Hi all, On one of my forms, on some occasions a user can raise the SIP to enter some text. One of my buttons does some calculations and closes the form. How can I simply lower the SIP programmatically when my button is pressed so that it is not raised on the next form? Doing a Google search...more >>

hi, I have seen some references mentioning how Windows Media Player can be embedded into Pocket IE, however, can I embed the Windows Media Player directly in my application? Or do I have to bring up a browser? Thanks....more >>

error: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Net.WebException' occurred in System.Web.Services.dll Additional information: Unable to connect to the remote server when consuming web service (calling web service method) from pocket pc 2002 emulation (web service running on the same comput...more >>

Hi. Ok, I'm sure I can call unmanaged code from my .NET CF application. But my company product is a mobile middleware, implemented on the .NET CF. On this middleware our customers can easily develop integrated applications, like using our complete replication system and many other features. ...more >>

Hello, Is there a way for me to programmatically discover the location that my .EXE is running in? This was easy in VB6 as I just used the "App" object. Does C# have something similar? Thanks, Joe ...more >>

Do you need to change references in VS .NET 2003 after installing CF SP2? I have installed PPC 2003 sdk and started to debug with emulator, something that worked fine. Then I installed the CompactFramework SP2 on the emulator by copying "netcf.all.wce4.X86.cab" to the emulator and ran it (corre...more >>

I'm guessing that when the PocketPC OS needs to close a running application to free memory for a new application, that it sends a Close Message of some sort to the application it wishes to close. Could someone point me in the right direction as to what message is sent (or if I've got it wrong,...more >>

Does anyone have any samples. Thanks in advance...more >>

Hi, At www.smartphonethoughts.com I saw a link to the updated "Windows CE Utilities for Visual Studio .NET 2003 Add-on" at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7ec99ca6-2095-4086-b0cc-7c6c39b28762&displaylang=en Since I'm having problems connecting from VS.net 2003 to a Cas...more >>

Hi all I had some code that works fine till the SP2. I try to download a file from the internet. after the sp2 I get "WebExeption" for this line: response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); do any body know how to solve it? this is the all function ---------------------------------...more >>

I have developed an application using PocketPC2002 SDK coming with VS.NET 2003. When I installed this on devices (Dell Axim) with PocketPC2003 it works fine but when re-installing/upgrading the application I get numerous application icons in the program folder. It seems like the icon is not remo...more >>

How can I embedd an icon in my PocketPC application and then load it. I have added an ico file to the project and set it to build as an embedded resource, but in my code when I try to load the icon, the only available options are from a stream. Are there any steps I am missing? What coding me...more >>

I am trying to add some simple beeps as feedback in my Pocket PC application. I can't seem to find a function that does this even using P/Invoke. Please help. Thanks ...more >>

i get a system.notsupportedexception on InitializeComponent() from previous threads it appears there is a 64KB method size limit or something when using the emulator it does work on the real device his solution was to split initialize into two methods, but i think that would mess up the f...more >>

I've built an app using .Net 2003 for the CF and it works well except for one thing. When its running, I can't see any icon in the start bar (at the top). If I browse to its folder, the icon appears. I have both 16x16 and 32x32 icons. The ico file is referenced in the project properties... I...more >>

I coded a small CE test app (C#, .Net 2003) that retrieves data from SQL Server using the SQLClient objects. Retrieving data with a SqlDataAdapter works fine. SqlCommand objects work OK without parameters, but when I add a parameter and try to execute a SqlCommand, I get an error 'System.Data.Sq...more >>

Hello, where can i get information about: - What is compact framework? - Introduction - Concepts - And similar information.... Thanks ...more >>

I had a code that ran on PPC 2002, It is not ranning on PPC 2003 This is the code: string key = GetDeviceID(); key = key.replace("-", "+"); on the 2002 it works fine, on the 2003 I got this string: "+++++++++++++++" to solve this problem i use the same fanction but with char and not str...more >>

During testing, I noticed that if I open a second form for an app, let's say frmConfig from the initial form frmMain, I can open the memory applet and see that "frmMain" and "frmConfig" show up. Through, experimentation, I noticed that it is possible to close frmMain without closing frmCo...more >>

Hi all I have 2 questions Till today, for the PPC 2002 I always use the netcf.core.ppc3.ARM.cab, 1. Can some one help me and explane wich CF - sp2 should I use for PPC 2003? (netcf.all.wce4.ARMV4.cab, netcf.core.ppc3.ARM.cab, ...) and for the emulator 2002 and 2003? 2. There are 2 dire...more >>

In SP2 there is added support for ForeColor &/or BackColor for Button, Checkbox, ComboBox, DomainUpDown, Label, Listbox, ListView, NumericUpDown, RadioButton, Trackbar, TreeView I can make a color button on the device, Is there any way to see a color button on the Emulator? Ofer ...more >>

Greetings, I am attempting to use the VEO Photo Traveler CF Camera which has a eVC-based SDK. I am having problems converting the Header file from eVC to VB.NET and wondered if anyone had any pointers or general rules to guide me. Thanks, Jamie...more >>

I have built a little wireless restaurant point of sale system that has been in real use for the last 3 months ( written in c# ). There are about 5 ppc's submiting orders to a desktop pc. My first attempt at communications was written using sockets. The ppc would create a new socket for each ...more >>

Has anyone noticed that data binding in ..NET CF is incredibly SLOW. For example, I have a Customer class with 6 string properties. I also have a Windows form with 6 text boxes The hole process of binding an instance of the Customer class to the Textbox controls on the form takes more ...more >>

Any attempt to access a network resource using any of the System.Net classes automatically uses the current settings as specified in Settings > Connections (such as modem/GPRS/local network,http proxy,dns etc.). Is there any way to either programmatically modify these connection settings? ...more >>

I have found that invoking peghelp.exe from within a .net application doesn't work - i.e. no help window gets displayed. It gets worse. When a .net application is running, NO application can get help - not even the Help option from the system menu. Furthermore, all .net applications seem to ...more >>

this looks like a very stupid question but I wonder how to correctly install SP2 - the download webpage says "start the emulator or device, copy then run the cab file which matches the device", what exactly does it mean? Thanks for your reply in advance!...more >>

Dear all, is there any utilities to convert my eVB project into VB.NET in VS.NET 2003? if no, is it a pain to manually convert my eVB project (means re-write the whole project)?...more >>