windows-mobile

What are the best remoting technologies for mobile applications ?

I have a java back-end that needs to expose services to clients running in the following environments : J2ME Windows Mobile iPhone I am looking for the best tool for each platform. I do not search a technology that works everywhere. I need something "light" adapted to low speed internet access. Right now I am using SOAP. It is verbo...

.NET Compact Framework Printing libraries

Hi, Can anyone point to libraries that can be used for Printing from Compact .Net Framework 1.0? Criteria: I need to be able to print Text and Bar codes. The library should preferably be upgradable to .Net 2.0 or above with minimal disruption. Can be either Open Source [that can be distributed as part of Commercial application] or ...

How do I use the softkeys with a CDialog based application in windows mobile 6 via MFC?

How do I use the softkeys with a CDialog based application in windows mobile 6 via MFC? I have a CDialog based Windows Mobile 6 (touchscreen) Professional app that I am workign on. The default behavior of a CDialog based app in WM6 Professional is to not use any softkeys by default... I want to map the softkeys to "Cancel" and "OK" fun...

Windows Mobile Development - Portable Programming?

I want to start developing for Windows Mobile Devices, as I plan to buy one next week. (pay day) So far most of my PDA experience is with Palm OS (m100, m105, Zire 71 and T3). For Palm there are a few good utilities for programming, mainly PocketC and OnboardC. These let you program and test on the road. I would use PocketC quite a bit ...

PocketPC - Convert VT_DATE to an invariant VT_BSTR

I'm trying to convert a VARIANT from VT_DATE to an invariant VT_BSTR. The following code works on Windows XP: VARIANT va; ::VariantInit(&va); // set the variant to VT_DATE SYSTEMTIME st; memset(&st, 0, sizeof(SYSTEMTIME)); st.wYear = 2008; st.wMonth = 9; st.wDay = 22; st.wHour = 12; st.wMinute = 30; DATE date; SystemTimeToVariantTime...

Can ClickOnce deployment be used with windows mobile and compact frameworks?

Can I use the ClickOnce deployment method to deploy and auto update applications targeted for the windows mobile platform (eg smartphone or pocket pc)? ...

WYSIWYG HTML Editor for Windows Mobile forms app

I am developing a forms app (not web) for Windows Mobile, using .NET CF 3.5. I need an HTML editor control. I'm looking for something along the lines of a simple FCKEditor, but for using in a forms app (EXE). Any suggestions? ...

What is java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError ... (Operation Failed: 14)

I am trying to deploy our eRCP (embedded Rich Client Platform) application on a Windows CE5 Professional device. While the eRCP demo applications work fine on the J9 VM upon starting our application I get the following exception: !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2008-09-24 11:01:15.088 !MESSAGE An error occurred while automatically activatin...

.NET Compact Framework Can you get grids which have multi line text in cells?

Is it possible to show multiple lines of text in grid cells using the .NET Compact framework? We need to create a grid where the middle column contains an address. We'd like to show this over multiple lines and (possibly) apply some formatting to the final line. e.g. 123 Anywhere Street Birmingham B1 2DU tel: 0123 555555 ...

Performance comparison of current PDAs

Are there any up-to-date performance comparisons of current PDAs available online? Or comparisons of the different available CPUs? I want to buy the right PDA for developing CPU-intensive C# graphics apps (in my spare time). So far I've found: Futuremark's handheld benchmarks don't aggregate results online SpbBenchmark only has result...

Find Processor Type from compact .net 1.0

Hi, My application is targeted for Compact .Net 1.0 framework. The application has to check and download any updates available from a web-site. I am thinking of providing the updates as CAB files. Since the CAB files are processor type specific, I want to download the CAB file based on the Processor Type. What is the API for getting the ...

Find OS type from .Net CF 1.0

Hi, What is the API for getting the OS type? Windows CE or Windows mobile? Environment.OSVersion just gives the CE version. It does not provide information if 'Windows Mobile' is installed on the device. Thanks, Kishore A ...

Programatically delete emails and SMSs on a Window Mobile device

Hello, I'm looking for a code snippet that can delete all emails and text messages on a Windows Mobile device. Preferably the code would delete items in the Sent and Drafts folders as well as the Inbox. My platform is Windows Mobile (5.0 SDK) and .net 2.0 compact framework (C# / VB.NET) Many thanks ...

How to retrieve time zone choices on Windows Mobile for PDA

Is there a way to retrieve the time zone choices in Windows Mobile in order to display them in a GUI? It would be much better not to have to show every 15 minutes just to be able to display GMT+5:45 for Kathmandu. ...

How do I determine program interupt in Windows Mobile

I have an game application I have written for Windows Mobile and I want to have a timer associated with the puzzle. If the program loses focus for any reason (call comes in, user switches programs, user hits the Windows button) then I want a pop up dialog box to cover the puzzle and the timer to stop. When the user closes the pop up dial...

How to determine if a file is in ROM in Windows Mobile?

Is there a way to programmatically determine if a given file path and name is stored in ROM (i.e. came installed on the device) or RAM (i.e. created after a hard reset)? ...

How do I pInvoke the function SHCameraCapture (camera dialog) from Aygshell.dll from WinMO6

I need to show a camera capture dialog in a compact framework 3.7 application by pinvoking SHCameraCapture from the dll Aygshell.dll. I cannont use the managed object CameraCaptureDialog because of limitations with the technology I'm working with. Instead, I need to access it by Pinvoking it. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar...

Deploy a Desktop Shortcut to a Device running Windows CE 4.2 (VS2005)

I have an application written using VS2005 in C# targeting the Compact Framework 2.0 SP2. As part of the solution, I have CAB deploy project which deploys to the device without a problem. What I can't do is create a shortcut to my application on the devices desktop. I have spent several hours reading various bits of documentation (why i...

How to hide a Pocket Internet Explorer element?

How can I hide an element in html on Pocket Internet Explorer running on a Windows Mobile 6 device. The following code does not work even though it apears to be setting the values correctly. function ShowCollapseElement(sLinkId, sContentId) { var oLinkElement; var oContentElement; //Get the elements oLinkElement = document.getElem...

Possible to detect the *type of mobile device* via javascript or HTTP Headers?

I've got a request from a customer to automatically detect the type of mobile device (not the browser, the type. ex: Moto Q, Blackjack II, etc.) and automatically select the device from a drop down with a list of supported devices. So far I've found that the HTTP Headers (submitted by mobile IE) contain information such as Resolution ...