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    - Strange Problem with Editbox. Hi, I am using an editbox IDC_PORT and i have set the Number property to TRUE so that it allows only digits to be entered.It is behaving as expected if i type something.If i try to enter alphebets it is correctly dispalying "Unacceptable Character".But if i copy some data from other editbox say "server" and paste it in IDC_PORT editbox, it is accepting eventhough the "Number" property is set. Can anyone help me in this regard. Thanks in advance. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127209
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    - Raw IR Issue Hi, i'm developing an application for IPAQ HX2490 (Windows Mobile 5.0) that communicates through raw IR with a IR controlled by a PIC microcontroller. In the first three parts of the operation, i can receive data fine, but on the last one the handheld just seems to ignore the data that is being received, it doesn't receive anything. Is there something related to the data that is being sent to the pocket PC? It is a byte array {0x10, 0x06, 0x16, 0x16}. I'm using port 2 for the communication. But when i communicate with a desktop PC with a serial Infrared running exactly the same application in the PIC, everything works fine! I can't realize what's going on there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127188
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    - Suggestions for PocketPC SDK for 1D/2D Barcode Scanning via For many years I have wanted a solution to a problem I have by using my PocketPC as a Barcode Scanner. Some of the latest nifty solutions I have seen lately have little applications that use the built-in Camera (in what appears to be in video mode, not still camera mode) to scan a 2D barcode, which makes a chime sound then passes a user to a web site on the PPC (the web site being encoded in the 2D Barcode). I would love to pretty much do the exact same thing except capture the image (save the barcode), display the decoded text (and write it to a text file with a time stamp) and trigger audio recording. Basically using the device for capturing a tonn of barcodes while recording audio. Does anyone know where a good place to start for this would be for Visual Studio 2008? .NET (C# or VB.NET) development is my forte. Are there any hardware considerations I have to keep mindful off? I will need several PocketPC's running this and have to collect the stored data at the end of the day. ANY suggestions or directions would be greatly appreciated! ChuckM Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127186
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    - Pocket PC can't connect to SQL 2000 Server I am having difficulty connecting my Pocket PC to our SQL Server 2000 database. The application worked great, until they decided to move the database to this newer server. Here is my connection string: Public sqlConn As New SqlConnection("Data Source=SQLSERVER;Initial Catalog=Company_Records;Integrated Security=SSIP;User ID=public;Password=public") I connect to the SQL 2000 Server using this code: Dim SqlDataAdapter da = New SqlDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM EmployeeTable", sqlConn) DataTable dt = New DataTable Try da.Fill(dt) Catch ex As Exception Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString()) End Try The output to the console is: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: SqlException at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError() at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning() at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Connect() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OpenAndLogin() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection..ctor() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.QuietOpen() at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.FillInternal() at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill() at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill() at CompanyApp.frmMain.btnOK_Clicked() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyDown() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WnProc() at System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc() at Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterModalDialog() at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog() at CompanyApp.modStart.Main() Does anyone have any idea what is going on? I've done Google searches, but most of what I am finding is for SQL Server 2005 or SQL CE. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127184
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    - .net CF Combobox size Hello I want to change the height of a combobox in .NET CF. if I choose Font size of 7, the height of the combobox is decreasing a bit, but there is still free space in the combobox where the test will never be. Unfortunately CF (I'm using 3.5) doesnt support DrawItem like in Full Framework. Is there a possibility to force the height to a given value or an easy example to create an own combobox? Thanks James Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127182
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    - DirectShow: IAMCameraControl Hi, I'm developing camera capture application for WM 5.0/6.0 using direct show. I have to implement zoom in/out feature so I've tried to use IAMCameraControl interface. Here is the snippet: long flags = 0; long zoom_value = 0; CComPtr<IAMCameraControl> pCameraControl; m_pVideoCaptureFilter->QueryInterface(IID_IAMCameraControl, (void**)&pCameraControl); CHK(pCameraControl->Get(CameraControl_Zoom, &zoom_value, &flags)); Logger::LogDebug("current zoom = %d\n", zoom_value); if ((zoom_value + 50) <= 600) { zoom_value = zoom_value + 50; CHK(pCameraControl->Set(CameraControl_Zoom, zoom_value, CameraControl_Flags_Manual)); } Device (samsung SGH i 600) has the following zoom range: min = 0 max = 600 default = 10 step = 10 Code works without any exceptions and errors but it has no effect. I enumerated all possible combinations of flags and values, stopped graph before setting new value etc.... but with no luck.. Also tried on another device Qtek 8310 (it has only 2 possible zoom value) but the same result as for samsung. Could someone point me to right solution/code example or possibly remove mistakes from my code :) AFAIK there are some posts from ppl which faced with same problem but I didnt see any useful reply. Many Thanks Leonid Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127181
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    - Newbie Questions: Device Lock, Date Time Sync Hi Scenario: Company I'm working for currently has PALM devices running software developed in Satellite forms. Management are looking to very quickly roll out Pocket PC devices (due to shortages of PALM devices) running the existing software with a view to later re-writing/replacing the application. I have Sat Forms running on the device and have modified the current sync routines in the desktop application. What I need to do now is: 1. Lock the devices so that the users will only be able to run the Sat Forms application and use the phone. 2. Lock the phone so that only specifed numbers can be dialled. 3. Ensure that the date and time on the device are set to that on the PC when the devices are synched. The current plan is *not* to have them set as partners but I don't think a guest sync updates the date/time. BTW New devices are WM5. Any thoughts on how best to do this? Thanks Paul Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127176
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    - any 3rd party PDA simulator that can run independently Hi all, does anyone know is there any 3rd party PDA simulator that I can use to run to provide demo to my customers? including demo of file transfer via activesync to the simulator and executing an exe in the PDA from Desktop currently i tried using VS Emulator but when i transfer files and execute an exe from Desktop, my Emulator will hang. And moreover VS Emulator requires me to install VS on the demo machine which my customer wont allow. can anyone introduce to me any 3rd party PDA simulator which I can use? Pls advise. Thanks -- Johnson Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127174
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    - Do we *need to* dynamically link gx.dll? Hi again, I made a note a while ago about a potential bug that would occur if my app installed to a device that didn't have gx.dll in the \Windows directory. The recommendation seemed to be that if I'm using the GAPI (which I am) that I should include gx.dll with my distribution and store it in the same folder as my application. (See the end of this post for reference info). So, my question is, if gx.dll isn't included on the device in \Windows, does my app need to manually handle that case and dynamically load gx.dll, or does the O/S automatically do something like: 1) Load app and sees that it requires gx.dll 2) Checks \Windows folder for gx.dll 3) If gx.dll isn't found in \Windows, check application's folder for gx.dll 4) If found, load the gx.dll found within the application folder Or am I just supposed to always statically/dynamically link to my own copy of gx.dll and assume that it won't be in the Windows directory? The above makes sense to me, but I'm not sure if that's what happens, since it seems a little hand-wavy. I tried to delete gx.dll from the emulator to test this out but WM wouldn't have it. Here's one of the quotes I wrote down. I have two others, but I didn't save their links for some reason: "On PocketPCs and Smartphones, a specific library called "gx.dll" needs to be placed in the \Windows folder or the application folder of your program. Newer devices have this DLL built in, but some older devices does not. If the file gx.dll is not available CGapiDisplay::OpenDisplay will return GDERR_NOGAPI. The file gx.dll is included in the GapiDraw SDK in the "misc" folder. It is recommended that you always ship gx.dll with your application." Reference: http://www.develant.com/docs/gapidraw/36/gapidisplay-main.htm Would anyone happen to know what goes on behind the scenes (or at least what Microsoft expects us to do) in the case of a missing gx.dll? Thank you, Chris Writely Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127171
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    - RAFI and ActiveSync Hello, Wondering how to invoke RAPI functions once host computer and device is connected via ActiveSync? That is, once ActiveSync begins or has established connection between device and desktop pc, how do I begin to perform RAPI functions? Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127168
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    - How to determine if emulator has been hard reset? Hi, This is a repeat of a question from a few years ago: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer/browse_thread/thread/2d462b038232464a/9728cd09efb4294f?lnk=gst&q=reset The answer there was to check HKLM\Comm for the BootCount value. There is no such value in anywhere in the WM6 registry. The only keys in the registry with "boot", "count", or "reset" anywhere in their names are: \System\Shell\Booted \init\BootVars \Comm\Security\LASSD\AuthReset None of these keys contains any subkeys or values relevant to the number of times the unit has been rebooted. So how can I verify that the emulator has performed a hard boot? thanks! Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127165
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    - Hiding menu CDialog Hello, Is there a way to hide the menu bar at the bottom of the screen in dialog box? I created a MFC dialog box application and put the following code in the OnInitDialog function: -- code snippet begin -- SHMENUBARINFO mbi; ZeroMemory(&mbi, sizeof(SHMENUBARINFO)); mbi.cbSize = sizeof(SHMENUBARINFO); mbi.hwndParent = GetSafeHwnd(); mbi.dwFlags = SHCMBF_HIDDEN; // also tried using the SHCMBF_HIDESIPBUTTON flag with the HIDDEN flag SHCreateMenuBar(&mbi); -- code snippet end -- That didn't seem to work. It works when I created a Windows application and put the code in response to the WM_CREATE message. The other thing that would work for me is if I can draw over that menu bar area. Thank you in advance for your help. ---- mark Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127158
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    - SIP menu disable menu item. Hello EB, I'm trying to disable the "Options..." menu item in the SIP's menu that pops up on the Pocket PC, for both - Pocket PC 2003 and WM5.0. I'm unable to get the handle to the menu for the SIP's menu. WM_COMMAND messages aren't fired on the click event which occurs when I select the "Options..." menu item. What I've done is: //Get the handle to the SIP's window. hSIP = FindWindow(TEXT("MS_SIPBUTTON"), TEXT("MS_SIPBUTTON")) ; // Get the menu associated with this window. hMenu = (HMENU) SendMessage(hSIP, SHCMBM_GETMENU, 0, 0); // Get the sub-menu for the SIP button's menu. hSubMenu = GetSubMenu(hMenu, 0); // Tried other position values too. NULL ref. returned. I also tried obtaining the system menu - using the GetSystemMenu(...) API, but I don't get any sub-menu on the menu handle that I receive on this call. Where am I going wrong? How can I disable "Options..." for good? Any help in this regard will be appreciated. Thank you. Warm regards, Amit. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127157
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    - Configure networks programatically Sometimes my devices lose their network configuration (I mean the menu in Start > Settings > Connections > Connections > Advanced > Select networks). The one I set sometimes changes to another for unknown reasons.... I tried to delete the other ones but to my surprise that's not possible, once you have created a connection there, there isn't any option to delete it... Can this be set from a program? If so I would just set the correct one each time my programs start. Thanks. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127155
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    - no more pocket console? http://www.symbolictools.de/public/pocketconsole/applications/PocketCMD/ The venerable pocket console has disappeared, sure could use a copy but the site seems to have gone. Anyone have a place I can get it? The only way to get WM5 to show a console seems to be to use this and change a registry key. "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Console\OutputTo" value to "0" Not much use without the software! thanks Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127152
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    - .net cf: BMP/PNG & Speed Hello Community I have a project where I have to use some bitmaps. The space is no problem on the device, but I have some fear that the startup speed is slow when using too many bitmaps. So should I use BMP instead of PNG? PNG would be smaller, but bmp should load faster, is that correct? PNG are converted first before displaying (I use it in Me.Paint() Thanks James Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127148
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    - Practices for packaging/distributing apps to WM 5/6/2003SE? Hi, I was wondering what everyone's general practice was for packaging/distributing applications to multiple platforms? I should clarify that... I'm currently working on the setup for my application. I have a cabinet file being built, and a simple Windows-based Setup.exe to go with it (currently made with EzSetup [side-question: is there anything better?]). But making the .cab/Setup.exe brings up a bunch of questions about how to package and distribute my application. Namely: 1) Should I be building one cab/setup.exe per supported platform and ask the user to choose their O/S before downloading? (In this case, I'm targeting WM 2003 SE, WM 5 and WM 6). 2) Should I create a custom Setup.exe that houses all three .cab files and automatically chooses which one to install at runtime, depending on the user's system? 3) Should I just create a WM 2003 SE version and distribute that? If so, i) Is that safe? Is this what other people are doing? ii) Are there any potential/specific issues with cross-compatibility that I should watch out for? iii) Is it good enough just to recompile and run the unit tests for each O/S, or is there a specific set of extra tests I should be doing in this case. iv) Are there any performance or visual differences between running a WM 2003/5/6 app on a WM 5/6 device? ...By the way, this is for a native C++ application, using ATL and a GUI (I'd prefer to stay away from .NET for the setup). It seems as though I should go with number 3, but then I start to wonder if that's the best way to go about it. I wouldn't mind making a specialized setup, as in number 2, if it means that the product performs and/or looks better on my customer's devices. As far as I can tell, most of the functions work on both all of the above platforms. But I did notice a change in my Settings App: my dialog sizes itself differently between the WM 2003 SE and WM 5 compiles. It's actually a dialog window over a tab group. Both ran on a WM 5 device. I'm not sure if that has to do with the ORIENTATION_AWARE define. I didn't use the pre-generated ATL stuff for my project... could that be an issue? Other than that, SecureZeroMemory() isn't supported on WM 2003 SE. To sum up, I'm still pretty new at this. I was wondering if there's some common/conventional wisdom about how to deploy to multiple O/S's? If anyone would be so kind as to share your experiences about this, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you very much, Chris Writely Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127146
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    - Bizarre error message from SerialPort.open I have an app that talks to COM8 (the "Outgoing" Bluetooth port on a PDA. Periodically, when it has previously been in use, it seems, I get the error "The port 'COM8:' does not exist." on sport.open(). Apart from the fact that COM8 clearly does exist, where does "COM8:" come from? I definitely defined it as "sport.PortName = "COM8"" - so (a) why does it think it doesn't exist, and (b) where does that colon in the port name come from? Peter Royle Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127119
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    - Sound output using PPCSound Library http://www.pocketpcdn.com/libraries/ppcsound.html Hi, Anyone used the PPCSound libary at this site. Input capture works straight off but can't get any output of the speaker, I've put breakpoints in the wavethread.cpp functions CWaveOutThread::ThreadProc and am getting lots of MM_WOM_DONE messages. So obviously something is being played. Are there any bugs in it or changes that need to be made. I checked the m_pWaveHeaderArray[iLastIndex] lpdata area to check there is data as well! I have my own waveout implementation which i don't think is as good as the PPCSound libary and i can play sound so i know my device is ok etc so i there must be something fundamental i'm missing for this not to work. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127118
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    - VS2005 cab deployment Hi, I've asked this before, but got no response. When I create a "Smart Device CAB Project", and add a Setup DLL, it is added twice.. once as "CESetupDLL=..." in the inf, as well as in the list of files to copy to %InstallDir%. I can not manage to use the VS user interface to prevent it from being added as a file to be installed.. so I have to manually remove this from the generated .inf. This seems like a bug to me, unless someone can tell me how to do this. Lisa. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127114
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    - AJAX.NET timer on Win Mobile 6 Hi!! I'm having a problem with a timer control from AJAX framework. The problem is, when I open the page from Windows Mobile 6 (IEMo 6.12) it will only do the As. Post back the first time... Does anyone know this problem?? Any help will be welcome!! Thank in advance AndrÃ© Ribeiro Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127113
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    - Do we need to build for MIPS, SH for WM 2003+? Hi, I've been trying to find confirmation on the practice of building for MIPS and SH processors in Visual Studio 2005, instead of just building for ARM. The closest thing I've found is from a post here by Mr. Robert E. Zaret (see below). The reason why I'm a bit confused is a bit long-winded, but anyway, it's mainly because I'm also doing research on how to create a Windows-based setup program that automatically copies and runs a .cab file on Windows Mobile devices. It seems as though all of the examples expect the .ini file going into CEAppMgr.exe to contain multiple .cab files, one per architecture. This includes newer, 2005+ examples. Could anyone confirm the following quote? It's not that I don't believe Mr. Zaret, it's just that I haven't found anything official on this, plus the issue above. If it helps, I'm mainly interested in building for WM 2003 and up. Quote: "Microsoft controls the specifications for the Pocket PC platform (called Windows Mobile Classic and Windows Mobile Professional, as of Windows Mobile 6). As of Pocket PC 2002, they have decreed that the platform supports only ARM-compatible CPUs. Also, the SDKs Microsoft provides do not distinguish among ARM-compatible CPUs. So, unless you are supporting some other platform(s), you have no need or ability to support CPUs other than ARM. " (From: post titled "Generate multi processor cab files on VS2005") Thank you, Chris Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127110
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    - Updating DataRow throws Exception 0xC0000005 Hi guys, I'm facing a very puzzling problem and thought maybe someone here could help. It's been driving me nuts, really... Maybe it's something dumb that I'm just not realizing. I'm developing a Windows CE application (to be deployed in Windows CE 4.2 core) and my emulator is running Windows CE .NET v4.10 (build 908). I don't have a device with me now where I could test the software, unfortunately (that's still being arranged). One of the code bits is a button to consolidate data, merging rows in a DataTable: [CODE] private void btnConsolidar_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { for( int j=0; j < dataTable.Rows.Count; j++ ) { DataRow row1 = dataTable.Rows[j]; String ean = (String)row1["ean"]; String cod = (String)( ( row1["codigo"] == null ) ? "" : row1["codigo"] ); int idx; for( idx=j+1; idx < dataTable.Rows.Count; idx++ ) { DataRow row2 = dataTable.Rows[idx]; if( ((String)row2["ean"]) == ean || (cod != "" && ((String)row2["codigo"]) == cod )) { long q1 = long.Parse((string)row1["quant"]); long q2 = long.Parse((string)row2["quant"]); if( bConferencia ) { if( (string)row1["quant1"] == "0" ) { string q = (string)row2["quant1"]; //row1["quant1"] = q; dataTable.Rows[j]["quant1"] = q; // CRASH! } if( (string)row1["quant2"] == "0" ) //row1["quant2"] = (string)row2["quant2"]; dataTable.Rows[j]["quant2"] = (string)row2["quant2"]; } row1["quant"] = q1+q2; // remove a fileira copiada dataTable.Rows.RemoveAt( idx ); //dataTable.AcceptChanges(); // row1 = dataTable.Rows[j]; // compensa a fileira removida idx--; } } } dgItens.DataSource = dataTable; dgItens.Refresh(); } [/CODE] Please forgive the commented extra code, I've been adding and removing scaffolding looking for the problem. What this does is something like this: suppose you have three rows, thus: A 0 0 7 B 4 3 0 A 0 0 3 C 1 5 0 A 2 2 0 It consolidates the same products to: A 2 2 10 B 4 3 0 It works when you only have one product repeated (i.e., only one row1 is updated). However, if there are several repeated products, A 0 0 7 B 0 0 5 A 2 2 0 B 4 3 0 the system crashes with a native exception (code 0xC0000005, which research shows is an illegal memory access exception) when I try to update the second row in the table (line marked "CRASH!", above). Note that the first update goes well! Also, if I set it up with only one product repeated, press the button, set it up with another product repeated, and press the button again, it works. I'm guessing it has to do with the way DataTable updates its rows, but so far, I've had no luck figuring the problem out. I'll greatly appreciate any help I can get! Thanks in advance, Shade. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127107
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    - Unable to complete install of ActiveSync 4.5 on a W2k3 R2 server I have tried upgrading a working 4.2 Active Sync to 4.5 (required by the WM6) on 2 servers (w2k3 R2). The installation never completes. Each time I click on ActiveSync it brings up the installation dialog and performs a series of steps only to get to the starting point when it is done. I have tried uninstalling, rebooting and installing again with no success. What are the steps to get this fixed? Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127104
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    - try/catch Hi, My debug output shows an exception when using CArchive::ReadString() beyond the end of the file. I thought that by handling exceptions, I could prevent the debug output for them: CFile f; if (f.Open(_T("\\Temp\\test.txt"), CFile::modeRead)) { CArchive ar(&f, CArchive::load); CString s; try { while (ar.ReadString(s)) { DEBUGMSG(1, (_T("ReadString: %s\r\n"), s)); } } catch (CArchiveException* e) { e->ReportError(); // never gets called! e->Delete(); } } However, output is still shown for CArchiveException::endOfFile, and my exception handler is never called. Yes, I provided the /EHsc (and tried deprecated /GX) compiler options, set via Project Settings/C++/Exception Handling in VS 2005. Any clues? Lisa Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127098
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    - Setting the language of an email Can anyone tell me how you set the language of a message (programatically). I do not see any property which can be used with IMessage which will do this. It can be set in pocket outlook (within options of an open message), so I assume you must be able to set in code. Thanks in advance. Jason. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127095
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    - How to Editing a HTML Page Dynamically? Dear all, I'm currently working on Windows Mobile 6.0 platform. My query is I would like to edit a HTML page contents before displaying it in to the HTML control box. (Like to replace few <a href > links before loading it) But while going through MSDN I got a method for parsing only a XML document using "IXMLDOMDocument2" object. Is there any method/object available for HTML page? Thanks, Shankar B Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127094
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    - How to Edit a HTML page dynamically? Dear all, I would like to edit a HTML page contents before displaying it in to the HTML control box. But while going through MSDN I got a method for parsing only a XML document through "IXMLDOMDocument2" object. Is there any method/object available for HTML page? Shankar B. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127092
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    - Is it possible to increase the width of the caret (cursor) in CE? I would like to widen the width of the cursor / caret throughout my device. This is easily achieved in Windows XP/Vista. Is there any way to programatically (or via registry) adjust the cursor width or perhaps install a different cursor type on my device? Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127089
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    - Database for a Pocket PC - Desktop syncing application I am planning to build a utiltiy for Pocket PC and sync it's data with it's counterpart on the desktop. Something in the lines of Illium eWallet. What is the best database to use for this type of applications? I can use SQL Server mobile on PDA but the SQL Server on the desktop will be overkill for my targer audience. Access will be the right choice for desktop. I don't see any solid solution for Access on Pocket PC. An idea is to build a sync application to sync data between SQL Server CE and Access on the desktop. Or build a custom binary data file. Any suggestions please? Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127084
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    - How do I make an "upgradeable" MSI-File? Hi there, I am stuck with updating a previous version of my application :) I pack all needed files into a cabinet file and build than a MSI-File around it (via the Deployment Project in Visual Studio 2008). Now, if I start the setupt (the MSI) file and a previous version (or the same) is already installed it tells me this fact and than exits. What can I do to upgrade my application with an MSI file? And where can I specify the version of my application (Since the "version" of the MSI means the version of the installer which should be 1.0.0 I guess)? Thanks in advance, Tom Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127081
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    - how do I get the executable path. G'day, I'm building a pocket PC app using .NET 2.0 I and I wish for my program to know its "executable path", the directory where its executable resides. The usual "Application.ExecutablePath" that I would use in a windows app does not exist, and Google turned up more noise than signal when I looked for an alternative. Any help much appreciated. (both software and developer are lost). -dm Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127080
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    - Files to Upgrade CF on standalone Emulator ? Hi, Im running the PocketPC stand alone emulator V3 (Pocket PC - WM 5.0 MSFP) My problem is i need to run an application developed using Compact Framework 3.5 and Sqlserver CE 3.5. The emulator states it needs the version of CF upgraded. Can you point me to the location where I might download the appropriate cab files to upgrade to CF 2.0, CF 3.5 and Sqlserver CE 3.5 ? I've searched everywhere - but difficult to find as I don't know there names ! Thanks David Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127074
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    - GetIpStatistics on pocket pc ? can i use thi function on pocket pc ? Because when i call this function i always get != NO_ERROR. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127072
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    - load icon in dll file not work ?! we have to write a module with icon and system tray on pocket pc (WM6). Whan i start the module as exe file. All icon can loaded, but when i compile the module as dll file and loaded in main exe app, the icons will not appear. I have tried to pass the hInstance from main process to loadIcon function but no result. My question it is possible to load icon in dll file generally ? Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127071
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    - how to create icon on title bar with popup windows ? I have posted this thread in other group (not for pocket pc) Sow know i will post it again here. I want to create an icon for my application placing on title bar, that looks the same like popup windows of wifi/gsmsignal strength/volume/clock icon. How can i do that ? I have tried with SHNotificationAdd() but it is only notification for menu bar. And Shell_NotifyIcon() is only for today sys tray. Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127070
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    - RegisterWindowMessage Help Hi, I am using embedded visual basic 3 and pocket pc 2002. I am trying to get my application to communicate with another app, so that it sends a message when it is opened and closed. I found out about RegisterWindowMessage and GetMessage but am unsure about how to use them. Would someone be able to give me some advice on their usage, preferably with some examples? Thanks Richard Tag: Smart Device Applications Tag: 127067
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Hi
Iam new to smart device applications . I want to know

How do we access the application (in C# .Net or VB.Net) on a VSS
through a smart device.
In other word,how do we access data from a smart device?

Thanks,
Archie

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RE: Smart Device Applications by jp2msft

jp2msft
Fri Feb 29 11:03:00 CST 2008

Hi Archie,

You can use either C# or VB to access your device.

In Visual Studio, start a new project, and select the Project type "Smart
Device."

FYI: Visual Studio Express does not come with the "Smart Device" Project type.

From there, you will need to talor your question to whichever problem you
are having.

"archie" wrote:

> Hi
> Iam new to smart device applications . I want to know
>
> How do we access the application (in C# .Net or VB.Net) on a VSS
> through a smart device.
> In other word,how do we access data from a smart device?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Archie
>
>

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Re: Smart Device Applications by archie

archie
Mon Mar 03 00:46:13 CST 2008

On Feb 29, 10:03=A0pm, jp2msft <jp2m...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Hi Archie,
>
> You can use either C# or VB to access your device.
>
> In Visual Studio, start a new project, and select the Project type "Smart
> Device."
>
> FYI: Visual Studio Express does not come with the "Smart Device" Project t=
ype.
>
> From there, you will need to talor your question to whichever problem you
> are having.
>
>
>
> "archie" wrote:
> > Hi
> > Iam new to smart device applications . I want to know
>
> > How do we access the application (in C# .Net or VB.Net) on a VSS
> > through a smart device.
> > =A0In other word,how do we access data from a smart device?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Archie- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Thank You

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