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March/April, 2010 Edition
 

Thank you for reading the SYWARE, Inc. monthly newsletter, which provides updates on our mobility products, offers tips, and highlights industry-related articles and resources.

SYWARE, Inc. Related:

  • News: Apple Policy Changes Preclude Visual CE on the iPhone
  • News: SYWARE, Inc. Releases Visual CE 12, New Version of the Award Winning Database and Forms Builder for Windows Mobile
  • Technical Tip: Running a macro or jumping on a tab click
  • Technical Tip: Dealing with "Macro not found" errors

Mobile Industry Related:

  • News: Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile to co-exist


SYWARE News: Apple Policy Changes Preclude Visual CE on the iPhone

Apple is currently battling with Adobe Flash, and it appears that the future of Visual CE on the iPhone may end up as collateral damage. Apple recently updated the terms of its iPhone developer agreement to mandate that all applications must be written to run directly on the iPhone platform in its efforts to preclude Adobe Flash applications from running on the iPhone. According to Section 3.3.1 of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, "Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited." This seems to imply that Visual CE forms (which run on the Visual CE Runtime System) would be disallowed. Even if they were not, it is clear that Apple has no qualms about unilaterly dictating what is or is not allowed on the iPhone and changing these standards at will. Read more about this here:

SYWARE News: SYWARE, Inc. Releases Visual CE 12, New Version of the Award Winning Database and Forms Builder for Windows Mobile

This major new release of the powerful, inexpensive, award winning database software for Windows Mobile, Pocket PC and Pocket PC Phone Edition devices adds a macro debugger, true tabs, and better performance. Please read the press release and look over the list of new features.

Technical Tip from "Dr. DeeBee": Running a macro or jumping on a tab click

When the end user clicks on a tab, normally they see the controls on that tab. But, perhaps you might want a macro to run or perhaps you might want to jump to another form. Here's how to set this up.

Technical Tip from "Dr. DeeBee": Dealing with "Macro not found" errors

When you remove a macro from your form, Visual CE does not remove the references to that macro in the control events, form events, custom menu commands, nor the RUN MACRO macro steps. If you then try to run that form, you will see a "Macro not found" error. Here's how to find and remove these macro references.

Mobile Industry News: Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile to co-exist

With the announcement of Windows Phone 7, a lot of existing Windows Mobile users are left pondering what will happen to the platform and devices they curently have. Take a look at what Microsoft is saying about Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile.


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