windows-mobile

Programmatically Launch IE Mobile Favorites screen..

Is there any way to launch IEMobile's Favorites screen directly by specifying any command line parameter? ...

Getting DirectoryNotFoundException when trying to Connect to Device with CoreCon API

I'm trying to use the CoreCon API in Visual Studio 2008 to programmatically launch device emulators. When I call device.Connect(), I inexplicably get a DirectoryNotFoundException. I get it if I try it in PowerShell or in C# Console Application. Here's the code I'm using: static void Main(string[] args) { DatastoreManager dm = n...

Zip library options for the Compact Framework?

My requirements: Support .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and Windows Mobile 6.0 devices. Only need to unzip the contents to a directory on a storage card. Creation of zip files is not required. Must be able to use in corporate/commercial software. Can be open source, but not have GPL or other viral license. I've seen the Xceed Zip for CF ...

Capture MouseDown event for .NET TextBox

Is there any way to capture the MouseDown even from the .NET 2.0 TextBox control? I know the inherited Control class has the event, but it's not exposed in TextBox. Is there a way to override the event handler? I also tried the OpenNETCF TextBox2 control which does have the MouseDown event exposed, but no matter what I do, it doesn't fi...

User Control Property Designer Properties

For a C# UserControl on Windows Mobile (though please answer if you know it for full Windows...it might work) how do you change what shows up in the Designer Properties window for one of the Control's public Properties. For example: private Color blah = Color.Black; public Color Blah { get { return this.blah; } ...

Windows Mobile Device Emulator - how to save config permanently?

I am working at a client site where there is a proxy server (HTTP) in place. If I do a hard reset of the emulator it forgets network connection settings for the emulator and settings in the hosted Windows Mobile OS. If I 'save state and exit' it will lose all of these settings. I need to do hard resets regularly which means that I lose t...

Open Source Windows Mobile OCR Library

Does anyone know of an OCR library that will run on Windows Mobile (5 or 6, but PPC2003SE would be great). I would imagine that OCR would be native (C/C++) code, but if it was in .NET or at least had a .NET wrapper API, that would be great. ...

Has anyone used NUnitLite with any success?

I've recently started work on the Compact Framework and I was wondering if anyone had some recommendations for unit testing beyond what's in VS 2008. MSTest is ok, but debugging the tests is a nightmare and the test runner is so slow. I see that NUnitLite on codeplex is an option, but it doesn't look very active; it's also in the roadma...

Audio player on Windows Mobile

Hello. I'm trying to develop specialized audio player for windows mobile devices (Professional ones). And I've ran into the problem an once. There no compressed audio APIs on WM or I was unable to found house in documentation. Yes there are WM6 Sound API but it cannot even pause playback or seek to specified position. There are allways ...

Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) on Windows Mobile

Hello everyone! Is therу broad way to handle Bluetooth Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) events on WM device? I especialy interested in Comact Framework way but would be happy with just simple P/Invoke API. Update. I've read MSDN articles on this theme but I still have no idia how to facilitate this knowledge. There no samples....

ARMV4i (Windows Mobile 6) Native Code disassembler

Does anyone know of a disassembler for ARMV4i compiled executables and dlls? I've got a plugin DLL I'm writing and it has a very rare data abort (<5% of the time) that I have narrowed down to a specific function (via dumpbin and the memory address output by the data abort) however it's a fairly large function and I would like to narrow i...

memset() causing data abort

I'm getting some strange, intermittent, data aborts (< 5% of the time) in some of my code, when calling memset. The problem is that is usually doesn't happen unless the code is running for a couple days, so it's hard to catch it in the act. I'm using the following code: char *msg = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*2048); char *temp = (char*...

Can I capture Windows Mobile PIE keyboard events?

Anyone know of a way to capture keyboard events (keyup / keydown) in Portable IE under Window mobile? I noticed that key events are not supported in JS, and would like to come up with a solution that works without any client side additions. ...

Print a barcode to a Intermec PB20 via the LinePrinter API

Does anyone know how to print a barcode to the Intermec PB20 bluetooth printer from a Windows Compact Framework application> We are currently using the Intermec LinePrinter API but have been unable to find a way to print a barcode. ...

Compact Framework - Is there an MVC framework/library available?

I've found an article on this subject by a Microsoft employee, but has anyone implemented a more robust framework for this? Is there a lightweight framework for WinForms that could be ported easily? I'd like to get up to speed fairly quickly and avoid producing a framework/library of my own to handle this when someone smarter has already...

Windows Mobile - What scripting platforms are available?

We have a number of users with Windows Mobile 6 and need to apply minor changes. eg. update a registry setting. One option is push and execute an executable file using our device management software. I'd like this to be a little more friendly for the admins who are familiar with scripting in VBScript/JScript etc. What are the options fo...

Windows Mobile Development, alternatives to visual studio?

Hello everyone, I am looking to start writing apps for my Windows Mobile 6.1 professional device (Sprint Mogul/HTC Titan). I use the copy of Visual Studio 2003 that I bought in college for all of my current contracting work, (all of my day job work is done on a company laptop). From what I can tell from MSDN in order to develop using ...

Are there any guidelines for designing user interface for mobile devices?

I am creating an application for a Windows Mobile computer. The catch is that the device (Motorola MC17) does not have a touch screen or universal keys - there are only six programmable hardware keys. Fitt's law is not applicable here, most Microsoft guidelines are also moot. For now I'm mimicking Nokia's S60 keyboard layout as close as ...

How can I expose only a fragment of IList<>?

I have a class property exposing an internal IList<> through System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection<> How can I pass a part of this ReadOnlyCollection<> without copying elements into a new array (I need a live view, and the target device is short on memory)? I'm targetting Compact Framework 2.0. ...

Finding the storage card path on WM6.

Is there an easy way to find the storage card's path on a Windows Mobile device when there is a storage card and a bluetooth ftp connection? ...