Hi, I'm planning to start a new application, which will take more or less two months to develop. The question is, can I start developing it using the 2.0 beta version, and upgrade to the stable version when it is released, with minor changes, or better stick to the 1.1 version? When will the...more >>

Can we make any assumptions about the NetCF version of a factory-installed device given the CE version number? For example, would it be safe to assume that Windows Mobile 2003 SE (4.21.1088 Build 14132) would always include NetCF 1.0 SP2 (1.0.3316.0)? ...more >>

I'm having an issue pulling from a SQL server to my compact app. My code is as follows: ////////////////////// Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form Friend WithEvents Calllist As System.Windows.Forms.ListBox Friend WithEvents btRefresh As System.Windows.Forms.Button Friend WithEvent...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to connected to MS SQL Server 2000 (MSDE) with a touchscreen computer using Windows CE .NET 4.1 but I always receive this error : PlatformNotSupportedException. Here is a copy of my code. The connection is successful with CE .NET 4.2 and the visual studio emulator but with CE 4....more >>

Hello all, I know this is a shot in the dark but... any way to use .netcf or .net to develop for the blackberry?? thanks, -r -- Get The CrashCart!! http://www.rncrashcart.com ...more >>

From what I can find, the best way to change the volume of a device is through "waveOutSetVolume". All my attempts to use do not actually effect the volume of sound files played on the device. My code is below. I'm calling it from C# and I know that the values range from 0 - 0xFFFF. Howe...more >>

Hello we have a CE device where we create files and we use files on that device. Now sometimes the file on the device must be copied to a pc and a new file must be copied to the ce device. We want to start and control the copy process from a pc program. Anyone a idea how to do this ? -- ...more >>

Hi, Cananyone point me in the right direction for writing code (vb.net) to do a soft reset and to turn the device off? Regards, Mark ...more >>

Hi all, I'm not even a newbie yet in pocket pc. So here's the problem I have to solve! My client has an accounting applications which works with DBFs. He wants to introduce the pocket pc technology while on the road. So = what ever he does needs to be kept in the pocket pc, maybe SQL CE, and =...more >>

My goal is to use Windows Authentication (WA) to access sensitive web services from a compact framework (CF) application. My web site on the development server(IIS 6.0) is set to WA. I'm using O'Reilly's "Programming ..NET Web Services" as reference. I have created the web service, tested it ...more >>

HI, how can I write to an access database on my pocket pc? doesn't seem possible to me with the .net compact framework - and I cannot afford any commercial solutions (as inthehands.com). Is there any other way? Or, even better, is there any way to avoid pocket pc access databases? All I ...more >>

I'm about to purchase a Dell Axim and in the specs I notice they talk about RAM and ROM... "Enhanced memory capacity with 64MB SDRAM and 128MB Intel® StrataFlashTM ROM" It made me think about my code and where I am storing my database...I'm currently storing my database in a folder below...more >>

Hi all! This works well on my desktop: textBox1.DataBindings.Add("Text", myDataSet.Tables["object"], "object_object-property.id"); But fires an ArgumentException error on the iPAC... Is it true that it is not possible to use "relationname.columnname" as data member string when adding a dat...more >>

I am referencing a function in a evc++ dll that has the following info //I can get this function to work fine. function epNormalLaunchApp(UInt32 creator); //issues with this function function epLaunchApp(UInt32 creator, LPCWSTR arg[]); sample c++ input: LPCWSTR args[3] = { L"-d" , L...more >>

Anyone knows how to read contact list from smartphone memory ? I know how to read from SIM but not from phone memory, thanks ...more >>

Hello! I am trying to display Flash contents (swf) on my Pocket PC device in the Internet Explorer or HtmlViewer (OpenNetCF). Since I dont have the player installed on the device nothing is presented, but I was hoping it would ask me if I wanted to download/install the player but it doesnt. ...more >>

Hello, I am using a video encoder from an existing DLL (MSFCEnc.dll, from Microsoft Portrait). I manage to call the DLL functions, but one of them, the setParams(), always returns false... I would like to check with you that I used the correct correspondance between C++ parameters and C# on...more >>

Hi I want to show bitmaps in a menubar, just as you can see it in the stadard calendar-app. There seems to be no possibility in compact framework. I found the 'SetMenuItemBitmaps' function in user32.dll, which could help. But this function needs a handle to the bitmap, which I can't get (th...more >>

Hello, I'm working on a smartphone 2003 second edition, but my question may be more general than this. I'm trying to get the attachment bytes out of an MMS message. As it seems the attachment is encoded in the body of the message (and not nicely accessible with the openAttach from MAPI). Wh...more >>