There are bugs, mystical bugs I may add, that no one has been able to reproduce, nor find a fix for, well at least that do work on every occurrence. VS2005 has one of these, where when you try to use "find in files", you get a "No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress." and that's it. No disk access, no registry relevant access, no relevant file access.

Some have found that pressing Ctrl+Scroll Lock may help, well, it did not help for me. Some other tried the reboot, which seems to work better. You can also spin around three times on your chair before doing that, that might also help.

Then I remembered that some times, because it seems that the CLR maintains some kind of "cross process state" (I don't know what it acutally is, so I'm just guessing) that cripples all the .NET processes that are running. The only way to reset that state is to kill all processes that are using the CLR.

That means killing every standard application, plus IIS's aspnet_wp, and if you have .NET 3.0, PresentationFontCache.exe, ...

That did the trick for me, after killing all these processes and running VS2005, my search was up and running :)

It's been a request for some time, and to allow some users to ask questions to other users, I've installed a simple forum :

http://www.jaylee.org/forum

Feel free to post any questions, or wishes. I'll answer there.

There it is : Bluetooth Remote Control for Windows Mobile, 0.8.0-Beta1

A lot of updates for this release, like support for iTunes, or support for external events like phone ringing, or taking a call and binding it to an application command. Now the last used application is remembered, and it is possible to disable an application, to have only applications that are actually used.

There's still no documentation for all that, but I'm sensing that the application has reached a "critical mass" that starts to need a documentation to avoid letting some features in the dark.

Anyway, on the menu, you'll find :

1. Added support for phone event binding to application commands, such as Ringing and Take Call or Hang Up. (Windows Mobile 5+ only)
2. Added the ability to disable an application, rendering it invisible from the mobile device, see the key bindings section.
3. Added support for iTunes.
4. Added last application remembered upon launch.
5. Fixed sound mixer support for Windows Vista.
6. Added sound volume binding in Media Player Classic.
7. Fixed device search on mobile side not ending when bluetooth stack is not supported.
8. Fixed Media Center icon.
9. Fixed Media Center name not fitting on smartphone screen.
10. Added support for Windows Mobile 2003 for PPC.

Have fun :) And of course, if you find bugs -- and I'm sure someone will -- please drop me a mail or a comment !

There's one feature that's been a long lasting request, and did not have the time to technically look into : The ability to execute any command when the phone is ringing.

I had a few time lately to work on this and now, Bluetooth Remote Control now has the ability to run a command when a phone event is raised. I'm currently adding "Phone Ringing" and "Call in Progress". But I'll probably be adding some more, like incoming SMS and stuff like that.

This is going to be interesting for people wanting their music to pause during their conversation, and unpause when they hang up.

This release should be available shortly.