Microsoft has released it's new OS for Pocket PCs it looks to be a good step up in performance and as soon HP gets with the program and offers a upgrade I will get this for my PPC and play with it until then I am going to play with the SDK and see what it can do.
For more information about Pocket PC 2003 go to Windows Mobile Home and form information about the new SDK go to the MSDN topic Pocket PC and Smartphone.

Well just after adding this new change and posting my entry to describe it my blog site started to blow chunks! They have increased the size of there entry id filed. I had it defined it as an int in my SQL database and a int in all my code, so I had to change it to bigint in SQL and long in my code. Not a huge problem but to me a while to see what had happened.

For a while now I have been working on some code that will allow anyone to add comments to my bolg entry's. So you all can now start telling me how full of s#*% I am. At this time all the comments get approved for viewing but I have code built so that I could start having to approve comments as they are made that would suck but if I get inappropriate comments I will have to turn that on.

Anyway have fun!

Will I have been a busy guy I did another webcast for Microsoft today and I promised to post some info so here it is!

If you are using COM interop and you want to release or reduce the ref count to the COM object you need to use the ReleaseComObject method of the Marshal class in the System.Runtime.InteropServices name space.

I will have the slides and code up here tomorrow.

I found a link on www.windowsforms.net to a good article about using BITS from .NET I will look in to this more soon but it looks like the way to do any large file copying.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun02282003.asp

The URL to the information I promised to be posed at my companies web site is http://www.interknowlogy.com/IKCorporate/AboutUs/Knowledge/Presentations/ the files are not there yet but will be soon.

Well I am back from TechEd and just turned on the computer again and though someone might want to see what I did there. The first thing you can do is go to the web site that I supported at www.mymsevents.com net check out the www.techedbloggers.net for other peoples take on the show. Then see these photos (taken with the Hitachi's G1000 Pocket PC Phone Edition that I used at the event)

This is the CommNet area that we did the software support of.

The CommNet help desk that we manned.

This event went well except we did not get to deploy the Pocket PC applications as we had hoped to but they will be back at the next event we do, I think that will be PDC.

I of the guys I work with pointed out that on www.gotdotnet.com there was a newly released set of PowerToys for Visual Studio .NET 2003 this is a cool set of tools that any one will want. Take a look!

Well for the last few days I have been using Avant Browser add-on to IE that makes IE a fully MID application. It as been invaluable this week with me supporting a local web site and a production site. I could manage my different browser windows much easier then just IE it is way to cool to try to describe just go check it out. www.avantbrowser.com