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• Dave Elliott Msdn 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

• jeanXia WM5 Smart phone projects with Visual .NET 2003 C#?

  I have the standard edition of Visual Studio .NET 2003 C# edition. Can I write smartphone apps or use the SDK with that Or must I upgrade to VS2005 Thanks. I'm afraid you can't create WM5.0 projects using VS 2003. The system requirements for downloading WM 5.0 SDK specifically mentions that VS 2005 should be present. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=83a52af2-f524-4ec5-9155-717cbe5d25 ...Show All

• Theo Postma How To Buy A MICROSOFT PRODUCTS

  Dear Sir/Madam! I am in Pakistan and want to buy Microsoft Windows Xp 2003 Service Pack 3/1, Microsoft Office 2005Xp, Prolog, Norton Antivirus for Windows Xp 2003 or other windows so please tell me if you deliver those above mention software to me in Pakistan. Your quick action will be appreciated in this regard. Regards, Nasir N. Razz This forum is smart device development related. Since your question is not related t ...Show All

• Paul J ChooseContactDialog.Show never returns

  When dlg.ShowDialog is called below, the code never returns, causing the application to freeze. The solution is to actually place this code in a timerproc. This is very kludgy however and i would like to know if this is an expected behavior and if not, is this a WM2005 or CF2.0 issue ( The solution is not unlike another kludge i had to implement when trying to hide a form on start up and make sure it's title bar is not visible. ) Micros ...Show All

• Joe Labellarte Web Services and static classes - need help :(

  Hi folks, I'm trying to contact a web service from a PocketPC 2003 application. Right now I'm just using the PocketPC 2003 Emulator, and my web service's Url property is set to a real URL on my LAN - not the "localhost:1130" you get by default. If I place this code in the "Load" event of my main form, everything works fine: using (SitesProxy.SitesService ssvc = new SitesProxy.SitesService()) {     DataSet sites = ...Show All

• MSwift ActiveSync 4.0

  I've done a full install of VS 2005 Beta 2, created a test app and tried to download it to a PPC 2003 device.  I get a deployment error: 1>The current version of ActiveSync is not supported. Install the latest version from www.microsoft.com. ========== Deploy: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ========== I have ActiveSync 3.8 installed and running.  Where do I find ActiveSync 4.0 Jeff, Supri ...Show All

• matman13 Clickable Units using .NET CF

  I'm currently coding a turn-based strategy game for the .Net Compact Framework using C#.   I have the beginnings of a tile-based graphics engine built up and have some rudimentary units that I can click on and move around the map. Currently I am capturing OnMouseDown events from the main form and depending on the current game state testing each on-screen unit to see whether it was the one that was clicked, whether it should move t ...Show All

• Ishai Sagi Backspace in edit control

  Hi Still building an application for Smartphone 2005 in pure Win32. I now have a configuration dialog containing static fields and edit controls. Everything is fine except when I type sthg in the edit controls, I can't clear it. I can only add characters but not delete them with the back key. The back key (which is also used to switch back to older applications) is inactive. Can someone help please Hey avinash, just to let you know that d ...Show All

• Asj2005 Unable to use web services on localhost from VS2005 emulator

  Hi everybody! I am using web services on my localhost for the Windows CE client application. Everything is working fine with VS.Net 2003 PocketPC 2002 emulator, but when I trying to use the same client application with VS.Net 2005 Pocket PC 2003 emulator, its cannot connect to the server. I already read about this problem on this forum, but I still cannot solve it. I can browse internet on emulator with IE, but not localhost. Is s ...Show All

• edin How to use multiline button text?

  I see that in vs 2005, writing in vb, that it can now apparently handle multiline button text. On the IDE, in the box that asks for my text, I can click on the drop down, and it opens a window where I can type in something like: Main Menu (having pressed my Enter key after the word 'Main') and it shows exactly like I want it on the IDE. (Actually, I did not have a blank line between the two words--it's just doing that in this text edito ...Show All

• Dharmesh M Mehta How to add namespace microsoft.wireless in C#?

  Hi, I want to add namespaces for windows CE in C# and also tell me can I use the functionality for Windows CE in WindowsXP I want to make a desktop applicaiton and the required functionaility is available for Windows CE what shud i do Thanks .NETCF compiled assemblies can be loaded and executed on the desktop (i.e. they are "retargetable"). Keep in mind, if you want your assembly to be loadable on the desktop, you should ...Show All

• Phenom Minimum Possible Date

  Hi. I have run into a rather interesting problem while working with dates in my PDA application. Whenever I save a date with year less than 1930 (say 1929), its getting saved to SQL CE db. but when i retrieve it, it gets converted to 2029!!!!! is this a limitation of the datetimepicker control or is it the minimum date value SQL CE can hold [ like 1753 in SQL Server 2000 ] someone plz comment on this, or else i need to sit n think of so ...Show All

• Herwin Grauel datagrid cannot change content?

  I binding a datatable to a datagrid control: datagrid1.datasource=datatable1 when I change the datatable, the datagrid cannot change content what's matter How do I do DataGrid should reflect changes to the bound DataTable, but not to the data base this DataTable was populated from. Please post some code so we could see what you doing. Sorry , I made a mistake. It can work well. Thank you. Ilya Tumanov ...Show All

• sdor VS2005 Emulator problem

  Hi All, On my clean install of VS2005 B2 on Win2003 under VPC, in a device project, when I click the start debugging button and deploy to the PPC emulator, everything will go fine, files gets copied but then an error with the message "The operation could not be completed".  What could cause this error   The application seems to be deployed properly to the emulator, I can start it via File Manager. Anyone else have simil ...Show All

• AnilMenon Adding controls to controls... Is this possible in an inherited class...

  I'd like to add a text control via Controls.Add(Control) to the top of an existing control in a derived class. However, when I try to add the new class, I get: An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll Additional information: ArgumentException Any ideas Perhaps this isn't possible Code looks like: // // textBox1 // textBox1 = new TextBox(); this .tex ...Show All