Hi, I'm developing custom device using PXA270 and WinCE 5.0. I want to implement a directional keypad which will have 4 buttons effectively similar to say a gamepad, up arrow, down arrow, left and right. This is so the user can navigate the main CF application and move from say tab to tab rather...more >>

Hello, I was wondering whether it was possible to send a message from one app to another process and for example send a mouse event to its main form in .NET CF. Could this be done with Pointo Point mesage queues? ...more >>

Hello, I have an winform compact framework app which returns a dataset from webservice . I need to bulkinsert that database into my SQLCE database. Right now I iterate row by row and insert rows one at a time. To insert 1500 rows it takes me 10minutes. Which is unaceptable. Can...more >>

How can I get the contents of a field in SQL Mobile. I've just switched over from doing ADOCE projects so I'm quite clueless. For instance, I use to be able to do this: rs.Open(sqlString) If Not rs.EOF And Not rs.BOF Then If variable1 <> rs.Fields("Field1").Value.ToString() Then 'Do so...more >>

I need to send SMS messages from a web server to wireless devices, however, we can not connect modems to the server. I'm having a difficult time finding a service where we could send a text message via SMS or a web service, then have this service send the message to the wireless device. I ...more >>

Hello, I like .NET CF 2.0. I love speed. I need both. Situation: PCI device on CE 5.0. Memory mapped IO connectivity to device. Desires: o I want to have my driver init routine return an address pointing to the user mode address of the memory mapped region in the hardware. o I want ...more >>

Hi all, I want to develop an application that takes video from the pda camera or some camera connected to the pda and streams it to a PC over the internet. Can someone give me some clues about the best way to do this?...more >>

I am trying to pass a generic collection as a parameter to a method and I keep getting a compile error. I can do this in the full framework but not CF. Can anyone explain to me why this doesn't work? I get the following error: genasm.exe(1) : error There was an error finalizing type . Type '...more >>

Hi, Sorry, I'm reposting this as unfortunately, it's quite urgent, and I hope someone out there can help... have a client application running on a windows ce .net device, and a server application running on a PC. I have been experiencing problems with the tcp connection dropping (ObjectDis...more >>

Hello! I use DocumentText property to display my web content. If it contains image then webBrowser doesn't display it. How can I display images with using DocumentText property ? Thanks for help. Sebastian....more >>

Hi, I'm developing an application on PDA using WindowsCE. In my application I have several tabs at the bottom of my screen. However, in one of the tabs I've placed 2 radiobutton, used to switch between between 2 panels on that same tab. (I don't use nested tabs, because I noticed they always ...more >>

Hi, Works on full Framework, but on PDA, I don't get these events? Do these work? Am I doing something wrong? WM 5.0, CF 1. Since/If these don't work, any alternatives? Thanks, Hilton ...more >>

Is it possible to intercept a phone call via Managed Code on WM5 and have my custom code run instead of the the inbuild WM5 handler? If so could you provide some sample code or point to an article/documentation etc. thanks in advance, Regards, sanjay shetty ...more >>

Hi, I am experiencing a strange problem while developing a smartphone WM5 application. I have 4 textboxes and a timer that updates these textboxes. The textboxes enabled is set to false so the user cannot modify them. This works fine and the timer updates the textboxes correctly. I added anothe...more >>

How can I detect if a specific Pocket PC has all the feature of the "phone edition" ? Internet detection? thanks. Philippe Map4Pda.com ...more >>

Hi all, I am looking for unit testing tool for my compact framework (1.1) application. If not there for this version , what is the altenative way to do the unit testing for .net compact framework applications? Any ideas are welcome. thanks in advance ...more >>

Ok seemed to flawlessly "encrypt" the SDF using the SQLCEeng Createdatabase with the password and Encryption on. What "level" and type of encryption is this? Such as AES 128bit etc.??? Looked everywhere and it just says encrypted without a type or level. Anyone know? TIA Harry ...more >>

Hallo. I have this problem. In my app, i insert data into an SDF that is located on a Secure Digital. After inserting Data (no SqlCeException during install), i cannot find all records into DB. I have seen that in my SD the free space is about 3MB. Then i free space of the SD and the next INSE...more >>

I read a lot about how to deploy my C# application and can't get it working for all target. I tryed that sample: http://www.codeproject.com/netcf/compframe4.asp#xx790851xx But the installer cant install on my device (PPC2003 Dell Axim /XScale proc.) and give a unvaluable error like "Install...more >>

Hello, I am encountering strange problems in my current CF forms application. Sometimes controls will be rendered incorrectly, e.g. a label being rendered like a button - with a black border and a white background that changes to black when clicked with the pen and changes back to white ...more >>

Hi, I have a UI tester console app which launches my GUI app (single form)to be tested on separate thread and sets the various controls using the ControlInvoker class. I'm using CF 1.0 SP3 I can set the testBox,listBox controls in my app to be tested and read the values back. I've also managed...more >>

Is it possible that a trivial (class MyControl: Control {}) custom control's KeyDown / KeyPress events are not fired on .NET CF 1.1 for PPC2003 / WM5? This seems strange as the events are fired on SP2003. ...more >>

I am guessing No.... ...more >>

Hi there, I intend to develop a wrapper for Windows media player to get a handle of the player so that I can open, play, pause and stop the player programmatically. I also need the player to go full screen. I was wondering if I can achieve this in C# by p/Invoking to WaveOut functions in core...more >>

i need to do a soft reset when the app detects that the user has turned on the pda. (dont ask why) does CeRunAppAtEvent do the trick? will it fire with a soft reset? therefore doing continuous soft resets? ...more >>

Hi NG How is it possible to convert a dataset into a XML string without saving it to a file? ds.writetoxml() only allows a filename. --- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely , Michael Kugler Compunited Inh.: Michael Kugler Hasellohweg 19 90766 Fürth Germany Tel +49(91...more >>

I simply want to copy a file using the File.Copy(strSource,strDest) format On a handheld device how do you reference a file.... what is the beginning of the path ? On a server it is \\servername\folder On a desktop it is C:\Foldername I see my handheld has My Device as a root... I tri...more >>

Hi all, I am looking for a method which detects hardware keyboard are enabled in CF 2.0 for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. This is my scenario: When a textbox on a form has the focus, the SIP is enabled by setting InputPanel.Enabled to true in the TextBox.GotFocus. The issue is how can i ...more >>

I need to move some files to different folders. How would you do it within compact framework ? File system object work here ? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to have event handler for say button click on main GUI thread on a separate worker thread. So if button is clcked on main form, the event can be handled in another thread. I'm using VS2003 and CF1.0 SP3 ...more >>

Hello all, I have a listbox on a screen that gets populated from a sqlce table using a sqlcedataadaptor. My question is this: How can I add more than one display field to the listbox's .DisplayMember property? I want to display two fields from the datatable in the list box (ie. #1 - ...more >>

Hello, Win Forms app is able to connect to my webservice passing credentials as follows- myService.Credentials=System.Net.CredentialsCache.DefaultCredentials; Compact Framework does not have a CredentialsCache class. Is there an alternate way of passing default credentials? Thanks. ...more >>

Hello All, I am a VB programmer and I am looking to create a simple Ir comms program for a PDA. .net appears to have IrDA components but I can not get a sensible serial connection for transfer of ASCII characters. I do not know where to start now, does any one have any suggestions it woul...more >>

Hi, I've a question. I'm working with CF 2.0 and VS 2005 and i used 2 language for my form (French and English). When i design my form for French , i give it a size (240 , 320) and when i save it and switch to English the size of my form become automatically 640 by 480 (default size) if...more >>

Hi all, I have a client application running on a windows ce .net device, and a server application running on a PC. I have been experiencing problems with the tcp connection dropping (ObjectDisposedException for the NetworkStream) and so I have tried to cut the applications down to their minim...more >>

I see MS has released SP1 for CF 2.0. Is there a way to update the CE 5.0 platform builder's OS files using this download or is there / will there be another download to upgrade the platform builder's OS files?...more >>

Im working on some .NET CF 2.0 class libraries that will be used both in Windows Mobile 2003 an Windows Mobile 5 applications. I create them as Windows Mobile 2003 class libraries. Are there any issues with this? Or are there any differences between a class library created as Windows Mobile 20...more >>

Hi, I've asked this question on other forums but haven't got any answer i hope i'll get here. I'm trying to connect from my PDA to my own machine's shared folder but when in my PDA file explorer i type \\mymachine01\SharedFiles i got this error message "The network path was not found...more >>

The System.Web reference in unavailable in the CF. Any other way to URL encode and url decode here? Thanks ...more >>

I am trying to use the MarshalAs attribute like so: [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst=0)] byte[] m_bytes but when I compile I get the error The type or namespace name 'MarshalAs' could not be found (blah blah...) I am referencing mscorlib.dll version 2.0.5238.0, and I note...more >>

I have created buttons with text that is wider than the button control. How can you tell the control to be multiline? I would make the button wider but that is not an option. Thanks!...more >>

Hey, I've had a few problems with running out of memory when running extensive tests on my PDA application, does anyone know a memory profiler that'll work on the compact framework? (VS.NET 2003 and 2005 or just one of them) I'm suspecting it might be forms that are not removed properly, si...more >>

Hi All, I'm trying to deploy a project that will run both on 2003 and wm5 devices. And I need an advice on the subject. Do I need to create 2 separate projects one for every device? And if so what should I change in the ini file to point to in which platform to deploy which cab file. THX...more >>

C# 2.0 is obviously a programning language, and the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 (CF 2.0) only defines high level classes/data types/components/controls/etc to be used with that programming language, correct? If so, are there only certain versions of C# that can be uses with CF 2.0 , or can...more >>

How do I new line in a multi line textbox? string msg = "Line 1" + "\r\n" + "Line 2"; does not work. I get double squares where the carrage return line feed should be. Using the OpennetCF textbox2 with multiline set to true. THX ...more >>

Hi, I would like to autosize a Label's height based on a fixed width. It seems that .NETCF has dropped support for this overload.. but anyway that would probably not be correct for the 'system' label using system text rendering. PS: I am using .NET CF2, so if there is another way that I hav...more >>

I am still try to write the following in the InitializeComponent section of the form when my component is dragged onto the tray: myComponent.ParentControl = this; where ParentControl is a property of my component. Why is it so difficult to find good documentation on these issues? Apa...more >>

I have a question about the InTheHand outlook add-in. I am not able to post a question on the forum of InTheHand.com as it is not allowing to create new user forum users, hense I am posting it here. Can the outlook add-in be used to add menu items to the default menu of the Pocket Outlook. ...more >>

Hi, i have a frmMain which is the main form of my PPC03 app when it starts. It has a button control, in the button controls event handler another form frmMenu is loaded which has been declared local to the = event handler and instantiated in the event handler. ie=20 Private Sub button_Click...more >>

Please tell me does smart device support DirectX ? Thank you very much :-)...more >>

Hi all! I need to read and backup all email from my pocket pc, with Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook i can read only Appointments,Contacts,Tasks,SmsAccount and Emailaccount. how i can retrieve and read all email? Thanks beforehand ...more >>

I have a CF1 application running fine, which we did using VS 2003. Now we want to migrate it to CF2 using VS2005. Are there any guidelines or best practices document detailing what should we do and how should we do? Can anybody please point me to some URL or document? Thanks in advance, Reg...more >>

This Post was taken from thread : http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework/browse_thread/thread/6f1fa4618ed76f52/6b6936026c51ff49 "There is no DataGridView in NETCF, only a simple DataGrid. If you're using SQL Mobile as your data base, you can use Da...more >>

When i sign my assembly and try to run it on the device I get "MissingMethodException". What am I doing incorrectly?...more >>

i need to use wifi and cf reader at same time, and cf reading freezes pda if wifi is on. so i need to toggle wifi off/on and found some code but it is not working: public class WLANController { #region DllImports etc... Private Enum PowerState { P...more >>

Hello, I need to be able to intercept the occurrence of the little bubble popups In windows mobile 5.0 and decide if I want to let them appear to the user. Stuff like .... "Connecting....", When you initiate a GPRS connection "Time and Next Appointment" When you click on the time T...more >>

Hi, I have a main GUI app (test framework) which creates a thread and launches another GUI app using Reflection ie Assembly.Loadfrom then in new thread Application.Run. Then i intend to invoke the controls on the app to be tested from my test framework thread. Is this valid in CF. I've bas...more >>

Hi All, I had no way but to repost this question as I am not able to fix this probelm yet. I am trying to navigate to a Uri in my C# app on CF 2.0, but getting an exception. Please find the code below. webBrowser1.Navigate(new Uri(@"/Storage Card/Flash/GPSRanger.html?GPSRanger.swf")); I...more >>

Hi NG, is it possible to run a program made with Visual Studio Net 2003 with Windows CE 3.0? A customer has the following device: Modell: Compaq iPAQ H 3850 Produkt-ID: Pocket PC Prozessortyp: SA 1110 Produktversion: 2.0 Windows CE 3.0 The database, the program uses is a sdf database c...more >>

hello all, I am having a problem in converting a pocket pc smart device project from MS VS.NET 2003 to MS.VS.NET 2005. Before coversion, on the computer which is having the project ready, I have MS VS.NET 2003 and ..net framework v1.1 and compact framework v1.0. Now when I took the same p...more >>

Hello, do you now how handle in one procedure (written in c#) any key pressing and all screen's tapping ? I know , it's possible with opennetcf components, but is there any another way? I'd like count in my program user's inactivity. Regards, Marian ...more >>

hi, i would lik to ask that is there a way by which v can display data as a small menu or box on the today screen.... i m precisely talkin bout something like a widget for a pocket pc.... i m building a gps application and wat i want is for it to show data on the screen evry moment... ...more >>