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• guinea13 VS2005, adding an InputPanel to CF custom control.

  I have derived from DataGrid to make an editible datagrid.  All is well and it appears in designer and I can add it.  I decided that I want popup input panels so I add Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms to the reference list and add the 'using' tag.  As soon as I decare InputPanel ip; in the class, when I try to go back to main project and view it in designer ( the custom controls are already in place), it claims that my class no longer ha ...Show All

• PeterLlwr All controls are grey in the toolbox

  I'm trying to develop a device application for Pocket PC 2003 but I can't drag any controls onto the form. All controls are grey/disabled in the toolbox. Resetting it doesn't help. Right-clicking and choosing show all controls doesn't help either. Reset all settings doesn't help either. Same Problem Here. I have a new clean PC and just downloaded VB2005 express this April. I did get several simple program ...Show All

• Praveen Chintala Cradle emulator

  Can anyone tell me how to cradle Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Emulator please Inside VS.NET 2005, I go to Tool->Device Emulator Manager->(Right click on the emulator)->Cradle, nothing happened.  I am using ActiveSync 4.1. Any responses are appreciated.   Please try following 1. regsvr32 /u <location>\serdmaasplugin.dll 2. regsvr32 <location>\serdmaasplugin.dll 3 ...Show All

• edgtr resgen error -1163019603 while building App.

  I converted a 'old' 2003-project  into vs2005 Team version When i try to build the app i get this error : "resgen  error -1163019603" and no Exe is build does anybody know this error code and probaly how i can solve this problem thanx   I have the same problem can u help me in my prob. and how can i solve it... problem is solved! th ...Show All

• nx886 C# projects and GUI

  Hi there, I am developing an application that requires instant voice (and may be video) messaging on smart devices using .NET CF. I heard that VOIP will provide excellent way for this. However, does anyone have any open source application done using VOIP in CF The other concern is that smart devices have limited resources in memory, still I have seen some people developing smart device application with very good interface and icons. I don' ...Show All

• Incognita are there command line arguments for pword (pocket word)

  I'm getting tripped up opening a document.  Sometimes it will be a new document, and sometimes it'll be an existant one... rather than do the File.Exists stuff, I just wanted to tell pword to create the file if it doesn't exist. Also, I'd be curious if there're other command line arguments.  Is there a standard way to find out for apps on WinCE I'm using the Process.StartInfo object and Process.Start method... is this the preferred ...Show All

• Jose Picon Activesync fails to sync after installing vers. 4.0

  Hello to all,  I have upgrade activesync from version 3.7.1 to 4.0 in order to deploy my application in VS2005 beta2 to the device. After doing that, activesync stops to work: although the AS icon show connection (green) when the PDA is in the cradle, is is not possible to get the main screen of activesync ; and, when trying to explore the device, I get the following error window:  " Critical communications services have failed to ...Show All

• Michael Norton phone.dll: MakeCall fails on new qtek (v5 3g wlan keyboard phone) !! LEVERAGE !!

  Hello. I have a problem on a new device. It is a new QTEK with keyboard. phone.dll - MakeCall("don't ask before calling") places the calling dialog so that the center of it is at a vertical position 2x what it should be, before the dialog hangs. My app is orientation and resolution aware, and the problem is the same no matter what orientation I use. This is a breaking change from emulators and (multiple) earlier phone and ...Show All

• Maxime Cloutier .Net CF Getfiles IOException

  Hi, i've a problem with my VB.NET application and GetFiles() function. I try to run my application on Emulator. I've shared a folder in my Desktop simulating a Storage Card and i try to access files on it but GetFiles() function return IOException error... Any suggestion to solve this problem I use Visual Studio Team suite 2005 beta 2. thanks Andrea. Can you please try following things ...Show All

• Chuck Turner VS2005 CR1: Failed to open vpc network driver

  My emulator is working fine except it can't connect to the network. Here are the steps: 1) Try to use Pocket Internet Explorer, type my favorite web address 2) Got the following bubble message: Cannot Connect, Unable to connect: blah blah 3) Dismiss the message, go to Setting-> Connections-> Network Cards 4) It says "My Network Card connects to: Work" (Good) 5) On the emulator window -> File -> Configure -> Network -> Clic ...Show All

• jizhang SP3 question

  I have a few questions about sp3.  This service pack came as a set of distributable cab files, not as an sdk, so how does Visual Studio know anything about it   It seems to be debugging with an older version of the compact framework. I just ran into issues with this while building an install shield project.  Install shield goes to the sdk folder in Visual Studio 2003 and grabs the redistributable cabs there, not ideal for us sinc ...Show All

• David Jaco Programming today screen

  Hi! Could you help me with a little code about programming today screen in VB.NET Thank you! http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/todayscrn.asp   Should get you started though it is not 100% Managed code. Thanks Amit ...Show All

• P-Storm CustomControl KeyDown problem

  Hi, I've build a owner-drawn control (inherits from System.Windows.Forms.Control class) that doesn't have any controls but only draw on his surface some text and I need to trap the OnKeyDown method. I've written the following code: public class myControl : System.Windows.Forms.Control {     protected override void OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)     {      &nb ...Show All

• jot MoveFile() on SD-Card

  Hi all, Can someone tell me if the function MoveFile(src, dest) works with paths that pointed on a SD-Card Example: srcpath = \SD-Card\Test\file.txt destpath = \SD-Card\Test\file2.txt MoveFile( srcpath , destpath ); DWORD error = GetLastError(); error is 3 which means "The system cannot find the path specified." Regards, Karin Mine is called "SD Card", ...Show All

• Choon Meng Determining the number of lines inside a TextBox control when in wordwrap-enabled mode

  For .NET Compact Framework (Version 1.0), I am wondering how to determine the number of lines in a TextBox control when it is in automatic wordwrap mode. Alternatively, how do I detect the minimum bounding rectangle for a TextBox control in order to display all text visibly without clipping I tried to do this, and I can do this under regular .NET but I can't do so on Compact Framework.   Are there any workarounds I can do Thanks ...Show All