smartphone

How do I enable Platform Builder mode in VS2008

After installing VS2008, the platform builder mod, and the WM7 aku, VS usually prompts you, upon first startup, for your default mode. If you make a mistake and select something other than PB7, how do you get back into PB mode? I can get the device window, but it is always greyed out. I can also configure my normal connection settings, ...

Smartphone-style ComboBox behavior on PocketPC platform?

I develop applications for the PocketPC platform (.NET Compact Framework 2.0 and higher), and one of the problems I constantly run in to is the drop-down width for ComboBox controls is not wide enough to show very long string values. I've run across P/Invoke methods to widen the dropdown width, but what I'd really like to have is the Sm...

custom dialog with a text field in winmobile

I'm looking to have a simple custom dialog box, like a message box, that has a label and a TextBox. If there's a simple way to do this, sorry! I'm really not well versed in the dialog stuff. Thanks for any help, guys! ...

Which mobile system is for programmers?

I have been used my Palm Treo 650 for a few years. Now i am considering to buy a new one among iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows mobile. It seems windows mobile is best for me. Because I have experience with .NET development, and I think .net framework compact will not be too far away from my knowledge. Apart from calls, messages, I use it...

blackberry development, is it as userfriendly as smartphone dev?

Hi, I have played around with smart phone development (windows ce), and it seemed pretty straight forward using vs.net and having a nice emulator etc. How is blackberry development? Seeing as it uses JavaME I am guessing learning the SDK/syntax for a .net developer wouldn't be that hard to get going with. But what about the developme...

smartphones and buttons

The .net compact framework on smartphones doesn't know the button component, the reasons are unknown to me. My question is: how do people usually get over this problem? I have know smartphone near me to check out, only a pda phone, which of course has touch screen and supports the button component. What would you do ? ...

SmartPhone with a good SDK on Sprint PCS?

For as long as mobile phones have been running third-party applications, I've wanted to try my hand at writing some. Now that it's coming time to replace my PalmOS-powered Treo 530, I'm looking to acquire a new phone that has a robust platform for third-party development. For contractual reasons, it must work on the Spring PCS network. ...

desktop to windows mobile communication

Hi I want to make a desktop application trigger an event on a Windows Mobile 6 standard device (smartphone). How can I make the smartphone and desktop communicate? Where can I find some code examples of this? I'm using C#... To clarify: It will not be docked with USB. I would like to use WLAN. I want to trigger an event within m...

Is it possible to program for Sony Ericsson mobile phones(symbian) using Visual Studio?

This question is just out of curiosity, I own a P1i and it would be nice to play with it :) A link to some documentation would be fine :) ...

compact framework 3.5 application wont run on windows mobile 6.1

however can get compact framework 2.0 program to run. compact 3.5 is installed on phone??? ...

Web page restrictions for use on iphone / smartphones

I want to allow our main application to generate document files that can be easily read on the iphone, or other smart phones. The easiest way to do this, I think, is to create a simple HTML file and use javascript to show / hide different bits of it. For example, when the user clicks / touches "section 1", the section expands to show its...

Font and font size unit for Smartphones

Hi Which font and which font-size unit is recomended for developing web sites for smartphones? With smartphone I mean a device with a good web browser. I am not sure to go with px, em or % Thanks for sugestions and tips. regards bob ...

Smartphone Recommendations

I am looking at getting a smart-phone most likely from at&t(current provider) and I am wanting to have the freedom of being able to program small apps for it. I do not want an iPhone but am open to almost any of the others. Do you have any recommendations for which smart-phones are easily programmable or most suited to being programmed...

Use Back button to Close a Form on Windows Mobile Smartphone/Standard

In Windows Mobile PocketPC/Pro, you can specify that the Minimize button be used to Close the form instead (triggering the Closing event, etc.) by setting MinimizeBox = 'false'. On a Smartphone, the Back button is used in the same way as the X in the PocketPC form's corner, but I can't seem to find an obvious (or less obvious) feature t...

How can I display a modal dialog in my Windows Mobile app?

Hi I wanted to know how I can display a modal dialog in one of my forms in a windows mobile application. I am getting the user inputs in a form and in case a validation fails, I want to display a dialog to the user telling them so (with just an OK button). So far, the only thing related to dialogs I found in the framework was the Dialo...

Smartphone for use with the NXT

Greetings. I will be getting a new smartphone for work. It needs to work with Telus, so the iPhone, and Android-based phones are out. The available phones appear to be include a number of BlackBerries, HTC phones, Motorola phones, as well as LG, Samsung, and ZTE phones. I have a LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot, and would like a phone for w...

Accessing Cookies From Webbrowser Control

Hi There, I have a Windows mobile 6 application that contains a Webbrowser control to navigate some intranet sites. Is it possible to somehow access the know cookies that are being set by pages as they are displayed in browser control? Since the compact frame work haw no ObjectScripting method I cant figure any work around that could d...

WM5 HTML control problem with edit field navigation

My Windows Mobile app uses an HTML control in one of its views, and whenever that view displays a page with an edit field in it, once the keyboard focus reaches that control, it gets stuck. If there are links above or below the control, the up and down navigational buttons don't take you to them. Instead, they act like the left and right...

Invaluable development tools for mobile phones

In an era of smart phones becoming increasingly powerful each month, often having 300+ MHZ processors, 64+ MB of RAM and true multimedia and multi-tasking capabilities, it is also getting obvious that mobile phones can now also be used as mobile computers, sometimes even for development purposes by developers, when they may either have n...

Pocket Pc, Smart phone

I am new in Pocket PC and Smart phone. so can any one help me out regarding following queries. Which SDK used for Pocket PC and Smart Phone? Can we use web service in that application or Can we call from the Pocket PC application? and can we integrate third party application in our Pocket PC application? ...