windows-mobile

How can I get a HTML web page from a Windows Mobile Application?

I'm working with C#.net developing applications for windows mobile 6, and i need get the HTML code from a web page, i mean, i need download the page and then get the code or parse it to string. someone know how can i do it? I know there is the WebClient Class for desktop app, but i didn't find something like that for mobile app ...

Creating a Windows Mobile emulator image

Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to create my own Windows Mobile emulator image. I have a Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 phone, which has a 480x800 on a 3 inch screen, approximately 300 DPI. I'd like to create an emulator image with the correct screen properties, and hopefully a skin that resembles the correct button locations and st...

Hidden features of Windows Mobile

After finding the list of excellent [hidden-features] questions I was a bit surprised that such a question for Windows Mobile did not already seem to exist. Fire away! ...

How do you make an application start when the device starts up in Windows Mobile?

As the title says. I'd like for my application to start when the Windows Mobile device is turned on? I'm developing this app using the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 in C#. Thanks! ...

Making VS 2008 play nice with eVC 4.0 projects

I would like to contribute to an open-source Windows Mobile project, but it's being developed in eVC 4.0, which flat-out does not work on Vista (feel free to correct me!), and I would prefer to avoid having to dual-boot or remote into my only remaining XP box. I have VS 2008 installed on my main development machine, and got all the SDKs...

Get the Icon of a file from a windows mobile app

I'm working with C# developing app for windows mobible 6. I need get the icon of a file, but i don't know how to do that =P. Is there way to get it? ...

Free IDE for Windows Mobile Development?

It's been a while now since Microsoft stopped supporting Embedded Visual C++ 4.0 (eVC 4), and they don't let you use the Windows Mobile SDK with the Express version of VS 2008. Now, I'm OK because I get an MSDN license through work (including VS 2008 Pro), but I'd like to work on a couple open-source projects, and not all the other cont...

Authenticating a Windows Mobile 6 Device

I have an application that runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional PDA devices. The application is installed by browsing a url from the device and downloading a cab. Users capture information in the application and this is then replicated back to a SQL 2005 server using merge replication and IIS v6. Although the user needs to log into th...

Best way to recruit a virtual team to a "garage" software project ?

I have a working prototype for a killer app implemented in C# for Windows Mobile. It needs to be packaged into a commodity and efficiently sold. Possibly also converted to a web-centric platform. Now I'd like to assemble a community of seasoned, possibly semi-retired IT professionals. They should be willing to work for fun and free, wi...

Long-term potential of iPhone/Windows Mobile development platforms

It seems that Apple has so far gone the furthest of any mobile platform in creating a good all-around developer ecosystem (SDK, app distribution, monetization, etc). However, reading the comments from previous SO questions on mobile development (e.g. this and this), certain criticisms seem to pop up, such as the following: Objective-C,...

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....

Get ip address of host pc from windows mobile when connected via ActiveSync

I have a .Net Compact app running on Windows Mobile, and I want to be able to connect to a webservice running on the 'host' machine (i.e. the desktop the PDA is plugged into) when connected via ActiveSync, but I don't know the ip address of the host. How can I find the ip of the desktop PC progromatically on the PDA? ...

Wireless debugging of windows mobile applications

I'm trying to debug a windows mobile aplication using a wifi connection, on a Vista with Visual Studio 2008 following this instruction http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdteam/archive/2005/04/28/413304.aspx. It worked flawlessly with XP SP2, but not with Vista. Do you know if this is possible at all? or is another flaw from Vista? ...

Monitor memory usage inside your own process

Let's put Heisenberg aside for a brief moment. How would I go about to, from within my own process, monitor how much memory this process is using? (I might have under-specified the question on purpose, dreaming of creative answers...) ...

CListCtrl - how to enable multiple selection

Hi, I am creating a MFC application for Windows Mobile and don't know how to enable multiple selection for List Control (CListCtrl). In properties panel Single Selection is set to False but still can't select multiple items. Any idea? Thanks! ...

Windows mobile Windows Messages tracing utility

Hello. I'm looking for small utility to run on windows mobile phone and trace all windows messages it receive. Not message codes, but names if it could figure them out. I could probably write on for my own, but don't know where I could get a dictionary of WM. Parsing .H files perspective drives me mad. ...

Windows Mobile Emulator networking to host machine

I'm trying to do some Windows Mobile dev in VS2008. The WM app is making a WCF call (or trying to). The emulator and my WCF server are running on the same desktop PC. I found some details about how to configure the network card on the WM5 emulator in conjunction with Virtual PC2007. This does allow me to now surf the net view the emulat...

Pinvoke call to CeGetVolumeInfo requires an unknown enum value

Hi- I'm still fairly new to PInvoke calls, so I'm hoping that someone out there can help me clear this up: I'm trying to PInvoke a call to CeGetVolumeInfo()- which is kept in CoreDll.dll- from a C# project. Here is the definition for this function from MSDN: WINBASEAPI BOOL CeGetVolumeInfo( LPCWSTR pszRootPath, CE_VOLUME_INFO_L...

How to "Connect via Bluetooth" in WM programmatically?

Does anybody know how do I programmatically emulate a click on ActiveSync "Connect via Bluetooth" menu? I need my smartphone to periodically attempt to check/reestablish connect via bluetooth, but I couldn't find anything in WM SDK, which would do that ...

Access GPS functionality in WinMobile phones

Say you have a Windows Mobile 6.0 phone that also has a GPS receiver. Does the WinMobile SDK support accessing GPS functionality? If not, what are the options (API) for programming with the GPS i.e write apps that will use the GPS capability. I am mainly interested in Windows Mobile 6.x but please do include generic replies also. I wi...