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• eBug localization

  Can anyone point me at some good FAQ's on how to do fast-small localization in CF 2.0. The the following links http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_fxnetcf/html/1007280a-630e-479a-8011-e46dfb7a51a3.asp http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_fxnetcf/html/18d70080-070b-40d9-a955-6d0871427e6e.asp ...Show All

• Tom RS \Temp directory writing of logs, what happens to files in temp

  Is PPC smart enough to delete the files I'm writing in my C# app to the \temp directory Does it maintain this directory, or must I maintain this directory Any ideas/help on the platform would be appreciated. Thanks! No, you'll have to delete the files yourself - the OS doesn't do any cleanup for you. If you're working with a Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC device you may want to store log files in the directory \Application Data\V ...Show All

• bradrum "the new connection uses a data provider that is not supported"

  When attempting to estbalish any form of data connection in my mobile device project I get - "the new connection uses a data provider that is not supported" You can connect to SQL Mobile or SQL Server 2000/2005 right out of the box. For any other DB you need NETCF compatible provider for this specific DB which is not available from Microsoft, but might be available from 3rd party (best bet is DB ...Show All

• dlyle Save a datarow to a new table.

  Ok so I have a dataset and a few tables in it. what I want to do is take a row from the original table and save it to a new table. What i have done is declared a new datatable, declared a new datarow. set the values in the new datarow to equal the values in the row from the original table. Then newdatatable.addrow(newrow). All i get is "This row already belongs to another table." So my question is how do I save a row from a d ...Show All

• BigPaul Remote Spy suddenly stops reporting window messages

  Hi, Has anyone else had problems using Remote Spy provided with Visual Studio 2005's Smart Devices functionality I have been seeing an issue which pretty much makes it unusable in my scenario. What happens is I can connect to a Windows Mobile 2005 device via ActiveSync (or an emulator via DMA) and obtain a list of windows. However if I select a given window and attempt to view the window messages being sent to it the log suddenly stops ...Show All

• Kaloyan Pls give me some advice!

  Hello there, I am a new comer to this smart device development world. now I have some problems with creating a smart device dll using VS 2005. The problem is I know little about developing DLLs. Is there anyone who has any online tutorials or useful sites about it especially for VS2005 Thank you very much... Thanks! I have now managed to create a dll from C++ code, to call it from a managed ...Show All

• jtan PocketPC/Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce

  I've developed a PocketPC Webservice solution with Vs2005, and was assuming i could Publish/Deploy the solution just as i have done with a similar WinForms 2.0 application that uses the same WebServices. There is no option to publish in the Pocket PC project though. And none of the build directories include any manifest/setup files. Am i misunderstanding the concept of Pocket PC deployment in Visual Studio 2005 I assumed i would be able in ...Show All

• ConfusedNewb Bug in VS 2003?

  I recently posted regarding a TypeLoad exception in Microsoft.VisualBasic http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=113878 It appears that my findings have highlighted a bug in VS2003 is this the case Also my work around seems inconsistent sometimes its OK other times it doesn't have the desired effect. Any ideas Thanks in advance. I have managed to repro the problem in a small project without a ...Show All

• Geralyn Miller - MSFT manual start and stop service from emulator

  Hi, I installed the redistributable component httpd on to windows mobile 5 emulator. I need to look at the log file and update some registry key. But the httpd is running and locks the log file and registry key. How can I manually stop the httpd running in the emulator I tried to terminate Service.exe from VS2005 remote process viewer but the process does not die. A hacky way to do this is found in: ...Show All

• TimRaml Is that possible to write a web UI program running on local device?

  hi, This might be a weird question. What I am thinking is, we have a program for PDA. It works fine. But now, we want to make it work on phone edition, we could change our code to do that, but you know, phone edition, the screen is really small for our old program. We could make it work, but it will be painful. We also could use asp.net mobile to do that. But it needs connection all the time. I think, if we can create a program has web UI, bu ...Show All

• Brahim H Windows Mobile

  Hi everybody, this is the first time i am here, so, i hope not to make many mistakes. the problem i have now is that a customer wants, for any reason, the date/time application of a Windows Mobile Operating System to be locked, so nobody can change the date or time, Do you know a way to do this Oscar   markpre_ms wrote: There is no way to stop the user from changing the date and time on a windo ...Show All

• Tony Danby SQLite and Compilation for Different Environments

  I want to run SQLite on my PPCs for an app I am building.  I want to be able to have 2 versions. 1 for all arm processors 1 for all x86 emulators If I compile a C++ app in Visual Tools 2003 for a 2002 device, will this app/should this app port accross all devices with a similar processor regardless of PPC version (ie: 2003-Mobile etc) Thanks!   InquiringMinds wrote: If I compile a C++ app in Visual Tools 2003 f ...Show All

• coosa background services

  http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/services.html is this still up to date somebody who has experiences withit OK, I'll do ;) (1) All the codes are there. You need a little bit of C++ experiences to compile and use the code. (2) ClearRunApp is to clear the scheduled task. If you want to run something at 10AM, you should call ClearRunApp after 10AM. Where to put the ...Show All

• R Zimmerman Really need to increase main memory

  Currently the emulator allocates about ~25MB of memory (storage+progeam). Storage isn't a problem since I can emulate a storage card. However 20MB of program memory is not enough for some of the applications I'm testing. Is there a way I can increase the program memory to about ~40MB Thanks in advance for the help. :) From the VS Tools->Options->Device Tools->Devices-> <device name>->Prop ...Show All

• JosephDev AsyncCompletedEventArgs in Compact Framework

  Hi all, I created a .cs file using WSDL tool so that I can use that .cs file to create a Web Service Proxy class. Here is the syntax- wsdl http://myweb.com/webservices/WebServiceTest.wsdl wsdl I used the result .cs file to create proxy Web Service class for my Windows application for .NET. It worked fine. I used the same .cs file to create proxy Web Service class for my Pocket PC application for CF .NET. I got a complier error that ' AsyncComp ...Show All