windows-mobile

Extended Camera control on Windows Mobile

Hi, I know how to capture a camera snaphot on Windows Mobile 5.0/6 using SHCameraCapture. But is there something more extensive that allows me much finer control? Namely to get available zoom levels and to set the zoom level programmatically, also e.g. different ISO modes / lightsensitivity and setting of macro mode if available. (I.e. ...

Code profiling / performance analysis tools for Windows CE/Mobile

What tools do you know, other than those in Visual Studio, to analyze performance bottlenecks in a Windows CE/Mobile application? I'm looking for something like AQTime for CE/Mobile, to profile C/C++ applications compiled to native code. ...

Howto: Taking photos in windows mobile without CameraCaptureDialog?

I want to create a windows mobile app (windows mobile 5.0 and above, using CompactFramework [in SharpDevelop]) to capture photos automatically, without user involvement (like it would be with CameraCaptureDialog). After going through google searches I found out a solution that should work (http://blogs.msdn.com/marcpe/archive/2006/03/03/...

Can the Windows Mobile 6 SDK be used to develop programs for older versions of Windows Mobile?

I'd like to develop a few applications for a device I own which has Windows Mobile 2003 on it, but I don't care to hunt down a copy of Visual Studio 2003 to do so. I'd like to know if the Mobile 6 SDK can be used for this purpose. There's no upgrade path to newer versions of Windows Mobile for this device, and I doubt I'll be getting an...

Sqlite Optimization: Read only scenario

I use SQLite for a number of application on the desktop and PDA. Most operations are readonly, as SQLite functions as a data store for reference material in my applications. Basically, I am looking for suggestions on improving performance in a scenario where you know the access to the data is only read-only. Maybe via various pragma se...

Deploying an application to Windows Mobile Pocket PC

Iv been encountering problems with disk space when deploying my app to a pocket pc emulator. So what Iv done is set up a shared directory on my pc to simulate a SD card, Iv copied the program there manually and then run it from the emulator, with this approach I still need to do the visual studio deployment as well so that so that the ....

Windows Mobile 6 AT commands

I'm trying to get CellID using AT commands, but I dont get any response from the modem, mine code looks like below, I send AT+CCED command, but never get any response. HANDLE hCom; char * xpos; char rsltstr[5]; DWORD returnValue; DWORD LAC; DWORD CellId; int bufpos; DCB dcb; COMMTIMEOUTS to; DWORD nWritten; DWORD event; DWORD nRead; cha...

Is it safe to open the same .sdf database file from two WinMo different applications?

I have two Windows Mobile 6.1 applications that use the same MS SQL Server Mobile database. They might select and update data in the database at the same time. The database is kept in one .sdf file. I don't know how the MS SQL mobile version works. The application loads following sql libraries: sqlceoledb30.dll, SQLCEER30EN.DLL, sqlces...

What's the best way for a .NET Compact Framework executable to delete itself?

I'd like my .NET Compact Framework app to delete itself after it finishes executing. What's the best way to do this? On a Windows machine it's possible to do this using a .bat file, but that's not an option on mobile devices. ...

Override System Draw on WM6+

Im developing a "desktop" for WM6+ and i was wondering if i can override the draw that WM does when it starts the OS (like the start menu, softkey bar, and background) basically have my program draw the today screen instead of windows. My program will of course integrate everything that the original "screen" integrated. C++ ...

How do I test a website design on a mobile device?

Hi friends, I have designed my site with a 900 x 600 fixed background image. On the computer it looks fine. How will it look on a PDA device? Will I have to design it separately for PDA? How should check whether my site can be browsed effectively from mobile phone? What should I do? ...

GPRS Information - Mobile

Hi! I have almost the worst spec in the world. An application that exists and used to work. My aim is to recreate this app and make it work. It's a very simple util that just displays the following information to screen: ARFCN - Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number LAC - Location Area Code of the cell (unique in PLMN) RAC - Rout...

Build automation: MSBuild vs. Windows Mobile SDK

Hello, I'm trying to automate the build of the project I'm working on. My ultimate goal is to eventually have a continuous integration server and so far everything was great. In order to find out what is the minimal setup I can have for my project, I started configuring a freshly installed system and stumbled with the requirement to hav...

How to determine the orientation of the screen in C# for mobile devices?

Hi, How can I know in a C#-Application, in which direction the screen of the mobile device is orientated? (i.e. horizontal or vertical). ...

Are there any good programming environments/IDEs for Windows Mobile devices?

By this, I don't mean PC-based development environments (like Visual Studio) for developing and deploying Windows Mobile applications. Rather, I mean an IDE that runs on Windows Mobile devices and lets you write and test code there. ...

Full text search on a mobile device?

We'll soon be embarking on the development of a new mobile application. This particular app will be used for heavy searching of text based fields. Any suggestions from the group at large for what sort of database engine is best suited to allowing these types of searches on a mobile platform? Specifics include Windows Mobile 6 and we'll ...

Programmatically navigating to the Windows Mobile home screen

We have an application that downloads some files in the background. Our application pops up when an Internet connection is made, and after prompting the user to accept the downloads, we'd like to switch back to the home screen while we do our stuff. We can't work out how to do to this. We can emulate pressing "back" a few times, which s...

C++ class to read INI files on windows mobile

Does anyone know a good C++ class to read (and possibly also write) INI files on Windows Mobile? Ideally this class sould work on Windows mobile 2003, 5 and 6 and be public domain but other alternatives may be interesting. ...

Bring Windows Mobile 6 forms into the front

I have problems with bringing a windows mobile 6 form to the front. I tried things like this already Form1 testForm = new Form1(); testForm.Show(); testForm.BringToFront(); testForm.Focus(); But it's always behind the form that includes that code. The only things that have worked for me are testForm.TopMost = true; or Hide(); the o...

Making a Windows Mobile device emulate a Bluetooth HID device

I'm looking for a way to connect a Windows Mobile device to a PC via Bluetooth and have it show up on the PC as a HID device (i.e. Keyboard or Mouse). I imagine this would mostly be a matter of modifying the available Bluetooth profiles on the Windows Mobile device so that it exposes a Bluetooth HID interface... Is that even possible? ...