windows-mobile

Problems getting a device driver to load at startup - WM6.1

Hi, Our embedded systems programmer has developed the shell of a virtual serial port driver for our mobile hardware, and I have been filling in the methods to get it to work. The driver does work as expected, it simulates a COM port for a USB device that is spewing out NMEA strings (GPS data). I type WM6 for short, but the OS is WM6.1 ...

Need Help.. Picture uploader function for windows mobile 6 net cf 3.5

all runs perfect now big thx ... i post the code for all that have the same problem, the iso encoding was the problem .. but how i said big thx .. heres the code for all with the same prob: Public Function uploadPic(ByVal pic As Byte(), ByVal filename As String, ByVal user As String) Dim encoding As String = "iso-8859-2" ...

Desktop Application auto-complete

Hi I am working on a .net project, (first ever for me) and I would like to do something like the AJAX.AutoCompleteExtender that I used with my WEB projects. What should I use? is there something ready to use, Or I should go and make my own using the textbox, or combo box or something like that. The app I am working on, is a .net appli...

Text file , CVS xml or what are my options ?

I want to develop an app for Windows 7 phone. It will be a GRE vocab app. i dont want to use SQL CE, my app will have 3 tables conceptually. I will be using Linq to SQL to querying data. Now i am confuse how should i store data so it is easy for retrival and update. XML , CSV , XML or any other format ? ...

Windows 7 phone development

I am a C# dev with most of my experience with windows desktop app. I want to start development on windows 7 phone platform. Where to start with ? Will it work with VS2008 or i need to have VS 2010 ? how to add the template for phone app development and how to add the win 7 emulator ? What i need to install to start working on windows...

Code-Signing on WM6.1 Drivers

I've already asked similar question on this issue on stack overflow already, but I believe this part of the issue can be separated into a new question. I've not done mobile development before so the use of signing and certificates is a new concept to me, and for all the reading of topics I have done, its not really improved my knowledge...

Unable to invoke WCF service methods from Windows Phone 7 emulator

Hello, I am new to WCF and I am trying to create a Windows Phone 7 app which calls a self hosted WCF service. I have created WCF service hosted in a console app. I am unable to call the service from Windows 7 app running in emulator, but I am able to call it from another client console application running on the same machine the WCF ser...

developing software on smartphone

platform can be symbian OS,windows 6.0 I want to known is there any software like (visual stdio 2008) that will be installed in my smartphone and i can write my code and compile it and execute it in smart phone plz help me out ...

windows server Active Directory users data into windows phone 7 (windows mobile 7)?

How do I connect to windows server active directory using windows phone 7 without using a web service/ wcf. Microsoft didn't provide "System.DirectorySerice" namespace in windows compact framework. ...

How to close internet explorer window on Windows CE 5.0

Hello, is there a way to close IE in Windows CE, I was try window.close(), self.close(), ... and it did not work. I was searching long for the answer, but have found nothing, a last I am asking here for help, if anyone has come to this issue. Thanks for any reply. ...

FFMPEG libx264 2-pass for smartphones

I use the following ffmpeg command to convert a video for smartphones. It works for Droid x and Iphone4, but not windows media player nor the older version of droid. Can anyone shred some light? Those droids works with Youtube h264 codec. But somehow doesn't play the video of my encoded mp4 (the audio plays just fine). ffmpeg -y -i ...

mobile web site , which image type best

Lot of user opening my site in mobile, Tell me which image type will load quickly in mobile device , jpg,gif,png , Which one is best ? ...

WIndows Phone 7 - ListViewItem Class Problem

I have an app which was developed using WP7 developer CTP tools.Now I'm trying to run the same app but on WP7 beta tools. I have made all the changes needed for the above conversion as per Microsoft Release Notes It has mentioned that ListView and ListViewItem classes are removed from Microsoft.Phone.Controls namespace. Following is t...

Beginning Phone Applications Development

I've been developing applications for a long time now, but now I want to jump into Phone applications development. There are four main candidates: Nokia's Symbian Apple's iPhone Google's Android Microsoft Windows Mobile Phone Can anyone suggest one, considering documentation, market, samples and availabilty of emulators, I'm not a mi...

how to make certification for PC and PPC ?

hi how to make certification for PC and PPC (i need that only specific PPC can connect to specific PC) is it made in C# ? can i get any help ? thank's in advance ...

develop speech to text conversion api for mobile os

Hi Folks develop one app speech to text conversion on mobile phones.i want to develop it for supporting all mobile(android,iphone,wince,windows 7,webos).for that i would like to develop one api. is there any way develop api for supporting all above os.Please Let me know and suggest me.any other way Thanks in advance aSwan ...

Reboot on installation of .CAB WM

On a windows mobile 6 or CE5 device, I need to install a CAB file then initiate a reboot. I am aware of custom actions, you need to create a setup.dll for the CAB file in native C++. So I have the following code already made codeINSTALL_EXIT Install_Exit(HWND hwndParent, LPCTSTR pszInstallDir, WORD cFailedDirs, WORD cFailedFiles, WORD...

orientation in windows mobile 6.0?

i'm having around 13 emulators .i want my app can adjustable in all emulators. how to set orienation for all emulators.is there any way for automatic adjustment. otherwise how to write the code each emulator for orientaion.can u give some sample example. in windows phone 7 i simple write margin properties in landscape and portrait. ...

How to play audio in windows mobile 6.0 apps?

hi i'm placing audio files in one .resx file .i want to play audio in my app. then how to get that audio path from .resx file and hoe to play that audio when click on button .can u give some example for that one. ...

Transparency in compact framework

I need to create a image with a transparent background in .NETCF, I use magenta as the background I wish to make transparent. The way I have tried to do this is to override onPaint(). But I can't get the background transparent? Here's what I have: protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) { Graphics g = e.Graphics; Imag...