Hi, I'm woking on a projects that uses unicode char. When we are at developing env i.e. on desktop pc unicode char. are displayed well, But when the app depolyed on mobile device unicode char displayed as rect. blocks in place of and char. Is it unicode support available in WIndows Mobile 5 o...more >>

I am working on an application in Windows Mobile that requires use of a calendar to record schedules. I would like this new application to be able to call the standard PPC calendar so user can validate if an appointment can be booked on certain days and then to allow the user to navigate back to...more >>

Dear sirs, Is it possible to, (using C#) , minimize an Windows Mobile 5.0 application to a system tray (in that area near battery icon ) ? Or, I would like to minimize my application and put an icon anywhere on Today Screen. Is it possible to do with C# ? And, I would like to do that u...more >>

How can you wrap the selected item with a listbox? For instance, if you go to the end of the listbox items and seletect 'Down' again, I'd like to wrap back to item '0'. Thanks...more >>

I wrote an application in .Net with CF 1.0.5. which runs perfectly fine on my Win CE 3.0 machines but not at all on the Win CE 2.1 machines. I know, I know; CE 2.1 is pretty old but I have 20 machines and I can't upgrade right now. I saw on a previous post that CF2.0 does not suppport CE 4.2 ...more >>

I want to be able to access a network drive/file from my device. I've tried using the OpenNetCF's Network.MapDrive procedure, but it returns 53, which is an invalid network path error, eventhough I can access this path using the either Internet Explorer or the Run command. I'm using Windows ...more >>

Hi, I want to do an unmanaged call to an DLL Unmanaged code(dll) function: int myfunc (char* temp) Here return int type determines the Success. After execution of the function temp will contain an value How to do the unmanaged call to this function from c# and later how to retrieve the val...more >>

Hi All, I was hoping if anyone has any idea how to use the Device Management application in ce.net 4.2. I searched MSDN and downloaded System Management Server 2003. But now I am dumbfounded (more like dumb). :) Where do I start? All I want to do for now is just place a file on the handhel...more >>

Hi, I have created a mobile application(WM5) that uses Web Service. First of all: In my client I add web reference and I create an istance of my proxy in the constructor. Should it be the only one instance?Or, should I create an istance of proxy before each call to web service and then to dest...more >>

Hi All, I want to create a virtual mouse and move it through arrow keys on Smartphone just as VNC remote viewer (RDP client) does. But when i try to load any mouse cursor using LoadCursor eg. Arrow cursor, it gives me handle on newly loaded cursor since its not NULL. But it doesn't shows me an...more >>

Hello, I installed the VS CF 2 SP 1 developer patch from this article http://blogs.msdn.com/netcfteam/archive/2006/08/04/688766.aspx Unfortunately the service pack introduces a completely unacceptable bug. The keyboard icon disappears when a message box is displayed and remains gone even ...more >>

Hi, We have Two devices. One is PPC2002 and the other is Win Ce.NET 4.2 I want to know the OS of the Device my application is running programatically. How can i do it?...more >>

I recently developed an CF 2.0 app for WM5.0 device which sends out emails using Outlook Poom. I can succesfully get the emails placed into the Outlook outbox and have them ready for the next scheduled "send and recieve" but I'd like to actually have my custom application force a "send and ...more >>

Hi, I created a registry key from an application (CF 1.0). However, the key is lost every time after iPAQ 4700 pocket pc is hard-reset. What to do to keep the key? Thanks. GD ...more >>

Is it possible to hide the MainMenu control on a form in .NETcf? I don't see any property such as Visible etc. Or do I need to use native code for this? Thanks for any help, Steve...more >>

Hi, I was wondering how the .NET CF screen coords in say System.Drawing.Point(8,40) can be mapped to equivalent coords for use by the SetWindowPos(0,8,40,cx,cy, flags) function in C++ Using the same values doesn't work. Is there any way to do a translation even on paper. Reason being i'm doin...more >>

Hello, I use dot-matrix printers (Epson LX-300) connected to Windows CE devices via serial port, for my application's printing needs. Using both OpenNETCF's serial comm classes and Windows CE API functions, I had no problem with printing or determining whether printer is turned on. But I coul...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to develop a program in C# and I need to change some registry keys with a dinamic entries. Let's explain better. I've to change automatically the "Briefcase Path" key of the partnership created by Microsoft Active Sync but the name is not fixed. I'd like to find in the regis...more >>

Hi all, Not having amu success making a connection using C# from a WM5 device to a Windows XP Pro using ActiveSync inside of VS2005. AS is working fine, I can connect to a local Queue, but I'm simply unable to connect to a Queue on the host Windows XP Pro. I'm currently using Message...more >>

I've got about 5 thread in my application. One of the threads downloads data from the internet I gave the UI the highest priority System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Priority = System.Threading.ThreadPriority.Normal; I gave all other threads a lower priority _threadObject.Priority = System...more >>

Hi, I am workin on a Smart Device Application Project (VS.NET 2003) and needed to hide a column in a datagrid. I tried to use MappingType.Hidden, but it doesnt seem to work. The below code works fine in WinForm but not in Smart Device application. DataTable dt = new DataTable(...more >>

Hello Due to the limitations of the Compact Framework, I've made an "image button" by making a modified PictureBox class and then defining a click event for it as shown below. This code seems however to execute much slower than when clicking a standard button. What could be the reason for t...more >>

After installing the file NETCFv2.wm.armv4i.cab on a WM5 NETCF1.1 device, I am prompted to reboot in order to complete the installation. Why? If I ignore the reboot and starts a NETCF 2.0 application immediately, it works. Obviously the main part of NETCF 2.0 is operational without the ...more >>

Hello, I'm not shure, if this is the right group for posting this question, but maybe there is someone who can help me. I'm progamming on Windows Ce with the compact framework on the "Wafer-LX-800"-Board (have a look at www.ieiworld.com; it has an "x86"-processor) and I need to read the GPI...more >>

Hi group To create a CAB file for a device, on VS 2003 I was making the .inf file, and use the CABWIZ.exe with good arguments on VS 2005 I make a new Device Cab project, wich create the inf file, and (i supose) use the Cab Wiz to create the CAB. if i use winrar to open a CAB file I get a f...more >>

Does anyone have any idea what this exception is and how to solve it? I can reference sql server ce and have it as a using statment and my app will load fine but as soon as I create an instance of a sql object then this error comes up. I am using VS 2005 and a dell axim x51v as my depoyment de...more >>

Greetings fellow PDA developers, I am working on a PC side interface software for my Windows Mobile 5.0 device and I have some how-to questions regarding a few things. I fear I may be attempting the impossible. Let me know what you think. (1) Using PC software, I want to copy a file from ...more >>

Hi, Is there any documentation for the OpenNETCF.IO.Serial.GPS.GPS class? Also is it possible to detect if there is a GPS unit present? ...more >>

I have an app that stores information in the Application Data directory and works fine when it's installed on the device. I just reference "\Application Data\MySpecialDir" and I'm set. However, if the application is installed on an SD card this reference fails. How do I address the Applica...more >>

I have VS 2005 standard , and I want to develop Hebrew Appliction, but the Device Emulator do not support Hebrew. what I can do? ...more >>

Hi all! Is there a way to programmatically turn on the screen of the PDA using ..NET Compact Framework 2.0? I have a long running task and I want the screen to turn on when this operation ends. Thanks in advance, Marco Minerva. marco.minerva@tiscali.it http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/marcom ...more >>

Hello everybody. Is it possible to create a project targeted to WinCE device with CF1 in Visual Studio 2005? I know that it is possible to create projects for Pocket PC with CF1. But what about WinCE devices? I've tried to import VS2003 project for WinCE device into VS2005. But VS2005 has con...more >>

I am walking my thru the Microsoft hands on lab for "Developing Multithreaded Apps" all of the code is in c#2.0. I am using vb.net I am getting the following issue when I assign the method "BackGroundProcessing" to the workerthread below "Expression does not produce a value"??? There is...more >>

Hi, MessageBox.Show (new TextBox ().Height.ToString()); MessageBox.Show (new ComboBox().Height.ToString()); gives 20 and 20 in non-VGA mode and 20 and 40 in VGA mode. Seems like the CF does not set the height of textboxes correctly in VGA mode (using res2exe). This means that textboxes ...more >>

Hello group, While I try to learn something about mobile development, I found the good working example 'mail rule', which can be found inside the 'Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for Pocket PC'. This code filters all incoming sms having the text 'zzz' inside it's body. As I understand the descrip...more >>

My application needs to know a few things about what its running on. If I can get the following at runtime that would be ideal (in order of importance): 1. Operating System (eg. Windows Mobile 5) 2. Screen Size (I think this will be enough Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds) 3. Device type (eg. Poc...more >>

Hi, A potential users of my PPC application, using Microsoft Pocket PC Version 3.0, was getting the error message "Cannot find [Application] (or one of its components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and all the required libraries are available." I did some research and figu...more >>

I've searched high and low, but can't seem to come across a solution for garbage collection of my dynamically declared controls. For testing I've created a small example: I have two classes: public class Foo { public Foo() { Debug.WriteLine("Foo ctor"); } ~Foo() { ...more >>

Hello Friends, I have a question. Can any one tell me how to create a sample database in SQL Moblie and testing the sample application in window mobile emulator ?. I want to use SQL qeury analyser for the creation of sdf file i.e. database file. I want to following things which are giv...more >>

Hello I would like to ask how can I create a Self-Updating applications in VB.Net Cf 2.0 and .Net 2005 Thanks Savvas ...more >>

Hi, I'm wondering if it is a way to make a treenode in a treeview bold. This property is not supported on compact framework, but in a regular framework it is. Could you help me please? ...more >>

Hi to everyone, I'm playing with XMLSerializer under Compact Framework 2.0 (latest SP applied). I have a hierarchy of classes I would like to serialize to XML. The code I've used follows: FileStream fs = new FileStream("prova.xml",FileMode.Create,FileAccess.Write); Type[] tipi =...more >>