hardly going to light any fires.  Here's my take on the Windows Mobile roadmap in general, followed by my hope of a glimmer of light for all us WM developers and users... Windows Mobile 6.1 was just released - really nothing to write home about - threaded SMS is nice but there is not much...

For those delegates who attended this course in Helsinki, and have not received copies of the sample applications we used, but would like them, please email me at Ian@bbits.co.uk and I will forward them on. Cheers   Ian

Mike Ormond has a nice post about how to use the Asp.Net routing capabilities of Asp.Net MVC, in your standard webforms sites. In his example Mike goes through the essentials of how to set this up in Application_start and how to create and register your own IRouteHandler.  Mike's example explains this really well with a simple example of routing a single parameter to a matching aspx page as follows: URL ...

I have noticed that more and more places in the UK are getting the 3D treatment in Virtual Earth, but there doesn't seem to be a list of all of them (at least I couldn't find one).  The UK models do not yet support the recent enhancements that some of the US cities have (such as Denver or Las Vegas) where vegetation is modelled as well as the buildings, but I expect that it is just a matter of time. So anyway I have created a collection of places in the UK where I have spotted 3D models - bear in...