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• David Eccleston - DX MVP Licensing or copy protection howto?

  Which mechanism exist for licensing on a pocket PC And how can I protect PPC software from copying We will start a commercial development of a PPC Tool. Thanks for your comments Kurt. We currently do not have a standardized mechanism for doing licensing schemes or copy protection.  However, software distribution sites such as handango.com and pocketgear.com support a specific set of registration models and ...Show All

• Ebnez Installing .Net Framework 2.0 (KB829019)

  Do you need to uninstall .Net Framework 1.1 before installing .Network Framework 2.0    So, it's better to stick with .Net Framework 1.1 Thankyou. Best Regards. Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS2003) has been broken after this update! "Delta Synchronization" step don't work! You're in a wrong forum, this one is for Compact Framework. Anyway, the answer is no. Yes. MII ...Show All

• XiaoFeng Does PocketPC 2003 receives WM_HIBERNATE message ?

  Hi All, 1) Does PocketPC 2003 receives WM_HIBERNATE messages If yes how should I simulate my application receiving this notification. Offsource I'll be implementing WM_HIBERNATE message in my CallBack function. 2) I tried sample application from WinCE book that has implemented this. But no success. To test this I fully loaded PPC 2003 with files that eate all memory and only 0.3 mb of memory was left on PPC. This time instead of receiving WM_HI ...Show All

• mryufy 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

• Gansi how can I tell when the phone is in use?

  I have an app with an option to run full-screen, to prevent the users from messing about with the device and breaking it. It has a list of allowed apps, and a timer which runs every 2 seconds to see what window is in the foreground. "Phone" is allowed, nothing else is Unless the user is making a call, the timer will bring my app back to the front. How can I tell if the user is making a call I used to use OpenNetCF, but dropped that, n ...Show All

• Mercury Tracking Wifi Signal Strengths

  I am writing a pocket PC 2003 application that needs to track Wifi signal strengths and Wireless Access Points' MAC addresses. Anyone knows how can I code it in C#.net 2005 Check out this link:  http://blog.opennetcf.org/ctacke/binary/WiFiDiscovery.htm It doesn't work with all WiFi drivers but I've checked it out on the Dell Axim X50 with ppc 2003 and mobile 5.0 and it works great Doesn't report Signal Strength on the X30 but all ot ...Show All

• jiao SQL Server 2000 connection failure

  Hi, I'm trying to connect to an SQL server 2000 database table from my PDA using VB.NET through a bluetooth connection. I keep getting an error telling me that I cannot connect. I have tried everything that I can think of to fix it. Do I need a copy of SQL Server CE on the PDA, even though I'm only viewing data from my PC's database on my PDA Thanks Hi, Thanks for the reply. All of the 6 things you ...Show All

• shals Can no longer add reference to CF 2.0 assembly in windows forms application

  Hi everyone I had solution that contained many projects which was written in visual studio 2005 beta 2, the solution contained both smart device projects (windows forms and class libraries) and projects that targeted the full framework as well (windows forms and class libraries).  Some of my full framework projects contained references to my .net CF 2.0 class libraries as I wanted to share the libraries between both platforms.  This ...Show All

• Parag_Dave How to deploy my apps?

  Hi All, I have develop Pocket PC Application which is running perfectly from my development PC using iPAQ PDA. Now, I need to install my apps on the iPAQ PDA. Anyone can help n guide me step by step on how to create .cab files, .inf files ,.msi files (package n deploy app) and also how to install .Net Compact Framework and SQL CE on the PDA. I'm using : - - VS Net 2003 - .Net Compact Framework 1.0 - Windows Mobile 2003 Version ...Show All

• CF User run batch file

  How can i run batch file in device i need to install more packages (cab) at time, but my run.bat netcf.all.wce4.armv4.cab sqlce.dev.wce4.armv4.CAB sql.wce4.armv4.CAB sqlce.wce4.armv4.CAB OpenNETCF.SDF.wce4.armv4.cab Program_PPC.ARMV4.CAB doesnt work, help thanx, Palo Look into CreateProcess() function. Hi Palo, Running the .cab files directly in your batch causes them to all be shell executed at the same time, which will fa ...Show All

• Johnson.R Data security

  Hi All, I have a file (around 6 Mb) that will be loaded into customer's machine and currently I somehow secure it by MANUALLY manipulating the information inside the file. I read somewhere in MSDN magazine that they strictly recommend not to write our own cryptographic function which is why I re-consider my approach. The reason I didn't use those sophisticated algorithms that are provided by .NET is because I have no idea on where to store ...Show All

• WillTartak path not valid

  I am trying to connect to a sql mobile database. the db is located at C:/PMIS Mobile.sdf I know the db is there, I put it there. but when I try to run it, I get path not valid. My code is below. Dim cn As New SqlCeConnection("data source =C:/Pmis Mobile.sdf") cn.Open() if anyone sees what I am doing wrong, please let me know. I have spent many an hour looking for a solution to this issue, some o ...Show All

• eurictham Community Device Preview RAM sizing

  Hello, I've read through some other threads recommending setting the RAM via the file-configure menu and through the dos prompt, but neither of those seem to work on the Beta version. Are they turned off Thanks, Allen The file/configure dialog won't let you change the memory size while the emulator is running (you can't add RAM to a running PocketPC device, either). From the command prompt, you ...Show All

• rksty Defragmented Internal Memory

  Is there a tool that can be used to defragment internal memory. Not an SDCard. I have found lots of tools for that. But nothing for internal memory. Any odeas Thanks It is unmmanged code an we are allocating a char array as follows at startup only: new char[6*1024*1024]. This call fails in this one device which had been working fine for a long time. Nope. Is not the app. An ...Show All

• stupidStan Launch .reg files

  Hi, Is it possible to execute an .reg file in order to put the change into the registry. Is there a way to do it direcly in the my application and/or is it possible to do it by another way I noticed that you can not lauch an .reg file direcly from the explorer. Thanks, It's not possible to "execute" .reg, file. Registry editor is executed on desktop because it is associated with .reg extension. It would work on device as ...Show All