windows-ce

compile AMR-nb codec with RVCT for WinCE/Window Mobile

Hello everybody, I'm working on amr speech codec (porting/optimization) I have an arm (for WinCE) optimized version from voiceage and I use it as a reference in performance testing. So far, binary produced with my lib beats the other one by around 20-30%! I use Vs2008 and I have limited access to ARM instruction set I can generate with M...

API to list files on a Windows Mobile device

I'm writing an Windows Mobile application and I'd like to get a list of files in a certain folder on the device. Is there an API to use to read information about folders and files in the device file system? ...

What to use in creating a hand held database application

What program/programming language would be ideal for creating an Access like database on a Windows 5 CE hand held scanner? We have tried Visual CE but it is not really something we can work with. Ultimately we would love to build a system where we scan a bar code, select a user from a drop down list, select basic options of division, l...

handling persistent storage and cold boots with ce 4.2

Hello, I have spent all Friday and Saturday on this and I am running out of ideas; I have a project where I need to run sql ce and .net2.0 on a symbol 8146 device running windows ce4.2 (windows mobile 2003) along with the symbol libraries that are needed for my application. When the device is cold-booted everything in the user partiti...

Serial port monitoring application for Windows CE?

I have an application on a Windows CE device that tries to receive data over a serial port. This isn't working and now I'm looking for some simple application to run on that device that'd let me check if there is any data coming in. Is there something like HyperTerminal that let's me monitor a serial port on mobile devices? Best would p...

can I run Windows Embedded CE 6.0 on a regular PC ?

As i just need the hard RT capabilities, can I install and run Windows Embedded CE 6.0 on a regular PC ? (dell or so ?), and UDP out some data ? ...

Window CE 6 Wordpad replacement

Hi, I'm developing a Win CE 6 OS image and want to make it fit in the "Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Core Run-Time License". This means, among other things, that I have to remove the Wordpad application. From a product service and development perspective I'd like to replace it with something similar but free. One thought was to do a simple ...

Porting Windows demo apps to WinCE/XP Embedded

We have a range of PC demonstration programs for our microcontroller products. The programs typically connect to a USB HID chip on the microcontroller board. The USB chip acts as a communications bridge, allowing the programs to communicate with the micros over SPI/I2C/UART. The programs can configure the micros, and get back status ...

HOWTO: Call Managed C# Interface From Unmanged C++ On WindowsCE Compact Framework

I have extensive unmanaged Windows CE 5 C++ code that provides a UI that I want to use in a new product by combining it with a large amount of newer business and communications logic written in managed C# on Windows CE 6 and the Compact Framework. The UI may know about the business logic, but I want the business logic ignorant of the UI...

Annoying message when I start a debug session in the Windows CE 4.1 emulator

I have to maintain an old Compact Framework application written for Windows CE 4.1 in Visual Studio 2003 (sigh!). It's the German localized version of Visual Studio 2003. Every time i start a debug session in the WinCE emulator, I get this message on the virtual device: "Microsoft .NET CF 1.0 DE-String ist bereits installiert. Mö...

How to make a transparent Image in CF 2.0 without third party libraries?

Hello, is there a way, to make a picture transparent in CF2.0? I have to lay a small Image over a textbox, but it has to be transparent so the User can see the text anyway. Do you have an Idea? Thank you very much twickl Edit: Thanks for your answers, I will check those links out! To complete my Post, here is what I´m trying to do:...

Contiguous VirtualAlloc behaviour on Windows Mobile

I have been optimising memory performance on a Windows Mobile application and have encountered some differences in behaviour between VirtualAlloc on Win32 and Windows CE. Consider the following test: // Allocate 64k of memory BYTE * a = (BYTE *)VirtualAlloc(0, 65536, MEM_RESERVE|MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE); // Allocate a second contig...

Properly handling network timeouts on Windows CE

I'm trying perform a relatively basic TCP socket send/receive operation on Windows CE using the .NET Compact Framework. I'm trying set the timeout value so that reads/writes on a slow connection timeout instead of blocking forever. On the full framework I'm able to simply set the ReceiveTimeout and SendTimeout properties on the Socket ...

what is the difference between Windows CE and Windows Mobile?

I am just starting off Windows OEM development and have come across these two terms Windows CE and Windows Mobile. What is the difference between the two? ...

Is there a hook to monitor activity on a bluetooth serial port

Is there any way of monitoring activity over a bluetooth connection either using a software hook or an external bluetooth monitor, where the bluetooth is emulating a RS232 serial port. When I'm using a cabled connection, I could use an in-line datascope for this activity, which was basically checking whether comms between a PC and exter...

Is there a way to run Windows CE 6.0 emulator at a 1024 * 600 resolution?

We are creating an embedded application for Windows CE 6.0 for which we do not have the hardware yet. We would like to be able to run in emulation mode at a resolution of 1024 * 600 to develop as that is the screen resolution of the hardware we will be using. It appears that the highest resolution that the Windows CE 6.0 emulator suppo...

Delphi Soap Server and CF.NET application

I have a soap server written in Delphi and I am writing a PDA clinet using CF.NET 3.5 but I am getting following error "client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'". If I try and consume this same webservice in a WinForm app it works fine. Sandeep ...

Does CeRunAppAtTime work?

I have been at this thing for a couple of days and I just can't see CeRunAppAtTime working. I just want to ask if anyone has ever got his to work? Could anyone please post a working code sample. Sandeep ...

Linker error while building a edb database

error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _CeCreateDatabaseWithProps referenced in function "public: __thiscall EDB::EDB(void)" (??0EDB@@QAE@XZ) I got the following linker error in the .obj file of my project. I have coredll.lib and Windbase_edb.h Windbase.h winbase.h included in the project covering the dependancies as instructed i...

Windows CE Icon lost when using CAB installer

I have a C# Windows CE 5.0 application. I am using VS2005. My executable shows the correct icon (32x32 8 bit). If I move the .exe file to the CE device using ActiveSync then the icon is still correctly displayed. When I use a CAB file to install the application the icon is lost. Currently the icon is an embedded resource. Any suggestions...