Recent update: 2008-3-21

Destinator ( Ver 3 ) load error

598 byte By Phil1234567 at 2008-3-7
Hi I am using Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Community Preview On a XP SP2 box I run Emulate Pocket PC WM 2003 SE I have ActiveSync 3.7 working OK and can copy files etc between the PC and "device" ( Guest Partnership ) On attempting to load an application, Destinator ( Ver 3 ) from PC to the ...

sql connection error

816 byte By AdnanSiddiqi at 2008-3-7
I am getting following error:Error 1 The type 'System.Data.Common.DbConnection' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'. C:\Documents and Settings\Adnan\My ...

/clr:oldsyntax not available for Smart Device Projects?

433 byte By fhunter at 2008-3-7
I am trying to convert a eVC++ 4.0 application to Visual Studio 2005 we get tons of compilation errors that have to do with the new C++ syntax. Is there a way to compile the application using old syntax. There does not seem to be an option to set /clr:oldsyntax and adding it to the command line ...

Is it possible to change where PIM.VOL is stored?

220 byte By CCODER32 at 2008-3-7
Is it possible to change where the PIM.VOL gets created on a WM2005 device? Is there a registery entry that can be changed (OR Even a setting the the ODM can specify while building the device) ? Thanks, CCODER32

Nobody can play videos with Compact Framework 2.0 (lots of posts, no answer)

440 byte By Noulouk at 2008-3-7
Hi,I post several and several message on several and several forums, but nobody answers my question.What I know is that Alex Feinman shows how to do during MEDC 2005 in Las Vegas, but I can't find any docs, videos or articles about his speech.I also know he uses Opennetcf.AxHost, but I can't ...

Connecting i-Mat Pocket PC with Bluetooth receiver

689 byte By Wasim at 2008-3-6
Hi all,I have an I-Mate Pocket PC with Bluetooth ports COM4,COM5.Also I have two external devices a GPS receiver,Printer.The two devices can connect the Pocket with Bluetooth connection.I built a small application in VS.Net 2003 to read data from the GPS receiver, and to write these data to the ...

managed API for FileSystemWatcher

130 byte By AdnanSiddiqi at 2008-3-6
hi is there any Managed API for file FileSystemWatcher?i also coudnt find native equivalent function for required task thanks

How do Imaging API's work?

1342 byte By jimble at 2008-3-6
Hi, We are developing wrappers for custom Image Encoders/Decoders for Windows Mobile 5.0 using the Imaging Interfaces given in Windows Mobile 5.0. But we are having problems identifying the Flow as some of the functions do not seem to be giving the expected result. For instance, calls to ...

New to Smart Device

115 byte By mandar at 2008-3-6
Can any budy help me out how to start developing the smart device application and various books available in india

I really can use some explanations

2001 byte By Hyperion_20 at 2008-3-6
I am very new to this world, there for my questions may appear stupid, sorry for that.I didn't do much developing, but i didn't practice a little in the old VS2003 days. there it was very simple, you choose a Pocket PC 2002 Project (i was writting in C#). you finish to build it, then press ...

WinSock Program: Windows version of Server works but not embedded?

541 byte By Fluffy_ko at 2008-3-5
Whidbey is something new to me, and i think i'll need a little more time to switch over to try...By the way, i've got another question on the WinCE emulator...How can i verify that the emulator is able to receive incoming messages?From the WinCE emulator window, i couldn't find any network ...

[C# & C++] P/invoke

1736 byte By lmussier at 2008-3-5
I'm totally lost, this C++ code should work in a C# assembly but i get a "Missing Methode" exception :(#include "MyDll.h" MYDLL_API int fnMyDll() { return 99; } and the header file#ifdef MYDLL_EXPORTS #define MYDLL_API __declspec(dllexport) #else #define MYDLL_API __declspec(dllimport) ...

bluetooth XP

290 byte By jemjr at 2008-3-5
I need to know where to find the the actual values for the following GUID for MS Bluetooth Stack using socket programming. GUID_L2CAP_Event_Info GUID_HCI_Event_Info GUID_Radio_In_Range GUID_Radio_Out_Of_Range It would be nice to find the header files for the Bluetooth SDK.

How can you force Closing PIM.VOL on Magneto?

704 byte By CCODER32 at 2008-3-5
We are working on a backup solution for backing up the PIM information on a WM2005 device and I can not find out how to have the background services to release the locks on the PIM.VOL (EDB) - I can copy the file over to another file name but I can not replace the file as the file is locked.I ...

Date-entry controls (TextBox style) for Compact Framework 1.0?

324 byte By MarkRejhon at 2008-3-5
Hi,I am looking for an easy way to do date fields for Compact Framework, in one unified control, enforced to a format such as YYYY/MM/DD ... or YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS Is there a way to do this in a single control, or will I have to use multiple TextBox's for each portion of the date and ...

No File Explorer or Task Manager?

85 byte By JosephGeretz at 2008-3-3
How can I get the File Explorer and Task Manager installed on my emulator? Thanks!

How to Package the .net framework with the EXE for smartphones

254 byte By Amarender at 2008-3-3
Dear All, I have to deploy my smartphone magneto application in to smartphone. How do I create the package for .net framework along with exe so that it could be installed and run on the target machine. I am using .net 2005 on my XP machine. Thanx

Can't open Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC CPP win32 projects in 2005

278 byte By fhunter at 2008-3-3
I am unable to load the sample projects that come with the Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC SDK in Visual Studio 2005 All I get is an empty error dialog with an OK buttom. Has anyone else seem this behaviour? I can open the C# SDK projects with out a problem. Thanks

Need some advice from the Pros

2549 byte By BitFlipper at 2008-3-3
Hi, I need some advice developing a DSP app on PocketPC (specifically iPaq 2215 , which is PPC2003 I think). I have been developing Windows apps for a long time using VS with C++ as well as C#. So I am quite familiar with Win32 and the .Net framework on Windows but when it comes to developing ...

trapping FN key

1208 byte By farseer at 2008-3-3
Currently, on my device, to enter numbers using the QWerty keyboard, i have to press the function key each time, as there is no NumLock function available.So i thought i might be able to simulate this by implementing the following rule:-create a background process that will determine if the ...

Can an application trigger another application in Pocket PC Envoirnment

371 byte By Bluebell at 2008-3-1
Hi! If somebody can please guide me over here, it will be greatly appreciated. I want to run an application (written in VB.net) that triggers another application on my pocket PC. Is this possible?I know it works for windows envoirnment but I am not too sure if it will work for Pocket PC ...

how to run media player programmatically on a smartphone

484 byte By Amarender at 2008-3-1
Dear All,i am executing System.diagnostics.Process.Start("xxx.wmv","") statement to run .wmv file on my smartphone emulator in visual studio.net 2005.It is giving some alert message,"Cannot play the file or the file format was not supported".But it succesfully runs on emulator when i copied to ...

Unable to open Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK CCP win32 projects in 2005

272 byte By fhunter at 2008-3-1
I am unable to load the sample projects that come with the Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC SDK in Visual Studio 2005 All I get is an empty error dialog with an OK buttom. Has anyone else seem this behaviour. I can open the C# SDK projects with out a problem. Thanks

VS2005 always deploys framework files

453 byte By LoneOakBill at 2008-3-1
I am developing an application for SmartPhone 2003 using VS2005.When deploying the application VS always copies the standard framework files (System.dll, etc) to the target application directory even though these are already in the GAC. The app runs fine on the GAC files if the files in the app ...

Tab Control swap difference in CF?

2528 byte By MikeJensen at 2008-3-1
I'm working on my first CF app, and am finding differences between CF and non-CF handling of the tab control. I've searched and not found any reference to this item, so am hoping to find out if it is a bug or just my misunderstanding.I've created two test apps. One is a ppc2003 .net CF app, ...

VS2005 Emulator on top

141 byte By schildr at 2008-2-28
Everytime I start the emulator I have to set its show on top property. Is there someplace to set this so the emulator will always be on top?

Why can't I add an Image to a Button

349 byte By guinea13 at 2008-2-28
I am working on a Pocket PC app. Using the Mobel Application Development Toolkit and writing it is VB. What I am trying to do is add an image to a button. I notice that there are not any properties for the button to do this (or function, or members). Also there is no help on trying to do this ...

WinSock Program: Windows version of Server works but not embedded?

420 byte By Fluffy_ko at 2008-2-28
Hi.I created a Server and a Client winsock application (MFC), and when i run them using the emulator (WinCE .Net 4.2), the Server don't seems to get any "OnAccept" callbacks.However it works fine if i build and compile the Server into Windows version...Any idea what's happening here?By the ...

VS2005 Beta2 and Mobile 5.0 SDK -> cannot connect & sometimes Crash

759 byte By NorbertThek at 2008-2-28
Hello I developed under VS2005Beta2 for PPC2003 now I installed the Mobile 5.0 SDK After the installation VS cannot connect anymore to the PPC2003 Emulator (I used TCP Transport with fixed IPAdresses because I never got the "automatic" connection running) Also VS Crashes everytime I go to an ...

Icon Logo Requirements

1101 byte By AllenAlper at 2008-2-28
What is the best way to meet these logo requirements in CF 2.0 and VS 2005. Required: 16x16 and 32x32 Pixel Icons for Application and File TypesApplications are required to register 16x16 and 32x32 pixel icons for their main executable and saved file types. High DPI Implementations The shell ...

I cann't select DMA transport for my localized emulator

476 byte By arongpan at 2008-2-27
Hi, I've installed: VS 2005 Beta2 Windows Mobile 5 SDK for Smartphone Localized Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Emulator Image (CHS) ActiveSync 4 and DMA patch.. I can select DMA transport for the original emulator, but there is no DMA transport option is available for the localized emulator, ...

How to play .wmv/.wma file on a smartphone 5.0 Emulator using .net 2005

317 byte By Amarender at 2008-2-27
Dear All,i am executing System.diagnostics.Process.Start("xxx.wmv","") statement to run .wmv file on my smartphone emulator in visual studio.net 2005.I am getting Exception,"UnHandled System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception in System.dll".Help me please, how to handle the above ...

Bring an application at foreground

3022 byte By lmussier at 2008-2-27
Hi all,I'm trying to hava only one cpy of my app running at once, to do that i get the sample code on "Hello World" generated app on embedded C++ 4.0 bool ActivatePreviousInstance(){ bool activated = false; int cTries; HANDLE hMutex = NULL; cTries = 5; while(cTries > 0) { hMutex = ...

Unable to play WMV on WMP10 on PocketPC

417 byte By GilesCopnell at 2008-2-27
I'm not sure if this is right place to ask this question, apologies if I'm out of line.I'm trying to play a video file (encoded as Windows Media Player 9 Screen) on a Pocket PC running Windows Media Player 10 Mobile on Windows Mobile 2003 SE (it's a Dell Axim X50v). I get the sound but no ...

Extracting Bitmap from AVI File

276 byte By Hrasheed at 2008-2-27
I am capturing some Video on a windows Mobile device and would like to display a preview of the video file to the user after recording (a thumbnail basically) I have seen a few methods for doing this, but none of them seem to work with the compact framework. Any suggestions?

Fail to connect to emulator

881 byte By arongpan at 2008-2-26
Hi,I've got a problem, I can connect with emulator using IDE command "tools - conncet to device", when ActiveSync4.0 is in "not connected" state. I'm wondering whether Visual Studio is linked to emulator using ActiveSync? So what is the relationship among Emuator, Device emulator manager, ...

c# connection

112 byte By HatemRabie at 2008-2-26
How can i connect to oracle database. there is no connection or dataadapters,..etc in the pocket pc development

how to add Toolbar into menubar created by SHCreateMenuBar?

287 byte By JulienT at 2008-2-26
Hi all experts, After create menubar by SHCreateMenuBar, i want to add Toolbar beside the menu in menubar? It's very easy and clair in evc++ 4.0 but in visual studio 2005 it's so stupid cos i spent a lot of time but i couldn't find out. Thank for your instruction.

The Specified program requires a newer version of Windows on the device

843 byte By MikeEagan at 2008-2-26
I can build a very basic application and run it on Pocket PC 2003 SE emulator. But when I try to deploy it to an older View Sonic Pocket PC 2003 (Version 3.0.11171) I get an “The Specified program requires a newer version of Windows on the device.” Error. I have been unsuccessful in finding ...

Application/Process memory usage

149 byte By farseer at 2008-2-26
is there anyway to determine how much he memory footprint of a particular applicaton process is and how cpu usage it is taking up at any given time?

Installing VS2005 & Active Sync

360 byte By NorbertThek at 2008-2-25
Is there some special order of installing the differnt programms? I'd like to have VS2005 beta2 (Team Suite Edition) Active Sync 4.0 Device SDK 5.0 DMA update But I'm not able to get it working (the connection between Device Emulator & Active Sync & VS2005) I always get a "Cannot ...

DPAPI and WM 2003 SE/WM 5

1734 byte By rcangus at 2008-2-25
Hi,I was wondering if there was anyone else who is having some difficulties using the DPAPI Crypto calls of WM 2003 SE/ WM 5.0.What I am doing=============I am creating a library that wraps the provides RSA, 3DES, and RijnDael cryptoghraphic providers. As a part of this, the use of symmetric ...

Use of IsProcessorFeaturePresent() to detect specialized hardware

1074 byte By Brian_Kramer at 2008-2-25
I came across a bug report (FDBK26623) that mentioned the removal of compiler switches to enable intrinsics. I thought I'd follow up. You can use the IsProcessorFeaturePresent() API to determine the architecture or the existence of specialized hardware, such as DSP. e.g. ...

Remote Spy

364 byte By farseer at 2008-2-25
Hi, when i try to connect my using Remote Spy, i always get a "Class not registered" error. some more info.. -i am using a VS 2005 beta 2 -i select "Pocket PC 2003 Device" when asked to select a windwos CE device any ideas what might be causing this? thanks much ...

High DPI

253 byte By AllenAlper at 2008-2-25
I am programming for the Compact Frameork 2.0. On a Windows Mobile 5.0 smart phone. I want to provide a different picturebox.image on a High DPI device. In C# what is the best way to determin that I am running in a High DPI environment. TIA, Al

Smartphone 2003 Emulator - Audio

219 byte By JCLaguna at 2008-2-24
Hi, Is there any way in which I can record audio on the smartphone 2003 emulator? I know that it isn't supported by default, but I was just wondering if there was anything that could be tweaked to enable it?

Derived ComboBox Designer/Component Error

822 byte By ChrisD at 2008-2-24
I am using VS 2005 Beta 2 for a PocketPC 2003 VB project, developing with a physical device. I am trying to derive my own ComboBox control, and then drag it onto a form. My code for the derived ComboBox is simple so far, the class just inherits from ComboBox and provides a default constructor ...

[C++] [MAPI] How to force mail sendind ?

327 byte By lmussier at 2008-2-24
My question is how, in the soft, flush an outlook account.I can create a email "ready to be send" but if i want it to be send immediatly how i do ?1- Create an email :i know how to do that2- Send the email :i don't know as my email is marked "ready to be send" i want to send immediatly without ...

CF2.0 'Click-Once' Support

287 byte By CraigHarrison at 2008-2-24
Hi, A lot has been written about 'Click-Once'. Does this technology apply to the compact framework and mobile devices? If not what is the recommended way to install a CF2.0 application on a mobile device and keep the device updated with updates/patches? Thanks in advance. Craig

Application/process memory usage

197 byte By farseer at 2008-2-24
How can i determine what the memory footprint of a process or application is? Also, anyway to determine what precentage of the CPU a process is utilizing or whether it is idle? thanks