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• James Bannan Information / Error messages

  Hi there,   Is there a knowledgebase or something somewhere that holds all the informational or error messages that can tell me further details on the message ie, while signed into Live messenger, I have an information message that says "due to Connection problems changes you make might not be applied to other computers you use", and all my contacts appear offline, and I can't add new contacts.  I've deleted various regenerating dlls and cache.dat files etc and nothing's worked.  I've even shutdown my zonelabs firewall.  I can talk to people, but can't see their status.  I even reactivated my hotmail account for the first time in years, so I could see if my contacts were still attached to my passport, and ...Show All

• gkn293092 Smart Minimize a full screen app via code

  I have a full screen app that I'd like to smart minimize via my own button. Can this be done via code Thanks. The Form.WindowState should do the trick. Simply use "myForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized" on the click handler for your own minimize button. Enjoy, Unfortunately in .Net2 CF FormWindowState does not contain Minimized, only Maximized and Normal. Got it working now. Minimize is not supported by the Framework, but it is by PInvoke: const int SW_MINIMIZE = 6 ; [DllImport("coredll.dll")] public static extern IntPtr FindWindow( string className,string WindowsName ); [DllImport("coredll.dll&qu ...Show All

• xyzt Printing from pocket pc - PageSetupDlgW exception

  I am currently developing a winmobile 5.0 application, for the pocket pc using visual studio 2005 and C#, and am I trying to print to network printer a simple textbox. PrinterCE SDK ( www.fieldsoftware.com/ PrinterCE .htm) is too expensive ... :-( now I am trying the source code from the book NET Compact Framework Programming with C# (http://www.paulyao.com/res/code/login.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fres%2fcode%2fdefault.aspx) and the PrintDirect method which sends plain text to a PCL printer. This code imports the commdlg.dll which supports a print dialog box which displays available printer drivers and ports as defined in the registry . Trying this code in the emulator I get a NODEFAULTPRN exception , which is logical since the emulator does not ...Show All

• LouisPeter CameraCapture

  I have tried code samples of Windows mobile-CECamera, and CameraCapture for C++. But I can not execute these programs.. I think the problem is my camera is not integrated in PDA. These sample codes are really for integrated camera My device is HP IPAQ 2790, and Camera is Photosmart camera SDIO Type.(not integrated in IPAQ 2790) I have tried CECamera, CameraCapture for C# and C++. Thanks. Alex Feinman wrote: Veo SDK supports video capture to a file. How As long as my knowledge, the SDK only provides SDIOCamSnapShot function for capturing still images to JPEG file. In SDIOCamSetting, it is little bit mentioned that this camera is capable to capture video, but I cannot find the corresponding f ...Show All

• Javad Khadivi Windows Live Messenger eating all my memory

  A couple of days ago (only after a few hours working at my PC) my system began telling me I didn't have enough Virtual Memory although I have 1 GB of RAM installed. In Process Manager it showed a whopping 2,4 GB of RAM in use !!! Never had this problem before, so I started to investigate what could be the reason. Began scanning for virusses, spyware, trojans,... all with no result (tried almost every known online scanner). Then I started killing all processes one by one and then ... oops ! - after killing Windows Live Messenger It went down from 2,4 GB to only 500 MB. Anyone ran into the same problem I always try to keep my system clean, so this really puzzles me. BTW: reverting to Messenger 7.5 didn't solve the problem. Now I re-installed ...Show All

• zerovelocity Is there any memory leak tool available?

  Hello I'm currently using VLD (Visual Leak Detector) when doing mockup applications in win32. My problem is that I don't know of any tool I can use to find memory leaks for smartphone. Is there anything available Many thanks, Martin Malek Hello Sorry for not being clear from the start. I use unmanaged code and the examples in the article use .NET CF. Since it is not possible to mix unmanaged/managed code for smartphone I can't use the tools provided in the article. Is there any other way to do this Perhaps by using some C++ classes from the SDK or a tool written entirely in unmanaged code Many thanks, Martin Malek Check out this post by Daniel Moth: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2005/01/memory-problems-faq.html ...Show All

• David Joyce Storage Card File System Errors on Device Emulator

  Hi I am having trouble with the Device Emulator mapped Storage Card File System. I am running a CE 6.0 image in the Emulator. I am in particular intermittently getting failures to open files for writing with the CREATE_ALWAYS flag. Delving into the VCEFSD driver, the problem is due to the initial Find call in the VCEFSD_CreateFileW function indicating that the file exists, when it doesn't really, and later it tries to delete the file and fails because it doesn't exist. Additionally, there are 2 calls to VCEFSD_GetFileAttributesW by code in CreateFile before the VCEFSD version is called, and both these call indicate the file does indeed not exist. Any ideas I have looked at the Shared Source for the Device Emulator V1, but haven't seen anyt ...Show All

• flash.tato Copy / Move file from PDA Directory to Dekstop Directory ?

  Hello alls, how to copy / move file from pda directory to the dekstop directory for example: i want to export data from pda appication to dekstop pc application. Hello Yusuf, You can easily use remote file viewer to import/export data between mobile device and desktop PC. Thanks, Zero Dai - MSFT Please use activesync APIs to achieve the same http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa458014.aspx . -Thanks, Mohit Thanks for your response. But, how to do that i don't know Can you give me sample I want to tell my Problems : i want to move/copy file with automatically, when i do Clicking button on pocket pc application. Whan this action do, the ...Show All

• azbwilcox Embedded Visual C++ using Visual Studio 2005 running on VISTA RC1: Linker errors

  I'm using Visual Studio 2005 running on VISTA RC1 to create a simple Smart Device application. *using Embedded Visual C++(Windows CE and Platform Builder are both installed) *to access the RIL(Radio Interface Layer) of WinCE. The target device is a PPC phone (HTC with an OMAP ARM processor). I have an eVC++ source program, the RIL.h and RilClass.h headers, and Ril.lib(to import the ril functions from the ril.dll) When I 'build solution' I'm getting a ton of unresolved external symbols. I suspect that I have not sucessfully included the ril.lib into the build process, and that that is causing the unresolved externs: 'error LNK2019' and 'error LNK2001'. How do I specify that the .lib is to be used when linking my eVc++ pr ...Show All

• MaggieChan Virtuak Earth 3d install

  This may not be the place, but I can not find help anywhere for my problem. The Live.Mail group referred me here. My problem is that when I open and select the 3d map, the 3d objects are represented by a blue silhouette and never fill in the object. I went through the acceleration settings, FAQs, etc. to no avail. I am running XP Pro, IE7, 3.2 GHz P4 CPU, 1 mb ram. When I originally installed VE, I had my default browser set to Firefox 2.0. I reset my browser to IE7, uninstalled and reinstalled VE. I saved it to disk, also ran it from the site all to no avail. During the original installation, I also installed Live Local for Outlook. This seems to be OK so I left it as is. I noticed the map was taking a minute to load ( I have 768 kbps DS ...Show All

• EvilOneSD Getting file's directory

  I'm trying to get the full directory path for a file in VB .NET and have tried a variety of techniques.  My biggest problem is either a 'NULL' return or a "" return. Attempts include: 1. FileSystemInfo.FullName .... this returns a Null 2. FileInfo.Directory....returns a Null How do I get this work without it returning a null result Thank's for that last post...unfortunately I'm working in VB .Net. Maybe if my questions were better worded I wouldn't waste your time. Sorry. Hi, try this using System.IO; FileInfo File = new FileInfo (FileFullPath ); Directory = File.Directory.ToString(); thanks I'm trying to retrieve a directory path of a file. You're trying to get full directo ...Show All

• rowdy2 Polyline Craziness

  I am working on a mapping project that allows the user to draw polylines. It all seems to work when the user clicks points of the polyline. From there I save the gps coords to a database. When I then retrieve the coordinates and display the polyline it does crazy things. It initially displays correctly but when zooming in, the line sometimes disappears, or draws in incorrect locations. If it does draw in incorrect locations and you pan, the polyline constantly moves. Can anyone please help, this problem is starting to drive me crazy. I have included "some" of my code. function loadMap() { mapDiv = document.getElementById( "myMap" ); new VEMap( 'myMap' ); map.LoadMap(); map.HideDashboard(); ...Show All

• Noah Nadeau place a permanent quick launch button on the tray

  is there a way to cause to a permanent quick launch button of my application in the tray   thanks Oren. I mean to place above the today screen, where there are shortcuts to the last ten commonly used application one of my product specification is to be able to launch just by one click (as fast as it can). if it can’t be done, what is the other option maybe to add it as today screen item… If you mean toolbar notification area - it can contain icons hosted by running applications. So, if your application is not running, it cannot be represented by an icon there thanks, Oren. Why not to say from the v ...Show All

• Andreas Asterlund No add-ins on gallery.live.com

  I know this question has been asked before, but why o why is it still not possible to upload Live Messenger add-ins to the Live gallery I have posted feedback on the gallery a while ago, but nothing changed so far. I have created my own add-in and really would like to have some feedback. <shamelessPlugging> http://www.firstfloorsoftware.com/Products/LiveAddin/Default.aspx </<shamelessPlugging> Exactly my thought. +1 for Stigmata The Messenger Plus! Live contest is cool, and I am of course competing, but that is in my opinion not the main reason why the scripts are so popular. It's the support that makes them popular! In the first place those scripts have much more function ...Show All

• MikeTomkies How can I Access Contacts DataBase in Mobile with windows?

  How can I Access Contacts DataBase in Mobile with windows I want to read Names & Phone numbers from text file, and store it in the Contacts DataBase.. Example: Frank Pule;0155555555  I'm using VS 2005, C# http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=966970&SiteID=1 Thanks ...Show All