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• OKCMAN Transparent controls

  Hi, it's my first message to MS forums, i hope that you will be patient with me .. Well, i'm developing apps for mobile devices (smarthphones, pda's, tablet pc's, and that will become), now i have to develop my first app for smathphones and i discovered that i couldn't make my UI controls (combobox, textbox .. ) transparent, i have readen a lot of messages about this but .. any posibility design my own controls 3a party controls which it's impos ...Show All

• FedorSteeman Writing an RTC API 1.3 application for the pocket PC

  Hello, I have used RTC API 1.3 to write a SIP based application and would like to port it to a pocket PC running windows CE v4.2. Can an application based on RTC API run on such a pocket PC If it can, could anyone please give me some guidelines how this can be done I have combed the web trying to find some clue that would answer these questions but could not find any sample or clear explanation. THANKS IN ADVANCE, Jonathan ...Show All

• Amit Chopra Pocket PC Alaram Application

  1) i want to make an application which runs in background. 2) takes input (time & date) from user. 3) and at the specified date it start playing any sound. inshort i want to make an alarm application for pocket pc using C#.net any body can tell me how to do it Use the date/time picker control to select the date/time. Create a time that fires every minute or so. On the timer's tick event, if ...Show All

• Dcopus Why does the new project wizard work this way?

  There are a couple of things I don't understand about the new project wizard (I have only tested the Win32 Smart Device Project variety). 1. Why can't I make an empty static library project The checkbox is grayed out and a ReadMe file is always created. Not very useful at best and annoying when I am moving existing code to VS2005. 2. Why can't I choose not to use precompiled header files if I am making an executable The Microsoft way of doing ...Show All

• JamesZ How can use the frildll.dll?

  Hello, everyone! I want to use the frildll.dll to simulate receiving short message but when the application runs, a MissingMethodException always appears. The following is the code: [ DllImport ("FRilDLL.dll", EntryPoint = "ReceiveSMS", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)] private extern static void ReceiveMsg(string Message, string PhoneNumber); when button is clicked, I call the function: ReceivedMsg("fffffffffff ...Show All

• evalese Hyperlinks in Pocket Outlook

  Hello all, I just have a question about how Pocket outlook generates a hyperlink. If I sync a message containing the following: file://\Windows\Test.htm when I click on the link in the body of the message, nothing will happen. If I change this link to be either: file://\\Windows\Test.htm or file://Windows\Test.htm It will launch Internet Explorer, but I will always get the error message that says "The Network Path was n ...Show All

• Peter Smith Can't display a string correctly (POCKETPC 2003 - mbstowcs - SendMessage)

  Hello, I'm basically trying to display a text in a window. I'm using VC8 and I'm building for PPC2003 & Windows Mobile 5. I use a method that does something like: Write(const char* text) { LPTSTR lpBuffer = new TCHAR[strlen(text) + 1]; mbstowcs((wchar_t *)lpBuffer, text, strlen(text)); lpBuffer[strlen(text)] = '\0'; int nIndex; nIndex = GetWindowTextLength(m_hEdit); SendMessage(m_hEdit, EM_SETSEL, nIndex, nIndex+strlen ...Show All

• LookAhead How to Do C/C++ Development for WinCE 5.0?

  How do I create a C/C++ project for our WinCE 5.0 device I don't see our SDK when I run the new project wizard. Dale Larson Johnson Controls, Inc Make sure that when you installed VS that you installed all languages, there were bugs in Beta2 where there was a cross dependency that we missed. Shutdown VS then install the appropriate SDK (Windows Mobile, CE5.0 Standard SDK or any CE Custom SDK). The platform pag ...Show All

• Visagan Strange linker warning... can I ignore it?

  Hi, I'm using the VS2005 Team System Eval on a PC that previously had VS2005 B1 and B2.  Both were uninstalled prior to installing the RTM.  I created a simple Smart Device dialog app to be built for a custom CE 5 platform.  If I build the solution without changing it, the following warning happens: MSVCRTD.lib(chandler4.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'libbmtd.pdb' was not found with 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\ ...Show All

• RalphB Serial Port DataReceived Event in .Net 2.0

  Hi there, This is driving me crazy, I cannot seem to get the DataRecieved event to work on the Pocket PC using the new serial port class in Visual Studio 2005 with C#. The DataRecieved event just never seems to be called. I can write data to the port just fine. Here is some very simple sample code that reproduces the error:. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; u ...Show All

• pyphehe Emulator Image AKU2

  Hello, Is anyone aware of an emulator with the Messaging and Security Feature Pack already installed I 'd like to test the new security features of exchange sp2 (direct push tecnology, wiping devices ... ) Thank you, Managed to get it working put it needs a cellular data connection for push. My recommendation: Buy or test the real thing. Thanks for your reply. I t ...Show All

• Thomas Kionka Can't change Label BackColor in designer (VS2005 Final)

  Hello, The environment Visual Studio 2005 Final, Smart Device Application for Windows Mobile 2003, using .NET Compact Framework 2.0. The problem I have uninstalled VS2005 Beta 2 (using the automatic uninstall tool) and then installed VS2005 Final. When I add a Label control to a blank form in the designer, I can't set the Label BackColor to a Web or Custom Color. It seems that when the underlying Form has the System Bac ...Show All

• Yuval Rakavy Splitter click event

  the compact framework does not support the click event for slitters. I need to know when this is clicked because I am doing my own dynamic resizing of a custom control that I made. I am not trying to change the behavior of the splitter, I just need to temporarily suspent my dynamic resizing while the splitter is in use because it is causing the splitter to behave strangely. Is there a way to know when the splitter is being clicked/touched ...Show All

• ramarao Serialization formating

  Hi, After making a serialization I would like to make a diff on the two different xml files, but the problem is that the XmlSerializer put everything in only one line... Do you know a way to put a return at the end of each tag Thanks, Hi, Yes it could be pretty usefull, but I also found another way, you just need to use an XmlTextWriter name for exemple w and then put : w.Formatting = Formatting.Indented; w.Indentation = 3; // or ...Show All

• Chris Doherty DataGrid issues

  Hi, I've installed the CF2.0 SP1 patch so that my DataGrid could be align to the right (I'm writing a RTL program.. hebrew) But I didn't understand how to get the headers to be align to the right aswell, another question regarding the binding of the SQL MOBILE and the DataSet, I have a table, and i want the user to see only 3 columns in the datagrid, but the problem is that one of the columns vary in the DB, I need to display i ...Show All