How do I detect when my Compact Framework application is being smart-minimized (smart minimize is what happens when the user clicks the "X" button in the top-right corner on a Pocket PC)? The Deactivate event isn't the right way because it occurs in circumstances other than minimization, such as when a message box or another form is sho...
I have been used my Palm Treo 650 for a few years. Now i am considering to buy a new one among iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows mobile. It seems windows mobile is best for me. Because I have experience with .NET development, and I think .net framework compact will not be too far away from my knowledge. Apart from calls, messages, I use it...
Is it possible to target Windows Mobile 6 Professional and Standard from one project? Perhaps a class library, with the program logic, and two GUI apps (one for Professional, one for Standard) to interact with the logic. Is this possible? ...
Okay, I will shortly be starting down the path of windows mobile development. I know nothing about the subject really and I am looking for people with experience to let me know of any gottchas you may know of. Right now I dont even have a breif of what is requied but the assumption is that the application will be very little more than ...
The title says it all i think , i have searched high and low and cannot find a Samsung Omnia SDK. I know its possible to use the .net framework for development , but i want more , specifically being able to access the motion sensor and maybe the GPS as well. Any idea or directions are welcome. ...
Hi, I am creating an application for video capturing on Windows Mobile device. In the MainFrame there are menu and status window (custom window). The video size width:height ratio is 4:3 so in the case there are some other elements on the screen the video doesn't fill the whole area. This is the function which arranges screen elements:...
For a .net developer, what's the learning curve to get into mobile development? How many different operating systems are there that run .net? Is windows mobile that same as windows ce? ...
I cannot get std::tr1::shared_ptr for my WinMobile project since the STL for WinCE is maintained by a different team at Microsoft :( aarrgh... Anyone worked with another thread-safe, reference counting smart pointers? I'm actually using yasper which seems to be good. Thank you very much. ...
Ok so we have an upcoming development that will involve a level of off line processing of dynamic forms. Here's what we have to do: Create a asp.net web application whereby users can download dynamic forms, fill them in then upload them to be published. We also have a windows mobile application that will do something similar. The form...
Hi, I am writing an application for Windows Mobile where I want to display some text over the video preview on the screen. Does anyone know how this could be done or if there's any good tutorial about it? Thanks! ...
I know the possibilities of basic leak detection for Win32 using the crtdbg.h header, but this header is unavailable in the CE CRT library headers (i'm using the lastest SDK v6.1). Anyone knows how I can automatically detect leaks in a WinCE/ARMV4I configuration with VC 9.0? I don't want to override new/delete for my class hierarchy, I...
I'm looking to invest in a UI control toolkit for a Compact Framework 3.5 project for Windows Mobile 5 and later. All I can find is the Resco MobileForms Toolkit (http://www.resco.net/developer/mobileformstoolkit/overview.aspx). I have two questions... Are there any other good WinForm control collections out there? Any experience with ...
According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa916070.aspx (DnsQuery_W), DNS query libraries are available on Windows Mobile / CE developers for versions 5.0 onwards. Yet, "#include " gives nasty "file not found" errors. What gives? Strangely enough "dnsapi.lib" is available. Does Microsoft actually expect developers to scavenge ...
I'm developing a C# application on Windows Mobile, and like most of my WM applications, I always get bogged down whenever I'm deciding on a serialization strategy. In the desktop world, I'm not too worried about it because i've already developed a pretty robust custom xml serializer - however, in the WM world, I don't want to use it be...
Before I begin asking this question I will have to warn you that I know next to nothing about SharePoint and im basically learning as I go along. Here's where I am right now: I have a virtual pc with an instance of SharePoint and windows server 2003 running on it I have managed to get a network adaptor set up so I can access the Shar...
i'm working on windows mobile app (c#, .net 2.0). i would like to make use of the device's autocomplete features for a specific textbox, but i want to be more specific than the device provides by default. for example, i want to autocomplete to suggest a word of a specific length. it would also be nice to have several options given at on...
We have a large number of Window Mobile Devices (Symbol MC35 & MC70). I want to write a small app that gets the device serial number and simcard serial number (not phone number). I have tryed using the Symbol SDK and I can get the Device Serial Number for the MC70s as they have a Electronic Serial Number Module. But not sure how to get t...
I'm working on an application that runs on Windows Mobile 6 that needs to be able to retrieve all items from an item table that contain a given string (provided by the end user) within the item's description field. The problem is that there are approximately 170,000 items in the table. Since I need to return all items that contain the st...
Hi again, I actually have two questions regarding the same problem but I think it is better to separate them since I don't think they are related. Background: I am writing a Windows Mobile software in VB.NET which among its tasks needs to connect to a mail-server for sending and retrieving e-mails. As a result, I also need a Mime-pars...
I have a large Compact Frameworks V2.0 application that in most cases works very well. On certain devices about once a day, a user receives a Native Error 0xC0000005 that is not caught with the standard managed Try/Catch block. My application synchronizes with the server via ASMX calls at fixed intervals. The problem appears to occu...