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• Laurent Chesnais Disable a form's repaint temporarily?

  Hi guys, I have a piece of code in a Button's Click event that looks something like this: Form2 f2 = new Form2(); if (f2.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) {     Form3 f3 = new Form3();     if (f3.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)     {         // do some stuff with the properties of both f2 and f3     } }   This works fine, except that when ...Show All

• Essmat WebBrowser control - no META REFRESH?

  I have some web pages that use the <Meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag to trigger a reload automatically.  Pocket IE and Mobile IE handle this just fine.  But an CF 2.0 application using the WebBrowser control doesn't process the refresh. a. Is there any way to configure the control so it WILL handle these refresh ...Show All

• Accap VPC Network Driver not installed

  Hello, I have a system where I just installed VS 2005 beta 2 for the first time (no exisiting previous version). The installation went smoothly until the installer tried to installed the Device Emulator. It complained about the emulator not being installed although it was. But now, when I try to launch the emulator, I always get a message telling me that the VPC Network Driver is not installed and indeed, it is not. I have tried to re-install th ...Show All

• Mathy Deployment

  Hi, I would like to deploy my VS 2005 CF2.0 Pocket PC application but I don't know how. I found a good article called "Developing and Deploying Pocket PC Setup Applications" at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/netcfdeployment.asp  which decribes how to deploy VS2003 Pocket PC applications but I'm struggling to apply it to VS2005.  One issue is VS2005 seems to be missing "Build Cab File ...Show All

• jpmoreno How to shut off PDA (wince ) background light by prgoram ?

  I just want to shut off background light temporary , not permanent . it mean when I touch the screen of pda or hit the keyboard , background light can light again . I know the power button of pda can shut off the light , but it also let pda sleep , it would pause the current program  , but it is not I want to do . thanks for your help ! calvin Can't you just set it in the standard power settings menu ...Show All

• rwgreene how to connect to internet

  Hi, I have cradled my emulator, connected with activesync 3.8 and my desktop has cable internet. Now I'm trying to figure out how to connect to the internet on the emulator. Thanks for the help. Do you assign an IP on your device/pocket pc or it gets it's IP from your router     bass_player wrote: Is your desktop acting as a proxy server   If it is, make sure you check the network ...Show All

• user5546 MFC Dropped Classes

  Hello, I am trying to compile my MFC application (created in eVC3) with Visual Studio 2005 (Beta 2) for Pocket PC 2003. But in MFC 8.0 some classes I have used are dropped (like CCeDBDatabase or CRecentFileList) and some classes have different methods available for the Pocket PC development. How I am supposed to replace methods like CWinApp::LoadStdProfileSettings or CWinApp::WriteProfileString How should I handle context sensitive hel ...Show All

• SvenC The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed.

  Hi; Im trying to make an smart device application but get this error:  The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed. What do I do PLEASE HELP. Thnx This really solve my problems. just add the constructor to baseform will do I had the same error using vs2005 framework v2. It began suddenly on all classes derived from (inherited from) a win ...Show All

• Jennifer Huang Form Design View

  Hey everyone, Something has happened to my Smart Device project, but I am not sure what.  Now when I open the project and double-click on the form, only the script file opens.  I can't get the design view to open for the form.  It will still deploy in debug mode.  Does anyone know what this means Thanks Hey, Thanks for responding...sorry it took me so long to get back.  It is a PDA ...Show All

• AlexV ObjectDisposeException error

  Hi everyone!! I have create a program using VB.net.. In the main form, i have put a timer control to control the time display in the datetimepicker. The code goes: Private Sub TimerForDateTimeControl_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TimerForDateTimeControl.Tick Me.TimerForDateTimeControl.Enabled = True Me.DateTimePicker.Value = DateTime.Now Me.DateTimePicker.Enabled = False Me.Date ...Show All

• Biri How to get system infomation, just like About dialog shows

  Hi all, From the "Setting->About". We can see "OS version", "RIL version", "Radio version"..etc. Is anybody know how to get these information I think these info. can be retrieved by some API, but i can't find it. Hi, You can get information using APIs. Reference links are: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wcecoreos5/html/wce50grfSystemM ...Show All

• David C Baldauff Can't find PInvoke DLL '110506Demoptt.dll'.

  I am trying to debug a C++ code from C# Device Appliation. When i reached calling the C++ function from C# it gives "Can't find PInvoke DLL '110506Demoptt.dll'.". The following is the code sipnet. public static CallBackDelegate myDelegate; [ DllImport ( "110506Demoptt.dll" )] private static extern void SetCallBackPointer( CallBackDelegate myDelegate); static void Main() { myDelegate ...Show All

• Antonis Getting the running processes .exe name

  How do you get the name of the running process (myapp.exe) from within a c# dll, which may be called from another dll within an exe. I have tried Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly which returns the dll name and Assembly.GetCallingAssembly which returns the name of the calling dll above. What I think I should be calling is Assembly.GetEntryAssembly, however this is not supported by the compact framework. Is there another way ...Show All

• Rajen Suchede compact framework

  what and how I install to be able to make a Windows Mobile 5 application with VB.NET 2003 I don't know if it's compatible with VS 2003 but for VS 2005 there is Windows mobile 5 SDK with windows mobile 5 emulator (you have to download windows mobile 5 apart from VS 2005) You have to look if VS 2003 is compatible with CF 2.0 or Windows mobile 5 SDK Hi, It is recommended that you use Visual Studio 2 ...Show All

• Bkss After installing final VS 2005 (MSDN) can't see the designer

  Hello fellow developers, I don't know if someone had the same problem but I hope that someone could help me with this issue. Until yestarday I had installed on my computer the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 and yestarday I uninstalled everything (using the tool for the pre-rtm uninstall that worked fine and uninstalled absolute everything) and I install the final MSDN version of Visual Studio 2005. So far, so good. BUT when I tryied to crea ...Show All