When I was new to Symbian, The first thing that I encountered is Symbian OS String handling and Manipulations. It was then day(s) of nightmare that struck me :). What I found that its bit tricky to remember the descriptor stuffs, but once you get the trick it's easy. No I am not kidding...

How to view non-concreate descriptor types (i.e. TDes) in the VC 6 debugger. Plus how to get more info on other types.

Developing a multilingual application is rather simple with Symbian OS and this tutorial will show you to achieve this. Of course, it is always tempting to hardcode your strings. But with only a little effort you can have your application working in English and your native language...

Symbian has the capability of supporting resources in multiple languages, and letting the user decide which language to use at installation time. This article shows how to support this in your code.

NewLC is proud to announce the availability of a french Symbian C++ training session. This training - available as 2 days and 3 days course - covers all the basic requirements that a Symbian C++ developer must know.

Currently, using Visual Studio is a little bit painful when you deal with descriptor since you cannot directly display their content (you have to use the memory window). Here is a little trick that will allow you to display clear content of Symbian descriptors.

Conversion between TDes8 and TDes16 is a common headache in Symbian development. At least for developpers used to work with 8 bits character coding.The CnvUtfConverter class brings a very simple solution to this.

This tutorial present the use of a CArray... class to maintain a sorted list of structure