Programming Articles - Pinecrest Consultants

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

2025-11-20 by Joshua Bylotas

Discover how GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio is transforming the way developers learn and build software. From accelerating coding tasks to teaching best practices, Copilot is more than an AI assistant—it’s a mentor for the next generation of programmers.

HTC Touch Diamond C# Implementation

2012-03-23 by

The HTC Touch Diamond has an SDK for its sensor that was created by a user on blog.enterprisemobile.com. The SDK that was created allows you to access all of the movements of the HTC Diamond from a G-Sensor Perspective. This provides some extensions to the SDK.

Downloading File in .NET CF

2012-03-23 by

This sample provides you with a method to download a file via the .NET compact Framework

Reading a CSV

2012-03-23 by

Reading a CSV using an OLEDB Adapter uses very generic drivers allowing it to run on many different platforms/.NET versions without changing code.

Spell Check in a Web Service

2012-03-23 by

Have you ever needed to preform a spell check operation from a web server? Here is an implementation that uses Micorsoft Word on a web server as opposed to Word needing to be installed on the client.

Silverlight Controls in .NET Windows Form

2012-03-23 by

Did you know it is possible to have a standard (legacy) windows forms application with a WPF user control. I will tell you how.

Google Maps - Get Map Position using GPS

2012-03-23 by

This post will show you how to gather some information using the GPS API from the Windows Mobile device. This will then allow a user to download the 640x640 map from Google's Static Map Service with the center location as the current position of the GPS Device. This is an interim solution until Google Maps supports the ability to use the Map service without Javascript having to be enabled.

Google Android - An introduction to development

2012-03-18 by

The android is taking the world by storm and we have been working on how to setup new android apps. The android far exceeds the iPhone because anyone can develop for this platform. The basic language is Java...and the android framework

Eclipse Development for the Android - Got Ya's!

2012-03-18 by

There are a few aspects of development for the android that originally threw me for a loop. I was getting unexpected errors...Below are ways to tackle them

Training Video - Creating a Windows Mobile Application - The Basics

2012-03-18 by

This video will show you how to create a windows mobile using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. This will work for any Windows Mobile device and will provide the what you need to get started with development for the WM devices.

Turning a Data Page into RSS - LINQ Data Source

2012-03-18 by

Taking a page that uses a linw Data Source and exposing it as an RSS feed can allow you to reach new audiences. RSS allows users to subscribe to content in other applications and view updated information. This tutorial will show you haw to use a LINQ data source and expose an RSS feed using the same page that displays the data to the normal web browser.

Step outside the world of Microsoft

2012-03-18 by

While working on porting some applications from .NET to Android Java platform, I have learned many interesting abilities of this new technology.

WIP - Remote Keyboard

2012-03-18 by

This uses quite a bit of different technologies to present a user with a keyboard from a remote device that will activate a computer monitor. Kind of like using a network connected device to control a computer like VNC or Remote desktop, but allowing full API interaction with the actual monitor using Windows Communication Foundation and Services for Windows Mobile Device and any other device that can connect to a LAN.

Writing Files To Disk

2012-03-18 by

In this short coding tip we will show you how to write files to disk on an Android Phone.