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• Tomas Self designed Controls- Problems with transparent & double-buffering.

  Hi there, i am searching for a solution of the following problem: I have a simple Windows Application for a CE 4.2 device. It has only a form with three controls: two System.Windows.Forms.Button and a self designed control. On this control I want to paint serveral graphical objects like rectangles or ellipses like this: g.FillRectangle( brush,anyRectangle); g.DrawRectangle(pen ,a ...Show All

• Rob Jones How to read exe file header?

  Hi,  How to read exe file header using compact framework Hi,      I also have the same problem. Is there is any method  to prevent the opening of the exe file other than the owner(who creates it.). I have no idea. if any idea please..... Regards, Bala. Please post some code with what you have tried so far so we can get a better idea of what you are trying to accomplish. Thank ...Show All

• Andalus Hi Whatz Wrong with my code here??

  Hi Evribody, Windows Mobile 5.0, Emulator is Smartphone. I was creating a sample project...User enters his usrname/password in the login screen and is authenticated and then a Welcome Form is displayed. Project has two forms 1: Messages Home 2: Login Form From MessagesHome Form """" Constructor""" i am calling the Login Form and have a DIALOG RESULT returned from the Login Form. Welcome for ...Show All

• Morieris removing controls from hashtable

  hi, i added few controls dynamically by using hash table. i need to remove them after some processing. But i couldn't remove them. how to do that i tried me.myhashtable.clear() if i use remove property,it's asking for some keys. what is that Thank You! You need to understand how hash table works, as soon as you do it all would be very clear. Please see this: http://msdn.microso ...Show All

• rusew Playback stuck in API "Recording and Playing Sound with the Waveform Audio Interface" when interact with other application.

  I'm facing problem in using API for "Recording and Playing Sound with Waveform Audio Interface."   When I playback an abc.wav file using waveout on Pocket PC, and mean while during playback if I interact with another application, for instance Volume Control the playback hangs out it stuck to that play point and doesn't start playback from position. The thread continue to check wo.Done if always return false so the pl ...Show All

• Wojo Pocket PC/Windows CE Networking Capabilities

  Hi, I am new to .NET Compact Framework and C#. Right now I have a project to develop an application for PocketPC that runs Windows CE. The application is supposed to be able to communicate with server application that will be developed in different technology: J2EE. Assume that I am going to develop a scaled-down ticket ordering system and put on the server as an add-on. The PocketPC application is restricted to access only HTTP capability of t ...Show All

• njackowski Read data file located on PC from emulator?

  How do you read a data file located on PC from the emulator Or how do you save a data file on the emulator from the PC Thanks, Pete_M You have couple options: 1. You can access network drives on PC from emulator or device by specifying path as follows: " \\host\share\path\file ". That would work for Pocket PC, but not SmartPhone as it has no support for that. You can try it from File Exp ...Show All

• rwindsley TextChanged event not happening?

  It seems a very basic thing to be wrong, but it seems that the TextChanged event is not happening when the text of the textbox is changed programatically (but it does when text is typed in).  The relevant section of MSDN says... Remarks This event is raised if the Text property is changed by either a programmatic modification or user interaction. But in this test app, it only happens when the user directly enters text, not when progra ...Show All

• Allen_Simmons how to start program after soft reset

  hi, how can set mobile device to start program after soft reset is this possible just copy link of program to windows/startup ...Show All

• Bloke 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

• MazterDeath Bug of RTTI support in VS2005 & PPC2003?

  I want to use some code like:typeid(T).name(). These code works with VS 2005 & Windows Mobile 5.0 correctly, just select "Enable Run-time type info" to "yes". But these code can not be compiled with VS 2005 & PPC 2003, I have select "Enable Run-time type info" to "yes", but it still can not be compiled. I have look for answer in here, and found a thread https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=4883 ...Show All

• BugOrFeature_quest Getting Contact for received SMS - WM5

  Hi, I'm interested in getting the Contact related to a received SMS as part of a message interception function I'm putting together. I've received the SmsMessage, but the From is a Recipient object, not a Contact object. How do I get from the Recipient to the Contact The name of the person sending the SMS is displayed, so the Contact must be being pulled up at some point   Cheers Mike ...Show All

• PaulSullivan auto-ftp ...

  I'm working on an app based off of the CPP CE CameraCapture app, and I'd like to regularly FTP the captured media to a web server. I wrote the FTP library in C# (back when I was hoping to do the whole job in C#, before realizing how little DirectShow is exposed to managed code) and honestly currently lack the skills to crank it out in CPP. I'm wondering what is the method to carry out the process, end to end. The platform is currently a Treo7 ...Show All

• Markus Sch. Directory.Exists not reliable?

  My code basically steps through a loop, creates directories if not already exist and saves files into the directories and the root path is "Storage Card", which is a shared folder set in the Pocket PC 2003 emulator the loop goes fine for a few rounds, directories and files are created and stored correctly; then fails at this point( the CreateDirectory call below ) if( ! Directory.Exists( dirPath ) ) { Directory.Crea ...Show All

• Justin Pyfrom Managed C++ code for Pocket PC 2003

  Hello, Currently I had a VS C++ 6.0 project running on PC. I want to port it to Pocket PC 2003 using 2005. 1/ I would like to know if I could wrap my native C++ classes into a mananged C++ (i.e. MC++) for Pocket PC in VC++.NET 2005 so that I could reuse these classes in smart device application written in C#. If so, which is the project type should I create 2/ If my above question is true, because in my current VS 6 C++ projec ...Show All