Hi everybody, I want to capture the enter key on text for windows ce msie6.0 but there is no button for that so i cannot use default button property for the form tag itself. What else i can do to capture the Enter key? Thanks.. ...
On a windows mobile device I have a mutliline text edit control that is set to read-only and has some static text displayed during it's display lifetime. I would like to only display a vertical scrollbar when it's actually useful (i.e. the text is larger than the display). I can't easily figure out if the text is to large to display be...
I have my first Windows Mobile app ready for deployment (Windows Mobile 6). I have made my CABProject and made a .cab file that will install successfully. How can the .cab be made to delete itself after installation? Some things I read seem to indicate that this should be the default behavior. Thanks ...
We've recently updated a Windows Mobile app and I want to create a utility that will: remove the old version from the device install the .NET Compact Framework install the new app Steps 2 and 3 seem simple enough, but I don't know about 1. Is it possible? If so, how do I go about it? ...
I am new to Windows Mobile development and am running into a DLL issue. I am using Assembly.LoadFrom() to load a DLL on my handheld and it fails with the following: System.IO.IOException: File or assembly name 'MyCustom.dll', or one of its dependencies, was not found. The DLL does exist, I am doing a File.Exists() before this. Here i...
I'm writing an app for Windows Mobile (VC++) which hosts the HTMLControl. If I send it a DTM_NAVIGATE message, how can I tell whether a browser error has occurred? In htmlctrl.h, none of the NM_* notifications imply they're sent in response to a browser error. Regards, Brian ...
I want to archive the text messages on my WM phone to my PC, preferably as XML. Can I access them from a PC application, e.g. through RAPI? I have no experience in WM development, just PC, and then mainly Delphi. Please no links to commercial application unless you think that's the only possible way. Edit No-one? You guys disappoint me...
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. I wrote an application for Windows Mobile and I would like to create the installer for this application. How does it do? ...
As many of you know, in Barcelona last week at the Mobile World Congress, Microsoft presented a "beta" of Windows Mobile 6.5 which will probably be launched later on this year. I have been reading a lot of articles on the web about this congress and the new features of Windows Mobile 6.5 but nowhere have I found any indications if the ....
Hi! I'm developing an app for Windows Mobile. I would like to make zoom on a PictureBox's image. How can I do this? I think this is more complicated because I'm doing for Windows Mobile. Thank you! ...
Does anyone have recommendations on messaging for multi player games on mobile platforms? I assume SMS would be too expensive for the average player. I'm not talking about lots of real-time messages, but simply one message per player per round to all other players. Is there any available messaging that is cross platform (say, windows m...
Hi! Imagine that I have a matrix of 2x2 or 3x3 pictures and I want to make one big picture using these 4 or 9 pictures. I want to show this picture on a pictureBox. I'm developing a Windows Mobile App. How can I do this? Edit: Moved comments to question for clarification.. Normally you asing an image to a pictureBox like this pictur...
When developing a mobile application on Windows Mobile, what are some of the database choices you've made? Why did you make that choice? In particular we've got a mobile app that we're building which will have up to 360,000 records in some of the tables. We were planning to use SQLCE 3.5 but we've got a number of drawbacks when working...
We are seeing some occasional data loss with our application on Windows Mobile, and we suspect that some buffered data is not being flushed to disk when the device is suspending. We would like to manually flush data to the disk when the device is about to suspend. On Windows, we do this by catching the WM_POWERBROADCAST message, but this...
Is there any library or code samples to convert an image to text in the .net compact framework? I have seen an app on a mobile phone that you can take a picutre of a business card and it will auto fill in a contact record so I know it is possible but I was wondering how to do it. I searched google and can't seem to find anything specifi...
Hi all, I'm trying to put a notification into my compact framework 2.0 application that allows me to inform the user when they've received a new job. I've tried to use the following code with the latest community edition of SDF: try { OpenNETCF.WindowsMobile.Vibrate.Play(); Thread.Sleep(duration); OpenN...
Hi! I'm developing a puzzle game for windows mobile. The objetive is to split an image in nine parts and rearrage them to obtain the original image. These split images are put on pictureBoxes and these pictureBoxes are redistributed in a matrix of 3X3 cells. The user move this cells to arrange them in the correct position (it's a puzzl...
I have a .NET Windows Mobile 5.0 application that is used for data collection. For purposes of this question let's say it's a survey application with two screens - a survey list screen and a survey detail screen. You click on a survey in the survey list screen to display a survey detail screen with the detail information for the survey y...
I'm developing an application that needs to execute until a count down. When the handled turns off the screen, the countdown halts. How can I continue the execution when this situation happens? ...
I'm developing an application that uses a mobile device to take a photo and send it using a webservice. But after I've taken 4 photos I am getting an OutOfMemoryException in the code below. I tried calling GC.Collect() but it didn't help either. Maybe someone here could be give me an advice how to handle this problem. public static Bitm...