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  • Replacement for ReceiveTimeout for Socket?
    by davidbrit2
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    Last post by davidbrit2
      • So, apparently the Compact Framework Socket doesn't support setting the ReceiveTimeout socket option, because of an OS limitation. (http://blogs.msdn.com/davidklinems/archive/2004/06/25/166208.aspx) Bummer. What hoops does one need to jump through in order to prevent the socket from waiting indefinitely to receive responses Is there some way to have a separate timer object throw an exception after
  • problems with wceload.exe when installing CF2.0 and SQL Mobile
    by vicgtc
    2 Replies
    Last post by millie_w
      • Hello, im developing an application that install programs, for this, i execute the wceload.exe for install cabs, all goes fine but CF2.0 cab and SQL Mobile cabs dont install correctly with CF, dont appear in the remove program list and SQL CE appear in remove program list but when im going to open a DB it says "Failed to initialize the provider..." with others cabs it works fine... all t
  • Connection Manager Behaviour !!
    by fatalist
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    Last post by Christopher Fairbairn
      • I was wondering, how exactly does the connection manager work. Let me describe a scenario. My application was using GPRS to connect to internet and do its business. Now the user enables WiFi and is connected to a WiFi network. so what will happen now. The connection that my app used was made with GPRS, and now that we have WiFi up, new connections will be made with WIFI and my old connection made
  • Attach Windows CE 5.0 emulator to Visual Studio 2005
    by Sree Prakash
    14 Replies
    Last post by Michael Koster
      • Hi, I would like if someone could help me out on this. I installed the Windows CE 5.0 emulator on my machine. But It is not recognised by the device emulator manager. So i cannot directly debug or run from Visual Studio. Is there a way to add this emulator to the Device emulator manager so that i can directly run my applications from Visual Studio 2005.
  • Compact Framework 2.0 WebService Performance problem
    by Philip H
    5 Replies
    Last post by alex2323
      • I have this .NET 2.0 application with a WebService, and some clients. I have versions of the client running on both Pocket PC 2003 and Windows XP. The Windows XP version is running fine, but we have some moderate performance problems on the Pocket PC version. Test has shown that a lot of the time is spent in the Serializing/Deserializing code. We have tried most of the normal optimizations
  • Java logical right bitshift >>> equivalent in c#?
    by coltsith
    4 Replies
    Last post by Ilya Tumanov
      • Could someone tell me the equivalent of this expression in java: n >>> 7 but in c# Because c# doesn't support >>>, only >>. Thanks!
  • How to track keystrockes to start an application
    by Prashant_611
    3 Replies
    Last post by mgaur_MSFT
      • Hi, I am devloping a dialing application for WM 5.0 smart phone. which should run in background and track for key strockes (i.e. Numeric key 0_9). after event of key pressed Application should show DialogBox which cointain textbox for number to be dial Is it possible whout creating Dll and service How to achieve this (please give sample code)
  • Connect through proxy to webservice
    by Andrey M.
    1 Replies
    Last post by Andy Rivas - MSFT
      • I'm connecting to webservice from my application. When I open IE in PPC device it asks me username / password. After putting these information it allows me to browse internet. But my application can not connect to webservice although I used default proxy settings: Code Snippet service.Proxy = GlobalProxySelection .Select;
  • XSLT-Processor?
    by skunker
    1 Replies
    Last post by Andy E
      • Hi,   I'm a complete newbee to the gadget stuff, and I've a short (and stupid) question: Can I use a XML with a simple XSL-Stylesheet instead a HTML as the main-file( ), or do I have to use the DOM Stuff to display and work with XML in  Gadgets (so: Is the IE XSLT-Processor accessable from Gadets ) Thanks for help :)   Best Regards, Skunker
  • HTMLView too large on WM6 VGA
    by dseifert
    9 Replies
    Last post by dseifert
      • Hi, Having downloaded the Windows Mobile 6 SDK and testing my software (C++ project in VS2005) on the new emulators, I notice a problem with the htmlview on WM6 with VGA screen. My application is not VGA aware, i.e. on VGA devices it is being scaled up by the OS. It seems like in WM6 the htmlview component is overcompensating and is increasing the font size as well even though everything is alread
  • Help me about "small database" in PPC programing.
    by liubin
    2 Replies
    Last post by liubin
      • I am working a Windows Mobile 5.0 program(ppc), using c# and VisualStudio.NET 2005. I need to store some text data in ppc, and I hope my program can maintenance this data easily, for example, I want to read a text record, insert a text record, or delete some text record. The size of those text data are very small, each record small than 0.5KB.
  • how to open outlook message
    by yael876
    3 Replies
    Last post by Guang-Ming Bian - MSFT
      • Hi I want to open a outlook message from my application The message already exist How can i do it Thanks
  • Web service, xml, local storage
    by Zoe Elmo
    3 Replies
    Last post by Ilya Tumanov
      • hello, im very green to .net cf and some help are needed regarding the usage of xml as local storage. i've used web service to open a connection to database to get the data that i want and convert it into xml. below are the code <WebMethod()> _ Public Function getStud() As DataSet <-- does this means, im going to return a dataset to the calling application Dim conn As New SqlConn
  • Vector Graphics in Gadget
    by JGiers
    11 Replies
    Last post by Jonathan Abbott
      • I am making a gadget that will be resizeable from the settings menu (when undocked), and I was wondering if the sidebar had any type of native support for vector graphics so I wouldn't have to make and distribute separate background images to maintain a high quality when it is scaled up.  I'm assuming not since it is rendered by IE, but it doesn't hurt to ask.  Thanks.
  • Draw line above control
    by CBuilder
    2 Replies
    Last post by sgarc22
      • Hi, i have a tab control that covers all the form, and when i try to draw a line it doesn't appear because it is drawn under the tab control, so i'd like to know how to draw a line above this tab control i'd like to draw this line when the user clicks a button i used this code Graphics g = this .CreateGraphics(); Pen p = new Pen ( Color .Black); g.DrawLine(p, 1, 1, 100, 10
  • Error while debuging
    by PravinD
    4 Replies
    Last post by PravinD
      • Hello All, I am new to Smart Device Development, I have installed Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC SDK on my machine and trying in create simple HelloWorld application but it not working . I gote following error while debuging Error 1 - Deployment and/or registration failed with error: 0x8973190e. Error writing file '%csidl_program_files%\helloworld\mscorlib.dll'. Error 0x80070070: There is not en
  • NullReferenceException in showing a Child Form as Dialog in .NET 1.1 [target:SafeNativeMethods.ShowWindow]
    by Abraham Varghese 1981
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    Last post by AndrewBadera
      • Using .NET 1.1 running on XP, we are getting this exception We have a parent form that displays a child form as a modal dialog. For the first two or three times it popups..but the next time an Exception is thrown. I says " System.NullReferenceException : Object reference not set to an instance of an object .\r\n at System.Windows.Forms.SafeNativeMethods.ShowWindow (HandleRef hWnd, Int32 nCmd
  • GSM radio present
    by Marthijn Mulder
    5 Replies
    Last post by Zero Dai - MSFT
      • Hello, Is there any way to determine in software wether a gsm radio is present on a smart device HP has a dll called ipaqutils.dll which contains functions like this, but I do not want to depent on this dll because it also has to work on other devices. (non-HP devices). Any suggestions Marthijn
  • How to activate a WLAN card (Marvell CF8385PN)
    by BerndX
    2 Replies
    Last post by gzarroli
      • Hi, I have an application that needs WLAN access. Now on my device (ASUS A636) I can activate the WLAN card through some SW possibly from Windows Mobile 5.0. However, I want to atcivate the WLAN card from my application. I checked the registry on the handheld and the driver (Marvell CF8385PN) appears a few times. 1. In the Comm\\CF8385PN 2. In the Comm\\CF8385PN1 3. In the Comm\\CF8385PN2
  • D3DMXLoadSurfaceFromFileInMemory returns D3DM_ERR_INVALIDCALL
    by Woods Barrack
    10 Replies
    Last post by Harry123
      • Hi everyone, I'm working with D3DM. I am trying to load a surface from a file that is stored in memory but the function failed no matter what i'm doing. Here is the code: Code Snippet char* ptr; // pointer to the file in memory int size = loadInMemory("\\Program Files\\test3\\banana.bmp",&ptr); LPDIRECT3DMOBILESURFACE g_pSurface = NULL; DWORD filter = D3DMX_FILTER_NONE;
  • How to Save the image to a file after IBasicBitmapOps
    by Air Dolphin
    4 Replies
    Last post by Air Dolphin
      • Hi~ I got a one problem when I want to save the image after some basic operations. I use eVC++4.0, writing SDK program on CE. I refer to the sample code under http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa913878.aspx for saving the image. And my operation code is... void RotateImage() { // IImagingFactory *pImagingFactory = NULL; // IBitmapImage *pBitma
  • how to go to carret position?
    by Cyber22
    5 Replies
    Last post by ChunSheng Tang - MSFT
      • after programatically changing the text of a textBox (changing the caret position as well, if necessary), i'd like to see the part of the text the caret is at... how can I do that
  • Windows PPC 2002 running Pocket PC 2003 apps???
    by chadbryant
    4 Replies
    Last post by Michael Koster
      • Is there any way to run Pocket PC 2003 Apps(built with visual Studio 2K5) on a Pocket PC 2002 device This is a Smart Device win32 or mfc app that is being built with visual Studio and the target is Pocket PC 2003. Any help would greatly be appreciated... I tried to build and run on the pocket pc 2002 device but get the following error: Cannot find: <appname.exe> (or one of its components
  • Open a webpage in a Flyout?
    by DiasVFX
    14 Replies
    Last post by cabotine
      • Hi I wonder if there any way to open a webpage in my Flyout ! I've something like this:
  • Handling QWERTY keyboards
    by mohasad
    9 Replies
    Last post by mohasad
      • hi all , i am facing a problem in hadling QWERTY keypades . Is there any special api available in .Net Compact Framework 2.0 , to deal with QWERTY type keypades . because my application is entirely dependent on number inputs . but the devices having QWERTY type keypades , the number keys 0-9 are mapped differently . moreover in debugging the application , the keycode that i am receiving is of the