My Application made by sevral forms. Main form construct sevral forms in construction time. Click the button in Main form then hide Main form and show other form. Each form has many controls. (almost PictureBox and little panel, Label) But in creating time, other form's throw ArgumentExc...more >>

Problem: I need to save data before my application is closed by the OS or another application (killing my app). The two main scenarios I'm thinking about are, 1. The user navigates to Settings -> System tab -> Memory -> Running Programs and stops my app (PPC 2003) 2. The user navigates to a...more >>

Hello, We are in need of developing an app on a Portable data collection device. The ones we are looking at run Win CE .NET. I can create simple VB .NET apps. In VS .NET I assume I need to create a Smart Device app now. How much different is this than doing a VB .NET app? Big differences...more >>

I'm working on my first C# .NET app for PPC, coming from Palm development with c++. So far I've got a simple app with a couple forms. I want to store data in a class I've created which is accessible from all the different forms. In C++ I did that with global variables. How do I do that in ...more >>

Now, I upload images from ppc to pc through webservice. But if few modifications are made to one image, then upload it, I think it's a high payload since the modified one is more or less the same as the original one. So anyone could give any suggestions if the goal is reducing payload? Thanks...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to grab the process id based on the window's Hwnd. I can get the process id correctly, but I can't figure out how to pass that into TerminateProcess. Assuming the call to GetWindowThreadProcessId() gets a valid procID, how can I use that to call TerminateProcess? Is my ...more >>

I aplogize for posting on a topic which I'm sure has already been discussed here, but I have searched the archives and not found a solution that works quite like I was hoping. I'm developing a Compact Framework application which needs to work in both "connected" and "disconnected" modes. The ...more >>

Any good CF books? VB specific is preferred, but C# is better than nothing. I use both C# and VB, prefer VB. XML serialization and FS/IO is my first job to tackle. Seem CF has a different serialization system? Thanks, Schneider...more >>

How do I get the emulator to run in XP pro SP2. I checked the KB and only specifies a boit.ini fix by removing a command line switch which is not in my boot.ini. I recently purchase XP pro, which had SP2 on the disk. Previously was running win2000 with no issues. Thanks, Schneider...more >>

Hi Im sure im doing something silly here but I can't see what. Im trying to write the name of a day using a specific culture, in this case French. If the day is monday I want to write 'Lundi': System.DateTime.Today.ToString("dddd",new CultureInfo("fr")) It throws a 'NotSupportedExceptio...more >>

error location: MemoryDll.dll!MemoryDll.MemoryForm.Memory_Load() line 234 C# (when i click a button, master program will call Memory_Load() function) prompt: unsettled: "System.ArgumentException" abnormity lie System.Windows.Forms.dll I run this application, there is no error in the pocket ...more >>

OK, so I just bought an iPaq 4705. And I wrote a quick C# app in Visual Studio 2003 and was able to deploy it to both the emulator and the iPaq. When I deploy to the iPaq, the app only runs for a short while and there's no way to restart it. How do I install this app onto the iPaq? ...more >>

I just downloaded smart device framework 1.2 from the OpenNetCF.org website. Everything appeared to install normally on my system but when I use the TextBoxEx control it doesn't have any of the new properties - it looks just like the plain TextBox control. I uninstalled the framework, reboot...more >>

I wanted to use PtInRegion with some polygons to check which polygon a point is in, however from what i can see, i need to set the polygons as regions first, and this involves the GraphicsPath object which is in the compact framework. Does anyone have any ideas about doing this?...more >>

Do any of you beta users of .NET 2.0 CF know if bitmaps/icons are supported for menu items in the new MenuStrip control? Regards, J G ...more >>

Hello, I am using System.Xml.XmlTextWriter in my application in order to store some application settings to an xml file. The code goes like this ------------------------------------------------------ public void Write(string a_sConfigFilePath) { XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = null; ...more >>

Dear all, I want to program a function for my PPC application, which will copy a 70MB data file from PC. Can I do it in .NET CF???? and HOW???? The problem here is: data file is too big-->my application might throw OutOfMemory Exception when copying file. It's really urgent, cause m...more >>

Hi, i use SqlCeDataAdapter to load large amount of data for displaying in ComboBox and it is very slow. I found that SqlCeDataAdapter.Fill method takes only 1/3 of that time and it seems that assigning DataTable to ListControl.DataSource property creates a new copy of datasource i am assig...more >>

hi, yesterday i have posted a question regarding something strange. today i observed my application very closely and found that : whenever more memory consumption is there, the OS is trying to close my application and because of that, all the forms which i have kept in memory get closed a...more >>

Hi, Ive encountered a very strange problem with my application. Initially I wrote the application to work on a QVGA mode resulotion (240*320) and all was well. I then rewrote the code to work for the VGA mode resolution (480*640) and started encountering a very strange problem with Labels...more >>

Could anyone explain to me why this code doesn't work: [DllImport("coredll.dll")] private static extern bool EnumWindows(EnumWindowsProc func, int lParam); public delegate bool EnumWindowsProc(int hWnd, int lParam); private static bool EnumWnds(int hWnd, int lParam) { return true; } ...more >>