I am trying to put together a platform-independent (multi-cab) setup of = a PPC application.=20 using Vs.net 2003, plus recommendations at this URL: = http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=3D/library/en-us/dnnetc= omp/html/netcfdeployment.asp The cab files and msi get built withou...more >>

I am trying to draw some toolbar images that have transparent pixels on the sides - so that it blends in with the toolbar color, I tried both bitmaps and Icons. bitmaps don't even have a "transparent color", and ImageList on CF doesn't support such color setting. Icons support transparent...more >>

Hi all, For my app, when a Pocket PC device is "cradled", I need to upload a number of updated files from the device onto the desktop, after a user has entered data. I am storing the user-entered data into proprietary formatted files and are NOT using SQL CE on the device. Once the files have ...more >>

Hi gurus! I have developed a ftp application on .NET CF by wrapping the wininet ftp functions. The application does work perfectly well (for both file upload and download) when the CE.NET device is connected to the FTP server via wireless LAN. However, when the CE.NET device is connected to th...more >>

I have written some code that loops through a windows panel that contains many checkboxes. Depending on the flag, it should set the checkbox value to true or false. The full framework has the HasChildren method, CF does not. The code example below runs until I try and set the checkbox value the...more >>

Hi! I have a big problem regarding daylight saving on Windows CE 4.1. This is making me really crazy. You can see the problem using the Windows CE.NET Emulator 4.1.0 build 14: Deselect "Automatically adjust daylight saving" (or similar, since I'm using the german Emulator). Sometimes, th...more >>

1) Where can I download the CF in other languages? 2) Are there emulators available in other languages? Thanks. Richard Kucia ...more >>

I draw on the surface of a control (System.Drawing.Graphics), and I'd like to transfer to a Bitmap object. I have a routine to save the contents of a Bitmap object (a Image) to a file on the pocket. How can do this?? Thanks!!! ...more >>

Hello, I'm using the Registry library found at www.OpenNETcf.org. It works fine on my PocketPC 2003 device. However, on my PocketPC 2000 device, I cannot get past the RegOpenKeyExW function. I get the message 'Method call did not return a value'. The code is 'exactly' the same as the PPC...more >>

I am trying to get the serial number using this way, http://smartdevices.microsoftdev.com/Learn/Articles/513.aspx and the from the second post http://www.opennetcf.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=88. Using KernelIoControl seems to work on all the HP Ipaqs i've tried it on but i tried it on a Tos...more >>

is there a way to know all visible IP on the network ? in my databse program I would like to popup a list of IP to which the device could connect to, so the user could just choose instead of typing ...more >>

Hello, I am writing an app using c# for win ce.net and I want it to support japanese characters. I notice that the fonts that had these characters were Arial Unicode and MS Mincho but both of them were 8megs or greater in size. How does windows ce.net support japanese characters? and what f...more >>

Hi all, I'm using VS 2003 to develop an application for a handheld device running Windows CE NET 4.2; some days ago, we thought that it would be a good idea to use the *.exe generated by VS2003 together with the .NET Framework Redistributable to check the application on the PC. The point of...more >>

it looks like to me that if you are calling Invalidate(r) with different rectangle before any drawing is done (like multiple call to Invalidate() in the same method), all the rectangle are discarded in favor of the last one any thoughts ? ...more >>

Hi, I am using the CryptDecrypt function 3 times in a row. the result of the first i use as input on the 3 CryptDecrypt as follows: // Result1 decrypte byte[] m_abResult1 = Crypto.Decrypt(m_strInnerKey, abEncResult1); // Result2 decrypte byte[] m_abResult1 = Crypto.Decrypt(m_strInnerKey, abEnc...more >>

I would like to open IE from within my compact framework application. In VB.Net the snippet below works but is not supported in the compact framework. Dim pProcess As New Process pProcess.Start(strPath) Cheers Derek ...more >>

Since the old MSComm control is not supported in .NET CF I am trying find alternative ways to conduct Serial Port Communications with a Pocket PC. There was a post a few days ago announcing some new serial communication code examples via MS-Download. "Serial Communications http://w...more >>

Hi all I'm not sure if this is possible, so any input would be good. I have an arraylist and would like search its elements, but my search string wil only be ~part~ of the element value. eg. Element value="Test Element Value" Search string = "Test" Is there an existing method that I ...more >>

I'm porting a full framework app to the CF. The FF app is written to be locale-aware. The FF deployment project automatically creates the appropriate language-specific subfolders beneath the application folder. The FF CLR automatically scans the various folders for the "right" language file, bas...more >>

Just wondering if I can detect what other applications are running in my CE device, and stop/kill them from my application. How can I do this? ...more >>

how to find the focused .NET control ? I'm already able to get HWND of the focused control with the win32 call GetFocus(), but that doesn't really help .... basically I want to add copy/paste support... using the Pasteboard class from OpenNETCF and GetFocus(), GetWindowsText() win32 call I ...more >>

Hi all, My C# application run properly on the CE .NET emulator for Visual Studio ..NET 2003 but when use my real device an excetpion is occurred. The device is an Xscale processor and my CE.NET image contain Compact Framework 1.0. The handled exception is generated by System.Drwaing.dll...more >>

Hi, I've run into this problem, and I hope you could help me on this! I've developed a webs service in java, which I use from a .netCF application, but every time I try to access it I get a "Could not find resource assembly" exception. Since I've have tested this server from my PC brows...more >>

Hi,=20 I=B4m trying to use Bluetooth API from my project to activate it. I have read the API documentation from here, and try to get it with this = code: //Define the method [DllImport("BthUtil.dll",CharSet=3DCharSet.Unicode, = SetLastError=3Dtrue)] internal static extern int BthSetMode( Sy...more >>

Hi everybody! I am writting a compact framework app and I want to call to the api ras.dll and I´m having problems to understand how to change from (for example) typedef struct _RASCONN { DWORD dwSize; HRASCONN hrasconn; TCHAR szEntryName[RAS_MaxEntryName + 1]; } RASCONN ; to c#structure...more >>

I wrote some code based on (Http)WebRequest there is a timeout of 15 seconds, which I can't really decrease because I receive a lot of data and I had connection timeout when I try to decrrease it. on the other hand when I try to do a connection and for some reason the network is disconnected ...more >>

Can you point me to a good list of resources on game development using the compact framwork. I have found only a small handful of texts (the msdn soccer game). Are there other resources available for understanding and jump starting game development in the CF. thanks, Kyle...more >>

A sales rep told me I need an X-Scale Procesor in my Pocket PC to run the .NET Compact framework, SQL Server CE, and developed .NET apps. Is this true?...more >>

Hi, I have VisualStudio.NET Version 2002. Can't I develop applications for Pocket PC. If it is possible Which software do i need to install over VS.NET 2002. Thank you, Loku...more >>

SQL Server CE is changing the times I put into it based on the timezone of the PDA. I do not want this, how can I shut it off for my Database?? Thanks, Aaron...more >>

all the latest news about .NET Compact Framework can be found at http://dotnetdn.com . if you have something to submit, some new .NET CF control or some new .NET CF article, then please go to: http://dotnetdn.com/submitfeedback/ and submit them. ...more >>

I need help for horizontal align cell in .Net Compact Framework. Thanks ********************************************************************** Sent via Fuzzy Software @ http://www.fuzzysoftware.com/ Comprehensive, categorised, searchable collection of links to A...more >>