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• dotnetdev Problem from eVC4.0 to studio2005

  Hi! I am transfering a PPC ARM project from embedded VC4.0 to studio 2005. Under the old studio everything is fine, but under 2005 from time to time i receive "data misalignment" runtime exception. The code that causes this is like: pointer->getString().c_str(); Any idea if this is my fault, or bug in 2005 I know that eVC4.0 had problems with this exception and MS released a patch. I suppose it is some bug in 200 ...Show All

• Jeff Sholl Application.Exit() problems

  Hello, as part of my application i have been designing for 2 months now, i use multiple form objects within the application. After a form has been opened, to close it i used the Application.Exit method, this would close the particular form and everything would be fine. Since isntalling the Service Pack 2 (and ive tried 3) runtimes on my device, when i open a new form inside the application, after ive done what i want to do with the form and tr ...Show All

• haputanlas Loading of nb0 files

  The emulator documentatin claims the DE to be able to load nb0 files directly (and dess files, for that matter)  but I was unable to load such a file by associating it with DE.  Can you give me an example of the command line arguments required to load a nb0 or dess file   Hi Lutz, The *.dess files are emulator saved state files and they require /s parameter. So DeviceEmulator /s foo.dess *.NB0 are OS/boot ...Show All

• JCichocki How to make sure I am working with NETCF SP3?

  Hello, I'm rather new to Visual Studio and especially SmartDevice developing. I have a decent knowledge in Borland Delphi, and i'm trying to apply my skills in .NET developing using Visual Studio 2003. Here is the brief explanation of a problem I've run into: In my application I'm using a listbox, which stores some collection items. Anyway, I want to trap the keys, pressed while listbox is focused. In the event list there is no such an event ...Show All

• tjmckenzie Publishing Cab File

  Hi, In VS2005 there is an option to publish WinForm application. other user can access this web page and download the latest application. how is it possible to do the same with Cab files created for mobile device applications. “Click Once” deployment is not supported for devices. You can publish CAB file on your WEB server manually, though. ...Show All

• Kfironit Access Violation error

  Hi i'm developing an application for Windows CE.NET using embedded Visual C++ 4.0 sp 4 and i'm getting an "First Chance Exception 0x0000005: Acces violation" error when i debug the program. The line that is raising the exception is this: dataBloqueptr->data = new unsigned __int8 [total]; and i don't know why is this happenning, because i use this exact same statement before and it doesn't create any errors. So please hel ...Show All

• David Gwynn-Jones How to make the window do not Catch the focus!

  my programme trys to Create My Input Method.Now ,i meet the following problem: (look at the piture 1,sorry i don't know how to upload picture) http://storage.msn.com/x1pgliP38XxBL1JSqV10bJQFyIouqjeiECcYMPx1V0xyxucM14cJr2CCULidyq4N-ui2lfpTbLJE8b8Jh6HdNjzE7sq6Gf807V1tYRRSBO1-HVqHFduHvUJBfV_tNkCHabbmIJR2aQ7jwTPXTUCZpIs1A when i press any digit key,the focus 0f SMS window is lost(look at the piture 2 http://storage.msn.com/x1pgliP38XxBL1JS ...Show All

• .agony binding list

  I have a dataset bind to several textbox with the bindingsource object. How can I obtain a list or something like that in which I could know wich textbox is bind with each field of mi dataset. I'm working with visualstudio 2005 and cf v2.0. Thanks for your help. Generally that is unnecessary because these mappings are set by you in a first place and known in advance, but it can be done by checking ...Show All

• Rick Warr How to increase RAM size in Emulator V2?

  In Microsoft Device Emulator V2, File->Configure->General. Both the OS image name and specify RAM size check box are disabled. Can the RAM size be increased to 256 in Emulator V2 The RAM size UI is disabled while the emulator is running (in both V1 and V2) because Windows CE doesn't support hot-plug of RAM. ;-) You can specify RAM size and OS image name when the emulator is not actually running. ...Show All

• Markus Gallagher Constrain User Movement of Window

  Hi, I have a Pocket PC application I am trying to port to the desktop. I am trying to limit the user from moving the main CWnd window above a certain point on the screen so that popup wnidows can appear above the main window and be easy to interact with. I can't seem to find a way to constrain the window. I have tried catching the WM_MOVE window message and when the user is finished moving the window, send my own WM_MOVE message, but I can't see ...Show All

• Francisco Chinchilla Smartphone - submenus on left softkey

  I'm creating an app for Smartphone 2003 and am having problems with the menus.  I know that, "The Designed for Windows Mobile logo certification stipulates that the left softkey is always a common default action (not a pop-up menu)."   However, I've seen plenty of Smartphone apps with submenus on both the left and right softkeys.  I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Standard, and although I thought they had dropped this restriction (from ...Show All

• systemanalyst Device screen dimensions in compact framework

  Hello guyz, can any one plz help me. How to get the device screen dimensions in compact framework. You can use the Bounds property System.Windows.Forms.Screen class which is supported by the .NET Compact Framework (according to the documentation). For more info, take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWindowsFormsScreenClassTopic.asp an ...Show All

• ChandraP Xml Reading

  Hmm... storing data with XML files. Which lead me straight to a problem. XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(Server.MapPath("Arsenal.xml")); Now on the device its in \Program%20Files\SmartDeviceApplication4\Arsenal.xml with the .exe so i thought i could get away with just having "Arsenal.xml" as the path... unfortuantly it throws a: An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in System.Xml.dll ...Show All

• rjwelte Use 2005 library with Embedded Visual C++ 4.0

  Hello, we are building a library ".lib" with Visual Studio 2005 (Because some features are only available on windows mobile 2005). But as the rest of our code is for Embedded Visual C++ 4.0, we need to use this library there. Is there a way to use this library, or would it help to put the fincionality of the library into a dll Enough has changed between eVC4.0 and VS2005 that you likely won't be abl ...Show All

• WebAppsSupport GPS-Enabled devices that run .NET

  I want to develop my first application for mobile devices, but I'm a little confused. I want to write an app that reads the GPS location from a phone. First, which GPS-enabled phones are in the market that I can write applications for using .NET compact framework What's the difference between SmartPhone, Windows Mobile, etc Is there a standard API for getting GPS location from a phone Thanks, Laura Hi, ...Show All