Hello, I've used a web service for years with my device app and recently recreated it in VS2005 - it works cept for one method that i'd like to debug but I'm grabbing a dataset from the local SDF database on the device and using a web method call to pass the dataset......i need to debug thi...more >>

I have a dateTimePicker with a ValueChanged event handler attached. But I only want to execute the event handling code if the USER has changed the value of the picker and not if my own application code ajusts the value of the dateTimePicker. How can I discriminate where the event came from? Perh...more >>

Hi, All I am using .NET 2003 Combobox has textbox control over it used for the search; txtSrh.Visible = True txtSrh.Bounds = cboLoc.Bounds txtSrh.Width -= 16 I have combobox search on 3 char in txtSrh_TextChanged procedure: If txtSrh.TextLength = 3 Then Dim i As Integer Dim sLoc As Strin...more >>

Hello Group, When I place a breakpoint, let's say on line 10, and I start the solution, the breakpoint jumps to line 13. In this zone, it seems like the debugger is skipping lines in the code too. It is a very big solution I hope I don't have to create a new one and re-import eac...more >>

Hi I have an application developed with visual studio 2005 which runs minimized all the time. I needed a notify icon to show up any time app is running. So I have used ‘Shell_NotifyIcon’ implementation and its working in basic terms. Right now I am able to display the icon at the syste...more >>

Hi, how can I force my app to send messages from Outbox of PocketOutlook (over GPRS), and to read messages from my ISP into Inbox of PocketOutlook? Now, I know how to create (write) and 'send' message from my code, but such message continue to 'sit' in Outbox folder of PocektOutlook, until...more >>

I'm trying to develop a WM5 PDA application (using .NET CF2 and OpenNETCF 2.1) which makes use of WiFi, however I've noticed that a lot of the time, when the PDA is cradled and connected to the PC (Vista using WMDC) the WiFi gets disabled. I fetch the list of current network adaptors and I ...more >>

Hi Group, I want to use RunAppatTime to wake up my device at a given time. 1) Can I use RunAppatTime for this purpose? 2) Where can I find RunAppatTime in the community edtion 2.1? I can't find OPENNETCF.Win32.Notify and I can't find OPENNETCF.Win32.RunAppatTime The namespace OPENNET...more >>

Read the transcript of yesterday's chat here: http://opennetcf.com/chats/2007-08-29.html Thanks to Fabien, Mark and Peter for helping out with hosting the chat. --Neil ...more >>

Hi All I have been trying for hours to get a handle to the controls on my form with no luck. I have tried a number of different veriations of FindWindow with no luck. It seems to only work for top level Forms, I can get the handle to them fine, but nothing on the form itself. Some backg...more >>

Hi, I want to check to for the availability of an access point and if the access point is available, then I want to connect to an access point programatically. I am new to wifi, so can some one tell me where to start? Thanks, Murthy...more >>

Hi guys, Really struggling with this. When my PDA's (WM5) regional settings are United States my application will happily show me exception messages, however as soon as i set it to United Kingdom it displays the error: "An error message cannot be displayed because an optional resource a...more >>

Hi all, Does anybody know of a way to have a C# PPC/WM application receive notification when a window is brought to the foreground. Catching the forms Deactivate and LostFocus events are not good enough. I need to be able to globally catch the event when an window is brought to the foreground...more >>

I know Chris Tacke posted about making standard WinForms into non-full screen, and I see that now CF.NET 2.0 supports this. However, in terms of dialog boxes, shown by calling ShowDialog, this functionality does not exist. I am trying to port a Windows CE CF.NET application to Windows Mobile, ...more >>

Hi all, In the past when I've p/invoked 'FindWindowW("HHTaskBar", null). The only reason I knew to do "HHTaskBar" is because of sample code that is posted everywhere on the Internet. I was wondering if anybody could give me a list of other standard window names? Thanks, Jerod ...more >>

I know that this question has been asked before, but I can't seem to make use of the information provided. I have .NET CF 2.0 with SP2 installed on my PPC. And as far as I can tell, this is the latest offering from MS. And just to be sure, I first installed version 2.0, then SP1, then SP2. I eve...more >>

Hello, I’m writing an application in compact framework 2.0. I need to support Arabic menus and for that I need to have access to customize the menus to render strings from right to left and to display Arabic characters. Now the menus displays only boxes even I have installed Arabic fonts a...more >>

hi all, i have been searching all day for the Windows Mobile SAPI SDK to download but i can not find it. Microsoft has a website fore it but nowhere to download it from. Any help would be welcome thanks ink ...more >>

Hello, I have a Form with embedded webbrowser component. In this component I show the html pages. I have a problem, each time when focus is in input field on html page the SIP is show. Is it possible to disable SIP? I tried with: http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/print_wordcompletion.html b...more >>

Hi, I'm missing the function System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.GetConverter() in .net CF 2.0 SP 2 German. Neither Intellisense nor the device itself are able to resolve this function. The API is available under .net 2.0 and _shall_ be available under .net CF either (concerning the docs), bu...more >>

Hello. I am developing a Bluetooth component for Windows Mobile and for Widcomm stack, in C# and C++. I'm having many problems, with the connections. However, I can make a discover process and it works, byt when I try to connect to a device i doesn't work. Does anybody have any code? Tha...more >>

hi all i can not seem to find where to download the Windows Mobile Speech SDK. All my searches keep ending up at the same place. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa914072.aspx i can see where to download the SDK so that i can use it. Any direction would be welcome. Thanks, i...more >>

I'm in the process of porting a CF1 app to CF2. I have designer-generated "InitializeComponent" code to lay out forms. Under CF1 the forms look fine on VGA devices, but under CF2, the coordinate system is all wrong. The controls are squeezed together at half the desired width/height. I t...more >>

Is there anyway to automagically open/drop down a combobox? Thanks ...more >>

Is there anyway to automagically open/drop down a combobox? Thanks ...more >>

Hello I am getting a Syntax error in the compute method of a datatable. I want to SUM the qty field based on a filter expression and the expression contains 3 fields. Non of the MSDN documentation nor any other references tell me I can not do this. dim str as string ="" str = ...more >>

Hi all, Sorry for this simple question, but how do I hide a main form when calling Application.Run(frm) (Only version of this function in Compact Framework). It is crucial for my application to start a message pump in main, but I do not want main form to be shown. Is there some appropiate way to...more >>

Hi, the user can change the time, in my program. I use: <DllImport("coredll.dll")> _ Public Shared Function SetLocalTime(ByRef lpSystemTime As SYSTEMTIME) As Int32 End Function In the winter works fine, but in summer there a difference from 1 hour. How can i workaround the mist...more >>

I already know the answer to this, I think, but I have a customer who wants to connect a load of portables to a PC, but they can't install any software. This includes Active Sync. Yes, I know this is a rediculous situation, but that's what I've got to work with. The only thing I can thin...more >>

I've been using CF for quite a while but have not goettn into the threading portion much at all. I've found some decent articles regarding it. My boss asked me if I could "Start a timer on a seperate thread" and I really didn't know what to tell him - i knew we could execute a method on a thr...more >>

Hi I have a device which has Windows CE version 5. I need to develop a program for it. This program needs a library class which was developed by a company called scientific component. The class is called Portcontroller.net. It was developed for use on the normal dot net framework. C...more >>

hi I'm quite new in visual basic, and now i' m working on a visual basic code which will work on a pocket pc. in my program I need to create a file and hold some information which will be storaged in pocket device after my program executes. to make this I tried to create a file using file funct...more >>

We're working on some ideas about developing a custom solution for Windows Mobile devices change and configuration management. We must provides the following key capabilities: - Hardware and Software inventory. - Application deployment. - Remote control. - Configuration settings: es. Wi-Fi pa...more >>

I have a requirement to run an RF portable application without any installation on the portable itself. The exe and any other files required would have to reside on a server. The portable must connect to the server via RF. I will be developing in VB2005 for a CE5 device. Firstly I need...more >>

Does anybody know if there is a managed api that will make a phone vibrate? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to develop a WM6 mobile application (for personal use) in VS2005 using C#. The application uses the microsoft.sqlserver.smo assembly in order to connect to an instance of SQL Server and be able to manage it. The problem is when I build and deploy the application, it copies a wh...more >>

I've successfully used OpenNETCF to create an ad-hoc wireless connection on a WM5 PDA (with the intention of talking to another PDA). The IP address is assigned automatically by APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing) and in the range 169.254.x.y with subnet mask 255.255.0.0. I need to be ...more >>

Hello, I have here two Windows CE 5.0 devices one with cf2.0Sp1 Version:2.0.5238.00 and one with cf2.0Sp3 Version:2.0.7045.00 On the device with sp1 I have no Problems to debug and set break points, but as soon as i connect the sp3 device over usb and try to debug the same projekt t...more >>

Hi, So I have built a PocketPc 2003 application. It uses a Sql Mobile database. I built the app in VS2005. Now, I need to have .NET framework and SqlCe database installed on the device to have the app run ok. So, when I developed the Smart device CAB installer, it basically contains the ...more >>

It seems to be possible to access contacts and appointments in the object model but doesn't seem to be any way of accesing emails? Does anybody know how to do this? I want to be able to process the emails in the inbox. Thanks ...more >>

Visual Studio 2005 starts the emulator on run (start debugging) even though I've got the target device combo set to 'Windows CE 5.0 device'. It does download the files to the device and I can debug it on the device. Is there a were to stop it running the emulator unnecessary ? ...more >>

Any advise on how to do unit testing such as nunit on mobile 5 platform? Thanks in advance George...more >>

I have created a web service and added a reference of an activex dll in it. When I try to create an object of the activex to call the methods, I am not able to see the methods using intellisence. I still tried to use an existing method but its throwing error that it did not find the method.I a...more >>

I have created a smart device cab project in VS 2005 and noticed the cab file only installs on devices with ARM processors, our target device is going to be an X86 device. I do not see any place to change the target device in the properties or configuration manager, I do remember in VS 2003 you ...more >>

Hi. I need to do something that it's a little dificult to explain.... Please be patient :) I have a control (my control is a calculator). This control returns a value (the result). I need that: If when i call this control (from a menu), there is a cell, a textbox, or any control that it...more >>

I've run into this problem again....when I click the X to close the main form and exit the application, the program ends and then about 1 second later, the hourglass cursor appears and only goes away when I open up another menu like the start menu.....almost like a screen refresh problem.......more >>

Dear List, I need an event to be fired after a Form is first Shown. Is there something we can do to initiate an event at this stage? Thanks, Dave...more >>

Hello Group, I\m trying to add encryption to my appplication. it will be used to encrypt communication between device and some external system. Encryption and decryption works fine when I work with files, but I do not want to use files, because I will read data from HTTP Stream and using file...more >>

I'll be hosting a .NET Compact Framework chat over in the Skype chatroom on Wednesday, August 29 from 6pm to 7pm (10am - 11am in Redmond, WA). I'm hoping get some .NET CF team members to come along to answer any questions you may have. The usual folks from OpenNETCF will be there and we're ...more >>

Hi all, I have recently coded a program control by a menu, user navigate through the program from the main menu, once a form is closed, the user is redirected back to main menu with the current form close with Me.Close() Unfortunately, once I've launched other forms, when I launch a new form...more >>