windows-mobile-6

Set image for windows mobile emulator camera

Hi I am busy developing a windows mobile application that is targeted at WM6 , one of the features i need to use is the camera. In the emulator i can test the camera fine but the image is always black(fades between black and white). I need a way to provide the emulator with a image that i have already taken. At the moment to test i have...

WM6 .Net Form Effects C#

Hi All, I would like to know if it's possible to create nice form effects on the compact framework. My plan is that when a user selects an image on the main form this is opened in a new form, this currently works. What I now want to do is make the form that contains the fullsize picture to load off the edge (left or right) of the scre...

C# WM6 Compact Framework Cross Thread Communication Problem

Hi all, I'm having a problem updating a control on my ui from a thread created using ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem Inside this thread i am calling addControlToPanel(li); As shown here private delegate void addControlToPanelDelegate(ListItem li); private void addControlToPanel(ListItem li) { if (panel1.InvokeRequired) { ...

Is it possible to reset wm6 service(dll), but don`t reset the device?

Already tired to constantly reset device for test couple lines of code)) ...

C# WM6 and Mouse Move event

Hi Guys, I play with small but hopefuly nice app for WM6. I have noticed that there is no MouseUp and MouseDown triggered when playing with stylus (acting as a mouse) on the screen. That's ok for me, I mean I can live without it. But there is something else happening that I cannot live with for a change. When paint on the screen using...

Getting button presses on Windows Mobile 6

Hello everyone! I am making an application for a windows mobile smartphone, and I would like to know, using C# and the Windows Mobile 6 SDK, how can I make a window that can get input events even after minimized? Is it possible? I'm sure it is. Please let me know, Thanks ...

Controlling the volume while using the SndPlayAsync function on Windows Mobile 6

How on earth can you control the volume of the sound played using SndPlayAsync on Windows Mobile 6?? It seems like no one knows! The documentation doesn't mention anything regarding it... So either there's no way, or it is kept top secret... In addition, I am aware of the possibility of using the Windows Media Player, but I rather not...

windows mobile 6 emulator

i am developing some apps in windows mobile 6 on visual studio 8 and i need to show some information in Hebrew but my emulator doesn't show that language ,instead he show very strange chars how do i set Hebrew font in my emulator so that i will be able to see Hebrew?? ...

CAB installation failing on new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices

We use a CAB file through a webpage to deploy our mobile application to our customers. Now with the new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices, the cab file is downloaded as a .tsk file (when using the new Internet Explorer). Naturally the installation fails to install the application as a theme. If the file is downloaded in Opera, or you change th...

Windows Mobile 6.1 Outlook Contacts VS Messenger Contacts

So on my phone, in contacts, it has all my outlook contacts with phone numbers as well as all my live messenger contacts. Now some of these contacts are in there twice. So I said to myself "self let's create my own contact app and ignore the live messenger ones. I will have a cleaner phone book" While iterating through outlook.contacts....

Determine Mobile Internet Explorer version

I need to determine the version of Mobile Internet Explorer on a Windows Mobile 6.1 device. So that I can report the same user-agent string as is being used by Mobile Internet Explorer. The user-agent string format has recently been changed to include version information. My application is running on the Windows Mobile device creating...

Slow playing of Mp3 in Windows Mobile 6 SndPlaySync

Hi - I'm trying to play mp3 files from my winows mobile application using the newly supported mp3-playing function SndPlaySync ( also tried SndPlayAsync ). I made the simplest program, just attached the function to a WM_KEYDOWN event. ( code attached below ). But stil there is always 0.5-2 seconds of wait before the program plays the mp3...

PlaySound much faster than SoundPlaySync, windows mobile 6

Hi, i'm trying to play mp3 files using the SoundPlaySync function. ( Mp3 playing was not supported in windows mobile 5-). I narrowed down the problem - Even when i try playing .wav files, using playsound ( with a sync flag ), and then try to play them using SndPlaySync, SndPlaySync takes more than double the time to react. ( which caus...

Windows Mobile 6 Emulator change storage?

Hey, How do i change the size of the Windows Mobile 6 Emulator. Its fixed at 32mb. I read this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/821720/increasing-windows-mobile-5-emulator-storage But it only helps for the 5.0 version. Isnt there any way to increase the storage size in version 6.0? ...

How to show map control on windows mobile application and which service is providing that?

Hi all, I am searching for How to use map control on windows mobile 6? Which service i have to use for this? Can any one help me? Thanks. ...

Calling Native APIs from Managed Code

Hi all, I am developing a Windows Mobile application using WM6 SDK. The application is a Managed code (using C#) & I would like to know the steps to be taken in order to call native functions. Thanks for the help, Abdel Olakara ...

Play sound during standby on windows mobile?

I got an app which is started on a notify timer (which works on time, it writes into a debug log file). This app should play a sound, but since the device is on standby, no sound is played. I'd guess the sound device needs to be woken up, but how do I wake up the device, so I can play a sound? ...

Possible to render html in a compact edition mobile 6 phone form?

Hi I am wondering does anyone know if it is possible to render html in a mobile 6 form? The only way I can think that may work is the internal web browser control. I am wondering is there a better way? I am thinking if I go the path of web browser control I will have to generate an html file then insert the code I want into this file. ...

Possible to develop "Windows Mobile 6.1" appl. with EVC4 (Embedded Visual C)?

Is it possible to develop "Windows Mobile 6.1" appl. with EVC4 (Embedded Visual C++)? ...

How to make a GUI that works on all window mobile phones?

Hi Up to now I been using the pda emulator in visual studios 2008 (I am using windows mobile 6.1 professional sdk). So I just dragged and dropped most of my GUI components into the form. In one instance I made a panel then in this panel I dynamically generated labels in it with certain location positions. I then put it on my Hp PAQ 11...