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• Plod Device Unique ID

  Hello, i'm trying to get the unique DEVICEID from some PocketPC with the function: KernelIoControl(IOCTL_HAL_GET_DEVICEID, IntPtr.Zero, 0, OutputBuffer, OutputBufferSize, ref BytesReturned); ...this works fine. ...But for some OEM device this function returns always the same code... How can i get a unique identifier for that device thanks for suggestions Andrea C. Hummm .... We te ...Show All

• sivakami How to get emulator PPC 2003 SE work in .NET 2005 Beta 2??

  Hello... I hope someone will help me. My problem is as follows .. I create a new device application and try to run in in emulator.. the emulator starts just fine, but it won't connect to it! At all! The error is "Connection failed. Could not connect to network. Verify network configuration" What should I do Thx to every post... :) Install the DMA patch - it solves all connectivity problems related to netw ...Show All

• Navneet Gupta Bluetooth Printing Bitmap

  Hi there, im currently developing an application which prints to a Zebra QL320 printer via bluetooth. im using Opennetcf's bluetooth and socket libraries. So far i can discover the bluetooth devices available, and also print text and barcodes, using the StreamWriter class with a combination of CPCL (printing language), However i need to be able to print a signature which i capture on the device. The signature is captured and saved as a .bmp( ...Show All

• Mike Rosenblum Saving image after modification on a pocket pc 2003

  Greeings, I want to write a code by which I can modify a picture included in the picturebox by clicking on it and click event puts a red dot on the postion of click. I want to save the image along with the dot I have put on the image. But saving it just saves the real image and no dots get included. Following is the code. I am using CF 2.0. On event of click of picture box { Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(pictureBox1.Image); Graphics g = Gr ...Show All

• Ben S a few questions about the CF framework

  Hey all, I have just a few questions here I have a small app that I am trying to test on the emulator (using pocket PC 2003) and I find that it runs VERY VERY slow. It can take up to 3 minutes to load my app. Why is this I want to capture when the user switches from portrait mode to landscape mode to re-arrange the components on the screen. Currently I have a form - resize event, but I find for some unknown and very annoying reason, its getting ...Show All

• rodrb Control Libraries for Smartphone?

  I wanted to use a .NETCF Control Library for my smartphone project. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be possible. The control does not appear in the toolbox. After playing around a while, I noticed, that there is no control library for smartphone project template available. Does anybody know about the story of control libraries for smartphone mattneug Hi Mattneug, You will need to use VS 2005 if you want ...Show All

• Stephajn Design Time Attributes of a Custom Component

  Hi all, I'm trying to make a custom Compact Framework component outside of the RTM VS2005 IDE.  The build process at my company is outside of the IDE. My component is nearly fully functional:  I can add it to my Toolbox, it only shows up for CFv2 projects, and I can drop the component onto the Form). However, I can't get the Descriptions of the Properties to show up in the IDE Properties window. I have manually made a DesignTimeAttribu ...Show All

• SeanDraper Extremly Slow Performance in VS2005 B2!!

  I have two different systems that I installed VS2005 Beta 2 on. The main development machine is a P4 with a gig of ram, and plenty of disk space. The OS is XP Pro (SP2). I am trying to develop an app using Pocket PC 2003 (for right now), but the design process takes so long its almost not even worth trying! I place a grid control on the form, add a query, and then have it generate the data forms (Summary View & Edit Detail) and it tak ...Show All

• matthew1564 Unable to Edit Outlook Mobile contact using .net compact framework

  Hi, Whenever I try to remove or edit and update a contact in pocket outlook using .net compact framework I get the following error.. Error: ============== System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled Message="Can't modify the item collection inside a foreach statement" StackTrace: at PimItemCollectionEnumerator.collection_ListChanged() at Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.PimItemCollection.RemoveAt() at ...Show All

• zengyanbing Install application fail on Pocket PC emulator

  Hi, On Pocket PC emulator , When I run a cab file to install a application , it always display a dialog "xxxxx was not installed successfully. Please run Setup again."  But I can install the same cab file on my pocket PC device. Who can give me a explain Thanks. So, can Visual Studio 2005 generate CAB-files for the old format It doesn't really matter for my old problem because i solved it with cabwizard, but for futur ...Show All

• amy0625 Writing/Reading to an XML file

  Can this be done ive used Datasets for windows applications, but when i try to use the same approach it doesn't work for pocket pc smart device applications. Thanks in advance. Thanks very much. Yes, DataSets are supported and they do have ReadXml() and WriteXml(). Since you neglected to mention how exactly it does not work for you, I'll list common mistakes: - Using dr ...Show All

• BryanDOwen DS_FIXEDSYS in VS2005

  Hi Alls, I ported my VS2003 PocketPC WTL project to VS2005 and I have the problems with resources. When I modify a Dialog in my resource editor I get an error Error 1 error RC2104 : undefined keyword or key name: DS_FIXEDSYS  Any idea Thanks Ok, I found the response in Winuser.h Hi Vassili, Could you share the solution you've investigated I'm getting this a ...Show All

• ruiefree How to make setup file for a visual studio 2005 smartcab project

  Dear All, I developed an application for windows mobile 5.0 based smartphone and also created smartcab(.CAB) project for installation on a device. I used visual studio 2005 .net. I want to create a setup.exe to install it on a real device. Please let me know how to create a setup.exe for the smartcab(.CAB) project. Thankx. Vs2005 only has the ability to make .CAB files. There will be a whitepaper published on how to package the .INF files ...Show All

• Bill DiPierre What will be target binary CPU?

  Hi All, Created default MFC smart device application and checked its target cpu model using depends.exe. It shows THUMB. Then I removed MACHINE:THUMB from linker command options. I still got the same CPU type as THUMB. Does the linker considers default CPU type as THUMB for any WM 5.0 application created What changes do I need to make if I want CPU type to be ARM for WM5.0 applications -Seemit   ...Show All

• AmcoDevTeam Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS

  Hello, simple problem: I can connect to an HTTPS webservice using .NET Windows Forms, but from my Pocket PC device using the .NET Compact Framework I get the error from the subject: "Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS". I suspect it has something to do with authentication to our proxy server... , but using the exact same code from my desktop works fine Here is the code snippet: // connect to the webservice private void btnConnec ...Show All