if we dock the mobile device to a PC via USB, do we need to use ActiveSync to do the data syncing? Or will we be able to get a network connection directly from the USB connection. ...
I need to intercept brightness key press in a device with a hardware keyboard, where that key has the double function of changing brightness and the "0" number: if I can handle it, I can avoid to the user of the application to switch to the numeric keypad in some textboxes that accept only numeric input. I tried to handle that key even ...
Hi, Is there a ways to rebuild a c# .net CF application and deploy it in windows mobile emulator from the command-line? This is required to create a bat file for automation. I have taken a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa188169(VS.90).aspx which mentions how to use the emulator from command line, but doesn't mention ...
Hi I'm using VS2008 and building a WinForms mobile application targetting the Compact Framework 3.5 and Pocket PC 5. I'm using the VS unit test functionality and the tests run OK but won't stop at breakpoints. I keep getting the dreaded "breakpoint will not currently be hit, no symbols have been loaded for this document" message. The so...
Hi, I am trying to setup a custom URL Protocol (testProtocol) on a Windows CE device. When the user clicks a link with testProtocol it will launch an application (ParamTest.exe). I have done the following: Created a Windows Smart Device Project -> Device Application. I altered the Main() method to take in a string[] of arguments whi...
I'm trying to figure out how to turn the camera flash on my phone on without using the oem camera app. I've looked at/played with the exports from cameraplatform.dll but can't figure out what im supposed to be calling in what order. The oem camera app is flash lite and i havent been able to figure out how to disassemble it to see what i...
I'm trying to locate the name of the 802.11 adapter to pass to SetDevicePower() and GetDevicePower(). I was going to use FindFirstDevice() with the PMCLASS_NDIS_MINIPORT guid to do this: DEVMGR_DEVICE_INFORMATION di = { 0 }; di.dwSize = sizeof( DEVMGR_DEVICE_INFORMATION ); GUID IID_NdisMiniport = { 0x98C5250D, 0xC29A, 0x4985, { 0xae, 0...
I've got some code that used to get the interface, now it fails all the time. The dwStatus value is getting set to 2. if (DeviceIoControl( ndisUio_, IOCTL_NDISUIO_QUERY_BINDING, pQueryBinding, sizeof(NDISUIO_QUERY_BINDING), Buf, dwBufLength, &dwBytesWritten, ...
Hello, I am in way over my head, and am hoping anyone here can help. I am working with an application that is running on Windows Mobile OS, version 5 and/or 6, which is written in Embedded C++. The problem is that controls in the app get all messed up and moved around when the user does something to switch the display orientation, such...
I have a Windows Mobile project that runs some code before displaying the first form. If I put a breakpoint on a method I know is called before the form is displayed I get the hollow breakpoint warning symbol that tells me "the breakpoint will not currently be hit. no symbols loaded for this document". When I look in Debug -> Windows -...
Am working on smartphone application. And Developing through Emulator (USA Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC R2 Emulator). But after Cradle Windows Mobile Device Center does not connect with Emulator. But it was connecting three days ago. After that I do not know why its not connecting... Its get connected with device but not with emulato...
I have a simple user control in Windows Phone 7 and I want to get access to the querystring collection from the user controls Constructor. I have tried many ways and cannot seem to get acess to the containing XAML's querystring collection. Essentially I am navigating to the page and the my user control is going to access the querystring...
Is it possible to switch between WiFi networks in WM 6 and .NET CF v3.5 ? I'm writing a .NET Compact Framework v3.5 app for a Windows Mobile 6 device. I'd like to be able to switch between 2 different WiFi networks via C#. The first network is an Ad-Hoc wireless network with another device close by, and the second network is any other a...
I am writing an application for WIM 6, and one of its features is to detect no movement. How can I access the phone's accelerometer? is there any managed API that wraps it so I can write it on c#? Thanks. ...
I am resetting up my development machine and I cannot seem to remember where I got CabWiz.exe (used for creating installation cab files for windows mobile). Is that on MSDN Downloads in some package? Or somewhere else? Does anyone know? I installed the Windows Mobile 5 SDK and I thought that was all I needed, but I guess there is som...
I have recently installed Windows 7 and I have come to a conclusion. While Active Sync was old and did not work great, it did work. I could connect to my devices and emulators after the proper rituals and incantations. The other conclusion I have come to is that Windows Mobile Device Center is worse that Active Sync was. I cannot get...
Hi all! Please help me with solution of how to set the app icon for exe file on windows mobile platform? It means that icon should displays in explorer, task manager and so on. Thanks in advanse! ...
Hello, everyone. I ran into another problem a few days ago that I can't figure out. I am working with two mobile devices: TouchPro2, with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, and TouchPro2 with Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional. So, the hardware is the same, only the version of Window Mobile is different, and even then it's just a different b...
Hi, I am developing a application on windows phone 7. So my landing page is a custom Splash Screen page ( i didn't use the default way of showing a splash screen ie. having a png file, as i need to add data in the splash screen at runtime based on the user profile). So i created a splashscreen page. After a period of delay ( 5 sec), I n...
Does anyone have a set of instructions for building boost libraries for use on Windows CE? I've found some discussions on it: boost build mailing list and another one from the boost build mailing list ... but surely someone has written up something more concrete... ...