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• Ken McCullough A multithreading question

  Hi there, I'm using a printer dll (PrintCE.dll) to print into a mobile printer I have via bluetooth. Now everything worked well until I wanted to have a nice error message (and a quick one) if the terminal can't connect to the printer (if it's offline for example), What happens today is that it takes more than 60 seconds until it finally give up the try and gives the error. so what i've done is i've put the start printing procedur ...Show All

• Oscar_Ruiz PictureBox Dispose Problem

  Hi all, I have a application run in O2 Xda IIi Pocket PC (speed 520MHz) where I will update the image of the picture box every minit. My code is like below: void DisplayMap() { Bitmap MyImage1; if(picCar.Image!=Null) picCar.Image.Dispose(); MyImage1 = new Bitmap("C:\car.jpg"); picCar.Image = MyImage1; } My problem is sometimes the application will hang! I have debug this and find out that when ...Show All

• fhcole DataGridBoolColumn

  DataGridBoolColumn seems to be missing from the Smart Device (VB) development environment.  I am using VS 2005 B2 - Win Mobile 5.0 - Compact Framework 2.0. I see the DataGridTextBoxColumn but not the Boolean one.  Otherwise, how does one put a CheckBox into a DataGrid (for a Boolean column in a db table) DataGridBoolColumn class is not supported in Compact Framework 1.0 or 2.0. David You would need to create your own or u ...Show All

• Pemo Hyperlink to Pocket PC CF App including Command-Line parameter

  Hi, I'd like to be able to start a CF application on a Pocket PC from a hyperlink in Internet Explorer running on the Pocket PC and include a command-line parameter.  Further, when the application is already running I'd like to be able to click a different hyperlink and send a different command-line parameter to the running application and have the application act on it. I've achieved this on Windows to a VB6 application.&nb ...Show All

• Elfeffe Getting "Registration failed wirh error 0x8973190e. Error writing file" ... Error 0x80450001

  I am trying to register a simple sample grabber filter that I wrote for WinCE 5. It compiles and links fine and I can copy it to the remote device or emulator. But when I try to deploy the DLL I get the error in the title. Any ideas Thx, Tom I think this is more a COM issue. It is really crashing when the CSampleGrabber constructor is called and it calls the CBaseRenderer constructor. If I replace DECLARE_IUN ...Show All

• C03N Creating a tray Application

  How can I programm a .net Form, which is shown in the windows tray-bar, were server programms are normaly shown Can anybody help me Thanks! Create a form as usual and add a NotifyIcon component to it. This component should appear in the forms designer toolbox. Keep in mind this is just like any other average component, it does not affect the behavior of the form it is placed onto (so if you want to minimize to ...Show All

• SanG_123 Debug using Emulator and VS 2005

  I installed VS 2005 machine that had VS 2003 on it, but NEVER a beta of VS 2005. At first I could not even connect to an emulator with VS 2005 (VS 2003 worked fine), but then I was told to delete all the files in the %USERPROFILE%\local settings\application data\Microsoft\CoreCon\1.0 directory and that allowed me to connect. The new problem is I still cannot debug. I select debug with VS 2005 and I can see all the files being deployed, but when ...Show All

• Ghost69 media player 10 does not detect big memoroy cards

  I'm running windows mobile 2003 on an T-Mobile SDA Music with media player 10. When using a small storage (mini SD) card of 128mb I can select the card as the source for the (music) library. Using an 2GB storage card only the device can be selected as library source. Both cards contain valid data (songs I can play by selecting them manually). Is there any workaround Thx, Alex This forum is device develop ...Show All

• JGWingfield 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

• Gboyega emulator configuration

  I have been using the 2003 SE device emulator with great functionality/ success.  Some how I changed the options from displaying the "Pocket PC" 'skin' to a quad-window.   All the icons are there (as too is the functionality and my deployed project), but I can't get back to the pocket pc form factor that was originally displayed. I've tried resetting all the options/state/etc (delected files in .../Device Emulator) Can some one ...Show All

• aztec2_step program crash for unknown reason - help!!

  Hi! i created a vb app with a C++ dll and made no changes to the dll but added another form to the vb app. the form does nothing except display a few images and text (a temporary help file). the application itself is a recorder and player that has been working for some time now. after adding the 4th form and deploying to the device, my recorder caused the app to hang and my player caused it to crash. this never happened before and i didnt make a ...Show All

• Carl Peto Retriving a file icon

  Hello, please excuse me if I do such posts, I've searched the web to find easy way to load an icon file in c# and to insert it into listview, but I've not found any answer, anyone can help me Thanks in advance Paolo Hello Daniel, I haven't explained myself well, I just want to know what's the simplest way to extract an icon from a file, not how to insert them into listview or imagelist, that I've just found.... ...Show All

• ThisPlay Systems How can I place TOOLBAR on top?

  I try to place TOOLBAR on top　or right with .netcf, but I can not do that . thank your help! It's not supported. You can write your own. thank your help , AlexY. Can you describe it Sorry. The correct url is: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/ImageButton.asp frame=true I can not still find it at http://msdn.microso ...Show All

• newbdeveloper How to debug custom controls at design-time with VS 2005?

  Hello, Has anyone tried to debug a Compact Framework custom control at design-time with Visual Studio 2005 I have read this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/default.aspx pull=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/debugdestime.asp but it is for Compact Framework 1.0 and VS 2003. regards, Romeo Hi Romeo, The custom control design time is based on the .NetFramework (not .NetCF). Hence, it is s ...Show All

• leunam How to manages two threads by time

  Hi all, I'm using the to threads A,B. B needs the result be accepted from A. B cann't start till A finish with a period of time, otherwise it can continue. The serario is : 1. A.Start 2. wait for T seconds. 3. if T be finished then B.Start. Please help. Regards... Hi, But I want B to run after T sec' of A running' that because if A isn't finished then nevermind B it has to be st ...Show All