This post will first explain the advantages you get from separating language and hard coded text from your application code and then show code examples in C# helping you getting started implementing language and text separating.
Lets have a look at the advantages:
I have earlier written a post about writing user stories for agile (Scrum) projects. During several projects I have now refined the way I do this and in this post I will explain my preferred way to write user stories.
I have changed my mindset when writing user stories by using the INVEST acronym. The INVEST acronym is 6 rules of thumb that you use when writing/defining the user stories.
It is easy to think that developing an application for Windows Mobile using the built in GPS unit requires a lot and complex code. Luckily this is not the case. You can actually have the base for a .NET Compact Framework GPS application up and running in less than 10 minutes if you choose the correct tools.
This post describes what I have found to be the easiest and fastest way to create an application that is interacting with the GPS unit in .NET Compact Framework.
When developing Windows Mobile applications in Visual Studio creating user controls or custom controls will often help you get a better application and decrease your development time. Often you will have problem using your user controls or custom controls in the Visual Studio designer. Forms using your controls will not show at all in the designer and sometimes Visual Studio will shut down because of this (happens often if you are referring to external .dll in the user control or custom control).
I will walk you through a simple example on how you can achieve this with out any problems at all.
Today I were developing a .Net CF application on a new laptop with every thing pre installed. Due to a third-party vendor I need to use Visual Studio 2005 for this project. When I tried to debug I got this message at my breakpoints: The breakpoint will not currently be hit. The specified module has not been loaded.
After checking debug settings and properties I managed to find out through google and a colleague that I need to install .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 Patch. I installed the SP1 patch, restarted VS 2005, rebuilt my project and started it in debug mode. And like magic I were able to start debugging my project again 
Have you ever found yourself in the situation were you are working on several different projects at the same time and you also have a lot of other tasks that need your attention? I have experienced this quite a few times and found some techniques that still enables me to work efficient in these periods.
In this post I will share my most important techniques I use to cope with this.
When developing mobile applications using Compact Framework and storing data to the local device database it is very handy to be able to debug and test sql queries direct on the device. This post will walk you through how to connect to the device DB, look at the tables in the device DB and run SQL queries on the device DB.
Run your application from Visual Studio, your device or emulator must be connected and cradled. (I’m running on Vista so I am using Windows Mobile Device Center).
I have experienced that Eclipse hangs when I am trying to start it. I have figured out that this is due to a problem with my workspace. If you have the same issue you can try the following.
First open your task manager –> right click the javaw.exe process –> chose to end process tree (this will end all java processes running on your computer).
Displaying pingbacks to your post is a good thing because your readers often will find interesting and value added information in the post that links to your post. What I don’t like is when pingbacks get mixed with the comments to your post, I find that messy. Therefore I decided to separate the pingbacks from my comments and in this post I will show you how I did it.
I guess that some Wordpress themes already have this functionality, but mine did not so I decided to implement this by my self.
It is always a good thing to have as many readers as possible on your blog. To increase the number of readers it is important to make it easy for them to both follow your blog posts and share your posts on social networks.
I will show you how you very easy can add icons with links for rss feed, twitter, delicious, stumbleupon, technorati and digg.
