Hi, I'm writing an application for windows mobile 6 and above that requires a local database. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with database hosting on windows mobile and which database management system would be most suitable for development. Thanks in advance, Lloyd ...
Is there a way to get the form active control? I was checking in the help for the "Support.GetActiveControl" method but it isn't supported :) for the Compact Framework. I suppose that I can track the focus by adding a custom GotFocus event handler to all the form controls, but I'm looking for a more generic way that can be implemented ...
Is there an easy and secure way to do this? I know I can download and kinda hack all that stuff, but I'm developing a comercial application and one of the customers can't open menus inside the app and I have no idea why. It runs fine in all my test phones, so I imagine that theres something with his JVM version, but I dont want to risk s...
Following situation: I'm developing an windows mobile application using the sdk 6. Target machine is a nautiz x7. To improve the error reporting I want to catch the structured exceptions (SEH) and do a stack backtrace to store some information for analysis. So far I have the information where the exception was thrown (windows core.dll) ...
Hello I have Motorola MC55 with Windows Mobile 6.5 on-board. This nice palm contains also an embedded bar-code scanner. My question is - Will I need anything special in .NET CF in order to use the bar-code scanner? I would expect that the bar-code are read as normal strings and delivered as keyboard events? Is any special .NET CF libra...
i am using vb.net under .net compact framework for windows ce platform. i want to add a new record with bindingsource object. but when i used bindingsource1.current("field")="value", it says error and error description is "The targeted version of the .net compact framework does not support latebinding" how can i add a value to field usi...
Hi Guys, I'm trying to setup a GPRS connection with ConnMgrEstablishConnectionSync(), so far so good, the connection is established and if I try to connect to an IP address, everything works fine. Alas, when I try to resolve a name: ConnMgrEstablishConnectionSync(); ... gethostbyname("www.google.com"); The result is always an error: ...
I use Device Emulator Manager to fire up my Windows Mobile 5 Emulator. I then right click on the device (in the Device Emulator Manager list) and select cradle. ActiveSync then ties to connect. After about 10 seconds I get this message: Then if I open up the connection options and press connect: Then it works just fine. So...
Hi, I'd like to consume an odata service with a .NET Compact Framework 3.5 client application. What's the easiest way to do that? There are are clients for various programming languages in the odata SDK, but I could not find anything related to the compact framework. Am I missing something or do I have to use plain old HttpWebRequests...
Hello I want to design a WebService for communication between Win Mobile 6.5 based Palm device and a PHP web server. The Palm device software will be developed on .NET compact framework. The communication between web server and device I envision as XML over HTTP. I want a tool that will let me design the Webservice (interfaces, methods)...
I've heard that windows mobile 7's user interface (UI) is completely based on silverlight. can anybody confirm this? or it is implemented by other frameworks? thank you ...
Using C#, is there a way to automatically display the keyboard when a text box is activated in Windows Mobile 5 and 6? ...
I understand that there are no browsers currently which support offline storage for mobile 6.1. I am trying to find a web form based solution avoiding the loss of data when my device has no connectivity. Have ruled out Gears and would like to avoid a win forms application as the forms change so often. Are there any other approaches tha...
I have a PHP webserver and a .NET mobile application. The .NET application needs data from a database, which is provided (for now) by the php webserver. I'm fairly new to this kind of scenario so I'm not sure what the best practices are. I ran into a couple of problems and I am not certain how to overcome them. For now, I have the follo...
Is there a way to explicitly close a GPRS connection? I'm setting up a connection with ConnectionManager and I've set the cache time to 10 seconds. Anyway after releasing it, the connection is still on, forever, alas I cannot use the registry key gprs_by_if_device_off. I'm using plain C++. My idea is to simulate the activity of the w...
I'm disabling auto-complete and auto-suggestion on Windows Mobile 6.1 by setting the following registry keys: HKCU\ControlPanel\Sip\SuggWords => 0 HKCU\ControlPanel\Sip\SuggAutoCorr => 0 However it doesn't seem to change anything until I restart the device. The control panel applet that exposes these settings somehow tells the SIP key...
I have a .NET CF project. In the project directory I put a simple xml file (users.xml) which has to be read by the device. When I debug the application on device emulator and try to load the file from code, the Exception is thrown (FileNotFoundException "Could not find file '\\users.xml'."). Is there a mechanism to automatically deplo...
Hi I'm trying to read cookie on windows mobile using InternetGetCookie , and the cookie is set by a local html file, so how does the URL for a local file look like? something like "file:///\Storage%20Card"? ...
I've just recently started development using Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone and I put in a ListBox. I can't seem to manipulate the formatting. No matter what I do, the background is black/gray, the selected items have a blue border, and there is padding between the items in the listbox (i'm using images). Here is my code:...
I'm trying to find the cameras maximum resolution in C# so I can set it when opening the Camera Dialog. Unless there is a better way to just set this to the max resolution (over setting it just reverts to VGA) ...