Hi all, My phone is a HTC Touch. I would like to navigate with the 'joypad' button. I have two ToolBar buttons, first button to navigate record backwards, second button to nav record forward. Is there anyway I can wire in the joypad buttons to navigate as well? I am using C#, CF 1. ...more >>

Symbol hasn't reeased their SDK for VS2008 - projected for end of the month. I tried to add folders Symbol Technologies\wce500\armv4i\ to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\SmartDevices\SDK\ similar to the way the SDK will and put in the .NET 1.5 SDK's symbol.all.arm.cab that I ha...more >>

Hi, Is there anyway that i can capture an inactive loaded form to an image? I load a form and SendToBack(), can i capture it to a bitmap? maybe a pointer to the memory location and read pixel by pixel? thanks appreciat your help...more >>

Is there anyway to get a screenshot or capture an image of a non- active form to disk? appreciate your help...more >>

HI, When ever we try to connect to GPRS from our application, a notification is shown on the top of our Windows mobile 5.0 device. The title of the notification says "Connecting..." Is there anyway that i can disable this notification?? Thanks in advance, Murthy...more >>

Hi, I have an old VS 2003 project - VB.NET with compact framework. For some reason, since the conversion, this project hogs memory and cpu bad. It takes 3 minutes to go from code to form view. I have tried many ways, including the many faqs on the NET to speed this up but having no luck. ...more >>

I am trying to programmatically set the Device Timezone,Date and time using OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework 2.0 for daylight savings.I was able to successfully set timezone but not able to set date and time in that zone. I search high and low on internet but all i could find was code for Ope...more >>

Hi, A project I am working on has at the base of it, a technical drawing in a PDF file. I have positional data which is fed to me from an XML file about a target location in the PDF file. Is there any way: 1. To load a PDF file as a sub item from within my application? 2. Zoom in to a...more >>

Are the .net class libraries that come with WMDC (Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Rapi.dll, etc.) backwards compatible with ActiveSync on Windows XP?...more >>

hi I want to read the SMS messages in the PocketOutlook inbox.... i know how to send and intercept incoming messages using the PocketOutlook assemly. But how do i read the messages that are already in the inbox? thanks...more >>

Hi, I am writing an application where i want to do nice transition effects, i thought of the following, 1) Main form1 is loaded and shown on screen 2) Load form2 in an offscreen buffer 3) capture bitmap image of the form (after the form has been loaded in the offscreen buffer) 4) capture bi...more >>

hi there, i use c# and .netcf2 and am developing an outlook task app. i want to retrieve a particular task instance of a recurring task and delete it. does anyone know how to do that? i am stuck as there is no getoccurrence() for the task folder and i cannot locate a task instance. thanks ...more >>

We have a group of applications and utilities that use some common assemblies that we have put together. Currenlty, we deploy these common assemblies to the directory that each application/utility is in. We are curring going through another round of trying to optimize memory utilization. ...more >>

We have been experimenting with upgrading our application from VS2003 to VS2008, all was going smoothly until we realised that the upgrade procedure upgrades the app to use sqlce3.5 which will not sync with sql server 2000, and a most of our large customers have significant sql server 2000 infr...more >>

Hi, I am having problems... CompactFramework doesn't appear to have XPath, so I need to find another way to navigate the document. I am struggling to find a solution. If I were to try bringing the document into a dataset using ReadXml, I have other problems about nested branches being t...more >>

I am trying to programmatically set the Device Date and time using OpenNETCF V1.4 on a PocketPC2003 SE and CF1.0. Here is the code I am using: Private Sub SetSystemDateTime(ByVal strTimeZoneDisplayName As String, _ ByVal dteUTCDateTime As DateTime) ...more >>

Hello I have a Application and want that it always run when i start my device. What is the best way, purhaps create a shortcut in the AutoStart Directory? And the Application is a WindowsForm App, how can run this in the background, only set the form to minimize or that is the best way? ...more >>

Hi I want to read an XML file with CF , the XML is about 660Kb and is taking a long time to load . In the emulator it takes about 45 seconds, on a real CE5 device (@667Mhz) it still takes more then 5 seconds. and on a real smartphone (HTC S710) it takes more then 16 sec. I wonder if t...more >>

Just wondering if anyone else out there is using VS2008 and if so, are you experiencing it taking extremely long to build your mobile projects? It is taking upwards to 5 minutes for mine to build. ...more >>

I experienced something similar. I noticed this happened when I was working on a project that had a huge number of designer visible controls. the longer I keep my visual studio 2008 open. the longer the build time is. I just lived with it. after restarting vs2008 it works fine again. is that the...more >>

I have recently upgraded a VS.NET 2003/CF 1.1 project to VS.NET 2005 and am getting the error 'System.NotSupportedException - Control.Invoke must be used to interact with controls created on a separate thread', on my CE.NET 5 device. It happens after I have transferred data from a SQL Server d...more >>

How do I display the Left-Right arrow next to the textbox? So, when user press the left arrow pad on their phone then it will change color of the graphic increase the number in textbox (don't worry about the function to increase it since I already got it done). Please look at screenshot below of...more >>

Hello I have the follow code in my app. --------------- If System.IO.Directory.Exists(App.Path & "\settings.xml") = True then .... else .... End if --------------- The file exists, but i have always FALSE, why that? Thank you very much regrads Roger ...more >>

Hello, What is the down side of using the the "Change Target Platform" form the right click on the project in the Solution explorer? I need to be able to support Pocket pc 2003, wm5 and wm6. I have all 3 sdks installed and they appear in the "Change To" pull down of the Change Target Platfor...more >>

Hi, We currently have a large library of COM objects written in C++ that talk to different devices. Then we have several applications that can host these objects. The simplest of which just wraps the objects and displays their custom GUIs. If you register a new dll, then it shows up in the...more >>

Hi, All I am using CF 1.0 I need extract the absolute path of running application in order to call another executable which resides in same directory. When i am trying to execute following code it returns URL. How to get path of the running App (location property)? string path = Assembly.GetE...more >>

This is probably a really simple question. If it is I'm missing the answer. I have a Graphics object that I want to convert to a Bitmap or other Image object. How do I do that on the .Net Compact Framework 2? Does it take some P/Invoking or is there a managed way of doing it? Thanks in Adva...more >>

Hi, If i am not wrong then ping class is not supported in compact framework 2.0.Then what is way out?I want to ping one ip address of server and get indication whether it is up and running before proceeding further? Any ideas on how to implement this in compact framework 2.0 would be highly ...more >>

I've done a search and just wondered what others were using for or might recommned for licensing a CF application. Basically would want a multi-tiered level of feature sets for each particular license sold. Does everyone pretty much just roll their own? Harry ...more >>

hi, How can I update my compact framework 2 of Visual Studio 2005 to the compact framework 3.5 Thanks in advance Sorry for my bad English ...more >>

Hi to all! I am creating an application for testing the UI that can record and simulate all the clicks done on any application. I have successfully done it in desktop using hooks, can I do the same in compact framework? I want to record all clicks and its coordinates in order to playback or simu...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to write a windows mobile application which will play .mp3 files stored on a server. Pocket PC WindowsMediaPlayer plays the file just fine if it's stored locally, but not from the server. The desktop WindowsMediaPlayer plays the file just fine. What am I doing wrong? Tha...more >>

Using C#, Compact Framework 3.5 How do I add a menu separator to a ContextMenu? -- Bjørn Brox...more >>

I've got an application that has a non-fullscreen dialog using FormBorderStyle.None. This dialog will sometimes show a message box and when it does, a menu will be shown down in the footer from an entirely different application. To reproduce: 1) Create a new project and set the FormBorderSty...more >>

Hi All, I have project developed in CF 2.0, has multi forms and classes and one module. When i am trying to set startup object in Project's properties (i want start project from the class) i can't find classes in drop down only forms? How can i start Project from class? I did this in CF 1.0,...more >>

Hello I have a external DLL (write in C#) for the compact framework. Is it possible that i can use this DLL in a new VB.NET Project? Now when i make "Add reference" then i can't see/use this DLL in my VB.NET Project. What is wrong? Thank you cya Roger ...more >>

Hi, I'm developing an application for PocketPC 4.20.1081 (I think it means Windows Mobile 2003). In this project, PDAs run a program made with VS2005 that connects with a SQL SERVER 2005 directly. Is this a good idea? I mean, should I use SQL CE SERVER? I've tried the program on window...more >>

there are a lot of codes in dotnet that they said that will change the system time. but i can't understand it. can someone give a more layman's term explanation because i'm really new to creating a program... Thanks............ -- Message posted via DotNetMonster.com http://www.dotnetmonst...more >>

Hi to all. I would like to build a CF application that works on a database but I need to convert an Access database to SqlCE. It's not necessary for me to perform this conversion on the device; I can do by using a PC application, if available. Any suggestion ? Thank you in advance. ...more >>

Hi, I must create a commercial offer for a RFID + GPS solution. I have a good experience on CF+GPS programming but the RDIF is, for me, a undiscovered word. Now, I have the followings doubts : .. are there devices (integrating a GPS), with a free slot for RFID card? In a first google search it...more >>