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• Jim Stallings Can an application trigger another application in Pocket PC Envoirnment

  Hi! If somebody can please guide me over here, it will be greatly appreciated. I want to run an application (written in VB.net) that triggers another application on my pocket PC. Is this possible I know it works for windows envoirnment but I am not too sure if it will work for Pocket PC Envoirnment. Any sort of feedback will be helpful. Thanks Hi, And to add to Anand's answer, if you are using v1 of CF then ...Show All

• rajesh_vellore123 nativewindow in compact framework available??

  I want to select a date from datetimepicker. If I use eventhandler valuechanged, it goes nuts. So I found to control if the date was changed with the eventhandlers DropDown and closeup but these are not available in Compact framework. for the eventhandlers I found this solution http://blog.opennetcf.org/ayakhnin/PermaLink.aspx guid=4069b90f-f53f-4726-8790-36a9d3830aed e DateTimePicker control in the .NetCF v2 doesn't implement DropDown and Cl ...Show All

• Xtreme Developer Change Button Text Size & Font

  Hi Everyone, I'm simply trying to change the size of the text within a Windows Mobile 5.0 MFC device button. In Windows CE, buttons usually have a standard font and text size. I am not able to change the text size of the button or it's font. The following is a quick snippet of what I'm shooting for: // Create fonts CFont theFont; LOGFONT lf; memset(&lf,0,sizeof(LOGFONT)); lf.lfHeight = 20; // Request a 100-pixel-height font lstrcpy(lf.lfF ...Show All

• Heath8041 How to distinguish between Pocket PC and SmartPhone programatically?

  Hi, I want to distingiush between Pocket PC and SmartPhone programatically. GetVersionInfo and GetSysInfo APIs dosn't provide enough information. Is there a way to know it Thanks, Venki cool stuff! ideal for application updates for my applications as I am also wanting to create 2 version of my app, for PPC and smartphone which means that I can send "down the wire" the appropriate platform application. ...Show All

• Jeff B. cryptographic support in PocketPC

  Is there a cryptographic Library/API for Pocket PC. If yes, could anyone please direct me to some tutorials/code samples. thanks, divyesh Sure. NETCF V2 mimics desktop's System.Security.Cryptography. For V1 you could use OpenNetcf.org implementation. For native application use Crypto API (which you also can P/Invoke from NETCF V1): http://www.developer.com/ws/other/article.php/10949_3562346_3 ...Show All

• E1234 Pocket Access

  Hello guys, i need to create new Access tables on PPC2003SE then read from and write to them, of course programmaticaly. Does anyine has an idea on how this is possible thanks a lot in advance No, you can only access XML files which are created by serializing DataSet. DataSet and DataTable have nothing to do with Pocket Access even though they could be used together via Pocket Access DataAdapter (3 rd party tool ...Show All

• jk1000 Missing assembly information in converted project

  This is a rather weird 'bug'. We upgraded a VS2003 Pocket PC project to VS2005. The conversion process didn't change AssemblyInfo.cs and when we go into the new Assembly Information screen in the project properties we see the settings as we set it. When we change it in that property screen, it does change in AssemblyInfo and vice versa. But when we build the project and have a look at the properties of the executable there is no version info ...Show All

• rnaumann Is any message sent to a program when I stop it in Start->Setting->Memory->Stop Running Programs?

  Hi All, I have some resource to release when quit the program, so can I receive any Message when someone stop the program by killing the thread Thanks~ Thank you , I have tried that if I stop the dialog program, the dialog can receive the OnDestroy() message( also OnClose() ), but if I DoModal another dialog based on that, then I stop the program in ..->Memory->Stop Programs , I receive no message ...Show All

• Shyne79 Initiating a Dial-Up Networking Connection and VPN

  I may have missed it when going through the MSDN documentation, but I can't seem to find much information on how to make a Pocket PC 2003 Phone (VX6600 and Samsung i700) establish the default dial-up connection and then connect to the default (and only) VPN. Would anyone be kind enough to refer me to documentation or 3rd party write-ups that addresses such isues Thank you much! so you can, glad about tha ...Show All

• Sandro Christiaan 4x20 LCD Display Problem

  Hi, I am programming a 4x20 LCD display refer to LCD Smartie. I am using embedded windows CE and embedded VC++. The LCD could display on, cursor on, blinking and move to the correct position through Parallel Port. However, the LCD couldn't show the correct word on the screen. It just blinking on the destinated position. What should I do I am using S6A0069 controller (compatible with HD44780). Thanks for help. kayki, There is not enough in ...Show All

• Jossef Goldberg WebBrowser bug in .NET Compact Framework?

  Hi. I am developing an application using .NET Compact Framework for Windows Mobile 5. I want to use a WebBrowser control to display some html text inside of the WebBrowser. To do so, I am setting the property DocumentText of the control to the desired text. When the application runs, the text is displayed, but then the control enters an infinite loop of document refreshes. This means that the control will refresh the text entered and th ...Show All

• David100 Strange errors using eVC++

  Hi, just started to migrate an app to my PocketPC. I am trying to write a native C dll that communicates with a driver. So I just open a project in eVC and tries this in the main cpp file: // Simple.cpp : Defines the entry point for the application. // #include "stdafx.h" int WINAPI WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPTSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { CreateFile("TAP", GENERIC_READ ...Show All

• Broken c# to develope pocketPC/SmartPhone apps?

  Hi, I am going to develop an application which uses a lot of communication with a PDA's internal GSM/GPRS modem, but also with external units via an extension slot. Now I have heard that the .NET CF is not ultimate for this kind of work, but that Suns J2ME should be used. I have gotten the impression that communication with ports in for example C# is not very well developed. Anyone know where I can find more info on this subject, or h ...Show All

• scott2k4 Copy files between PC->PPC and PPC->PC

  Hi, I’m writing a program that copies any file from PC to PPC and PPC to PC. To do the job I use OpenNetCF Desktop Communication Library and not problems at all, at the moment. My only worry is to get a File Explorer showing the files in the connected PPC so the customer can pick up visually the wanted one. At the moment it is only possible when copying files from PC to PPC, with a normal OpenFileDialog control, but not in the oposit ...Show All

• BillCondo Calculation Problem in TabControl - Autoscroll

  Hi, I tried to use the tabcontrol with the Autoscroll featur on a tabpage. It does "strange things". To reproduce: New PPC 2003 App Add a panel with height 1 and dock bottom. Add a tab control with dock fill Add a label to the first tab page very colse to the bottom. Set Autoscroll to true on the first tabpage. Fill this label with text so that it almost fills the width of the tabpage. Run the program to ensure no scrolling occures. Next add a h ...Show All