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    - MSMQ on PPC 2003 emulator Hi, I'm having difficulty getting MSMQ to work on the PPC 2003 emulator with VS 2005. In trying to get it to work, I've followed various guides (mostly republications of the same two or three on different sites), with no luck. Each time, although visadm looks as though everything's installed ok, checking the status always returns "DISCONNECTED". This is happening with the emulator set to either DMA or TCP transport. Steps I'm taking to install are: * Set name of PPC device * Copy MSMQ dlls & exes to the Windows directory * Run Visadm -- Install -- Register -- Verify -- Reset OS I've also tried creating a cab file that puts the files in the right place and sets up most of the registry settings (as per ch 8 in Pro MSMQ: Microsoft Message Queue Programming) with the same result. Am I missing some vital step in the install, or could there be something going wrong between the emulator and my PC OS (WinXP SP2)? Thanks in advance, Adam Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107481
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    - Emulator newbie question Hi, I think this is a stupid question (I'm a very newbie in compact framework developing), but .... it's one day I'm trying to understand/solve my problem. I want to create a simple application to make my emulator communicate with a server. The first thing I want to do, is to configure the emulator (in my example a Pocket PC 2003 SE) to connect with my system. I have followed this steps on the emulator: . created/configured a VPN (as all terminals of my office network) . configured the proxy (the same) . from IE searched the URL of a local web page An error message tell me that I'have not configured neither a modem nor a network card, but when I try do make this configurations, it always ask me a telephone number and I can not understand what is the number requested. I thinked to emulate a bluetooth connection but this device is not present in the emulator and I'm not able to create a new one. I'm sure I misunderstood something (in Italy whe say "I'm pissing out"). Can someone help me? Thanks Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107477
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    - Installing app on imate I have a CF application that easily installs on the Dell Axim Pocket PC, but could not get to install on an IMATE phone/pda. Kept complaining about invalid setup file. Tried running CAB on the imate and also using the MSI generated by the Visual Studio build process, but failed both ways. I started doubting that it had an ARM4 processor, so I tried all the other CAB types. None worked. Can someone tell me what I can do to solve this problem? thanks, jpan Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107467
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    - compiling wince.dust hi. i am trying to compile the source code of the pocketpc virus, wince.dust found in http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=337071&seqNum=3. i used the armasm and linker from pocket pc 2003 sdk. following the instructions on the site: armasm wince_dust.asm link /MACHINE:ARM /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWSCE wince_dust.obj i was able to create an executable and transferred it using file sharing. however when i try to execute this file in an emulator, a message appears: 'wince_dust' is not a valid pocket pc application. what seems to be wrong? Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107466
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    - programmatically open New Acc Setup of Pocket Outlook Hi I am trying to open the new email account setup screen of Pocket Outlook programmatically currently i am able to execute tmobile.exe and hence open the inbox, but i want the user should be able to go directly to the New Account Setup Wizard I am working on smartphone 2003 It would be great if someone could help me out in this. Thanks Regards Madhur Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107463
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    - Bluetooth serial profile: remote port negotiation (RPN) I have developed an application, which talks to a BT serial port device, which adapts a real physical serial port with a PDA via BT. This app. has to run on PDA's with Broadcom/Widcomm stack and also with Microsoft's stack. Question: Is RPN implemented on both stacks? In other words, when I change the serial communication parameters of the virtual COM port on the PDA, does the stack transfers this to my BT type II device, that it can also change the parameters on its physical side? At least, it is described in the BT serial profile spec. Thanks a lot. Mike Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107461
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    - Detect where the screen is clicked Hi Does anyone know how to retrieve the position where the the pointer touches the screen i.e using the click event. thanks Andy Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107460
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    - AVI file not supported by windows media player 10 Hi, All I have a AVI file, which uses Indeo=C2=AE video 5.10 Compression Filter, can not be played on my imate. The OS is WM5. So any advice to make it work ? Thanks in advance ! Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107459
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    - Accessing File server from Pocket PC programmatically I need to upload files from my Pocket PC to File server and vice-versa programmatically. Could you please help me in this regard Thanks in advance Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107457
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    - help me this is aravind doing final year MCA.. this semester we are doing our project work.. iam working on pocket pc application...my part is i need to develop a desktop pc application which maintains item details.. and a pocket pc application which is used by marketing executives for booking orders from customer in field.. and a synchronization function to import and export data between PPC and PC.. my problem is the 3rd synchronization function.. i dont have any idea how to do it.. if u hav any idea plz let me kno it will be helpful for me... if u got any example program to demonsrate this plz send me to aravind.email@gmail.com Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107455
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    - Help me debug... -_-! Hi all, I am doing the migrating from eVC++ to VS2005, and follow the documentation from MSDN, I have done all the basic changes...But right now, there are four major errors stop me from building the project, hope you guys can give me some tips, I am really not so conversant on this: 1. CWnd::SHDoneButton, error message function does not take 2 arguments 2. ON_WM_HELPINFO(), error message indentifier not found 3. Begin_Message_Map(xxx) ......END_Message_Map, here generated a lot of syntex errors.... I knew that some of those functions are not supported anymore, but I really have no idea how to modify it. Thanks lot and sorry for the dumb questions... Michael Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107454
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    - Pocket IE document problem Hi I am writing a Browser Helper Object (BHO) for IE on Windows Mobile 5.0 platform. The BHO tries to inject some text into the text fields in an HTML page (say injecting the username into the user name field on the web page). In the desktop IE environment, we make use of the IHTMLDocument2 interface to query for the HTML content. Refer to msdn article http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebgen/html/bho.asp for more details. However, in the Pocket PC environment, it seems IHTMLDocument2 interface is not available for use. I developed the mobile device application in Visual Studio 2005 with Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK installed. In my application, I tried to include "mshtml.h" file (which is necessary for using IHTMLDocument2 interface), but VS said that "cannot open include file mshtml.h". I thus checked the directories that VS searched for the header file, and I could not find "mshtml.h" file there either. My questions are: 1) Is "IHTMLDocument2" interface supported in Windows Mobile 5.0? FYI: in the msdn article http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/mshtml/reference/ifaces/document2/document2.asp , it says the minimum OS version for IHTMLDocument2 is Windows CE 2.12 and Windows 95, so I suspect it should be supported in Windows Mobile 5.0 also. But why I could not use it? 2) If supported, why couldn't I use them in my VS 5.0 and include the mshtml.h file? What are the possible problems? Is my SDK installed wrongly? 3) If not supported, what are the other alternatives I should use to manipulate the HTML document in the webpage? (what are the functions or interfaces or libraries I should use). Thanks Regards JT Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107453
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    - Mobile Web on PPC 2003 SE Emulator I'm developing a mobile web application on Visual Studio 2005. When I debug, the web page is browsed with IE automatically. How to make it browse with Pocket IE in Pocket PC 2003 SE emulator by default? Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107445
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    - eVB dll API Hi! I have two functions in eVC++ dll which use file scope static variables. Both functions were debugged in bare eVC++ debugger (eVC 3.0) and were ok. When called from eVB 3.0, first funtion worked ok and stored values to those static variables. Second function, did not see any of stored or initialized data. Variables vere in non-initilized state for some reason. So calls from eVB seems to be somehow different as calls from eVC++. I thougth that maybe VB calls functions as different processes, so I made a shared memory area, which should be common for all instances of that dll, but that did not help. Any idea of what could be the broblem with eVB dll calls? I also have had broblems returning siple eVC++ integer variables to eVB as integers. I can catc a variable from eVB integer table taken as ByRef parameter using the fist table item as the table reference, but the accessed integer cannot be returned back to eVB either as return value nor put to a referenced table directly by assignment. Compare http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q106553 Is there any way to debug a dll using eVB as dll calling exe in eVC++ debugger? js Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107443
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    - What's the difference between these two downloads Hi, I am trying to figure out the proper SDK windows CE 5.0... I would like to know what is difference between these two: Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for Pocket PC and Windows CE 5.0 Standard Software Development Kit. The download links are: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=83A52AF2-F524-4EC5-9155-717CBE5D25ED&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fa1a3d66-3f61-4ddc-9510-ae450e2318c3&DisplayLang=en Which should I download and install? Also I would like to know if Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Mobile 5 are exactly the same. Thanks in advance From Neeraj Krishna Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107442
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    - Device Id I have an application which needs to transmit via GPRS a unique device id for licensing purposes. What is the API to determine a unique device id? Thanks David Wright Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107441
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    - Done Button Reverts to Smart Minimize When a full-screen dialog box is initialized with the SHIDIF_DONEBUTTON flag set, then the smart-minimize "x" changes to "OK", and generates a WM_COMMAND, IDOK when tapped, which is what I want. However, while this dialog box is up, if another application is started from the Start Menu, and then I want to return to my application, the brief second instance of my application realizes that the first instance is running, and it calls SetForegroundWindow on the first instance and then exits, leaving the first instance back in control. So the dialog box comes back, but somehow the "OK" in the upper right has now reverted to the smart-minimize "X", and it acts that way too. Why is my "OK" disappearing and what can I do to keep it there? By the way, a similar thing happens when one dialog box invokes another dialog box. If the first dialog box had SHIDIF_DONEBUTTON set, then after the second dialog box closes and the first dialog box is back in control, the "OK" has once again reverted to "X". How can I make the "OK" stick? Robert Scott Ypsilanti, Michigan Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107433
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    - Access to \*.vol-Files? Hello How can I overwrite the \*.vol Files? They are all "in use", can I kill some processes to overwrite them? cemail.vol mxip_system.vol mxip_initdb.vol mxip_notify.vol mxip_lang.vol Thanks a lot Dan Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107431
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    - VS2005: Big Problem about ComboCtrl in MFC8.0 There is a very simple program, with nothing but a combobox, based on SDI. The problem is when you click "Drop" button of a combobox, it can show the dropdown list, but when you try to scroll the list, or click any other position in dropdown list, the list will disappear! So, I means you can't control scroll bar......(when you click on scrollbar, the dropdown list goes disappear) P.S. The way to create such a sample program for test: 1. Open VS2005 IDE, Create a Visual C++ SmartDevice Application. 2. Choose Pocket PC 2003 SDK, SDI, Use MFC in a static library 3. Add a combobox in Resource. 4. Write some simple code, to add items in the combobox 5. Build it, and try! Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107430
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    - ANN: Labit is proud to announce about releasing VDS 2005 library Hello all, Labit is proud to announce about releasing first public build of VDS suite for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 you can get demo version of the suite at http://www.labitweb.com/pub/vds2005.zip Visual Developer Suite is a library of visual controls. Written on C# programming language the library takes and advantage of .NET technology. The library helps in developing applications for PocketPC devices, Windows CE based devices. Designed for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 the library provides 20+ controls with full design time support, and support all kind of programming languages which support .NET technology (VB.NET, C#, C++ and so on). All VDS controls support such features which could not be found anywhere else but VDS only a.. extended Look and Feel b.. gradient background color c.. Transparent background color d.. inplace editing e.. hinting functionality f.. greatly extended functionality At Labit we understand that quality of the application and its development time depends on the quality and functionality of controls used to develop it, so to provide developers with the best controls possible and to satisfy every your need we created logical continuation of VDS library - VDS WinForms Suite. VDS WinForms provides several more extended controls which could not be found anywhere but are greatly desirable by all developers and are used practically in every application. Labit development team Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107429
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    - Registry data lost during re-installation (WM5) After trying out WM5, I discovered something very distressing. Installing a new version of a program automatically removes all registry settings for that program before the new version is installed. This is distressing because I had been using the registry to keep track of many user options, and some calibration data that the user took some trouble to create. Is this true or all registry values, or only the ones under HKLM/Software? Is there somewhere else in the registry where I should store this kind of information? Or must I resort to using ordinary files? Robert Scott Ypsilanti, Michigan Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107416
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    - How to build WinCE.net application with vs.net 2005 Hi, VS.net 2005 can be used to create SmartPhone and PocketPC 2003 applications by using C++(MFC), but there is no an option to create the WinCE.net application that can be created by EVC4 before, is it possible to create WinCE.net application by using VS.net 2005? Thanks. Regards, ZhangZQ Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107412
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    - Multiple Simultaneous Identical Emulators? Hi, I'm writing an application that will communicate between networked Pocket PCs. In order to test the communications it would be very handy if I could run multiple Emulator sessions simultaneously. I have found that by using different emulators, i.e. "Pocket PC 2003 SE Emulator" and "Pocket PC 2003 SE Square Emulator" I can communicate between them, but is there any way of running two identical emulators, i.e. two "Pocket PC 2003 SE Emulator" sessions? I'm running Visual Studio 2005, developing a CF v1 application btw. Thanks, Nik Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107410
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    - Repost : MPEG video Streaming on Windows CE This is the information which I found after carrying heavy search in google groups and websites.. I'm developing one application for video streaming ie one MPEG file which is on webserver I've to run it on emulator of Windows CE5.0. The following tools I'm using ... 1) EVC++4.0 2) Platform Builder 5.0 (for design OS) 3) Windows CE standard sdk 5.0 During search I found one more sdk...from mpegTV website ie (mtvp-sdk-wince3.0-1.2.2-1 and mtvp-sdk-wince-0.1) this is contain a sample code for pocket pc 2002 and 2003) Which is not working properly with windows cE 5.0 OS . You will find in google groups itself I've put lots of queries regarding media player and video streaming from this you can guess how much I've been wandering to achieve my purpose....So thinking abt the new software engineer who will going to start this application can get good help...I'm putting this question like discussion.... After everal searches this wht I found: 1) Windows Media Player dosen't support Mpeg2 format on windows CE OS. (from some groups query I came to know that windows Media player 10 seriese supports it but it is only available in latest mobile devices not on emulator). So next option is directshow method. 2) for MPEG video streaming i have use directshow method. Again in this method I need some filters. For particularly MPEG I have to concentrate on transform filter which is responsible for decoding. I've searched MPEG decoder but still some doubt. Can desktop filter work for windows CE platform. if not then I again have to go for desiging the OS or, mpeg4 will enough for this purpose which allready there in widows ce OS? 3) Suppose I found the mpeg codecs then how to use..I didn't find any proper documents or good sample code so that i can study and make my own application. 3) If i plan to purchase a thrid party control (activex)..for this pupose. can anyone suggest me where i can find demo version of that control because I have to make demo applicatoin to show my client and then only i can purchase that control. morever I don't have any physical device so the control should work well with emulator.. Please share your knowledge not only for me for all the software engineers who are struggling and wandering for these things... Thanking you Navin Salunke Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107409
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    - Change static text on pocket pc Ok, I have search for this all day, and cannot find answer :( I have this line of code. I am trying to change text of a item on the dialog. I also set everything to Unicode. SetDlgItemTextW(IDC_STATIC,_T("B\x1EA1n l\x00E0 ai")); It works perfectly on Win32, but on pocket pc emulator, it display character \x1EA1 as a square! Does anyone have any idea? As Unicode "native" as pocket pc is, whatever default font it's using should it cover anything above 255? Or should I test it on a real pocket pc? Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107404
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    - send msmq message from pocketpc to desktop pc I want to send msmq message from pocketpc to desktop pc, but have some problem. The Desktop pc configure: OS: Windows XP Prc IP: 192.168.1.222 I have created a private queue in my desktop pc ./private$/mobile5 The PPC Configure (runing in a emulator): OS: windows mobile5.0 IP: 192.168.1.1 I can ping the desktop pc from my PPC. I using c# to write a program to send message from PPC to descktop pc. The code like follow ////////////////////////////////////////// using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Messaging; .... string strDestQ = @"FORMATNAME:DIRECT=TCP:192.168.1.222\private$\mobile5"; MessageQueue mq = new MessageQueue(strDestQ); mq.Send("Hello World3", "Hello World3"); mq.Close(); ////////////////////////////////////////// when this program run on the PPC, It raise a exception, the ErrorCode is -1072824317 the Message is "The queue does not exist or you do not have sufficient permissions to perform the operation." anyone can give me some advice? thanks ! Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107402
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    - Camera Application!! When I use mobile 5.0, It have a buildin Camera application (Picture). But We don't have any the AP's source code. I only know it is constructed by DirectShow with capture, transform, and renderer filter and 3 stream path(preview, capture, still). If we want to add a HW Image processor which deal with capture and still stand alone. In no the AP's source code situation, do I have any way to skip the capture and still stream path, or have any other idea? Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107401
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    - Unsigned install fails on Axim X51 I have an unsigned applications that produces the usual prompt when installed on a iPAQ rx1955 (WM5), but one of my customers with a new Axim x51 tells me he gets a more severe message without the option of installing anyway: "Installation was unsuccessful. Application was not signed by a trusted authority". Is this a security setting that he can override, or are Axim X51s just hardwired that way? Robert Scott Ypsilanti, Michigan Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107400
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    - How to delete/allocate new text of SMS message in IMailRuleClient Hi, im developing a IMailRuleClient COM object in which i need to modify text of a SMS. What should I use to proper deletion of old text and allocate new text. I suggest, that i cannot just simly use delete and new, because i don't know how the system allocated original text and how it will delete my. I'm not very good in COM. I found IMalloc interface for doing memory stuff and some other funtions, like CoTaskMemAlloc and CoTaskMemFree. Is the rigt way in using them? ----- Saman Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107392
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    - eMbedded VC++ 3.0 apps on Windows Mobile 5.0? Can Windows Mobile 5.0 devices run applications that were developed using eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0? Thank you, Ryan Burdick Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107391
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    - Re-Initialize PPC-Registry without reboot Hi, I'm looking for a way to re-initialize the registry of a PPC (2003SE or WM5) without having to reboot the device. I dug in the RemoteCE typelib, but couldn't find anything...... D Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107390
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    - Pocket PC and Hardware Buttons I hope this isn't a dumb question but then again, I haven't found much on this topic anywhere on the web. I'm writing a Java app for a pocket pc using J9 and SWT and I want to use one of the six hardware buttons on my HP IPaq (I forget the model but its one of the latest ones with WinCE 5.0). Anyway, there isn't anything out there except that its a type under SWT...specifically SWT.HARDKEYUP or SWT.HARDKEYDOWN that can be used in a untyped listener. I tried writing code to monitor a hardware key being pressed and with the exception of getting one event trigger, I have not been able to get anything from any of the buttons. This event, without a mask, should trigger regardless of which button I push. Does anyone have any SWT experience using the hardware buttons on a pocket pc? Any help here would be great! Thanks! Chris. Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107389
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    - Newbie : Cell information... I have a PPC whihc has a GSM connection + GPS (iPAQ 6515). I would like to know if there is a way to fetch information from the GSM Cell my phone is currently connected to. I know that as you move around in the city, your phone switches from cell to cell - and I would like to be able to track that - if it is possible. Thanks. Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107388
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    - SD Storage Card on Pocket PC Hi, I'm writing a function to check if an SD card is installed in my device and then to write some data to it after checking if a particular directory exists on the card. Can someone say how to reference the Storage Card from code? For example this part code doesn't seemd to find the storage card when it is in the device. if Directory.Exists("\Storage Card\*.*) Then ... I can't seem to find a way to correctly reference the card. Thanks in advance Tony S. Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107386
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    - visual studio 2005 preprocessor definition Hello I was used to visual embedde and visual studio 6 and the new version of visual disturb me a bit. there is no way to add or remove a preprocessor definition for multiple configuration. for insatnce if i need to had a defintion for both release and debug configuration i need to set it manually twice. in visual embedded when we selected multiple configuration, it shows common defintions and allow you to remove one of them or to add one to all setting at a time. is there a way to recover this fucntionnalitty using macro or add in for instance. thnaks a lot tof Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107385
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    - Question: Creating Device Emulator Image from Existing Device ROM Hello, I received a question from a customer who is using Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Compact Framework 2.0. He wants to generate Mobile Device Emulator images from existing device ROM. I have scoured the web and not found anything on this, so I'm assuming that it doesn't work. However, before I throw in the towel, I wanted to run this by all of the experts on this group to see if anyone has figured out a means to do this. Thanks in advance, Jacob Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107382
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    - New Mail Transport for pocket pc 2003 Hi all, I developed a new implementation on the mail transport for pocket pc 2003 based on the example found in the eVC tools. There is a bug in this example: the mail sent goes into outbox folder of my new account, but usually it goes into outbox folder of another account!! Does anybody knows about this bug? Is there any hints to solve it? thanks in advance Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107381
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    - Convert C Program to Windows mobile I have c program files for Palm OS ,Now i am developing Windows mobile Pocket pc 2003.I need to know ,Can i use same custom controls (Already using in PALM OS ) for Pocket PC 2003 ? Is It possible? Thanks in advance Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107378
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    - Accessing Pocket Outlook Database for backup/restore functionality Hey hey :) We're trying to make a backup solution for Pocket PCs running .NET CF. We're currently spiking backing up and restoring SMSes. The MAPI seems to provide no functionality to restore messages, although it has some create message functionality, properties like sender are read-only. MAPI33 doesn't seem to help us either. What we basically want is to backup all SMSes, and give the opportunity to restore them, should the device lose power, be stolen, or something equally annoying. What we're thinking now, if indeed we are right (are we?) in assuming this is not possible via the (Extended) MAPI, perhaps we can access the underlying database which actually holds the SMS data, and retrieve/insert fields here. Is this at all possible, and if so, is it possible via managed C# code, or does a managed wrapper exist? Thanks in advance, Daniel Buus Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107375
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    - .NET Check if server is up... Hi all! I am connection to a webservice using .NET CF. That's working ok but if the connection fails or if the server is down, sometimes I get no error message, it just keeps trying to connect and I cannot abort it... I tried to set Timeout, but that doesnt solve the problem What I now want to do is to first check if I can reach the server before connecting to is! On Desktop I used this code to do something similar: Try Dim w As New Net.WebClient Dim sr As New IO.StreamReader(w.OpenRead(http://www.server.com/file.txt)) sr.Close() w.Dispose() Catch err As Exception Msgbox("No Connection") End Try That was for getting infos from a file if available... But in .NET CF there is no Net.Webclient Anyone knows how I can check if the server is online or not? Thanks Dan Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107374
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    - Accessing FTP server from Pocket PC to upload/download files I should be able to access FTP server programmatically from my pocket PC to upload/download files. How can I do that like... Is there any API present to perform the required operation in .NET CF or should we follow any other approach. It will be of great help if you could you provide any related info. Thanks in advance Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107372
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    - UCHAR problem Hello The problem i have is this : i want to use the following structure in a DLL that i created: typedef struct _NDIS_802_11_SSID { ULONG SsidLength; UCHAR Ssid [32]; } NDIS_802_11_SSID, *PNDIS_802_11_SSID; and i want to take the UCHAR Ssid[32] field and copy in it a certain variable.I've tried the following ways : NDIS_802_11_SSID Data; _tcsncpy((TCHAR *)Data.Ssid, mySSID, 32); strncpy((char *)pData.m_SSID.Ssid, mySSID, 32); if i display it like this it works : MessageBox(NULL, Data.Ssid, L"", MB_OK); and it displays ok : "EXAMPLE". If i pass this as a parameter to a function like this : void X (NDIS_802_11_SSID Data) and call this function from C# the recieved string is "E\0X\0A\0\M\0P\0\L\0E\0".We solved this problem also by using a for loop like this for (j=0; j<32 ; j=j+2) but if we have a larger string that i want to put in UCHAR Ssid[32]; it will not retain only 15chars because of the "\0" insertion after each char.I believe that the problem is in the conversions i'm makeing above, and how i store the data (with the TCHAR * and char * conversions). Is there a function to copy from one UCHAR[32] to another UCHAR[32] without conversions? The mySSID parameter is taken as a parameter: void y(UCHAR mySSID[32]) ,but in the body of the function it is seen as UCHAR[] and i can't use this : Data.Ssid = mySSID (error because UCHAR[32] <---> UCHAR[]) That's it. Hope you can help me in some way. Thank you.Bye Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107371
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    - lineGetOperatorStatus() hangs the system Hi, I am developing an application for pocket PC. In my application I have created a secondary thread in which I am calling lineGetOperator() TAPI function to get list of operators in my area. However I have noticed one thing that although I am calling this API in secondary thread, but this API takes usually 12 to 15 sec or more and during this time the whole system hangs (not just my application). Can anyone please tell me what is wrong? Is this something inherent in this API or am I missing something? Thanks, Arsalan Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107370
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    - Beginner book for EVC... Hai all, I am a beginner in EVC, Can anyone provide me the link or book where i can learn some of the basic concepts of EVC(listbox, textbox, button and all other controls...) Please help me... Urgent.. Looking for the response... Thanx in advance... Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107369
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    - lineMakeCall Paramter settings Hi All, I have been posting on the group for TAPI for Pocket PC but havent got any reply clue or anything tell me if I am posting at the wrong group ? if not then please help me regarding this problem.... I am making call through lineMakeCall and want to dial as it tapiRequestMakeCall dials (means from phone)... I have some how managed to call through the default dialer but still cant understan really well.... The problem at the moment is that when I call some number the dialer dispalys it as Dialing Unknow.... I want to change this "Unknown" to some text like "Helpline".... I have been viewing the LPLINECALLPARAMS structre but cant really find something.... plesae help me with it. regards Aftab Alam Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107368
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    - Migrating eVC++ 4.0 to VS Studio 2005 Sorry to bring this old topic out again, you may tired of read it or anwser it...:-p But I am REALLY seeking you guys help... I try to read the MSDN documentation on this Migration thing, and have to be honest with you guys that I am not a very experience programmer, is it just simply replacement work to map those codes to VS2005? or there are lot of uncertainties may come in the way? Thanks so much !! Best Regardz Michael Tag: Accessing serial port via .net CF Tag: 107366
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Hi,
I'm using a compaq iPAQ 3760 running Pocket PC 2002 (Version 3.0.11171 Build
11178).
I had a .net 1.1 application reunning on it (ALthough I built in in Visial
studio 2005).
I'm using CFSerialClass.dll to access the serial port.
However I cant find documentation and none of the methods are even commented
so its a bit of a black box.
Does anyone use this or know where to get get API docs?

I'm ms released their own to support serial stuff in 1.1 would I be just
better of using this?

Thanks,
Ian

Re: Accessing serial port via .net CF by Chris

Chris
Mon Feb 20 12:30:20 CST 2006

MS has Serial support in CF 2.0. For 1.0 you have to use another lib or
roll your own. Dick Grier has a free DLL, and OpenNETCF has a full shared
source library.

-Chris

"itierno" <itierno@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D321BFB9-A0E1-4DBB-B8E1-F926687C21EC@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I'm using a compaq iPAQ 3760 running Pocket PC 2002 (Version 3.0.11171
> Build
> 11178).
> I had a .net 1.1 application reunning on it (ALthough I built in in Visial
> studio 2005).
> I'm using CFSerialClass.dll to access the serial port.
> However I cant find documentation and none of the methods are even
> commented
> so its a bit of a black box.
> Does anyone use this or know where to get get API docs?
>
> I'm ms released their own to support serial stuff in 1.1 would I be just
> better of using this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ian

Re: Accessing serial port via .net CF by Dick

Dick
Mon Feb 20 12:55:05 CST 2006

Hi Ian,

The Object browser is the first step -- but the simple terminal example that
I include illustrates most things. Do you have a specific question? I'll
try to help.

I have CFSerialIO in Chapter 9 in my book. By the time you have read
Chapters 1-8, you (probably) are a little sick of serial APIs. They all seem
so "congruent." <g>

Dick

--
Richard Grier, MVP
Hard & Software
Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, Fourth
Edition,
ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages, includes CD-ROM). July 2004.
See www.hardandsoftware.net for details and contact information.