Hi, I developed and validated a custom solution (C# .NET) on Pocket PC using Windows Mobile 2003, hence using .NET Compact Framework Service Pack 1. Recently, we received additional Pocket PC, but they have been provided with Windows Mobile 2003 SE, which includes .NET Compact Framework Serv...more >>

I'm testing OraDirect .NET mobile Traial Version.http://www.crlab.com/) When I add OraDirectAdaptor or OraDirectConnectin to My Form, (In Design Mode) "specified cast is invalid" error message box shows up. And I can't edit any properties of OraDirectAdaptor or OraDirectConnection. Is th...more >>

Hi all, My app creates new files when executed. When uninstalling I want it to remove these files. I know about setup.dll, but: 1) Is it possible to write it in C#,VB.NET ? 2) If not - is it possible to write it using Visual Studio 2003 (C++)? 3) Any known samples? 4) any other option except ...more >>

Hi, I've had a problem with not getting any KeyDown events in my program for some time. After some experimenting with empty forms I found out that they stopped being raised after putting a webbrowser control on the form. Any ideas why this happens or what to do about it?...more >>

I am having problems maintaining an internet access with an i-mate PPC. If the network disconnects, I am having problems reconnecting. About 6 months ago, I wrote a network PPP handler for an Intermec device using the serial port connected to the GPRS modem, which gave *very* good results. ...more >>

Hi, we are developing an application that lets you annotate your Images on the compact flash card of your digital camera to store the images wirh annotations later in an image database. i want to show large JPGs (or only the thumbsnails containing in the larger imagges) with the code below: ...more >>

Is there a way to always show the vertical scrollbar in a cf 1.0 datgrid? With the full framework I use a custom control with something like: Private Sub ShowScrollBars(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) 'If the vertical scroll bar is not visible, set its size a...more >>

Is there an equivalent to AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory in CF? Nathan ...more >>

I'm interested in some opinions on the possible ways to have 2 C# exes communicate with each other. One is an app that is always running, almost like a device driver or service, to collect and process data from external hardware (I guess in WM2005 it would be a real service). The other is an...more >>

I have a listview on my smartphone and I can trap the dial number keys with the event: this.listViewCategories.KeyPress += new System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventHandler (this.listViewCategories_KeyPress); When I press the backspace, it takes me out of the application. I want similar b...more >>

Hi, Need some suggestions: What is the best way to interrupt a blocking function call? I have a synchronized method which might take a long time to complete, and the time to complete the work is really depending on network condition and the server workload. I want to give users a way t...more >>

I have to send from a PDA (HP iPAQ 1930) some commands through a serial connection to a device. As far as I could find out, I know I have to use some reg keys from PDA's OS to get acces to the serial port. Can anybody give me a hint or a link where to start digging? I have no previous experienc...more >>

All, I'm working on a SQL Mobile app in VS2005 -- awesome product, too (as an asided, I wish it were easier to get data into the sdf from the desktop as we're not all planning on using rep/sync [but I was able to put together a nice little DTS package to suck and pump my data from SQLServer...more >>

Any differences I should be aware of from a Compact Framework programming perspective? I don't have any PPC Phone Edition to test with in house. Should everything work the same? Nathan ...more >>

I've written a section of .REG file that does assign the background picture to the file I designate but the picture doesn't actually display - instead it's just a blank background.....is there someway to do a doevents type deal that would make the background display after it's changed?? ;Se...more >>

Greetings, I am using a ce.net device with vb.net. I am trying to prevent the device from going into a power save mode while my app is running. I have tried SystemIdleTimerReset call , but it seems to have no effect. Can anyone help me out here? regards, William...more >>

Anyone ever written a CeAppMgr type app that would merely copy files from the desktop to the device? Any samples....i'd use my NSIS install but that seems to require a main cab or executable to install. All I want is to automate the copy of 10 files from the desktop to the device.... An...more >>

I've got a problem with using WebService on my pocket. When I use this http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/aspplus/samples/services/MathService/CS/MathService.asmx service everything is ok, but when I use service on my local computer I get this exception System.Net.WebException even if I ch...more >>

Hi, I am using .NET 2003 + c# for my Pocket Pc application development. I want Beep sound on button click event. I figure it out that it is not giving direct method. Can anyone pl. help me? Thank you in advance! ...more >>

Hi, i have a pocket PC with a qwerty keyboard. i'd like to know how to detect characters like the "@" and "^" symbols. currently i have a message handler (using MessageWindow) that handles keys that i register using RegisterHotKeys. I have registered keys from -20 to 500 to try and determine ...more >>

Hi I have several custom controls developed for VS 2003 that can be added to the toolbox. I would like to compile these controls for VS 2005 Beta 2. Can this be done? Where can i find documentation on this. Do I still have to build dlls for the designer? Thanks ;) ...more >>

I have got an application created with .net CF i must create an installation for more pocket PC I use SQL CE and other riferiments like openNETCF and audio files in directory. How must i proced to create a unic cab file installation with all of these packets? can i put it all in one? ...more >>

We debug a VB.Net App that uses compact framework to a DAP Windows CE.Net device. When I debug I would like to only have the EXE copied down. Right now it copies any referrences as well and checks the .NET CF version. The first message I receive is: Files in the package 'netcf.all.wce4....more >>

Hi! I want to know if there exist a terminal emulator (3270 for an IBM mainframe) for the Pocket PC? It might be possible to access the IBM mainframe directly from the Pocket PC remotely over a wireless network in that case? I have a customer asking questions about this but my knowledge in ...more >>

I finally had my listview where I thought I wanted it, activation = twoclick, checkboxes working, but I just went in and clicked on the last row in the list, on a subitem and it checked the checkbox. Is this a feature? It doesn't check the checkbox when I click on any other rows subitems? T...more >>

Hi, I need to read an xml file with Latin 1 encoding (iso8859-1) on a Pocket PC, using an XmlTextReader. I get an XmlExeption: The system does not support 'iso-8859-1' encoding. Is it true that the iso encoding is not supported, and does anyone know a way to get around the problem? Thank...more >>

Hi all, I'm having problems with a C# Smart Device app - I'm loading a bitmap like this: Image bgImage = new Bitmap(appDir + "start.gif"); but on a WinCE 5 device this this causes an exception with message "Exception". The emulator that comes with VS.NET 2003 (WinCE 4.10) works ok. From...more >>

Hello, Does Pocket Excel support any data exchange mechanism, such as DDE (or other) ? Omar ...more >>

Hi! I'm developing application for Symbol MK 2000 based on Windows CE.NET 4.1. My app using web method returning DataSet. After I calling this web method app throw PlatformNotSupportedException. But exact application running on Symbol MC 50 (based on Windows Mobile 2003) works fine. What differ...more >>

Hi, I need to be able to print a single paged document (hopefully A4) from my Pocket Pc app. I am using Symbol MC9000 PDA's that have bluetooth. The only bluetooth mobile printer I have found is the HP Deskjet 450wbt, all other seem to only print out 2 to 4 inch thermal parking ticket st...more >>

Hi I am using .Net CF [C#] for developing Mobile application, but it takes time to load compare to other applications installed on device. i tried loading or creating object but it also take time when it loads.... dose any one knows about speeding .Net CF application startup or load...? ...more >>

I'm developing an app that will interface directly with a GPS receiver in order to do a number of special calculations and route tracking. But I'd also like to feed the realtime GPS to a real-time map display (using the MapPoint webservice is not an option for the client due to cost). My fir...more >>

When an unhandled exception occurs in my low-level framework, I want to display a message to the user using MessageBox.Show(). However, depending on where the exception is caught, this sometimes locks my application. Specifically, I tried wrapping my Sub Main in try-catch blocks, and it blocke...more >>

Hi, I'm developing an application, where by I need to able to scan the barcode labels from a distance of around 4-5 metres ( say 20 feet). I've seen symbol website and found that MC 9000 series got the ability to do this. Now, could any of you please tell me what should be the specificati...more >>

I have been implementing landscape mode on my forms and noticed something disturbing about certain combo boxes on some of them. When I have a combo box near the edge of the screen, some of them would cause the landscape mode to activate the scroll bar functionaity to show more area, but then in...more >>

I have a listview control with checkboxes. Is there anyway that I can keep it from "checking" / "clearing" the checkboxes when I click on the text, make the user click on the checkbox? Thanks Scott ...more >>

Hi I am trying to start ActiveSync Sync. (like the green button...) between ppc and desktop computer from a ppc app using c#. is is possible? Thanks Shaul ...more >>

Is it possible include in my platform generated with Platform Bulder 5 Compact Framework 2 ? Thanks Stefano ...more >>

Hi all. My PPC application (Visual Studio 2003) has several folders and subfolders with resources (images, data...) When I copy and execute the cab file in Visual Studio emulator, all the files appear in the root of the application, and the folders that I have created in my project are d...more >>

Does the 2.0 beta compact framework support SH3 type devices? I couldn't find the SH3 folder and the cab files under Visual Studio 2005 Beta installed folder. I am new at smartdevice programming and I might be wrong but compact framework 1.0 supports SH3 type device. Doesn't it ? Any advice ...more >>

Anyone know how to get the current bandwidth usage of the network card on the CE device? Obviously i could work this out from the number of bytes sent and recieved! Thanks for your advice ...more >>

Does anyone know of any non phone edition PDAs using the microsoft bluetooth stack (available in the UK). Thanks. Joseph ...more >>

Hi, I'm running an application (on a windows ce device) that I wrote that uses alot of memory (alot of DB access,arraylist,ect). I'm checking the memory load every 1 minute, and I see that the memory grows and grows, but when the objects that used that memory are freed the memory doesn't g...more >>

Hi, I'm running an application that uses alot of memory, I manually use the GC.Collect method and see no change with the memory. When the memory reaches 99% it the drops to +/-90%. Any reason why? Tomer. ...more >>

hi guys i get a strange problem here. everytime i want to deploy something from vs2005 into my pda. it's will copy a lot of dll file into the program folder. like system.xml.dll, system.windows.forms.dll. why this happened? is that because the vs2005 is the beta version. how to avoid this?...more >>

how to play wav files, without opennetcf? ...more >>

Is it possible to put a textbox into a panel in code? What I want to do is remove the borders from a textbox, and from what i can tell the easiest way to do this is by placing it in a pannel, however I don't know how to do this in code (I am trying to make a class MyTextBox that has an inst...more >>

I have a form which creates a new instance of a class, this class creates a thread and within this thread I RaiseEvents. These events are caught by the original form. I am trying to update textboxes on the form from within the events. My question is, do I need to use invoke from within the ...more >>

hi guys (& girls), I'm new to programming in .net and I just want to use the textboxex class (from OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms as a normal text box and if possible be able to place it in my toolbox to use like a normal text box. I'm using vb.net to program. I've downloaded both the source and t...more >>

I am trying to handle the Directional Pad available on Dells and HPs. Many of the posts here and elsewhere indicated these donot have to be registered (like the other 4 hardware buttons by the app), and they generate the regular KeyDown & KeyUp Events (w/ up-down key codes). I am using .NET C...more >>