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• JustinW Updating UI from thread: Control.invoke()?

  Hi, I'm experiencing some difficulties writing my first application for pocketPc. The program should run on a dell axim x51v with windows mobile 5.0. (I'm using vs2005 professional.) The application uses threads to write messages (from the program itself and streams) to the screen in a listbox (lstStatus). I know how to add items to a listbox (which is quite trivial), but I can't figure out how to do this from within a subthread. Here's some cod ...Show All

• aftershock Win CE 5.0 device emulator availability

  Any word on when a standard Win CE 5.0 device emulator will be available . I plan to start my port in January. Incidentally my CE device will use 5.0 on an ARM4i processor with an 800x600 screen. It's January now. Is there any update on a timeframe The Windows CE tools team is working on the release of an emulator image for CE 5.0. They hope to have an image available ...Show All

• fastdev Unable to sign assembly - 'No Provider Was Specified'

  I've been working on a .NET CF 2.0 project in VS2005 for a few weeks without any problems at all. Today, our IT staff switched our user accounts over to a new AD domain, and now when I try to build my project I get a strange error: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.CompactFramework.Common.targets(42,9): error MSB3482: SignTool reported an error 'Failed to sign obj\Debug\MobilePDA.exe. SignTool Error: ISignedCode::Sign r ...Show All

• luoluo Smartphone tab order

  Every time I make a Smartphone application in Visual Studio 2005 the tab order of the elements get in reverse order. The first textbox I add gets the highest tab order and the scrolling between elementes get reversed. The tab order property isn't available for Windows mobile devices and that means that I have to add all the elements "backwards". This is kind of annoying.... Are anyone else having the same problem Best regards ...Show All

• riwan problem in accessing the data

  hi all, coming rite to the question.. well i'm passing  arrays of string from my managed code to my native code .. TCHAR* a[20]; //globally declared int i=0; //global extern "C" _declspec(dllexport) int passstring(TCHAR* f) {       a = f;  / / other codes to process the data       i++; } extern "C" _declspec(dllexport) void shownum() {  &nb ...Show All

• bigd68412 smart client vs fat client question

  About smart clients: 1)      Rich user interface 2)      Responsive 3)      Offline capabilities 4)      Easy to update 5)      Easy to deploy 6)      Easy to manage I have now an application for PDA, it registers information to the local database and synchronise these data via web services to a r ...Show All

• Nikos Giannakas Profiling?

  Is there a way to do profiling within Visual Studio Note that I don't want to use profile guided optimization, I want to find out where my bottlenecks are. Thanks. None of the VS2005 SKUs/Editions shipped with any kind of device profiling built in. Check out Sue Loh's post on profiling tools on the Windows CE Base Team's Blog here http://blogs.msdn.com/ce_base/archive/2005/11/30/498782.aspx to see what's avail ...Show All

• Szmooz PocketPC 2003 Full Screen App

  I am modifying a PocketPC 2003 Visual Basic app. I am using VS 2003. Does anyone know how to write the app so it runs full screen I basically want my app to start full screen when the user turns on the device and lock the device down so that's all the user can do and use all of the real estate on the screen.. I'll include some backdoor way to get to the OS if required. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. ...Show All

• unbob WebBrowser Problem

  I'm currently developping a netcf 2.0 application for wm 5.0 devices. I've embedded a webbrowser control but i have three problems with it : 1- when i do webbrowser.document = "htmlcode" and there's pictures in the html code, the web browser start flicking. 2- The hyperlink in the browser does not seem to work. The navigating and navigated event are not fired when i click on a link. 3- I would like to be able to move the we ...Show All

• Dayn Barlow MinimizeBox = True And Form.Close, Diiferent behavior between CF1.0 and CF2.0

  In CF 1.0 and WM2003, if MinimizeBox of a form was set to true and you were to call Form.Close, it would mimimize the application. With CF 2.0 and WM2005 however, the same scenario closes the form completely. Is this the expected/desired behavior If so, how can one programmatically minimize a form or send it to the back. Form.SendToBack does not seem to work if called from the contructor, form_load or form_activate. I wasn't abl ...Show All

• Jaya Rayasam Windows 2000 freeze with ACTIVEsync 3.8 & DeviceEmulator

  Hi My Problem is, the computer freezes when trying to to connect over active sync I start ActiveSync, I start the Emulator then I start the device manager and tell him to "cradle" the device ActiveSync gehts a connection shortly after this -> Freeze! On which plattforms runs the Emulator (We have w2000 with SP 3) Do I need XP regards Norbert Thank you its definitly this error! (if I turn the network driver on, its only a mat ...Show All

• R W [C#][VS 2005 Bete 2] creating & using a C++ in a C# project

  Hi, I try to create a unmanaged dll in C++ with visualt studio 2005 and the i want to use it in a c# project. My first question is hoaw to create a C++ (unmanaged) dll project for smartphone in visual stuido 2005. I create a Win32 projecdt>>dll project but i supopose it's only for deskop. After that i wrote my dll. .CPP #include "MyDll.h" // This is an example of an exported function. MYDLL_API int fnMyDll() { return 42;} .H ...Show All

• Tim Rachel Device Emulator stopped working after uninstalling Platform Builder

  Hello I am using VS 2005. I was recently working on one problem and had to install evaluation edition of Platform Builder. After I uninstall that, I can no longer use the Device Emulator from VS 2005. When opening Device Emulator Manager, it shows only "Others" item, and DataStore is completely missing; though from VS 2005 Tools/Options/Devices I can see all the platforms still on my PC. How can I fix the emulator settings ...Show All

• Mazen Nahdi DataGrid issues

  Hi, I've installed the CF2.0 SP1 patch so that my DataGrid could be align to the right (I'm writing a RTL program.. hebrew) But I didn't understand how to get the headers to be align to the right aswell, another question regarding the binding of the SQL MOBILE and the DataSet, I have a table, and i want the user to see only 3 columns in the datagrid, but the problem is that one of the columns vary in the DB, I need to display i ...Show All

• Gusbin WM 5.0 PPC SDK install does not finish

  The install, repair, and uninstall of the Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC SDK does not finish.  Here is the end of the install log... Action ended 10:49:26: InstallFinalize. Return value 1. Action 10:49:26: RemoveExistingProducts. Removing applications Action start 10:49:26: RemoveExistingProducts. Action ended 10:49:26: RemoveExistingProducts. Return value 0. Action 10:49:26: CUSTOM_ACTION_0. Action start 10:49:26: CUSTOM_ACTION_0. *** RunIns ...Show All