Hello, I'm developing an application which should show HTML inside. I've downloaded the OpenNETCF SDK but had found that WebBrowser is not working for that? Is it possible to somehow integrate IE into my application for the CE platform? Thank you in advance, John ...more >>

Hi Some time ago I have developed application for Pocket Pc, using Embedded Visual Basic.. But now I want to rewrite it using vb.net, and ... vb.net is rather new for me... and here in Russia we have no books on Compact Framework. Where I can download some ebooks or online tutorials on developi...more >>

Hi All, I am newbie to Pocket PC development; I have decent experience in .Net Windows and Web. I am writing this not to ask any technical question but to get an idea for developing an application. My employer asked me build a Stocktaking application in PPC. The database has around 30,000 ...more >>

I am developing a kiosk application running CE.NET. The application launches wizards, where each page of the wizard is a form in itself. When I start the application, a splash screen appears. Now, all the 50-60 wizard pages are being created behind the scenes. I see an ugly flashing (a recta...more >>

after a parent container (panel) control's constructor executes is there an event that fires as child controls (other panels) are added to the parent (ie in the init component). I need to process child controls before the panel is painted. ...more >>

Hi Newbe question: I've got an external (Embedded C+) function that reads a PLC and returns an array of 16 unsigned (PLC people call them WORD, but in C# thay should be UShort). That array contains the bits required to valorize a variable of variuos kinds: can be a char, Byte, Short, UShor...more >>

Can someone please give me info on a few items? thx, Mike What is the max amount of memory that can be allocated at 1 time in CF. What I mean here in ot when tyhe GC collects in, but how much "active" memory can be allocated at a time. The project im building here will have somewhe...more >>

How can i run unmanaged code(VC++ and MFC) under .net compact framework 1.0 or 2.0 in Windows CE 5.0....more >>

Hello... In my vb.net CF app, I have a picture control that will contain an image - derived from a database. There are times when I need to save that image to a JPEG. I am using the .Net CF 1.1, not 2.0, so...the Image.Save function is not available to me. Is there any other way I can ac...more >>

I have two sequential threads that are accessing the same host using WebRequest. The first WebRequest receives a "System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed-out." The second request from the same host returns the WebRequest.GetResponseStream() from the first WebRequest URI. This seems to...more >>

Hi, I have been told I need to save a file onto the "absolute root folder of your pocketpc". How would I do this ? On a desktop machine its easy as its the name of the drive , such as C:/ , but whats it called on a pocket pc ? Thanks Jon ...more >>

Where did the "Add Inherited Form" command on the Project menu go? It is there on the full framework but when you write an application for the compact frame work that feature has been removed. Can we not Inherit forms in .NetCF?? Thanks, nb -- Noble D. Bell www.noblesoftware.com ...more >>

Hi! Can anyone lead me in the right direction on how to write to Pocket Excel? How to choose cells to write to? Thank you! ...more >>

Hi! In my project I have a Pocket PC that should talk to a Webservice over WLAN. In the Pocket PC application, I use an object named Box which has the following variables: public class clsBox:IWeblabelPPC.IBox{ #region PrivateVariables private int boxid; private int ordernumber...more >>

Hello! I have problem to read from the comport with my ipaq hx4700. I think i works to open the comport but when I try to read from it then it doe not work. I have tried with following code to open the comport: Dim intResult As Integer Dim lpCommTimeouts As COMMTIMEOUTS Dim lpDCB A...more >>

I'm a newbie to .net, although I have played a little with other programming (simple VB stuff years ago, plus plenty of VBA since then). I have some high-res pictures that I'd like to display on a PPC (Ipaqs and Dell Axims) where the user can select different levels of zoom- either via a menu,...more >>

Hi I recently bought a Qtek 8100 with Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. I have been programming PocketPC devices with .NET CF for some time now, and now i'm wondering if i can use .NET CF to create applications for my smartphone if not, then what do i need to start programming my qtek ? ...more >>

Hi, Does any body having idea or code sample to use SecurID in c# pocket pc application? Thanks. ...more >>

Is it possible to debug an assembly on a CF device? Whenever I attempt to do this, VS.NET 2003 tells me --------------------------- Microsoft Development Environment --------------------------- A project with an Output Type of Class Library cannot be started directly. In order to debug th...more >>

Hi, Are there any backgrounders available about best practices where it comes to saving power -and the battery while programming with Visual Studio 2005, the CF 2.0 beta and the Mobile 5.0 SDK? Kind regards, Tony Thijs ...more >>

I am trying to change the text on a button face to bold and/or to regular via code using C#. I cannot seem to get it to work. Could someone offer me some examples? Here is my code: public void UnboldAll() { foreach (Control ctrl in this.Controls) { if (ctrl is Butto...more >>

All, I'm working on a government project and we originally got a requirement to use PEAP to authenticate devices to a wireless network. The problem is that these are Windows CE devices, and Microsoft has not released APIs to communicate with the "Zero Configuration Utility", the little pop...more >>

I am having trouble formatting a datagrid that is using a ResultSet as the DataSource. Does anyone know the mapping name for the tables?...more >>

Thank you Alex for your assistance on my previous post. I've tried the same solution for this problem but it's not working... I've created a user control in the VS2003 1.1 framework and I'd like to hide the read only properties I've created on the control in the designer. I've tried the f...more >>

Simple application must open a database cmd.Connection.ConnectionString = "Data Source = \My Documents\test.sdf" cmd.Connection.Open() response: Eccezione non gestita di tipo "System.NullReferenceException" why? ...more >>

hi, how can i download the CSV DATAADAPTER fronm opennetcf.org , when i tried in "search" link it displays blank.. i have to develop a application involving text files since we cant use sqlServerce . kindly give me the correct URL.. regds 2)another doubt. i have an xml file(s...more >>

Hi there, Does PocketPC support WMI natively, by means of a separate downloadable/installable binary or maybe a 3th party package (preferably CIM compliant)? Thanks, -- SLE ...more >>

I've created a lightweight COM wrapper in eC++ that allows me to call out from managed code to a COM object. However, the COM object in question raises events at certain times, which I need to trap and access. I've noticed that the Compact Framework offers the GuidAttribute / DispIDAttribute...more >>

Hi, I want to force the application thread to refresh its CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture according to the system settings while the application is running. I made a class based on Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.MessageWindow which traps the WM_SETTINGCHANGE message and raises an event. W...more >>

where can i download sqlce cab file and cf.net cab file to install in Pocket PC? thx anyway ...more >>

In my application I import data from XML Files to an SQL CE Server. Unfortunately when i want to show the data the breaks form my text disappeared and instead I've an symbol there. In found out that in some cases that there's only an character 13 at the place where the break should be. I thin...more >>

Hello, I have a fullscreen application. It´s possible to have a SIP "icon" hidden and when I want show only the keyboard without SIP icon? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I am relatively new and recently wrote a application using C#, compact .net framework on Pocket PC. Everything works accordingly in emulator from Visual Studio .Net. It can connect to server and perform whatever logic according to my requests. The problem only arise when I test run the ...more >>

I'm trying to make an extended textbox control for a scanner enabled device. I have the textbox enabling the scanner when .gotfocus event fires and it works well. I'd also like the SIP to appear when the user clicks on the textbox but not when the .focus method is called. As far as I can te...more >>

Newsgroup, I was curious if anyone could help me with a problem I'm having with p/invoke and a structure from the credential manager API in CE 5.0. The structure is in cred.h as: typedef struct _CRED { DWORD dwVersion; DWORD dwType; PWCHAR wszUser; DWORD dwUserLen; PWCHAR...more >>

Hi There! How can I access Files on an connected Emulator ? ...more >>

Hi there I tried developping an application . Now i want to try to test it with emulators but this won't work. The Remote debugging with the real device also doesn'T work I tried the steps in the posting some days ago, also didn't work. What steps do I have to check or to do for be able ...more >>

hi buddy, anybody can tell me how to package the program into a cab file? i can run my program in .net emulator well, but when i automatically package them into a cab file via vs.net, can not install. my program need sqlce support, should i install sqlce firstly? or maybe can have a bett...more >>

Hello again, I have a new problem with my application. I´m using the class Sip of http://www.opennetcf.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=988&SearchTerms=SIP Well, my form has a TabControl with 3 tabs (there is a space on right of tabs). I need to show the keyboard but i need hide the icon of ...more >>

I am attempting to add logic to our app so we can monitor for, and use a WiFi connection, if one becomes available. This is relatively easy to do using the OpenNETCF.Net.Adapter and OpenNETCF.Net.AccessPoint classes (BTW, you OpenNETCF.Org guys rock!). However, using Adapter.NearbyAccessPoints r...more >>

Greetings, I am trying to develop an application that synches to a desktop application. As far as i have researched RDA and Merge replication are the only two options that i have come across. Both required IIS. Given the policy issues of installing IIS based application at my client loca...more >>

Greetings, Is "Arabic language support" being extended for Pocket PC operating system in future. I know it is not available till Windows Mobile Server 2003 second edition. Any help on this, Please ! Thanks...more >>

Hello I have a weird behavior from VS2005 Beta2 Probably I missusing the feature... What I want: I have an PPC project. but I also want to run it on a normal PC (for testing purposes) I created a new "Windows Project" and added all the necessary files from the orignal project with Add...more >>

I've created a user control in the VS2003 1.1 framework and I'd like to remove the properties on the control that I didn't add and I don't want the user changing, .Text for example. Is this possible?...more >>

Can i use this situation? ado connection to a local mdb file? how? ...more >>

can anyone point me in the right direction here, even better, give me a small code example which will do this? thanks, Paul ...more >>

I'm using Compact Framework version 1.0 1) How can I hide the keyboard every time my application is activated? 2) How do I disable the hardware buttons, but then reenable them when my application has lost focus? 3) Is it possible to detect if the user has switched to landscape mode and...more >>

How do I catch the stylus coordinates when it taps somewhere over the screen? More generally, my problem is: "How do I drag'n'move a window without a titlebar?". I think to do so I must at least know stlus coordinates. Andrea J ...more >>

I`ve written some TCP/IP socket communication client based on the BSD socket API for WinCE .NET 4.20 (ws2.lib, using 2.2 for WSAstartup). The problem I encounter is that the socket recv and select does not seem to work correctly when the server sends less than 4 bytes in a chunk. The WinCE cl...more >>

How to create checkbox column in a Datagrid using C# CF ? Is there any solution for that ?...more >>

Hello ! I must develop an application for a WindowsCE.NET PDA with the .NET Compactframework. Due to compatiblity reasons with the backoffice application, the PDA will have to receive and send back sorted fixed length text files (1 record per line, sorted in use order). I must precise that,...more >>

Hi, I'm writing a small component. This component have to display some text so I have override OnPaint event and I've used DrawString method. No problem here. On DrawString I need to set a Font and I would like to use the operating system default font. How can I get the name, the size and t...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with passing complex structures to native code. complex structures means that I have structure with Integers, Strings, Byte Arrays, and also Arrays of another structures that also contains Strings, Byte Arrays etc. Any ideas how should I implement this? I tried to u...more >>

hi there, i cannot figure out how to update the emulator cf.net version, i downloaded both the sp3 updates (MSI and developer), sucessfully updated my device, but when i run my app on the emulator, is still shows the RTF 1.0 version. Also, i tried copying the ab files into the wce400/arm a...more >>

Hey all, sorry for the lame post, but can anyone point me in the right direction in getting into the CF2.0 framework beta? I have a customer that is working with it, and they're a little stuck. Thanks! -- John Coyne Arrow Electronics, OCS division When replying directly to me remove the...more >>

Hi, The problem is I have got an external application for bar code scanning, which reads a bar code and paste it to the control in my application by using Ctrl+V key sequence. It takes me a while to figure it out that the problem concerns only .NETCF 1.0 SP2+. I have checked the sequence of...more >>

Hi! I just got VS 2005 Beta 2 installed on my machine at work (OS is Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition) and now I have run in to a problem. When I try to debug a program from VS 2005 on the device (by pressing F5) I get the following error code: "The current version of ActiveSync is not...more >>

Hello, I need to enable/disable network adapters from my VB.NET code, e.g. enable wlan, disable lan. I know the names of the adapters, so I've thought about using an api call like the one that is used by the "Network connection manager" (connmc.exe); there you can choose an adapter from a l...more >>

Hi, I have been using Control.Invoke() extensively on a project in order to pass information from various worker threads to the interface thread. Most of my worker objects hide this functionality by raising events that are garuanteed to be fired in the constructing thread, by instantiating ...more >>

Hi, we are using the .Net CF 2.0 webbrowser component and it seems like the history.back() function doesn't work. Does anybody have an idea what's the problem here? bye, felix...more >>

Hello, I have a FullScreen program. When i go to configuration form i need to show a keyboard to write some parameters. Well, as the application is FullScreen if I add the InputPanel into a MainMenu, the SIP has a arrow with a option menu with several options. All options haven´t problem wi...more >>

I created a .NET SmartClient Application which consumes web service but I am not able to consume the Web Service from a this Smart Device Application. It throws the following exception An unhandled exception of type 'System.Net.WebException' occurred in System.Web.Services.dll Additional i...more >>

Good Day, I programmed my first Custom Control thanks t http://www.intelliprog.com/articles/index.html I add to my Control one string property. But I am not able to fill i up in design mode of my application. Everytime when I write some tex into property and press Enter, this text disappear....more >>

how can i use RightToLeft Fonts in .net CF 1.0? There is no "RightToLeft" property in control object(CF 1.0) -- Information is power...more >>

I am recieving the folllowing error with the code below: "A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in mscorlib.dll" There are two items in _keyMap. after the first iteration (when it's about to move to the 2nd item, the error above occurs. This error happ...more >>

Hi, Is it supposed to be possible to debug a CF2.0 app with VS2003? my vs freezes upon launching the debugger. I am aware that vs2003 is not supported, just wondering if this flatly cannot work or not. Thanks James...more >>

I have created a PocketPC C# application with a toolbar and some buttons. The buttons images come from an image list filled with 16x16 icons (256 colors), with transparent color background. Anyway, when I run the PPC application all the icons are shown with white backgound. How can I set the ...more >>

Hi, I have a bunch of custom controls that I have written, all with designer support, and all in their own seperate projects, with test applications too. I'd like to create *one* DLL file which has all the controls inside. Is this possible? How is it done? TIA. ...more >>

Hi, i am trying to find what lib i can add a reference so that this namespace becomes available to me. Can anyone assist? i creating a Pocket PC 2003 project using Visual Studio 2005 beta 2. thank you ...more >>

(I also posted this in the ppc.developer ng, but I figure it's perfectly on-topic here) Hi all, Is there some kind of hidden secret to get this working? I'm using a Pocket PC 2003 (where this notification type *should* be supported) and on a PPC 2003 emulator. I'm calling: BOOL bRet ...more >>

Hi I have added a toolbar button with an image list to my form. I have only one button and one image (in the image list). The image is of bmp type On the emulator I can see the image when running the program (very nice image I must say) but when I install the program on the PDA and run it, I...more >>

Hi, I downloaded OpenNETCF SDF 1.3. The GPSSample code does not compile on it - perhaps I got an incorrect version. I'm a decent C# coder, but I'm havng a helluva time with no success. Here are the issues: 1. GPS Sample does not compile - status changed to state etc... I finally got it...more >>

I have seen several C# examples on how to change the screen orientation on the Pocket PC, and also how to query if the screen orientation can be changed. But can someone tell me how to query the current screen orientation (C#)?...more >>

I want to popup the context menu by handling GN_CONTEXTMENU WM_NOTIFY message? ...more >>

Hi all, This is probably pretty simple, but I can't figure it out. I've been developing an app for many months now on and off. Just recently VS started giving me the above message every time I try and debug the app. It insists on copying OpenNETCF.SDF.ppc3.ARMV4.CAB to my device every time ...more >>

How can I make softwares which use 640x480 display? If I make a form in VS .NEt 2003 640x40 big, once transferred to the ppc, it exceeds the screen bounds. Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance Andrea ...more >>

Hello, Is there any possible way to change .NET VS project designed for Pocket PC to target Windows CE device? -- Regards Matijaz ------------ ...more >>

I have a problem with playing and stopping sounds. I have several forms, each of which starts up with a sound file. However, if you move from one form to the next without waiting for the sound file to finish, the next sound file doesn't play. I've tried stopping the sound when the form closes, a...more >>

Helo, I would like to write very simple logger with cleaning capability if the log file exceeds specified size. But 'TruncateLogFile()' function works only if ctor parameter 'fs' is provided as 'new System.IO.FileStream(FILES_PATH + logFileName, IO.FileMode.OpenOrCreate, IO.FileAccess.ReadWrite)...more >>

I'm unable to make a https connection through a proxy server using the compact framework. I am trying to make a connection to HTTPS using WebRequest.But i can able to connect to HTTP not for HTTPS. I am getting exception like "Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS". I have tried with...more >>

Dear fellow developers, I know I have seen some reusable library from Yoa and Durant for dispatching win32 messages to compact framework, but I cant find it anymore. Does anybody know where it is ? It gives you the possibility to register the messages you want to have from win32 like the tab_...more >>

Hi, Are there any known problems with the Symbol API scanner functions? I have a VB.Net Windows CE scanner application which uses the Symbol.barcode.reader class that just stops scanning after a while. No scanner beam. No scanner light on the device. The worst thing is that the problem is frus...more >>