BlackBerry Developer Program
BlackBerry Developer Newsletter - June 2007
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June 2007 
 Announcing BlackBerry MDS Studio v4.1.3

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BlackBerry® MDS Studio provides a powerful rapid development approach to creating rich client applications for BlackBerry solutions in a familiar Eclipse-based environment. A component-based drag and drop approach provides developers with a rich set of predefined user interface, message and data components, as well as JavaScript® for client-side customization.

With the latest version of BlackBerry MDS Studio v4.1.3, developers can not only leverage Web Services to easily integrate with back-end systems, but also a wizard-based approach to connect directly to databases such as Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 and Oracle® 9i.

 Click here to download the latest release.
 

 Announcing the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio

The new development tool will enable developers to work within a familiar Visual Studio® 2005 programming environment to rapidly create rich client wireless applications for BlackBerry® smartphones. Developers will have the ability to create rich BlackBerry® MDS Runtime applications that offer a flexible user interface, offline data storage, asynchronous push, and secure access to enterprise systems via .NET Web Services.

The BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft® Visual Studio® will be available soon as a free download at blackberrydeveloper.com. For more information please visit blackberry.com/go/vsplug-in.

 Free Developer Training from AT&T

Don’t miss your opportunity to attend this no charge BlackBerry advanced developer training. The BlackBerry Beyond Email Tour, brought to you by AT&T features advanced developer training events for Java®, Microsoft .Net, and BlackBerry® Mobile Data System developers. Lunch will be provided FREE at both trainings.

Training is held June 27th and 28th at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago IL. Click here for more information.

 Tips & Tricks

• How to choose the appropriate version of the BlackBerry® Java® Development Environment
• Why the signature key window appears during registration

 
 BlackBerry Guru

If you have questions, we have answers. Write to the BlackBerry Guru with your requests.

Q: Is it possible to get the GPS coordinates from within the browser?
BlackBerry Developer Newsletter - April 2007 A: Yes, it is possible to obtain GPS coordinates from within the BlackBerry® Browser. This is done by using JavaScript. Please see the following link for more information: JavaScript methods to use location-based services (GPS)

Q: We are writing an application which needs to invoke SMS/MMS app. Can you please tell us how this can be done with JDE 4.1?
A: It is not possible to invoke into a SMS message in version 4.1. This ability was made available in BlackBerry JDE v4.2 and is only available on BlackBerry smartphones running this version or higher.

Q: I wanted to write an application which can receive email as soon as it comes to device and modify it by adding a phone number to it. Can you please suggest solution for this?
A: Any phone number or URL that appears in the body of an email is automatically considered an active link by the native BlackBerry message application. In order to append your own content to the end of an email, you will have to first intercept the email by implementing your FolderListener with the necessary methods (i.e. messagesAdded). Please read this article for more information.

 

 Jobs @ RIM

J0706-0050 Senior Enterprise Database Architect San Francisco, CA
J1106-0905   Software Developer   Seattle, WA  
J0507-0656   Java Developer, BlackBerry Infrastructure   Waterloo, ON  

Please send resumes directly to Ryan Nolan (rnolan@rim.com)
For these and hundreds of other great opportunities, visit http://rim.com/careers/


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