User michyprima over at xda has been working on to make development a bit easier for developers. He has built an SDK to provide the functionality of Manilla in applications with ease. So, Dive in developers.

Some of the features of the SDK are:

• Automatically detects screen size and dpi and adapt images to it.
• Various manila styled controls, to allow you make a better-looking .net application.
• Possibility to override automatical screen detection if it doesn’t work for you.
• Kinetic scrolling list control, where you can add any kind of control into it to make your app finger friendly.

New version 2.1 brings with it:

• ManilaNewTextBox (ManilaTextBox declared as obsolete).
• Variable list items height i.e list items can have their own height.
• ManilaSeparatorItem.
• Various bugfixes and enhancement.
• Removed unuseful things.

Manilla Interface SDK v2.1 Test Project (69) in VB.NET

Manilla Interface SDK v2.1 Test Project C (106) in C# by 50chickens

If you have some references missing you need to remove them from the project and readd them. 50chickens have included system.sr.dll since .netcf has a problem with exceptions unless you add this dll as a reference into your project.

Original Post at XDA

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Project Resistance is intended to be a fully transparent view into the process of conceiving, developing and selling an application for Windows Mobile.  The idea here is that anyone will be able to look at how sausage gets made. Chris Tacke and Alex Feinman are creating a simple application for the marketplace and documenting its creation from beginning to end. Chris Fairburn has also joined the team and is making an iPhone version of the app.

Project Requirements

• The Application must run on WinMo 6.1 or later devices (if it works on earlier devices great, but we’re not going to be testing for it)
• The Application must run on both non-touch and touch devices. The curent list of test devices is:
  • HTC Dash 3G (WinMo 6.1)
  • HTC Touch Pro (WinMo 6.5)

More info : http://resistance.codeplex.com/

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