One of major drawbacks of Windows CE is that if you output text to the screen, then by default it is aliased. By putting out a text on the screen I mean putting a control on a form which displays a text. I am going to show you a technique how to output an anti-aliased text provided two conditions are met:

1. The font family you are using supports anti-aliasing.
2. The font is big enough.

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My friend (with a little technical knowledge) decided to buy a new phone and asked me to help. In the shop we got a phone with an Android and the second one was a phone with Windows Phone 7. According to staff an opportunity to use both phones was the best way for making decision. And what did my friend see? Continue reading…

One of the powerful features of TLabelAnimated is that you can write your own custom animator for it. The custom animator allows you to completely customize the way TLabelAnimated animates the text within it.

Let’s say your TLabelAnimated is not wide enough to encompass its text (typical scenario). Therefore you would like the text to animate back and forth plus you would like to have the opportunity to pause the animation at any time and also resume it at any time. This is a perfect scenario for writing your own custom animator.

In this article we will create a form with an image in its background, put a TLabelAnimated on it and TCheckBox. We will use TCheckBox to pause the animation at any time.

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This article shows how to use the new application of BeeMobile iPack called Check for Update which simplifies your checking for updates. This app is available only in Full version of this program. It is based on comparing your current version of installed controls with the latest version on our server by running this app. If some controls are not up to date you can download them from Customer Portal.

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Abstract

The article describes how to create a powerful Windows Phone 7 catalogue presentation which downloads the actual data from Internet and displays them in an intuitive and innovative way on a Windows Phone 7 device.

The application we are about to create in this article will consist of two parts:

• Web Service – runs at server – provides data for the application
• Shopping Mall – a WP7 application visualizing data to the user through its GUI (rendered with the help of Bee Mobile Metropolis).

Key topics

which will be discussed in the article:

• How to create a Web Service.
• How to load data to a Data Set from XML file on server’s side and publish it through Web Methods.
• Create a WP7 client application which consumes a Web Service.
• Use Bee Mobile Metropolis (set of WP7 GUI controls) to create the application GUI.

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