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• ADurkin Commercial Control - can we use v3 with what/where turned on?

  Dear Microsoft, The v1 Customer control isn't so great. As an alternate to v1 Commercial, can we use v3 with the what/where turned on It produces the same results (i.e. ad based model) and would encourage a higher level of adoption - as it's far easier to use than v1. Thanks, Jeff There is a built in tile caching that occurs, or so I was told. My manager and I had a discussion about how quickly we would go through transactions, and through the chain of communication, he found out that the tiles do automatically cache locally. This means that return users when first loading your map, assuming you bring up some default view, will not incur more transactions. The pricing model I heard didn't sound too horrible from the persp ...Show All

• KarlShare redirect events to the mapcontrol

  Hi, ive just put a crosshair on the map center(a simple <img>), the problem that arises is, that the mouse events are not redirected to the mapcontrol while the mouse cursor is above the crosshair. Does anybody got a clue, how to redirect the mouse events directly to the mapcontrol Thats great Jeff. Any way i can convince you to add your bit of code to the wiki when your done http://www.viavirtualearth.com/wiki Or at least post it here and i'll add it I'm sure it would help many people out. And in turn hopefully you will get something back one day John. I have no idea Jeff but the guys here keep asking for exactly that - an indicator that shows the center of the map. The reason was so when the move t ...Show All

• David Bridgestone How to use Serial Ports !

  Hello, I don't know using which component to control serial port on Device. The OS runing on device is WindowsCE 4.2 and .NET compact frame work 1.1. I added reference System.IO but not found class SerialPorts in this package. Can you help me solve this problem Thanks for your help. Steven UK. Hi Steven Windows CE 4.2 support was added with .NET CF 2.0 SP1. No, you cannot use VB.NET 2003 - you'll have to use VB.NET 2005. Find some more infos on serial port with .NET 1.0 here: Serial Communication with the .NET Compact Framework Michael Dear Ilya Tumanov, Can I upgrade Netcf 1.0 to Netcf 2.0 on WindowsCE 4.2 It work OK After upgrade to NETCF 2.0, can I using VB.NET 2003 wr ...Show All

• AkhilJ Can’t login with gmail mail.

  Hi, im having trouble signing in with my new gmail account using live msn. It only happens in my home computer, it keeps on trying to load the contact list, but it never ends, so it doesnt show me any error message. I tried it in other pc, and it works perfectly. Could you tell me what i have to do to fix this problem It works perfect with my old hotmail account. Tnx in advance Your question would be better answered here http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger&cat=en_us_0f43cf19-5af1-4912-9a55-f5ff1f9fd904&lang=en&cr=us ...Show All

• Matthew Bailey Web service is very slow in device

  Hi, We have Window CE application in Device which sends some datas and signature (in byte format) to the server machine. Currently we are using web service to transfer the datas from the device to server machine using GPRS connection. It is very very slow and even sometime we get error while acessing the Web service. Is any other way to updated the datas in the server instead of using web service or any other options. Device Details : BlueBird BIP 3010. OS: Windows CE 4.2 Server Details: IIS 5.1 SQL Server 2000. I trying to transfer only 5 KB datas to the server... it is take 3 minutes.... GPRS is pretty slow and usually is subject to bandwidth availability. Is it faster, say, over Ethernet If yes, you ...Show All

• kevinzx Humongous Javascript Api File.

  Hi, I am using v4 of the virtual earth control. But each time I open the page to view the map, it takes an age to load. I've used fiddler to detect the file sizes, and it seems the main file with the core script in it is 436,179 bytes, which seems huge. http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/v4/mapcontrol.js -- 168 http://maps.live.com/veapi.ashx v=1.3.1115150037.31 -- 436,179 Also the files are set to not cache, which means the files have to be downloaded each time! I checked the files for maps.local.live.com and it does not download one big file, but instead multiple small files. Ive summed the bytes for the whole page, which comes to about 582,228, but the actual mapping components only seem to add up to ~178,000 bytes, which ...Show All

• WXS123 How to Implement Button Click

  Hi ,            Can anyone knows how to implement single button click event in compact framework and also how to examine whether the user made a single click or not my issue is like this private void btn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { if(singleclick) { do this.. } if(doubleclick) { do this.... } } Thanks Button does not expose a double-click property. You can simulate one by keeping track of the time you receive the click notification. If the second one comes in within your double-click-defined threshold, then you have a double-click. If it comes in outside your threshold, you don't. can u send me a sam ...Show All

• jaimlin how to add toolbar in menu created by SHCreateMenuBar

  Hi, I am trying to add Toolbar beside the menu created by SHCreateMenuBar in ECV++ 4.0, how do I do I can't get the pictures in the bar! Thanks in advance Hi partho, Can u plz tell me how to integrate this one with my VS2005 application. Actually I need to add a tool bar to my form (VS2005 form). I hope you can help me. Thanks in Advance, Hi – here is a sample that does the following: 1.        A main window, using CWindowImpl 2.        A menu bar with couple of menu items 3.        A tool bar with 4 picture buttons 4.      & ...Show All

• OmidQRose Mega Cluster logic

  Dr Neil first mentioned this on the via virtual earth site recently and now I need to use them. Just though I would put my ideas out here and see what you all think and can add. To be clear this is a concept and I’m looking for ideas / help before I build it. Basically the issue is you have X number of points to put on the map where X is very large. 1. If you go and add them all it is going to slow down to a crawl. 2. If you have points at a close proximity at certain zoom levels they are going to sit on top of each other and be unhoverable. The solution is to have a mega cluster that provides information about the points it represents. Firstly we need to look at how we calculate what po ...Show All

• James Minns Messenger ClientID/ClientCode

  I'm using a third party component to integrate MSN Messenger functions into one of my own applications, and this component makes reference to a ClientID/ClientCode which at presents emulates the data sent by MSN Messenger itself when signing on to the MSN Network. Is there anywhere where I can get an 'official' client id/code instead of using the emulated one Thanks in advance. Stuart.. If that's the case, why would MS be intimating that a 3rd party should write MSN messenger support for Vista MCE... Stuart Massey wrote: I'm using a third party component to integrate MSN Messenger functions into one of my own applications, and this component makes refe ...Show All

• Mephisto187 Cannot connect errors...

  Hello, I am trying to get the Device Emulator Preview setup so that I can test some of the new Exchange Mobile settings on one of the PocketPC emulator images. I was able to install the Device Emulator Preview program and extract the PocketPC and SmartPhone images. I do not have Visual Studio installed on my machine. I am able to launch the Pocket PC image with Windows Mobile 5, but I am unable to get the emulated device to connect to my network. I receive an error that I cannot connect with current connections settings. On the emulator properties network tab, I have the Enable NE2000 PCMCIA network adapter and bind to checkbox checked and connected network adapter is listed in the box below, but it is grayed out. I have tried selectin ...Show All

• williamtcurtis Windows Media Player and Messenger

  Where do I find the plug-in for Windows Media Player that lets me show contacts what music I'm listening to on Windows Live Messenger Yes, I checked. I do not seem to have it at all. I don't have the plug-in. Where do I get it Strange, it should be there. Anyway, you can check this site with the same plug-in as the original one is not working for you. I didn't tested it and I'm not saying that this will work 100% as I use only Microsoft Genuine Software and don't like 3-rd party's plug-ins. however, if it will work fine for you, tell me so I know it too. Regards, Vitalie cria asa piriquita treme treme atabaca Same problem here. This ...Show All

• ChitownDotNet Shared Folder Location!

  following ahmedilyas 's terrible answer to my question that he misread or didnt even bother to read, i am asking this one more time quot from me: hi, does anyone know how to change the directory of the shared folder.. it isnt in the tools/options/sharing folders or anywhere else or on the windows live mail troubleshooting.. I looked into my registry in windows/msnmessenger and windows/windows live but couldnt find any relevent registries with a directory.. any help would be greatly appreciated.. i am NOT talking about the recieved files folder. Not supported. But post to the news group instead of the dev forums and there may be more people there with possible answers. Try th ...Show All

• 345 Device emulator

  Hi, I'm just started on a new PDA project and I don't have a device to test it on. So I'm using the Device emulator instead. My problem is that when I close the emulator and run the "save state" option, it saves the file to "application data" under "my documents and settings / profile name / application data". Are there any way to change this, so that it saves it in program files or another place instead Sorry, but no. There is no way to redirect the .dess path to a different place. Why would you like to do this We might be able to make the path reconfigurable in a future DeviceEmulator release. Thanks, Barry ...Show All

• DavidThi808 API Phone() method

  Hi there, I am writing a program in C++ which uses the Messenger API. I would like to use the Phone() method in order to make a call to a user-specified string of numbers. A simplified version of what I'm trying to do is shown below: CODE IMessenger *pIMessenger = NULL; IMessengerContacts *pIMessengerContacts = NULL; IMessenger *pIMessenger = NULL; IMessengerWindow *pIMessengerWindow = NULL; VARIANT vSIName = NULL; // ... SNIP: some initialisation to get IMessenger object ... // // get contacts list pIMessenger->get_MyContacts((IDispatch**)&pIMessengerContacts); // get first contact pIMessengerContacts->Item(0,(IDispatch**)&pIMessengerContact); // get contact's email pIMessengerContact->get_Property(MCONTACTPROP_EMAIL,&a ...Show All