Hi all! How to launch an external exe-file on PocketPC from C# application? For example if I need to open help file I need to run peghelp.exe Thanks! Vitaly ...more >>

Hello everyone. With the enormously helpful developers out there I was able to customize the code below (most of which was supplied TO me (Thank you)). However, what I'm finding is that there is a speed delay problem - from when the button is clicked and the results are displayed. While...more >>

Hi I'm new to PPC development. I have a app that I wish to develop for PPC2002 and later devices. I started off thinking that C# was the way to go, but doing some research has made me have some doubts. The areas of particular concern are: - The app will connect to a web service and pass ...more >>

Hi!! Anybody knows if any compact framework support ipv6? I'm making an ipv6 app,and when I call IPAddress.parse with an ipv6 address, it launch an excepttion with ip address not valid. Thanks! ...more >>

I have some toolbars with images from an image list. They display fine in everything before WM2003SE, but on the WM2003SE emulator, and apparently on real WM2003SE devices too, the images are totally transparent. You can tap the toolbar buttons - they are there but there is no image on them. A...more >>

H I recently noticed a bug that if a user had to restore their Pocket PC, .NET CF breaks/stops working. I had a customer kind enough to manually install all his files instead of restoring his Pocket PC from a backup and my application worked again Has anyone experience similar problems? Is there...more >>

I want to resize the width of a picture box based on the length of a string. I have a string "s". I do this in the paint event of a picturebox: Dim font As New Font("Arial", 12, FontStyle.Regular) Dim sSize as SizeF = e.graphics.measurestring(s, font) 'Here's what i want to do that does...more >>

Hi all. I am fairly new to VB.NET development in the compact framework, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. Anyway, I have a program in development that has multiple forms. One form shows a whole lot of products in a treeview. When the user selects the product, a detailed product ...more >>

We have several rows of text we want to display but want to be able to change at least the forecolor of the text by row. We are currently putting this info in multiline text box, but no way there of course to discrimanetly change the color of just one row. How are people accomplishing this? We...more >>

Hi I'm trying to print to a barcode printer attached to the Pocket Pc. How do I do this? I'm using VB.NET for CF. Anybody has a sample code for this? Thanks Bert ...more >>

This is 1/2 a SQL Server CE question - 1/2 a CompactFramework question. I'm developing in VB.NET Compact Framework. I want to be able to pull data out of a SQLCE database on the mobile device. I've created the .SDF database file - the application can connect to it. My question comes f...more >>

Someone was kind enough to send me a control that he developed that does precisely what I need it to do. However - the code was originally written in VB.NET for windows apps. I'm developing for the Compact Framework (CF). When I attempt to add the control under CF - the control is gra...more >>

I have an Dell Axim with Windows Mobile 2003. I also have VB net and am experienced at VB 6 & SQL Server. How can I write a quick program to get to my SQL Server and then I can expand on the concept. Documentation is very little in writing a quickie and getting it onto the hand held. Please help ...more >>

Hi, I want to show an animated picture while I'm synchronising data. I'm using the C# language on a Pocket PC 2003. I tried to use a thread but when I saw that a thread can be started but not aborted I changed my mind. So I went to the timer control of a form, this did'nt work. The last try wa...more >>

Dear all experts, As i found in the internet, there is a C# programme that can make use of the resource manager to choose different lanugage string for particular expression using resource files. But it seems that i cannot use this method in the C# CF programme. Is there any function we can ma...more >>

I read that using Uninstall_Exit we can clean up application files during uninstallation in the MS Pocket PC Application development guidelines. Can anyone point me in a direction where I can use this feature with a CF application? Best Regards, Y. Sivaram ...more >>

I've been on a mission this past year to move from VB6 to .Net. I'm fortunate(!?) not to have the big catalog of some long-time VB developers, although I have some CE apps that have to be entirely rewritten in CF. A lot of what I develop has to be written for the PPc, so I knew I would be lookin...more >>

Hi everyone, Can someone point me in the right direction towards doing the following? It's not something I've tried to do before so I am not entirely sure what the best method would be: I have an app that runs on PPC2003, written in VB.Net (running on Symbol 8846 units). Data is collected i...more >>

I had developed a small application accessing simlpe webservice. Everything works fine before i compile and in releasemode, i get an error message saying MissingMethodException. I recompile my solution in debug mode, everything goes fine again. Anyone meet the same problem before, how am i g...more >>

Hi, I was able to connect to the SQL server 2000 in the network using the code below. Dim cn As SqlClient.SqlConnection cn = New SqlClient.SqlConnection("user id=sa;password=xxx;database=MF;Server=10.0.0.16") cn.Open() However, I also want to continue working at ho...more >>

Dear All, I have a console application exe of compactframework. I want to download this exe from the web. How can i pass parameter along with this exe. Response.Redirect("http://jobychacko/helpme/consoleapp.exe {i want to passthe parameter here}"); How is it possible? While downloadin...more >>

Hello all, I have a text writer that is re-formating some of my characters (& to html &). Is there a way to make it stop doing this? I am new to xml and textwriters so I am not real sure if I am doing this correctly. Here is what my code looks like XmlTextWriter writer = null; System.I...more >>

###This is a repost from a not so lively forum!##### Hi, I have created a control which draws a title bar and provides a drop down menu for a Smart Device Application. It seemed to work fine until I came to add an event handler to act on Paint messages in the form which has drawn the control....more >>

Hi, For my CF application I need some configuration settings which I store as XML files along with the exe and load them. I understand that we can include them within the EXE as a embedded resources and load it from there. Is there any issues (other than the exe size) related to performance...more >>

I can't find SystemIdleTimerReset is there something in OpenNetCF I can use? I don't want to pinvoke it if i can just call something in ONCF. Thanks ...more >>

I have a program with one PictureBox in it and one button, which changes the image which is shown (actually at the moment there is only two images which are loaded back and forth). After a coule of changes, the application crashes with OutOfMemoryException. At the moment the code looks like th...more >>

I'm getting a lot of Exceptions when making Web Service calls over GPRS from an SX56. Typically it is "can't read data from transport connection" but I have observed others too." I'm running .NetCF 1.0 SP2 on PocketPC Phone Edition 2002. I don't see these errors on the emulator or when connected ...more >>

Hello, For appending characters onto an existing set of characters, is it faster to use a String object or the StringBuilder object? For example, is there any performance difference between the two or is one more appropriate and compact than another: Example #1 string s = "testing"; s...more >>

An unhandled exception of type 'System.TypeLoadException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dl The above exception is thrown when i run my compact framework application. I can compile the project but when i call a class the above exception is thrown. The class i called consist of full framework dll...more >>

I am debuging an PPC application written in VB where I get non-recreatable errors when running in debug mode on a device? ...more >>

Hello All, I am having trouble displaying forms (eg: Form2.Show) when called from within a form (eg: Form). What I am trying to do is to create an instance of Form2 (objForm2 = new Form2) and then call show on that form (objform2.Show and objForm2.BringToFront). I also try to hide Form1 (Form1...more >>

I created a custom emulator platform using Platform Builder 4.2. The image builds and I can connect to the image using PB to debug. I also created an SDK to be used in VS.Net and eVC. The SDK install on the dev boxes and does show up in VS.Net (device deployment dropdown). When I click on Tool...more >>

I have made a Small Pocket PC app that works over a GPRS network. The App contains a Thread that periodically polls over the internet to see if there are messages for it. If there are, the Thread makes a Webservice connection to a Web Server and gets some data of it. All's well but sometimes t...more >>

Hi, I've written a TCP Client and Server app that runs from a CE.Net device = (Client) to my laptop (server). This runs without any problems if I use = my wireless access point to provide the network. However, If I make a "computer to computer" connection using a wireless = card in my lapto...more >>

I need to write a server that will run on the Compact .Net Framework. This server will have to execute function calls requested from the client. Because the .Net Remoting is not available in the Compact .Net Framework, the only way that I thought was using sockets. I would appreciate if anyone...more >>

can anyone tell me why this same code works on a normal windows platform but when used in compact framework application produces an argument exception on setting either the valuemember or displaymember ds = new DataSet(); string filePath = @"\Program Files\crp3\airf2.xml"; ds.ReadXml(file...more >>

Hi I want to be able to connect my handheld wirelessly to my Visual Studio on my PC and start an application in debug mode. I guess Id also need to install ActiveSync onto my handhled through the wireless network too. How is this possible? ActiveSync and Visual Studio doesnt seem to have wireless ...more >>

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Hi everybody. I have writed a small test application to understand the functionalities offered by OpenNetCF.Net namespace. My problem is that, when i do this call in the code: AdapterCollection ac = OpenNETCF.Net.Networking.GetAdapters(); I get the following excpetion:ArgumentOutOfRangeEx...more >>

In .NetCF, upon trying to access the following URL: http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/business via the following code: WebRequest webReq = WebRequest.Create(url); WebResponse webResp = webReq.GetResponse(); StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(webResp.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.GetEncoding("u...more >>

I have strange problem: I have developed two dll's (SMTP and POP). Later I have created project using those dll's (as a reference). In the Emulator everuthing is working OK. I can use methods and events from dll's. But, when I build CAB's to deploy project on device, I am receiving followin...more >>

Hello all How do you connect to a Web service on a desktop machine from a Pocket PC. It is giving run time error in a normal fashion Thanks in advance...more >>

RE: choosing .NET mobile control for web application's report page I would like to create a mobile web application having a report page displaying several fields per line. An additional requirement is that it should have an editable checkBox (preferable) or modifyable HTML Link (toggling disp...more >>

I'm currently designing a solution, with a HP iPaq and a Symbol scanner jacket in mind. I would like a barcode scan to trigger opening a new form with the scanned value as a parameter. Is this possible and if so, how could it be done ? Is it possible to catch a event when a barcode is scanne...more >>

I would like to pick up the version of the CF ... like what is shown with cgacutil. I tried something like: // get CF version Assembly cf = Assembly.LoadFrom("MSCorLib.dll"); but this always throws an exception. is there another way? or another dll I should be using? ...more >>

Im new to the VB.NET stuff but I am looking for a way to query a remote SQL database from a pocket PC application. I have done this in the past with VB6 in wondows using data environment disigners but I dont believe that this is supported with the compact framework. Any help or sample code wou...more >>

We've got a VB.Net Pocket PC application calling an unmanged C DLL. One function in particular is giving us problems. This function takes an XML string as input and attempts to locate a value and return this value out. This function is declared as ... HRESULT GetSessionIDW (/*[in]*/ LPCWSTR ...more >>

I am sure this has been asked before but I could not find in previous threads. My vb.net PPC application is showing every form in the control stack in the Pocket PC's "Running Programs" list. My Dell Axim has a custom utility called Switcher Bar which also shows running apps and allows a us...more >>

Hello all, I am having problems reading XML and keep getting this error: {"This is an unexpected token. The expected token is 'NAME'. Line 1, position 21." } Can anyone help? Here is the XML and the code I am using. I get the error at the ds.read line. xml = <xml version='1.0'?><BOD...more >>

Is there any profiler available for .Net compact framework? I need to analyze my application for performance and optimize it. Regards, Faraz Rasheed ...more >>