Are there any performance benefits when installing CF3.5 on a device in the RAM that already has CF2.0 in ROM? The application's I'm creating don't necessarily need the new features in 3.5, however what are the benefits if any by using 3.5 installed in RAM over 2.0 in ROM? ...
Hello! I have this code: Thread t = new Thread(() => UpdateImage(origin)); t.Name = "UpdateImageThread"; t.Start(); This code is created on a Custom Control. I want to stop this thread (if it's running) when the object is going to be dispose. This custom control has the following method: void IDisposable.Dispose() { /* My own co...
Hello! I have a custom control that make asynchronous Web Services calls. I wonder if I can dispose the control while an asynchronous call hasn't ended: I make the call, and before I get the response I dispose the object. What must I do before I get the response to dispose the custom control safetly? Thank you! ...
Hi there, I will start new PDA project on the windows mobile and compact framework 2.0 or higher. I need to design the new application user interface like IPhone, it should be smilar IPhone buttons, gradiend screens, colors, some thing like this. It seems i need to many images and backgrounds on the windows mobile application for achievi...
I've seen all the answers for the standard framework What is the correct way to create a single instance application? Prevent multiple instances of a given app in .NET? What is the best way to make a single instance application in .net? How do I check whether another process with the same name exists using the compact framework? The 3 ...
This stackoverflow question explains in detail how to bring up/hide the virtual keyboard on getting/losing focus on a control. However in my TextBox, I want the user to type numbers, so it were nice if I could switch the virtual keyboard to numeric input directly. Do you have any proposals how to do that? ...
Hello, i'm looking for a way to power on or off the GPRS adapter programatically. ...
I need to create a Bitmap object using raw bytes representing monochrome bitmap data. On the full framework, I am doing the following: Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(width, height, PixelFormat.Format8bppIndexed) BitmapData bmpData = bmp.LockBits(new Rectangle(0, 0, bmp.Width, bmp.Height), ImageLockMode.WriteOnly, bmp.PixelFormat); // Write my...
Trying to use pocket pc emulator (vs 2008) to connect to web service on my latop. No matter what I try I can't connect. I am using my laptop's IP address in the url. It works great from the url on my laptop, I just can't get the emulator to hit it and I keep getting the " cannot establish connection to network" exception. I have googled...
My Windows mobile application crashes sometimes with an exception that happens in the finalizer of System.Net.HttpReadStream. It only happens sometimes, but then it brings down the whole program. Is there anything I can do to make the program continue when such an internal finalizer throws? Or alternatively, how can I prevent such an e...
Since our application grows, we need more space on our Windows CE devices. We installed SD-Cards. Running our applications from the sd card is slow and there are some heavy issues with demand-paging if you run the apps from persistent paths. The only option we see is to install the Compact Framework on the SD cards to free some memory....
In an ASP.NET web application I have to dynamically create a SQL Compact 3.5 database for a Windows Mobile Compact Framework application from a data source (SQL Server). I have to create the database file, needed objects (tables, ...) and fill the tables with data. The client application (Windows Mobile device ) will download that gene...
I am working on an app that has several clients - Desktop, Mobile Device, Web Portal. We're moving to an SOA kind of architecture and will be using WCF. The WCF story is great when it comes to using netTcp+transport/message security+Windows authentication (or even UsernameToken and a custom UsernameValidator provider) on the Desktop an...
I've been trying to add Wi-Fi connectivity to my Windows Mobile 6.1 .NET CE 3.5 application but can't figure out why I get the following SocketException: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond ...
Hi There, I have a question about the windows mobile development. I created a mobile form on the windows mobile 6.0 test project. But that example form slightly larger than the vertically normal pocketpc forms. I now everybody said you can press the scrollbar for accessing bottom or any location of the form. But i need to use the fin...
Say I have an business object called Sample and I have BindingList of Samples. A sample has 4 properties. Can I select which properties are bound to DataGrid or there no option to customize such a thing? NOTE: I am using Compact Framework, where is NO DataGridView, as well as Autogenerate property and DataMember property. Please keep...
Hello! I want to draw an image over other without drawing its backgroud. The image that I want to draw it's a star. I want to put some stars over a map image. The problem is that the star's image has a white backgroud and when I draw over the map the white background appears. My method to draw the star is like this: Graphics graphics...
When I draw a string into a buffer, the resulting output is not anti-aliased the way I'd expect. This code illustrates the problem... just put this in a standard smart device project's Form1.cs: protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) { Bitmap buffer = new Bitmap(Width, Height, PixelFormat.Format32bppRgb); using(Graphics g...
I'm trying to create the following structure: [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit, Size=14)] public struct Message { [FieldOffset(0)] public ushort X; [FieldOffset(2)] [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst=5)] private ushort[] Y; [FieldOffset(12)] public ushort Z...
Anyone know relative performance hit for using the full as opposed to compact WinCE framework? We are contemplating using the full to get the ability to do drag and drop, etc. but not if it's a huge hit to processing ability. Any guesstimates about the difference? Uses x% more processor? ...