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• Branimir Giurov LNK2019 error about CeMountDBVolEx and CeOpenDatabaseInSession!!Anyone can help me?

  hi everyone!     i wrote a simple program use studio2005 with WM5.0PPC platform. i want to read some contact information from the SimEntries database use some APIs as CeMountDBVolEx and CeOpenDatabaseInSession. i find the API descriptions in msdn. it must include Windbase.h and link the Coredll.lib to use it. i include Windbase.h,then build ,it said CeMountDBVolEx and CeOpenDatabaseInSession not defined. i look the Windbase.h,&nbs ...Show All

• Serpen Seeking System.Runtime.Serialization alternative for Compact Framework 2.0

  I’d like to create a light version of my .net windows application for mobile devices using Compact Framework 2.0. The .net windows application load and saves data files using System.Runtime.Serialization and formatting the files using SOAP, which so far works great. I’d like to keep interoperability between the windows application and the mobile version by saving and loading the same data file into the same data model. Looks like the ...Show All

• C_wander Smartphone 5.0 Emulator connection problem

  Alright, I'm pissed off beyond limits. I have .net 2.0 beta 2. I can write smartdevice 2003 application and can open emulator w/o any problem but, when I create Smartphone 5.0 project and try to run it, the emulator never shows up. Not only that it also freezes up my .net ide. I don't know what the heck is going on I'm also running norton internet security ( and it worked with it before ) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...Show All

• cssgyula Custom Control, inheriting from TextBox Control

  Hi all, I want to create a simple Customer Control that inherits from the TextBox Control, but am not sure if the same rules apply for Controls in the CF 1.0 Framework as with Stand Win Forms Controls - What I want to do is to be able to add to properties to the TextBox Control that allows me to override BackColor of the Control (preventing the standard grey colour). does anyone know of any good tutorials Thanks Tryst The runtime ...Show All

• Tom Rahav Who has a PPC-6700 Sprint AudioVox Mobile 5 (Can I use GPS?)

  I have the Sprint AudioVox PPC-6700 and I know that it has the built in GPS chipset but everywhere that I search I can not find out how to actually access the API. There are a few of the GPS API references throughout msdn & msdn2 but none have an actual walk through. It is very easy to access the phone API's and contact lists/appointments and whatnot but the GPS is not to be found. As far as the GPS is conserned one could argue that it ...Show All

• Truong Hong Thi AddOwnedForm() in CF2.0?

  Hi, Does it exist an equivalent in CF to Form.AddOwnedForm() I want to show a form without it showing in the taskbar. //A You can achieve the same result by creating your new child form and setting it's Owner property to the parent e.g. Dim myChildForm As New ChildForm myChildForm.Owner = parentForm Peter ...Show All

• KenLinder Device Emulator connectivity problem

  Hi all! I can't connect to the Internet using the Device Emulator that is shipped with Visual Studio 2005 RTM. I have followed the instructions at the page http://blogs.msdn.com/akhune/archive/2005/11/16/493329.aspx , but when I start Pocket IE and try to go, for example, to www.google.com , after a few seconds a message appears saying "Cannot connect with current connection settings". Pheraps there is a problem because on this mach ...Show All

• oky Pocket PC error: "Unable to connect to the remote server"

  I have developed a Pocket PC 2003 app in Visual Studio .NET and am getting an unusual problem i can't get to the bottom of. My VB.NET Pocket PC App tries to call a simple web method on my webservice from the device using the webserver's IP or Machine name and receives the error " Unable to connect to the remote server". Yet if i point the device's IE browser to the location of the webservice asmx file (i.e. http://192.168.1 ...Show All

• gerridi Color of the submenu items in wm5.0

  I am running an application on Window Mobile 5.0. Anyone notice that the submenu item's font color is a gray instead of the black. Can you even change the text color of submenut items is there a way to set this in the rc file So i realized you have to muck with the registry, which alters all submenu item in every application. A bit intrusive, unless someone has an easier way to just edit your applica ...Show All

• Robert Burke network card

  Hello all, i have PPC2003 SE installed, and it used to run perfectly well. i have developed several network applications for PPC2003SE and i used to get connected to my network, but few days ago, out of a sudden, i got this error "Error: No VPC network adapters enumerated or no host network adapter with provided MAC address found" while enabling the virtual network adapter of the PPC, although i have the list of the diff drivers ...Show All

• Yeowser Detect wifi connection

  I'm developing a CFv2 application that needs to know whether it's got a wifi or wired connection or not. It's usually going to be transferring large files and therefore needs to ignore GRPS connections. I have it so it detects whether there's any sort of connection but I can't figure out how to tell what type of connection it is. Thanks, Stut You can create a event (Radio.StatusNotify)to check the WiFi Signal. ...Show All

• John Paul Cook MDE: Can't run Device Emulator Manager

  I'm trying to run the Device Emulator Manager on my Win2K desktop. It terminates immediately without a message, whether I start it from the Start Menu, from Windows Explorer or from the cmd line. The emulator itself starts up and runs fine. I'd like to set up an ActiveSync connection to this. As I understand it, I need to get the Device Emulator Manager running to do this. Hi George, Could you run depends.exe ...Show All

• kpcnatraj problems with WriteString and CStdioFile

  Hi everybody, while I am using file.WriteString(); with CStdioFile there is an error nobody can explain in other forums and discussion boards: error C2039: 'WriteString' : is not a member of 'CStdioFile' c:\...\mfc\include\afx.h(1487) : see declaration of 'CStdioFile' I don't understand because every other things works well with CStdioFile (for example Open or CFile::modeWrite etc.). I want to write in a .txt-file and don't like things like  ...Show All

• Macromullet Play AVI using Directshow

  Hi, I am a newbie and need help. Currently trying to write a c# application to play avi file from file system on pocket PC running Window Mobile 5.0. I have a sample code for desktop application which run fine but error appeared when i try it on PPC. if ( DialogResult .OK == openFileDialog.ShowDialog()) { CleanUp(); m_objFilterGraph = new FilgraphManager (); m_objFilterGraph.RenderFile(openFileDialog.FileName); Debu ...Show All

• JennaG Can't open Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC CPP win32 projects in 2005

  I am unable to load the sample projects that come with the Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC SDK in Visual Studio 2005 All I get is an empty error dialog with an OK buttom. Has anyone else seem this behaviour I can open the C# SDK projects with out a problem. Thanks There was a bug in VS2005 where if you didn't have any overlap between the SDK and the project you are loading, you received that empty dialo ...Show All