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• Erik Campo pocketpc and sql

  When i first tried to make an sql connection etc i did this with a normal windows application, but then i could just click on the data tool and selected sqlconnection, sqldataset etc etc.. But can this be done when i make a smart device application i dont have that same tools, so i guess i have to write the code myself, but i have no experience with that.. It needn't be that difficult, you'll need to setup the ...Show All

• Origamime check device platform at runtime

  hi, how can i check the version of the platform during runtime of the mobile device. i would like to check if the device is PPC or smartphone and the windows mobile version it is running. Thanks a lot MarcD Hi, i get WinCE as PlatformID but anyidea how to get if the device is a smartphone or a PocketPC Please see this: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229660.aspx Thanks a lot!!! Often times Pla ...Show All

• Nick Brown Can't find project template Smartphone Magneto

  Folks, I just installed VS 2005 Beta and Pocket PC SDK 5.0 along with Smartphone SDK 5.0 but when I try to create a new Project for Smartphone I do not find those options. Should I be doing something else I refered to this document http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dntake/html/yctiwy_wm5.asp  but seems like I did everything it says. Any help Regards, Udaypal Aarkoti If what Peter Foot suggested does ...Show All

• Usai Passing floats from unmanaged to managed

  Greetings (again), We have a .NET CF 2.0 application that accesses our DLL via P/Invoke. One of our DLL functions sets a callback, for which we use a delegate in the managed world. One of the params to that callback is a float. When we started using this DLL, we started seeing a crash after long usage. We've narrowed it down to that float - we've changed it to an unsigned long/UInt32 and the crash goes away. AFAIK, there's no special handling ...Show All

• keyler Connect SQL Server Express from Pocket PC

  Hi All, I am new in .net and also in pocket pc. I would like to know how to connect to SQL server using bluetooth if I use the LAN, then may I know how is the connection string and what is the thing I need to imports or declare. Hope can get some idea from all the experts. Thanks. No, it’s not. First of all, 127.0.0.1 is a loop back address also known as “localhost”. It's pointing to device itself ...Show All

• Tim Dunlevy STL in vs2005 beta2 for smartphone problems - help !!!

  Hi, I have an existing project coded with beta1 for gui/cf bits and a number of Dlls for low level network coding with evc. I'm trying to produce a combined project for both the managed and non manged code using beta2. The problem I have is that any inclusion of STL type usage (standard <list> <queue> etc) seems to cause link errors of error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual __cdecl std::exception::~exception(voi ...Show All

• TOWFAS This thing just broke my VS2005 emulator

  I an running VS2005 Team Edition for Developers. All my emulators were working fine until I installed this thing. Now when I click on Tools > Device Emulator manager, I get a message saying "The system cannot find the file specified. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything, and deleting all the files and folders that this NG suggests I should, but all to no avail. What can I do To get ...Show All

• jkelly295 CF v1.1 ListView Item

  How can I identify a ListView item by a string/number value at run-time In Visual Basic 6 I used a KEY property to do that job but in C# CF v1.1 I can't find it. Thanks! This is one way Dim l_lvi As ListViewItem = listView1.FocusedItem msgbox l_lvi.Text Thanks for reply StriderIRL , but it's not what i need. Text property is visible for user. I need the Key propety that is not visible for user and ...Show All

• Brandon Paddock MS Program Size / Memory Issues

  In trying to convert our software from eVC4 to VS2005, I have noticed that the size of the compiled code is larger for VS2005 compiled for WM5.0 Our software was close to not having enough application memory on a 2003 device and now I'm wondering if converting it to 2005 has pushed it over. Here are the current program sizes: Release version for 2003 : 4015 KB Dubug version for 2003 : 7886 KB Release version for 2005 : 5267 KB Debug ve ...Show All

• Damir Tomicic Get Device ID from Desktop

  Hi All, First of all, I would like to apologize if this is not the right forum to post this type of question. I have tried to post it in .NET Networking & Compact Framework section, but there were no replies. I would like to create an application that reside in desktop side, that is capable to get the device id from the PDA through ActiveSync. I have been able to retrieve the id through P/Invoke (KernelIoControl) if the process is e ...Show All

• bhav2007 Goods Books on Windows Mobile 2003 and 5.0

  Hello, Does anyone know of any good books on Windows Mobile 2003 and/or 5.0 Thank you for your help, Thank you Does anyone know of any for C# development Follow the amazon link from 2 nd paragraph: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/11/reading-books.html I have reviewed each of the netcf books listed there. ...Show All

• steve19 ARM Processor - Is that all that WinCE/Pocket PC Will Use Moving Forward

  I've heard that thats all that will be used moving forward.  When did the move away from other processors such as MIPS etc happen, and why did it happen etc. I'm writing some native code and I'm thinking I can just compile this for the ARM processor and might be able to get away with this. Thoughts Correct. Even emulator in VS 2005 is ARM. All Windows Mobile devices are ARM based since PPC 2002. Custom CE devices a ...Show All

• Brihadish Bluetooth Code example on windows XP

  Hi, I am not sure if this is right forum for asking this question. I am looking for a code example to create a communiation channel using Bluetooth on windows XP. I have searched in msdn online. It seems that there are 2 ways. The first one is using winsock and the other one is using direct Bluetooth api. However, I haven't found any code example for them. I suppose that winsock programming would be quite similar to classical socket programming. ...Show All

• R Zare out of range exception

  To all vb developer i have a label which use to store an address,however it is impossible for me to retrieve the address from database to store in the label. The error message show that out of range exception....., i check my label and the max length is enough to store for the whole address. So do any one know whats wrong with it It's still not enough. I can not run this code because I've no database an ...Show All

• xbeanx copy and paste function

  can someone provide me code for copy n paste method (in vb.net) i hv check on msdn but i cannot understand! copying and pasting of a string   Anthony Wong wrote: Hi Albert_Khor, If you are using NETCF V1, you may add a custom TextBox class inheriting from System.Windows.Forms.TextBox that implements a property Name that allows you to store the ID of the textbox. You ...Show All