Lance's Whiteboard

last week, I finally received the A05 firmware update for my Axim X5, and it has fixed the system slow downs, and application-hang problems I was having with Windows Mobile 2003 for PocketPC (aka: Pocket PC 2003 OS).

Having spent years developing with Visual Basic I am starting to realize that with the switch to C# and .NET, Exception handling is one core skill I still havent mastered. As a VB programmer I was always a bit anal about proper structure, defensive error handling, and seeking-out best practices. Since the best we had was On Error Goto style error handling, I adapted and "made do" with the tools at hand. However, I always lamented the need for a better tool for Error handling.

I recently discovered Suzanne Cook's Blog on the CLR.

For the 4th time in 2 months, I called Dell to ask about the status of this issue, and once again they delayed the Patch. This time, until the end of September. I am really getting tired of the excuses from Tech Support!

Welcome!   My name is Lance Hunt.  I am a .NET Framework developer, architect, mentor, and general computer-geek.

Monday I received my new Dell D600 laptop and decided to run Windows Server 2003 since that is the OS to which I most frequently deploy.

Here is something I have been needing:

Stumbled onto this nifty web-based object-browser for the Compact Framework on the DevelopMentor website