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• Paul Programmer Programming smartphones

  whats the cheapest smartphone i could get to learn (hands on) smart phone programming This one looks quite cheap (in cost) BTW, are there any other choices for Europe thanks; now i could try and code a Dr. Mario clone looks nice Thanks Features: World's smallest Windows Mobile Smartphone Call, email, text message or instant message - all from one integrated phone Email, contacts an ...Show All

• Luis Esteban Valencia Munoz Upload a file on FTP server

  Hi all, I want to know how i can upload files on ftp server. I tried to use opennetCF but it doesn't work every time. The GPRS connection works fine, the log in to the ftp server too, but when i try to send a file I have often this error : "couldn't open passive data connection, no DataConnection IP was given." So, Maybe i have to use another way to send the files, and if someone havce an idea, thanks to tell me it. ...Show All

• Eric Sanders How do I work like Contacts?

  The contacts of windows mobile 5.0, it can: 1)view by name and view by company in a single Listbox . When view by company, the listbox can work like Treeview. As soon as you tap one of company , it can expand and show the correlative contact people, then, tap it again, it can collapse immediately. All of them are carried out in the one listbox. How can I do it I try it out, but I can not accomplish it. I selected listboxEx of opennet ...Show All

• mouxaifeong Here's a real goofy bug in vs2005 arm compiler: structvar.gets

  Here's a real goofy bug in vs2005 arm compiler: 2>..\01src\gt40_ix.cpp(7029) : error C2039: '_gets_instead_use_StringCbGetsA_or_StringCchGetsA' : is not a member of 'T_GT40_XD' when I use something like xdptr->gets = where gets is a structure variable. It didn't specify this ..._instead_use... bit until I changed the structure .gets to .getsCount, before it was just a very plain compiler error about semi-colon/syntax.. Now I ...Show All

• Sangeetha Edward PocketPC Desktop -Synchronizing issue.

  Hi, Well ,I am working in PocketPC (eVC++,VC++6.0) I have to Synchronize the PocketPC and DesktopPC . For Synchronizing am using ActiveSync I have a Folder in the desktop for example D:\Temp\ I have a Folder in the PockePC in the Device Root for example: \Temp . I am coping a text File from desktop and placing it in the Device (PocketPC), say for example \Temp\Text.txt in the device. when i do this i create a .dat file (say Test.dat) ,now what h ...Show All

• Mark_A_Polson The target device does not have a compatible version of the CLR installed for the application you are a

  Error Message: "Unable to load the CLR. The target device does not have a compatible version of the CLR installed for the application you are attempting to debug. Verify that your device supports the appropriate CLR version and has that CLR installed. Some devices do not support automatic CLR upgrade." The Device is running Pocket PC 2003. And has been running programs written with .Net 2003 I just loaded .Net 2005 ...Show All

• dotScience Connection Manager vs RAS for GPRS

  All,  I'm pretty new to the cf world and have been forced here due to some inadequecies with the Appforge language we were previously using for Handheld App Development. Our group are expert VB6 Developers, Intermediate VB.net developers, and fairly ignorant with the netCF.  I'm working in the VS2005 Beta 2 right now trying to rewrite a logistics tracking application.  Looked through helpfiles and forums, but haven't found any cl ...Show All

• Tony V123 Activesync

  I am trying to write an application that can make activesync start.... I downloaded pocket pc sdk 2005 and it has a c++ example, but I would like to have it done in c#.. There are other things I wish to do and c# is my language of expertise. Any idea what to do..I hae vs 2005 Nice, might have to use that myself. Does it clean up nicely I have no clue how to sta ...Show All

• dannycaro Best way to make LABEL's clickable in CF 1.0?

  Hi, There's no working Label.Click() event in CF 1.0 at this time.  I can't use read-only textbox in this situation, because I need to use a label appearance rather than a textbox appearance. What is the best workaround to make a label clickable in CF 1.0    I have multiple Label's inside a Panel control, each of which requires a separate click event. Sorry no. How would you offer the Click event ...Show All

• beginner.net NotSupported Exception when calling third party dll

  Hi all, I am using VB.NET and VS 2003 for PocketPC application development. I am trying to use third party dll from my application. I am using P-invoke to call function but I am getting "NotSupported" Exception. I have checked signature properly. That should not be the problem. I don't have source code of this dll and also don't know which platform was used to build it. Also I have copied third party dll in both current ...Show All

• mikelostcause Recommended way to keep PPC time up to date?

  Whats the recommended way to keep PPC time up to date   Should this be done programatically via web service, or is there an NTP client recommended etc. Thanks. Look into (S)NTP. For example: http://www.devbuzz.com/content/zinc_evb_ntp_pg1.asp Commercial components are also available for NETCF. ...Show All

• Kerdany Date-entry controls (TextBox style) for Compact Framework 1.0?

  Hi, I am looking for an easy way to do date fields for Compact Framework, in one unified control, enforced to a format such as YYYY/MM/DD ... or YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS Is there a way to do this in a single control, or will I have to use multiple TextBox's for each portion of the date and time Thanks, Mark Rejhon How about using a DateTimePicker control There're many controls (fully managed and native wrapp ...Show All

• Marlon Chen How to call netcf from flash?

  Hi, In my application i am using flash for UI design. When i click a flash button it should execute netcf coding.For windows application there is some third part Components like ShockwaveFlashObjects.So how can i achive it in ppc. Hi, Alex Yakhnin and Mark Arteaga thanks for ur reply. There is a tool CFCOM from Odyssey Software( http://www.odysseysoftware.com/products_cfcom.asp ) which is used to commun ...Show All

• Imtiaz Undefined Externals, TrackPopupMenu and VarBstrCmp

  I have a large CE workspace that I migrated from CE 4.0 to CE 5.0 using the built in conversion tool in VS 2005.  When I try to compile any of the COM dll's I get the following series of linking messages: 1>UniversalDataForms.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol VarBstrCmp referenced in function "public: bool __cdecl ATL::CComBSTR::operator==(class ATL::CComBSTR const &)const " ( 8CComBSTR@ATL@@QBA_NABV01@@Z) 1>Univer ...Show All

• Steve DeBow Run an application on CF and the full framework with SQLCE

  Hi, Is it a easy way to write a application that will work fine on the CF and the full version of the Framework when using the Sql Mobile database Now WebServices and other parts works just fine with the same executable, but I get an error when trying toopen the Sql Mobile database from the full version framework. I guess I could write a seperate component for this, but I would like to know if there is a easier way of doing this. With t ...Show All