Hi, I am trying to connect my PDA with Mobile 5.0 to PC through ActiveSync 4.2. But i face some connectiviy issues with it. After somewhile, the PDA automatically gets disconnected. Also i am not able to deploy any of my applications on this PDA. Could someone please help me with this? T...more >>

Hi, I have to update my log file (.txt) every time the program finishes uploading files to server. Log file is written to using FileStream now. However, if I'm reading the text file (using Pocket Word) at the time the process try to open and write, I'll get an IOException. Anyway I can update...more >>

Hi! I've some trouble connecting to my device using this tool. I've followed Steve P's blog http://blogs.msdn.com/stevenpr/archive/2006/04/17/577636.aspx Running a PocketPC 2003 SE with CF2 SP1 installed. ActiveSync 4.1.0 (Syncronization is completed) I've copied netcfrtl.dll and netcflau...more >>

Hello, I have some control delivering form UserControl. I'd like to hide oryginal property "Text". And I do it. new public string Text { set { base.Text = value; SetAutoSize(AutoSize); } get { return base.Text; } } ...more >>

I have a CF app using .NET V2.0. What steps must I take in order to upgrade my solution + all embeded projects to use SP1? Thanks very much! Pete ...more >>

Hi My client requires a simple data transfer utility to synchronise data for a custom c# app between his windows mobile 5.0 pda and a xp pro server. I cannot use the sql mobile synchronisation as the cost of licensing sql 2005 enterprise edition is not feasible for this project. I have also n...more >>

Hello, Is there a way to tell if a form has been displayed used Show or ShowDialog?(C#) TIA ...more >>

I am looking for a way to simply disable word completion for an edit field, other than switching it off for the complete Pocket PC. We have a "combo box like" user control that needs to pick up the arrow keys in the KeyDown event to move up and down a listbox. When the user types more tha...more >>

The following code give me an error telling that "The targeted version of the .NET Compact Framework does not support latebinding." I am using VB.Net 2005. What do I need to do to fix this code because I have not seen this before! The 2 parts giving the error are: - PointsSplit(Point...more >>

I am programming an HP iPAQ 1950, using VB .NET. I have two threads, the main thread and thread #2. I need thread #2 to be able to change a control on a form. My code runs but does not change the control. I have tried several permutations but nothing seems to work. Below is sample code. Note...more >>

Hello , I am trying to write a block device driver for sd cards in c#.. i have it in evc++.. i am not very familiar with c#.. could some one point me as to how this could be done.. in the following code .. i a writing the contents of the file to specific location on the SD card. I did try i...more >>

hi there, i've got an app that imports roughly 10000-15000 records of master data which needs to be sync'd daily. Currently i'm using WLAN or GPRS to connect to remote SQL database, then get a populate a sqlDataReader and as i loop through remote data, i insert it into local. This can ta...more >>

Is it possible to retrieve sent email messages using opennetcf? or how can I retrieve sent email messages? Thanks! ...more >>

using vs2003/cf1/ppc2003 windows mobile, cannot understand on how-to sync the pocket pc date-time to a NTP or SNTP server. Guess this involves two steps get the current time from the server and second apply that to the local device clock. Need this as easily if the battery power dies the cl...more >>

I am programming an HP iPAQ 1950, running Mobile 5.0, in VB .NET. The program I am writting will read data from the serial port and display the data on the screen and send the data over the internet. Question: 1) How can I turn the backlight on (From VB .NET), so users can see the data on t...more >>

It seems as if there's a hard limit in XMLTextWriter that's causing me a headache. If I create an XMLTextWriter from a StringWriter, once the string gets to be about 2.5MB in length, the XMLTextWriter will OutOfMemory exception. The simple code listed below causes this problem. Anyone kn...more >>

I have installed the embedded visual tools 3.0, but when I try to install the Pocket Pc 2002 SDK, I recieve the message: > Cannot initialize CE Platform Manager. Please check that embedded visual basic has been installed correctly. I don't know what's wrong... Anybody knows why I can't install i...more >>

While trying to hunt down an Outof MemoryException on our cf 1.0 device, I decided to try using using the limited tools at my disposal to little effect. I then upgraded to VS 2005 and converted the project to CF 2.0. What I found was that I could compile for CEPC x86 and then use a regular .NE...more >>

Hello to all NG, i've this problem. I'm developing a .NET CF 2.0 application running on x86 WinCE 5.0 CEPC device (I builded the CEPC image myself). X86 hasn't USB client, so I can't attach x86 board to development workstation using USB cable/Activesync. The only way is to use a serial cable ove...more >>

Hi , I have created a cab file using the functions in File Compresion Interface( FCI) . The cab file contains only the exe and the dlls on which the exe depends. But i do not specify any installation information( ex: .inf file) while creating this cab file. Where should i specify th...more >>

Hello, I was trying to use the CeCreateFile function of rapi.dll in my c# code.. All i am trying to do in the program bellow is to create a file.. but when i try to run the program i get a MissingMethodException - "Can't find PInvoke DLL 'rapi.dll'." Is there something wrong with code -- a...more >>

http://blog.opennetcf.org/ctacke/PermaLink,guid,987041fc-2e13-4bab-930a-f79021225b74.aspx I wonder if this could be the same thing that is causing my OOM exception? http://blogs.slcdug.org/petermorris/archive/2006/10/11/4185.aspx Is the solution simply to call GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()?...more >>

I am developing a program for .netcf 2.0. It is on a Symbol Bar Code scanner. It takes input from the user from scans and then sends the information off to a server. I want the user to then be able to click NEW and the program will start over from the beginning. How would I go about doing this...more >>

Hi, guys! I have acer n35, trying to install compact framework 2.0 on it I've received an error message: somthing like "this software is not compatible for this device". I saw that someone has the same problem but answer didn't help me much. If anybody knows any workaround or some solution to t...more >>

Hi, I've tied hardly to find an explanation of how the following OS are related: (1) Windows Embedded CE (2) Windows Embedded for Point of Service (3) Windows Mobile (4) Windows Automotive (5) Windows CE.NET I could guess that (2),(3) and (4) are customizations for (1). Can anyone conf...more >>

Hi all, I have got Visual Studio 2005 and WinCE 6.0 Beta installed. I am able to build an OS image (with .Net CF 2.0) and deploy it on the device and it is running fine. Now i tried to build a Device App and deploy it on the device, it gives me error saying System_SR_enu.cab file not foun...more >>

Hi, Any one please tell me how to create setup project vfor CE.NET devices ? I found something but, when I run setup, it only install PC not Device. If you send Clean, understandable help, I will appreciated ! Thanks ! Ali. ...more >>

When I dynamically load an assembly in our WM app, a real device will display a warning message like follows: "Starting this program requires a component from an unknown publisher. You should start the program only if you trust the component's publisher. Do you want to continue?" What's ...more >>

Hi, I'd like to know how can I get the display name of the device? I need to build a "FileDialog" windows (custom look & feel, not the one provided by the standard shell) and when I build the folder list, I need to put the "My Device" item at the beginning of the list. I could hard-code th...more >>

hey! guys i have a barcode scanner Symbol MC 9060 running windows CE .net with compact 1.1 framework installed on it. My application is done in Visual studio 2003, winforms with vb.net 2003 and uses webservices to connect to a remote webserver over the internet. Now the clinet is upgradi...more >>

Hi, I've just got VS2005 so I can compile for Windows Mobile 5.0 now. But now I can also start writing C# smartdevice applications but only ppc2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0 are mentioned. How to create applications in C# VS2005 for devices still running CE 4.1 and CE 4.2. I've tried to to depl...more >>

I have a Windows Form application written in C# on CF in a system with WindowsCE operating System. The application shows a plot of a signal (now an int randomly generated). It updates this plot on a Panel every second. After a hundred seconds the system slows down and the form became not resp...more >>

I have a web app that is constantly listening to "Instant messages" in the background. Call it Messenger.aspx. When it does receive a message, I need to pop up that message and that window should be appearing on top of all the other apps that are currently running. (say popupdialo...more >>

Hi everybody, I need to make a Pocket Pc application with some CAD properties, like import *.dwg or *.dxf, edit them, zoom... but I have no idea how to do it. I am a newbie VB.NET programmer. I have been looking for a *.dll o some code to create my application, but I have not found anything...more >>

Howdy all, I=B4d like to know if it=B4s possible to develop and work with a WebBroser inside my application. The intention is to develop a static file with some dynamic texts. The customer will read this page using a web browser (like Internet Explorer) and cannot go out of the application;...more >>

Hello all, can anyone recommend some type of sniffer to monitor packets coming and going from our devices? Our wireless carrier is showing that our devices have a much higher data usage than we believe. I would like to be able to run something on our PPC to see just how much data is being ...more >>

Hi, I am working on a PPC 2003 Device. I want to get the Battery Status that is displayed in the Control Panel as High, Low or Very Low. Can some one tell me how i can get that. I am using the below API Call to get the Percentage of Battery Charge left. [DllImport("coredll")] public exter...more >>

I would like to be able to timeout a TCP read opeartion. Apparently TCPClient does not support ReceiveTimeout in Compact Framework and the BeginReceive method is not supported either. Is there a way to implement a receive timeout in Compact Framework? Thanks. John P.S. Don't rep...more >>

I have a TabControl and I'd like to retrieve the active TabPage. I tought it was simple but the TabControl.SelectedTab method is not implemented in cf. Now I have the TabControl.SelectedIndex and TabControl.TabPages. The latter is a TabPageCollection, but I'm not able to find a method to retrie...more >>

Hello, Maybe this isn't the correct group to ask this but it's for a .NET Compact Framework application we are developing. What I need is an application that runs on desktop login that sets up a PDA application installer that installs the PDA app (and additional config files) on the PDA ...more >>

Hi all, Is there any flash player activeX control for smart device.. If you have any info please help me.. thanks supriya ...more >>

Hi! 1. Is it possible using WM2003SE, CF2, and VS2005 to create cab files that install on a device's storage card regardless of the storage card's path? I've been unsuccessfull in my attempts to find an attribute you can use in your INF-file for this. 2. Is the path to the storage card s...more >>

Hi on WM5 I want to trap calendar reminders so that I present my own message and sound. I tried working with SNAPI and SystemProperty but I cannot figure how to trap the above event. Any help would be appreciated. ...more >>

Hi, I'm pinvoking a mapi function in c# [DllImport("cemapi.dll", SetLastError = true)] public static extern int MailSwitchToAccount(string pszAccount, UInt32 dwFlags); I then call the function : if (Mapi.MailSwitchToAccount("My_account", Mapi.MCF_ACCOUNT_IS...more >>

Hi, Does any one know what event is raised when i click on the close( i.e. OK) button of a form in a PPC application? My app needs to perform different actions based on the way the form is closed. Basically, a form can be closed in 2 ways. First, by hitting the Ok button. Second, by call...more >>

I am writing an application that enhances the Pocket Outlook view. I have several customized fields/properties like "Company Objective" and "Sponsor". how can I access this information using Compact Framework 2.0 with VS2005. *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***...more >>

How do I get sent SMS for PPC Phone? I'm having a hard time finding a solution since the API on provides sending SMS. Pls help me with your insights and experiences, I would really appreciate any. Thanks! ...more >>

Hi All, I am struggling trying to port an API written in c++ to c#. I would appreciate a little help. The header file follows: // API function declarations __declspec(dllimport) int DiscoverBTDevices(TCHAR&, int); ------------------------------------------------------------------------...more >>

Hi, I'm currently working on an IM client application. My app needs to communicate with the server which, in turn connects to the main IM servers and returns the response from them to my client applicatioin. For this, my app creates few worker threads. One of them, which we call as cms...more >>

hi all, is it possible to have one compiled app, that runs both on WM5 and PPC2003? and how? currently using VS2003 and VS2005 for development (VB.NET) thanks, Paul ...more >>