We've published a new article on the OpenNETCF Community Site. Alex Feinman covers how to use GDI+ in your Windows Mobile managed applications. In case you missed them, our other recently published articles include: - Sharing Windows Mobile Ink with the Desktop - OpenNETCF Mobile Ink Lib...more >>

hi there, i'm developing a pocket pc application in c#.net to save appointments and i have to bold and underline some text in the note field. as the note field is of type string and it does not store any information about text formatting, how can i store the information indicating some charac...more >>

Hi, I need to disable the start menu on WinCE 5.0 pocketpc device app screens. IS there way to programmatically do that ? Thx, Anand ...more >>

I am an experienced .NET developer but new to the Compact framework and the windows mobile platform. I have a requirement to develop a windows mobile application (or service) in .NET compact framework 2.0 with the following requirements: =B7 Application runs in the background with no UI =B7 ...more >>

Hello, I'm working on an app that uses my mobile phone's GPRS network to implement a simple Push Notification system. My implementation is based on Microsoft's implementation of always-up-to-date synchronizatoin (AUTD) for Exchange, which they've written about here: http://msdn2.micros...more >>

Hi all, I have a need to restart or relaunch the application from itself. The first thing I tried is to modify the program.cs source so that the Application.Run() is within a loop as so: // ExitApplication is a static public variable while (!ExitApplication) { Application.Run(new Main...more >>

Hello I have to write an application to MC1000 terminal http://www.symbol.com/mc1000 Microsoft Windows CE 4.2 Core 32MB RAM/32MB ROM and I think that small memory size could become a problem. Should I use multiple forms (5-6) or one form with multiple panels? What is a general rule?...more >>

HI, I am trying to use LoadIcon function offered by API on managed code. But I can not find out which dll this function belongs to, I need to find this out in order to make this function available by DLLImport. How do I figure this out? Thank you....more >>

We're at it again! OpenNETCF Consulting is pleased to announce the release of a new product named "Padarn". Padarn is a very small footprint (less than 300k for all files) ASP.NET web server designed to run under the limited resource environments of Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0. Padarn lets y...more >>

Hi ; Why do i get an System.IO.FileNotFoundException on this : TcpClient cl=new TcpClient(); cl.Connect("192.168.1.80", 7777); The Connect generates an exception visible in the output window. Encapsulating the Connect in a try catch does not yield me the exception in the catch. I t...more >>

Help, Boss is leaving to demo my app tomorrow and we just got the MC70 with qwerty keyboard. The text enters just fine into the textbox with focus. I've got my out Enter pic button but now with the hardware keypad, he wants to enter numbers and then hit the hardware/or SIP enter keys and ...more >>

hi I would like to know whats better To declare a SQLCeConnection variable as a Static member of a Class containing functions to MakeConnection and CloseConnection, or should I just declare it as a Public member of the above mentioned class containing Connection code. And, if better is use ...more >>