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• WilliBald Developing a Blackberry App

  I am aware that RIM uses jave runtime environment for their software. Is it possible to make a blackberry application using VS 2005, in C# preferably Anyone ever tried to make a Blackberry app in some language other than java Thanks. I actually do not even have any idea what I want to program for a BB. I was just thinking of a few ideas, and realized that I needed to learn java to do it, so I havent gone ahead ...Show All

• Diego_VB Hide File

  hi, could any body tell me please how to set the hidden property of a file to true using c# thanks If you mean file attributes including "Hidden", please look into FileInfo class. thank you for your reply unfortuantly i didn't find anything that is related to hidden property of a file in the FileInfo class thanks It's an attribute, so FileInfo.Attributes should be used. FileAttributes.Hidden ...Show All

• Theeran How to use cookie in HttpWebRequest?

  Hello, every one! I have met a problem when I ported the code from .net to .net compact. In .net, I can use the CookieContainer propertary of HttpWebRequest to save the cookie which is return by HttpWebResponse and then in the following web requests I can reuse the cookie. But when I copyed the code to .net compact, I found that CookieContainer propertary is not supported .So I thinked out another method, the following is the cod ...Show All

• jsvonline.com System font in Today plugin

  I'm writing a small today plugin for WM 5.0 but I can't figure out how to get the system font and size of the text. Can anyone help me with this Best regards Oystein You can use the following to get the current system font height: SHGetUIMetrics(SHUIM_FONTSIZE_PIXEL, &g_FontSizePixel, sizeof(g_FontSizePixel) and the following to get the current font: GetCurrentObject(hdc, OBJ_FONT) ...Show All

• Valentin56055 Which lib is _DllMainCRTStartup found in?

  Converting a project from eVC++ to VS 2005 caused me to begin having the problem: unresloved external symbol _DllMainCRTStartup I am purposely referencing the symbol, but it wasn't a problem before. Has the lib where this is included changed Thanks, Zack Is linking in corelibc.lib causing you a specific problem Does your definition of DllMain match the following: extern " ...Show All

• Lea41263 vs2005 beta2 compact framework emulator

  I have tried and tried again to get the Pocket_PC emulator to connect to VS2005 beta2. I can make the emulator 'browse' the network, I can even ping it, however, all the VS2005 beta2 attempts to connect to the device give a variety of errors. The VS2003 emulators work fine with VS2003, but even using the device manager I cannot connect to the beta2 emulator. You think this should be easy or there should be doc's to guide you, but if there are, I ...Show All

• Steven Randolph Spy problems

  I can connect with remote File View, RegEdit, HeapView, Process View to any of the Emulators or a real PPC2003 device. But when I run Spy I get either “The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process” “Invalid Signature”   when I connect to an emulator (if the emulator is not running it will bring it up)   OR “The process cannot access the file because it is being used by anot ...Show All

• hypermatt Installer for .net Application

  I have some questions regarding the handling of .net CF installation I have a cab file and a working MSI installer for my app. (based on http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/CompactfxTechArt.asp) How can I check if the .net cf 2.0 is installed on the device and is there a way to somehow merge my installer with the .net cf redistributable (from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx famil ...Show All

• nextgeneration Can we use Arraylists in CF?

  Hi. I have some images as Byte arrays in my application. Can anyone tell me if it is possible for me to store those images in a Arraylist So that I can just run a for loop and insert those images one by one to the SQL CE database Thanks. Hi reO, Instead of holding on to the actual pictures, you could put them in the file system and hold the location of the files in your ArrayList. Your save logic cou ...Show All

• jjbutler88 Updating dataset to the source database

  I'm having problem in updating the dataset to the source database. My code successfully adds record in the dataset. However, the changes do not reflect on the table it was supposed to be updated. Here's my code: I tried an easy one but I don't think this is a disconnected approach since it directly update the source. Look at my new code: Thanks for the advices. I already did solve the problem in ADO.NET. I have downloaded the lastest sqlserve ...Show All

• LINAAR Active Directory In Compact Framework

  Hello Can we use active directory feature in Compact Framework. Although i searched all the namespaces i could not found active directory related namespaces. Anyone having idea regarding Active Directory using Compact Framework Regards Chikuu I don't believe Windows CE has support for AD or can be a member of the domain. Depending on what you’re trying to do, it might be po ...Show All

• Junz Smartphone Camera / Device Cameras

  Is there a recommended generic way to deal with cameras on the smart phone etc I've been informed that there is no common API for dealing with these devices and that each of these devices must be handled seperately using a native library provided by the manufacturer. Whats the plan to deal with these imaging devices moving forward Thanks again! Again, appreciate all the help. Last and final question. Is this ONLY an API (unma ...Show All

• Raudhah Can't open Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC CPP win32 projects in 2005

  I am unable to load the sample projects that come with the Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC SDK in Visual Studio 2005 All I get is an empty error dialog with an OK buttom. Has anyone else seem this behaviour I can open the C# SDK projects with out a problem. Thanks We did have Windows Mobile 5 SDK intalled and still go this error. I realized that we had the Standard Edition of Studio installed and not th ...Show All

• Brad Raulston Is Directshow supported in WM 2003 SE and WM 5.0?

  Hi I'm developing an application for my desktop computer (Windows Xp an Vs2005 with all the neccessary SDKs from Microsoft). It's about capturing and processing video from a webcam. I am doing all of this tasks with DirectShow. Later I would want to adapt it to a Pocket PC (video from its video camera). My iPAQ has now Windows Mobile 2003 SE and I would want to know if all of this work with DirectShow is going to be supported by Windows Mobile 2 ...Show All

• Scott Sullivan Calling managed code from native code using COM interop

  I'm trying to write COM wrappers around an existing C++ library so that it can be called from managed code, and for the most part I have been successful. The managed application can create COM objects in the native library and call them. I've been getting nothing but crashes, however, when I try to make calls in the opposite direction, and I'm wondering if there might be a known problem in this part of COM interop. What I've done is created a CO ...Show All