One of our customers is trying to migrate from Appforge framework to .NET CF. Their earlier application saves data like a flash, whereas the same using Win-CE (developed by us) takes 60 times more. What is it that Appforge has that .NET CF doesn't ? Or where could i be going wrong in my approach ...more >>

Grettings all, My requirement is to transfer files from desktop PC to Pocket PC using a program in PPC itself and not through some executable resideing in desktop that the user has to invoke.. Description of the problem: The desktop PC has some image files that can keep getting updated. ...more >>

I am trying to send an image file (a byte[] retrieved from MS SQL & serialized before sending) from PC to PPC. However, only around 32bytes of data can be received and displayed in a pictureBox of app in my PPC. But there is no problem if doing so from PC to PC. Can anyone give me some idea...more >>

I've been writing a Win CE 5.0 app in C# and testing in VS 2003 with the "Windows CE .NET Emulator" as my target. As long as I stay within .NET, I'm fine. I just added code that calls an unmanaged function via System.Runtime.InteropServices. Even though my unmanaged DLL is loaded along wit...more >>

How much memory would you expect an arraylist with 100,000 items (all strings with about 7 characters per string) to take? I'm seeing about 8-12 MB on my emulator. Is that too high? Is there any way that I can bring that down? Thanks, -Dave ...more >>

Hello, I'm programming a application on a WINCE 4.2 device In the mainform(frmMain) I start a thread in formload event which reads the GPS coordinates from port1 (internal GPS-reciever) the coordinates are stored in Global variables After a while (everytime on a differenty time moment) I ge...more >>

Hi, I am writing an application that uses SQL CE 2.0 and for my surprise SQL CE is not supported on Win Mobile 2003 SE. Is that so and if so does anyone knows a Win Mobile 2003 SE compatible version of SQL CE 2.0 or some patch that woud help solve that problem. Thanks in advance Kamen Boyadjie...more >>

Hi! Our application connects to a sql server on the LAN via the host computer using activesync. We use TcpClient to get a connection to the server.Once in a while, with no consistent pattern, we get socket exception with a message "Connection refused. No connection could be made because the t...more >>

Hello I'm Developing for PDA and usingAssembly.LoadFrom("") method, but obtaining a strange behavoiur. If i use an old DLL I compiled long time ago, the method correctly loads the assembly dinamically, but If i use now compiled DLL, instead of return the DLLs assembly it returns my EX...more >>

How do I enable printing for an application running on a symbol ppt2800 and using a zebra tr220 mobile printer -- Message posted via http://www.dotnetmonster.com...more >>

Being new to the compact Framework I'm trying to decide on how to store data to the Pocket PC device that I'm using. My application will be collecting "Ticket" data, for each new "ticket" I was thinking of have a new file created in a data folder. Once the data was collected I would place the...more >>

I'm building a DateTimePicker in VB.NET that is a wrapper around ComCtrls.dll and need to be able to receive win32 messages. In the compact framework (WindowsCE namespace) there is a MessageWindow class - that's perfect for what I want. However, I can't find an equivalent for "normal" window...more >>

Hi, I'm using this eVC code in VB.NET CF, but seems last parameter is wrong defined. * eVC code: BOOL WriteBitmapIntoJpegFile(const CString& strOutFileName, const int nQuality, HBITMAP hBitmap) * VB.NET CF code: Public Shared Function WriteBitmapIntoJpegFile(ByVal strOutFileName As St...more >>

Hi, is there no chance to calculate the Height of a RectangleF in a easy way for a given String if i had allready set the Font and the Widht of the RectangleF? I need this.... Please help... Regards Carsten Marx...more >>

Hello I am developing an app that uses SQLClient to connect to a desktop SQL Server 2000 database over a GPRS/VPN link. I can transfer records containing text successfully, but when I try to send an image (40k to 60k), sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it fails, for no apparent reas...more >>

Visual Studio will start up an emulator (PocketPC 2003) fine. I can debug on it too, but no way can I get any of the external device tools under "C:\Program Files\Windows CE Tools\Common\Platman\bin\wce420" to work on it. If I run "Connect Emulator to Active Sync" application, after a while I g...more >>

I'm creating an application in .NET CF that needs to upload log files to an ASP (not ASP.NET) page that currently exists on my server. I was hoping for an application like XFIle (by software artisans, www.softartisans.com), but can't seem to find anything for .NET CF. I can always backpedal an...more >>

Greetings, I am setting an OpenFileDialog to an initial directory using: OpenFileDialog.InitialDirectory = "\\My Documents\\Dev\\"; OpenFileDialog.Filter = "XML Files|*.xml"; What returns is a list of all XML files on the PocketPC, not limited to the initialDirectory specified. Is my formatt...more >>

Peter...assuming you will be the one reading this, we just received this from one of our customers... "Your software runs fine on my iPAQ Pocket PC H3700 but now I have one big problem: The contact Tab does not work. I can not access my pocket outlook contact info." Have you ever heard o...more >>

Hello I written a small application that waits for UDP messages becoming from the network and it runs in background. The problem is that when the connector cable is not plugged in the ip address (it's a static address) becomes 0.0.0.0, this cause problems with the opened sockets. Is it possib...more >>

This code fails to compile saying SqlCeDataAdapte "does not contain a definition for Fill": using System; using System.Data; using System.Data.Common; using System.Data.SqlServerCe; using System.Windows.Forms; SqlCeDataAdapter da = new SqlCeDataAdapter(sql, conn); ds = new DataSet(); ...more >>

Does anybody know the trick for getting SqlCe to work when using the emulator? I get the very helpful message "Cannot run application". Are there certain dlls I need to manually put somewhere in the emulator directories? -- Tim Johnson High Point Software, Inc. www.high-point.com ...more >>