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• sloth1974 URLDownloadToCacheFile strange blocking behavior on Pocket IE

  I'm working on an ActiveX control for Pocket Internet Explorer. I'm using the URLDownloadToCacheFile() function to dowload external resources to the ActiveX control. My problem: The function seems to block until the container (Pocket IE) triggers a redraw. This means that my control is stuck until I e.g. use the scrollbars and scroll the HTML page up or down a bit... After that, everything is fine and my resources are loaded into the cache. Any ...Show All

• Equinox_d How can I effectively do ExtractAssociatedIcon()?

  On a Pocket PC 2003 Device, in Visual Studio 2005 C#, I am creating a form that lists filenames in a ListView control. I want to attach the appropriate icon to each filename. In the desktop world, the Icon class method ExtractAssociatedIcon() would do the job. I have also investigated the HKCR registry, doing the following steps: 1) Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(ext) where ext is the filename's extension, getting the <no name> ...Show All

• Klaus-Dieter RESET POCKETPC

  hi ; i have a problem : i must to make a soft reset of the my device in csharp; how can i make it thanks alessandro Not to count robotic arm which would grab the device and push reset button, there's no other way. If you're not running anything on device, why do you need to reset it in a first place May be there’s a way to do that without reset. Please see this: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2005/03/please-read-before-po ...Show All

• Nokas Unable to play WMV on WMP10 on PocketPC

  I'm not sure if this is right place to ask this question, apologies if I'm out of line. I'm trying to play a video file (encoded as Windows Media Player 9 Screen) on a Pocket PC running Windows Media Player 10 Mobile on Windows Mobile 2003 SE (it's a Dell Axim X50v). I get the sound but no picture, so I'm guessing I'm missing the WMP9 Screen codec. Does anyone know how I can fix this Thanks in advance. Thanks ...Show All

• Chellam MDE: Can't run Device Emulator Manager

  I'm trying to run the Device Emulator Manager on my Win2K desktop. It terminates immediately without a message, whether I start it from the Start Menu, from Windows Explorer or from the cmd line. The emulator itself starts up and runs fine. I'd like to set up an ActiveSync connection to this. As I understand it, I need to get the Device Emulator Manager running to do this. Yes, to get ActiveSync to connect to ...Show All

• Tovdb find out cursor's position in textbox

  how can I find out what the cursor's position in a textbox is i've created a pop-up context menu, and of of the options is PASTE... i want to paste the text i've copied in a custom clipboard to the current position of the cursor... should I use the textBox1.Text.Insert (bla-bla-bla) option if yes, how you can find out the caret's position by textBox.SelectionStart, even if you don't have a selection made... t ...Show All

• arunprakashr how to take RSSI in a bluetooth signal?

  Someone knows how to take the RSSI (signal strength) in a bluetooth signal in c# (or VB.net)   Any example should be appreciated.   Thanks in advance. Visit http://www.pinvoke.net ; they have a small section for CF. ---Mike Hi, NETCF does not provide an API for retrieving the Bluetooh sign strength values. However, you may P/Invoke into the OS APIs to obtain them. You c ...Show All

• powertechit Interaction with bluetooth headset

  Hi, is there an easy way to play some audio via a bluetooth headset or capture the audio from the headset I didn't find a lot of information about this on the web & msdn but I'm sure I'm not the first person trying to write an application interacting with a BT headset... michivo Sorry, I thought there'd be an API for using Bluetooth devices integrated into the .net-cf. Thanks, michivo ...Show All

• George Mathew CenterWindow() no longer works on WM5 ?

  Hi all, I want to display a model dialog and center it, I used CenterWindow() inside OnInitDialog function to position the window successfully on eVC++3.0 MFC application. When I did the same to a WM5 fresh new MFC project, it did not work out. I have to manually set the X-Pos and Y-Pos in resource to make it center on screen. Is there any better method to center a dialog on screen Hi, ...Show All

• usna91 Access denied when deploying to Sp2003

  I've just started testing the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 out and I've managed to upgrade my Embedded 4.2-project files to VS 2005. After I've deployed an application which require priviliged access, I run it and I a messagebox pops up with this message: "Access denied. The program cannot start because it is not digitally signed with a trusted certificate." I have entered this information in the Authenticode signing-tab for the project: * Auth ...Show All

• Boise83716 i m new...from where to start!

  hello friends i m begineer who has not begin yet. please tell me how to start in mobile development. difference between smartphone,pocket pc, windows mobile 2005 thanx in advance what are you using to develop Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 as there are 2 version of the compact framework v1.0 and v2.0 v1.0 http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/CompactFramework/ v2.0 http://netcf2.blogspot.com/ ...Show All

• DavidT1361 Setup and Installer Package

  I have developed CF2.0 application and did CAB Project and MSI installer package to deploy. I do see lot of downloads on my application but all the downloaders are disapppearing after download. I accidentaly found the reason that, when they try to install my Compact Framework 2.0 application with the supplied Installer the installer asks for .Net Framework 2.0 to be present in the Desktop since my application and Setup projects were ...Show All

• richqwerty Establishing a Direct Database Connection

  Can I establish a direct database connection with .NET CF Is this possible with Pocket PC/.NET CF   For example is there a System.Data.OracleClient that supports .NET CF Thanks again, Jeff. Yes, it's possible to establish direct connection to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Sever Mobile (CE), support for that is included into VS. Other DB providers are available from 3rd parties. For example, Oracle DB provider can be found here: htt ...Show All

• Bob.K. i have a problem, please help me

  well i need a help with a cookies i have an user control to loggin, in it a create a cookie with the user that is logging to acces it in other pages Cookie cook = new Cookie ( "users" , login.UserName); I don’t know how can i get it Sorry for my English i’m from Spain Thanks .NETCF does not support cookies (System.Net.Cookie) ...Show All

• EvilSilver Detecting an active phone call on WindowsCE

  I'm developing an application than sends and recives infromation through webservices via a GPRS connection. During the day, on fixed intrevals, the application connects to the server, and downloads the information that has been marked to transmit. As the device i'm using also has the capability making voice calls, this causes a problem. When i try to access the webservice via the GPRS connection and the user has an established voice call, th ...Show All