Hello, How can i determine the OS/Platform version with .NETCF? I need to know if my app runs on Windows CE or on Windows Mobile and the version number... Thanks in advance, Malik ...more >>

Env.: WM6, Vista, Windows Mobile Device Center Hi All, Sorry for the slightly OT question. I currently plug my device in and out its dock station all the time to test the connectivity of my app. Each time I plug it in, WMDC pops up. It's getting somewhat irritating. Can I prevent it fr...more >>

I need to use managed and unmanaged code. I have two option, using managed class from native C++ code or using native C++ from managed code. Which is easier? I came across ManWrap tools that is better than /clr switch Have few question, please help 1. Is ManWrap (RegExWrap.dll) tools used ...more >>

Hi, I m working on app mobile, and i need write key + values on registry. How i do that? Framework version: CF 3.5 Plataform: Windows Mobile 6 Professional SDK -- Armando Rocha Mobile Developer http://www.ifthensoftware.com ...more >>

Hi Im making a signature capture and have been looking at examples, got it working ok but i have a problem im captureing all the points so i can redraw the image at will which i have code for in the paint event of a picture box if i try to redraw the image every time there is a new point ...more >>

This has been really troubling me, at least for few days. I tried to solve it myself but I finally gave up and am asking for some advice. What I'm trying to do is rather simple. To communicate between PDA and PC via good old TCP socket. Since I dont' have a PocketPC, I used the emulator that c...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to change the color of the current windows mobile theme used? I would like to do this with .net cf but not sure if this is possible. Saw already applications in .net cf that can change the color for example of a WM6 device to red, green, blue or what color you want, b...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to rotate a graphic/image in .net cf? I want to rotate an image around a center point like a pointer of a clock. Have no ideas where to start and if its possible or not!? thanks for any help. juvi...more >>

Is there a way using the Compact Framework to implement a "pull" or import of files from a Host PC's hard drive while cradled? We would like to avoid having to release a PC application used to "push" the files from the PC to the mobile device which we know can be done. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

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Hi everyone, I'm trying to build an application that retrieves data from a web service using its data connection (GPRS/3G). I'm testing this application on an HTC P3650 running windows mobile 6, with .NET CF SP2. As long as the device is connected through activesync, or with a WiFi connect...more >>

Hi all, I have a Symbol MC70 with WiFi, and a data access plan through the cell phone. If I am in IE, call up web page and a WiFi connection is not available, *somehow* the phone uses an EVDO connection to connect to the internet. I would like to do the same type of thing through code, using C...more >>

Hello. Every time a debug is performed into a PPC using Visual Studio 2005, the IDE deploys the .Net CF into de device. Is there any way to write a desktop application that does the same thing? What I've been doing is developing a desktop application that uses RAPI.dll in order to copy the ...more >>

Hi, Cannot find PDA Print Engine(.Net SDK required) with PDF support. I need to print pdf file from WM5/6. FieldSoftware does not support... Thanks....more >>

Hi, I have a "document". My doc can be divided to thousends of lines. Every line can be displayed as a drawing, every line has an OnPaint method. How can be displayed this document??? The height of every line is 75. If each line is reperesented by separate controls the program will be very ...more >>

Hi, I've seen some comment at various places on some sort of managed wrapper for the connection manager API that's now available in .NetCF 3.5. Can anyone shed a little more light on this like a) yeah it's in there and b) you need to look in the XXX.xxx.xxx namespace. Help appreciated. ...more >>

Hey everybody, I've a little nice problem here. I want to scale a bitmap, everything seems to be OK, but... I sliced that Bitmap in nine (9) parts - 4 corners (unscaled) - top and bottom middlepart (only horizontal scaled) - left and right middlepart (only vertical scaled) - middlepart (h...more >>

Hi All, I have developed a kind of device loader, which starts automatically when the device cradled. Using the software i want to uninstall a certain software. When i call m_rapi.DeviceProcessConfigXml(provisionFile, out output); with the following xml, it doesn't uninstall. However for ...more >>

Hi i wonder if someone can help me. Im trying to use the GetAttachmentTable routine in MAPI. [DllImport("MAPIlib.dll", EntryPoint = "IMessageGetAttachmentTable")] private static extern HRESULT pIMessageGetAttachmentTable(IntPtr msg, ref IntPtr AttachTable); public IMAPITab...more >>

I'm trying to install windows mobile SDK 6.0 professional to target NET CF 3.5 application to windows mobile 6. However, launching the MSI I've this error: "the system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation" I'M the administrator, and I'm didn't set any policy. My pc ru...more >>

Hi My CF application have to be connected to a TCP server on a PC. Here is the way I do on client : [code] private void Connect(string ip, int portNumber) clientSocket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp); clientSocket.Connect(new IPEndPoint(i...more >>

Hello Friends, From last few days our users are facing one problem. We have implemented web service to communicate to server. Now the problem is, generally 3GP connection is there on devices, but sometimes when signal is weak, Edge is connected. In case of Edge, they are not able reach t...more >>

I've been using this to ping an IP wirelessly to see if the TCP printer is "online" wirelessly. Works great. I know that in ActiveSync debug, the wireless is disabled but I can run other syncing to a server over the lan via the ActiveSync just fine but the ping always returns either a 1 or a...more >>

Hello, We are developing a mobile application running under .NET CF 2.0 or 3.5. The application has to expose several service interfaces through SOAP (over HTTP). Unfortunately, serving SOAP requests is not supported by the .NET CF framework. That's why we have a strong interest in third-pa...more >>

Hi, i´m new developping app, and my question is: I´ve 2 forms, fomr1 anf form2. In my form1 i´ve a datagrid that show some data products from a SQLCE db... the form2 has a textbox where the user fill a product name... how can i accomplish when the form2 is show, the user enter into the text...more >>

Hello, for a C# windows application I have created a project that is a kind of data caching layer between the GUI and the remote server. I am using socket operations for communication to server and a typed dataset to cache the data. Now I want to reuse that project as it is for a mobile a...more >>

Sorry, a bit new at this CF. I'm looking for a function that will allow me round the min from a now() function to the nearest 15. So for example if it's 9:31 I would like it to return 30 i've got TimeID set as a string: TimeId = FormatDateTime(Now(), DateFormat.ShortTime) which is work...more >>

Hi group I have an application that take file from devices put them on the Host PC throw active Sync, and send them to a server. this application use a third party software to synchronise data from the Host PC to the server. The system run good from 4 years, and now we have a bug. I discove...more >>

Hello, I am interested in developing an application that records sounds and takes pictures and then does some analysis on the data. Does the CF have some classes for sound recording/image capture? If not, are there managed APIs available for this task? Thanks....more >>

Hi folks, I know that what I want to achieve works in the "big" framework but I also read (on the blog of the developer group of the compact framework itself !) that it should work on Windows CE devices, too. The only problem: up to now I found no explanation or example, *how* it can be achie...more >>

Hi! Is there any way to intercept incoming SMS'es from a specific number, and read the body as a sequence of bytes/RAW data? I have tried using a MessageInterceptor as described in http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb932385.aspx but the Body in the recieved messages simply contain...more >>

Hi folks, Does anyone know if SystemState is available on PPC 2003 through Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status reference assembly? Thanks, D ...more >>

I'm having a strange and almost undebuggable program. During my development, my PDA (a Socket SoMo, and previously an HP) is generally sitting in the cradle and it's powered through the night, so when I come back in the morning the application is still running and everything is fine. However,...more >>

Hi, I'm having a problem executing CGACUTIL on my CE6.0, ARMV4I based target. Executing CGACUTIL on the device do actually nothing. there is a very quick blink, but no window is displayed, so I can't see the version of it. I've also tried to execute CGACUTIL.EXE from a command shell, and it...more >>

GC.Collect() not cleaning memory, how to find out what references to lots of memory still exist? When all my processign is done i set everything to null and then: GC.Collect(); and then GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); but it still shows that my process takes 400 MB of memory. Is there any ea...more >>

Hi, my question is how to update tha value in a labe (label1)l when i click in a button ( button1 or button2 ), like this code: public partial class Form1 : Form { private static string variable; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void Form1_Load(object sender,...more >>

Hello, I´m programming a C# application on Windows CE 5.0 and CF 2.0. This application should run permanently (24h/7days). I realized that the garbage collector (gc) does not free all the allocated memory. Thus after a while (a few days) an OutOfMemory-exception occurs. I wrote a small t...more >>

Hi Is there some way to change the scrollbar width of the combobox ? I done this before on the full framework by changing the display properties, but on my CE5 device i can't find this. Overriding the combobox does not expose its scrollbar, so am stuck (except creating a now one from scrat...more >>

Is there a way to pause and resume the media player programmatically? Thanks....more >>

Hi, does anybody know a way to draw a bordered text (which each character surrounded by a contour)? Andrea...more >>

Hi I have been programming for years but am just starting to develop mobile apps for wm5. im using visual studio 2008, but did start my development on visual studio 2003. I am trying to implement some parts of an ftp client into a compact app using sockets. Within vs2003 this worked fine bo...more >>

Hi. I was asked to estimate how much time it will take to move a software from an iPaq 2190 to an iPaq 114. The iPaqs are almost the same but the 114 runs the wm6. 1) Is it fully compatible regarding software that was written to the wm5? 1.1) If not, what should be done in order to migr...more >>

Hello Is it really not possible to perform a hardreset with newer devices using ..NET CF? Thanks Rampf ...more >>

Is there a way to create labels that allow the background image to show through, true transparency? I want to add a label to a picturebox image but not show the label boundaries, blocking out the image. -E ...more >>

To support both VGA and GVGA I have two imagelists, one containing 16*16 bit icons and the other 32*32 bit icons. Is it possible to use the same icon files for both the imagelists? It seems that both lists uses the 32*32 bit variant in the icon file. ImageSize for the imagelists are set to 32*...more >>

Hi, 2 questions. 1. I m working in a mobile application and i need restart my application after i change language settings. How i do that? 2. I have a Main form and i call another form (frmLanguages), when i change the language display a msgbox asking if the user want restart application...more >>

Hi. I've been written desktop applications for years. One of the biggest difficulties of distributing my application has been to make the client install .NET Framework Redistributable. Now, I'm about to start writing applications for the Windows Mobile 5.0 (smart device). Since I don't have a p...more >>

Hi, Anybody could install the Mobile Client Software Factory ? My PC has VS 2005, and every time that i was installing, i get the same error: "you need to install the Guidance automation Toolkit 2006 o later before to install de MCSF"...., but now i´ve installed the last version of it.... I tr...more >>

Please excuse me if this has been covered previously, but I've searched for the past two days and can only find references to installing certificates (for https communications) to PocketPC, Windows Mobile 5/6, and SmartPhones but nothing about how to install a cert under WinCE5. Our host server u...more >>

calling socket.Listen(int backLog) produces an error no matter what value I pass to it. How do I call this? TIA ...more >>