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• rcbailey56 Recommended technique to retrieve a file sitting on a webserver?

  Whats the recommended technique, and... is there a way I can measure the progress of the retrieval Thanks! Create an HttpWebRequest, get HttpWebResponse, get its ResponseStream and strart reading from it in small chunks updating the progress bar until there is nothing left to read. If you download the sample code that comes with this article of mine, and take a look at the updater application, you will see the exact steps ( a bit m ...Show All

• ECM .obj/.exe files geneerated by VS2005 are 3x the size generated by eMVC++

  We are finding that the .obj/.exe files generated by VS2005 are much larger than those generated by eMVC++ with similar compiler/linker options set (all debugging options have been turned off). Running a stirngs utility against the .obj files produced a huge number of '$Mnnnnnn' references, where '$M' was constant and 'nnnnnn' was an ever increasing integer. Compiling such that .asm files are produced showed that these references seem to be asso ...Show All

• LilMaster How to handle Multiple forms?

  Hi, I am using two forms Form1 and Form2. I show Form2 from Form1 like               Dim frm As New Form2         frm.ShowDialog()         Me .Close()   and Form1 from Form2 like                Dim frm As New Form1     ...Show All

• wkhiar Embeddable database or DBF Library?

  I have been using the Pocket Access database format for my applications as they do not need SQL Server and the customers do not need SQL Server / MSDE on their desktop. I don't feel that XML is a valid option for a database but I may be wrong. Any alternatives to Pocket Access and or SQL Server would be appreciated. I was wondering if anyone had seen a DBF library in C# that can be used in the Compact Framework. Thanks in advance for ANY help or ...Show All

• Devesh321 Device emulator for Windows Mobile 2002

  Does anyone know if there's a device emulator for Windows Mobile 2002 (i.e. powered by Windows CE 3.0) There is currently no publicly available device emulator image for Windows Mobile 2002.  If you feel that we should create these images, I would suggest you create an entry on http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/Default.aspx   Vladimir Fedorov wrote: Device Emulator runs as a user mode proc ...Show All

• Diego Siddi Adding a new target device to the VS2005 IDE?

  How can I add a new target device (a custom WinCE Emulator OS) that I built with Platform Builder to the target device dropdown in visual studio In short, I built a Win CE OS using Platform Builder. Now I want to debug an application on this device (it's an emulator build) using the VS 2005 IDE in which I built the program. I can't figure out how to do this Same procedure works for RTM as well. On my ...Show All

• cybrex Pocket PC 2003 to WM 5.0 Compatibility Problems: CCeDocListDocTemplate

  Hello all, I am currently using the CCeDocListDocTemplate class, however, I'm having problems with it on a Dell Axim 51, which uses Windows Mobile 5.0. When the widget is used, it displays the list of files in a mangled format. The format appears to be the first character of the filename followed by the creation date of the file: So for a file named "survey.srv" it would show up as: "s11/12/17". This works fine on the Dell Axim 50, which does n ...Show All

• Kirann genasm error message when adding DesignTimeAttributes.xmta to my project

  This is weird. I have a Smart Device C# library that builds perfectly. When I add a DesignTimeAttributes.xmta to it and rebuild it I got the following error message: genasm.exe(1) : error There was an error finalizing type . Type 'MyNameSpace.MyClass, MyLibrary, Version=9.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' was loaded in the ReflectionOnly context but the AssemblyBuilder was not created as AssemblyBuilderAccess.ReflectionOnly. My Namesp ...Show All

• yoni sher WM5 Error:'EXE name' is not a valid Pocket PC application.

  Over the past week I've been migrating our projects into VS2005 and recreating project profiles for WM5.0 and with the help of this forum I've been able to work through all the compile/linking issues and all projects are compiling properly now. I still have a bit of work to do in this department however for the most part its complete. My question is I'm attempting to run the exe & dll's on a WM5.0 device and I'm getting this "'E ...Show All

• amcclendon Device phone number

  i am attempting to use the native API SmsGetPhoneNumber to retrieve the devices phone number and this works fine on Emulator , but when I tried it on device I receive a -2113928691(Unspecified Error), the device in Cingular 2125 and in Roaming. is there a way to reliably across all regions to retrieve the devices phone number thanks, Oren Pleas ...Show All

• Jan M smart device project creation failed!

  Hi all, I'm using VS2005 Team Edition and WM5 Smartphone SDK. The problem is I cannot create any smart device project, but I can open existing solutions. I've reinstalled the SDK and ActiveSync, But the problem still exist. So how to solve this kind of problem Thanks doyoucy I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50727.42  (RTM.050727-4200) When I choose Visual C++ smart device Win32 Project, ...Show All

• JasonStowe After installing final VS 2005 (MSDN) can't see the designer

  Hello fellow developers, I don't know if someone had the same problem but I hope that someone could help me with this issue. Until yestarday I had installed on my computer the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 and yestarday I uninstalled everything (using the tool for the pre-rtm uninstall that worked fine and uninstalled absolute everything) and I install the final MSDN version of Visual Studio 2005. So far, so good. BUT when I tryied to crea ...Show All

• Emile Bosch Problem with localization Start Menu -> Settings and Programs icons on PPC(WM2003SE)...

  I have a problem with Start Menu Settings and Programs names. How can I hange the names of Programs and Settings in Start Menu. I was looking in shellres.dll, and I olso create MUI file of shellres.dll with changed that names, (in string resource number: 343) but it doesn't helped. What worse. When I change that names in shellres.dll.0415.MUI from Programs to Programy or Settings to Ustawienia, this Start menu folders are changing icons fo ...Show All

• zivco LNK Error 2019

  Hello all, i am developing an application on PPC2003 SE that allows the user to send and receive sms. i have included the sms.h library header file but when i compile i get the followng error : Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol SmsOpen referenced in function OpenSms MyMapi.obj Error 2 fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals Pocket PC 2003 here's my Build log Build Log Build started: Project: MyMapi ...Show All

• David W Hart No result code for SendMessage with WM_COPYDATA

  Hello, I've asked this question in MSDN forum , but without result. So I' want to ask somebody here, whats the problem with my code. I try a inter process communication with windows messages and WM_COPYDATA. It should work for managed and unmanaged applications. The receiver of WM_COPYDATA messages is a managed applications. For the sender the result code of SendMessage is important. In the managed receiver I use Microsoft.Windows ...Show All