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• Fishy Pete Strategy/technology choice for Mobile App on VS 2005

  We have a non-mobile web app which runs asp pages with a VB.NET 2005 business rules DLL in the middle and either sql or oracle at the backend. The VB.NET DLL is activex enabled. Now we are developing a mobile app in vb 2005 for mobile data collection. This is running Sql Server CE. I would like advice on the best way to connect the mobile application to the main app (a) when the app is connected on wireless or activesync and (b) when the a ...Show All

• JHalmans .CameraAccess property not working?

  I have the following code... SelectPictureDialog selectPictureDialog = new SelectPictureDialog (); selectPictureDialog.CameraAccess = false ; When the SelectPictureDialog comes up, I expect to not see the camera as an option. On my Cingular 2125 smart phone I still see the camera option. Is this property not working correctly Looking at the documentation, it says: " Not supported. Get ...Show All

• leo1 WANTED: list of devices supported

  Hi all, where could i find the list of devices currently supported by VS2005 thanks. Try going here http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/finder.php and and under the 'Platform/OS' clicking either      Windows Mobile for Smartphones or     Windows Mobile for Pocket PCs then set the option box to 'Required' Seems to do a good job. - John I agree with this. Think its more alo ...Show All

• Bob Wiggins How Do you modify the Schema of TASKS DATABASE on WM2005?

  Does anyone know how to modify the EDB schema of the "tasks database" on WM2005   Once the device boots shell32.exe already has mounted and has locks on the database preventing me from appending new columns to the schema.  On Pre-WM2005 the developer could add columns without problems, but with WM2005 you can't - Does anyone know how to force shell32.exe to close all handles/sessions to the "tasks database" Thanks, Jim Row Dallas TX ...Show All

• likestoski CAB files... is the only way to install a application in the emulator?

  Hi, i just downloaded the "Mobile Suite 4.zip" for pocket 2003 (a package for placing orders for the MS Retail Management System over a pocket 2003) and I noticed that the installer file is not a cab file.. it is a windows regular .msi package and it installs few files in my pc and then try to copy the proper files to the pocket device, i have the emulator running and listening from VisualStudio2003. The windows installer just tells me tha ...Show All

• Radu-Cristian Alexa Windows Apps & Pocket PC Apps

  I've been trying to find information on creating a pocket pc app that will sync with a windows application, but havent had any luck location the information and wondered if anyone had any good links to the information, also would like to find out how to deploy the application to install both the windows and pocket pc versions or would it be best to create seperate installers for them   Thanks in advance.... ...Show All

• Tamar Parallel Port interface in windows CE (new problem)

  Hi, I am new to windows CE. I would like to know any solution on Parallel Port interfacing in windows CE I am using eVC++ to develop my application which sent information to a 4x20 Character LCD display. However, I discover that the eVC++ not include with <conio.h>,therefore I could not use the method _outp. What should I do in this case On the other hands, according to other articles, it needs a dll to drive parallel port in win32 ...Show All

• akks Getting Contact information from Speed Dial database entries (WM5)?

  Hi, I am attempting to get information from the speed dial database in WM5. I have managed to access the "speed.db" database. I can get the DisplayName and Index for each speed dial entry (I'll post the code if anyone is interested). However I'm not sure how to get more information. I'm assuming there should be an OID in the speed dial entry that is associated with a valid Outlook Contact. However I'm not able to find this infor ...Show All

• gwc GPRS on Smartphones with C#

  Hi everybody I am trying to open a socket over GPRS on a smartphone with the System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient class. But this results in an error. I read something about a ConnectionManager in OpenNETCF but could not find out, whether in .NETCF2 this is still necessary, nor how to exactly use the class from my C# code in order to open a GPRS connection. Can somebody provide or point me to a valid code snippet about how to open a socket on a ...Show All

• achalk How I can change the mouse position ?

  Hi again, Im searching how to change the mouse ( Cursor ) position from the code, anybody knows how i can do it Many thx in advance Thx but: System.Windows.Forms.Cursor only has: Cursor.Current Cursor.Hide(); Cursor.Show(); on my little Windows CE app. Do you know how change the mouse position then hi macro. i m hassan mushtaq. i have same problem which u face a long time ago. and i'll able very thankful to u for help ...Show All

• theManMyth WM 5 on emulator

  How do I run WM 5 on the emulator do I need to get the WM 5 image if so then where can I get it and what is the installation process Thanks.   Carl Brochu MSFT wrote: The Windows CE 5.0 projects are not directly related to Windows Mobile 5.0 devices.  Also, there is no Windows CE 5.0 Emulator included with Visual Studio 2005 so you probably were trying to connect to a Windows CE 5.0 device. Yo ...Show All

• Don.Frazier Memory Allocation to SD Card to prevent OutOfMemory Excepetion

  Hi, Just a little backround: The memory left of my Pocket PC is about 5MB, however my SD Card has at least 100MB of memory left. Now I try upload an XML file containing about 7 megabytes of Photos Converted to Base 64 (why its part of the requirements) . Now at some point of the code , I get an OutOfMemory error, probably since there is not enough memory buffer for HttpWebRequest. I was wondering if there is a simple configuration in .NET to all ...Show All

• traitors What is App.Config and how can I use it?

  I'm having a problem with .NET CF1.1 SP3. When connecting to a JBOSS web app via webservice, I get a webexception. This appears to be caused by SP3 (this wasn't present when I was running bog standard 1.1). Apparently... through research it looks as though the following is occurring: Q: Why do I receive a strange error message when debugging my Web Services client which talks to an Apache web server A: The problem here is that when ...Show All

• RZ0 Trying to send a message to a control, whats wrong with this code?

  Good day, I'm trying to send a message to a control using this code... but somethings wrong with it...  Is this even possible Thanks. Code Below:   [DllImport("coredll.dll")] private static extern IntPtr GetCapture();   numericControl.Capture = true ; IntPtr Hwnd = GetCapture(); numericControl.Capture = false ; Message msg1 = Message.Create(Hwnd,0x0201,(IntPtr)(1),(IntPtr)(1)); MessageW ...Show All

• Stevereno What is the difference between ListBox and ComboBox control?

  hi, I know one is, listbox, you can select more than one. But in combobox, you only can select one. What else Thanks. The obvious one is that a combobox shows a single selection and drops down. A ComboBox is a combination of listbox and edit control. A simple combobox is just a listbox with an edit control at the top; you can select from the list or type. a combobox with style "dropdown&q ...Show All