windows-ce

WCF or ASMX with Windows Mobile

Hi guys, I think this is my thired WCF/Windows mobile question now that is roughly asking the same thing, but every question I ask provides me with mre questions (its like watching lost :-). This ones quick and simple: What is the WCF/Windows CE equivellent of this: Dim asmxService As New AsmxService.Service1() asmxService....

Platform Builder and C#

Platform Builder is a tool for building a Windows CE Operating system on your computer and then loading it on a Windows CE device. All this is done through Platform Builder. And I do it all through the Microsoft Visual Stuido Development Environment (IDE). I want to automate the process of using the Platform Builder. So far, I only k...

What version of CE is Window Mobile 6.5 built on?

Windows Mobile 5 was based on CE 5.0. Windows Mobile 6 was based on CE 5.2. Does anyone know what version of CE is used by Windows Mobile 6.5? ...

Recommendations for automated testing tools for Windows CE and PDA devices

Is anyone out there aware of any good or even reasonable tools for automated testing on the Windows CE / mobile platforms. Potential tools that I am aware of include TestQuest, Countdown, SOTI pocket controller, and Eggplant. Are there any more that I have missed? Alternatively, is anyone aware of a VNC or remote display tool for Wind...

Wrapping the Credential Manager API in .NETCF

Hello, think I successfully made a managed wrapperclass to the Credential API functions mentioned here with a little help from there At least the Win32-Errorcodes returned from that functions are Zero or other but expected (i.e. 1168 from CredDelete if calling it twice) and the appropriate values are stored at the correct place in the re...

WinCE CabWiz error: "inf contains DirIDs, which are not supported"

When building the windows mobile cab for our product, the windows CE CAB Wizard (CabWiz.exe) sometimes returns the error: Error: File c:\docume~1\build\locals~1\temp\wiz3340.inf contains DirIDs, which are not supported This error can occur when using more than 998 files, ~260 directories, or when a % sign is unescaped (with a...

Paint datagrid row in color in WinCE

Hi, how can I paint all rows in a datagrid with the value of field "age" = 30 in red? I work in WinCE. Thanks for any help! ...

Disabling Windows CE Console on Handheld

Does anyone know how to disable the Windows CE Console on a Windows Mobile v5.0 handheld device? ...

How to Show Message before Form is Loaded in WinCE?

How I can show any message before the main form is loaded in Windows CE?? (I work in WinCE) ...

Qualifiers for printf on WinCE

On WinCE, when using printf, what are the qualifiers for various data types - short, unsigned long etc. For short and ulong, I know the answers are %hd & %lu, I am actually looking for a MSDN site that lists all data types and their qualifiers on CE. Unfortunately I cannot find the site now. I have already looked at this post, but it d...

How can I detect suspend on Windows Mobile?

We are seeing some occasional data loss with our application on Windows Mobile, and we suspect that some buffered data is not being flushed to disk when the device is suspending. We would like to manually flush data to the disk when the device is about to suspend. On Windows, we do this by catching the WM_POWERBROADCAST message, but this...

Are the C++ ARM compilers bundled along with VS2008 redistributable?

Hi, Are the VS2008 C++ ARM compilers targeting the WinCE operating system redistributable? Or does Microsoft provide a separate redistributable package (SDK?) ? I am looking for a C++ ARM compiler (actually a complete build environment) for WinCE which I can distribute along with my application for free. What are my options here? ...

GDI performance on Windows mobile or CE device

I have a Windows CE application that uses a lot of vector graphics and in places is quite slow. I'm currently using GDI for rendering via a bitmap for flicker free refreshes. Typically, I'm windowing in on part of a large 3d map. On some devices (e.g. 166mhz SH4), this gets slow with 3-5 second refresh times for big datasets. My ques...

Where can I find the binaries for arm-wince-pe-gcc?

Hi, I am looking for a version of the gcc (C++) compiler targeting the ARM uP and WindowsCE operating system. Thus far I have only been able to locate compilers which either target the ARM uP but produce ELF executables (GNUARM etc) or they do target windows CE but have not been updated since 2003. I believe the exact name of the compil...

How can I make networking work in my WinCE app without launching IE first?

I have a simple WinCE network application (in C, Win32 APIs). I find that networking doesn't seem to work unless I launch IE (or another network app) first. I assume that IE is setting up my network interface in some way. How can I do this for myself? Might I need to display a list of available interfaces to the user (eg. WiFi/Ethernet...

What are your favorite programmable portable devices?

Have you worked on portable devices? Palms, WinCE devices, cellulars, other embedded devices. Which offered the best experience developing for it? Thanks ...

Alternative options to MS SQL REPLICATION

Hi there, I would like to ask if there are any alternative options to ms sql replication(this is what i am using now) for replicating data. Creating a custom architecture for replicating is a good idea? PS. The alternative option must support mobile databases that run on Windows CE/Mobile EDIT: The application should be able to work ...

GetDiskFreeSpaceEx reports wrong number of free bytes

__int64 i64FreeBytes unsigned __int64 lpFreeBytesAvailableToCaller, lpTotalNumberOfBytes, lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes; // variables used to obtain // the free space on the drive GetDiskFreeSpaceEx (Manager.capDir, (PULARGE_INTEGER)&lpFreeBytesAvailableToCaller, ...

Monitoring my Main XP PC

I want to program a small Windows Mobile Application, which Monitors my Main XP PC. IT should check if my PC is running and if the Internet connection is ok (perhaps by pinging a Sever). In case something is wrong my Mobile Application should send me a SMS through the Mobile using mobile network (not through the Internet). Is this p...

Keypress event is triggered twice for a single ENTER button press in Windows CE

During development i have observed that certain PDAs with Windows CE and possibly Windows Mobile too are sending the Enter key twice in the key pressed event thus i execute twice the code that lies under the control's key press event for the return button. I suspect that this is a hardware bug and i would like to ask how you resolved it...