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• LAE2 Convert bmp into gif using DOt NEt 2003

  Dear all, I'm using .Net 2003 bcoz my device os is CE 4.2. I want to Convert bmp file into Gif file in device. I know this is possible in .net 2005. but is this is possible in .net 2003 --- Thanks and Regards, It is possible, sort of... You see, NETCF V1 can't save images in any format, so you'd have to load bitmap and save it yourself in whatever format you want pixel by pixel. Knowledge of GIF format is required, but it’s easy to find. Thanks Ilya, I'm using one Signature Control, it is giving output as bmp image file. I want to Convert bmp to gif. How it is possible   I’ve already answered that - load bitmap into Bitmap class and save it as gif pixel by pixel. ...Show All

• Sicundercover Custom Control doesn't invalidate original drawing area when resized

  Hello, I'm having a problem anchoring and resizing custom controls on Windows CE 5.0. For testing purposes I created a simple custom control that overrides OnPaint and draws a border. The issue is that when I resize the control, either programmatically or by using anchoring, the original region of the control isn't updated. If the control is docked, the entire drawing region updates correctly. Does anyone know why this is happening I'm using CF 2.0 SP1. Chris You might want to post a snippet of your code. In general what you are trying to do, works Below is the code for a very simple custom control called "MyControl". I left out the designer code since the only lines I added are in OnPai ...Show All

• MustangCobra Home screen plugin for smart phone

  I want's to make a smart phone home screen plugin in which my application[which is a C# application] shortcut icon appear on the home screen. I have make a today screen pulgin for this purpose for pocket pc.But I think home screen behavior is little bit different. In pocket PC I add the registry entries in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items\.... But Like Pocket PC I can't find the registry entry for Home. What I want's is the home screen extension that if user change any of there home screen this link should remain same on each screen Thanks oysts Good Point "One important thing will be the uninstall procedure... You will then have to delete all references to your plugin in all xml files" I never thought about it. ...Show All

• Ilde What happened to the robot gallery???

  Where did all of our entries go I wondered why I only was getting 10 hits a day. https://www.robotinvaders.com/main/Gallery.aspx Strange, I hope they let us know soon. What's weird is that the rules state that we are suppose to host our bots to November 15. Without the gallery though new people will not even know they exist. :) Thanks for your post. I wish I knew.... There are other threads about this on the forums here, but no usefull answers yet... Actually, the rules state that "The resulting Robot application which is developed using the SDK must be hosted by the Participant and be available upon entry and without subsequent modification for the duration of the Contest Term and t ...Show All

• Jkumar How to build a CE 6.0 Emulator image for VS2005?

  Hello I have been trying to build a custom Windows CE 6.0 emulator image & SDK that will work with VS2005, just like the emulators that ship with VS2005 work. I have been able to connect to an image running in platform builder by following the steps in the Windows Embedded CE 6.0Writing MFC/Native Applications Virtual Lab, but have been unable to get a standalone image booting and connected. I removed KITL so the device boots, but have been unable to get VS2005 to connect to the emulator image using either TCP or DMA. I wrote a little app to startup the conmanclient2 and cmaccept applications, so these utilities are running Just wondering if anybody has tried to build an image like this, or if they have any ideas what to do to get this ...Show All

• Steph74 localization settings and .net compact framework 1

  Hi, I am having some trouble finding documentation on localization setting in the compact framework. Any help would be much appreciated. The application we are building ustilizes the Globalization.CultureInfo class to handle localized resources. We also use a ResourceManager to retrieve the text strings from a .resources file that is associated with a particular culture. Our default culture is english. we create our resmgr like this s_oResmgr = System.Resources.ResourceManager.CreateFileBasedResourceManager("mXForms",sPath, null ); then depending on the files we are tring to process (has a culture id tag), we set the culture info like this s_ci = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(sCulture); then we retr ...Show All

• traimo Intercepting SMS messages and Creating a Notification

  I'm trying to intercept a message, do some analysis on it, provide a custom notification, and save it to the inbox. I'm using InTheHand, the Microsoft.WindowsMobile managed classes, and OpenNETCF libraries at my disposal. A couple of questions: 1) The first question is with regards to the MessageInterceptor class. After intercepting a message, I can't find any way to pass it thru to the SMS account's inbox. The Accounts.SmsAccount.Inbox doesn't give me any methods to save a SMS message. The only way for it to go to the regular sms inbox is to use "Notify" instead of "NotifyAndDelete" for the MessageAction. But this will give me two notifications - the original and the custom one I'm popping up, instead of ju ...Show All

• DataConversions How to retrieve IMEI or UUID of a Pocket PC device using VB .NET (Windows Mobile 2003 or later)

  Dear gurus, I would appreciate if you couls share with me a piece of VB code that retrieves the IMEI or UUID of a Pocket PC device. Regards, E.T. Hi, Add a module to your project and name it as you like, then copy the following code into it: Imports System Imports System.Collections Imports System.ComponentModel Imports System.Diagnostics Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Imports System.Text Module Module1 Declare Function KernelIoControl Lib "CoreDll.dll" ( ByVal dwIoControlCode As Int32, ByVal lpInBuf As IntPtr, ByVal nInBufSize As Int32, ByVal lpOutBuf() As Byte , ByVal nOutBufSize As Int32, ByRef lpBytesRet ...Show All

• monteo Displaying images using IImage - SRC rectangle ?

  Like many people who have been using the imgdecmp method to load jpg and gif images in previous OS versions, I'm now migrating to use IImage. I have my code working calling CreateImageFromFile() and then Draw() using NULL as the source parameter. I then get the entire image displayed in the destination rectangle that I specify. What I havent been able to do is to specify a source rectangle so that I can display only part of the image. Basically I want to be able to pass in : srcX srcY srcWX srcWY dstX dstY dstWX dstWY The API description of Draw() says that the source rectangle is expressed in 0.01mm units. So I have tried to do: pImage->GetImageInfo(&imgInfo); SetRect(&src, (int)(srcX / imgInfo.Xdpi * 254.0), (int) ...Show All

• jwize Map events not firing in Firefox 2

  I just upgraded to Firefox 2. Event though this is still a release candidate ( i know ), the map events are not firing on my app. The events in question are "oncontextmenu" and "onchangeview". These are the ones i use at the moment and so i don't know bout the other events. Will Firefox 2 be supported in the near future A lot of people are already switching, and I have to know what to expect (Question for the VE Team) Thank you. Thanks much, Marc. Your fix solved the exception I was getting on the veMap.LoadMap function. However, I still can't get the map to actually load in Firefox version 2. In the status bar, I see a series of messages to the effect "Transferrin ...Show All

• chris townsend How to integrate cradle scenario with ActiveSync on PPC and on Destop pc

  Hi i Ilya Tumanov I wanted to use OCS for syncing data between ppc DB and desktop pc DB. OCS is built to work, if both the database on the desktop pc. I wanted to use client database on pocket pc (right now testing on emulator), so user can connect pda to desktop pc and sync data to the server db. Although I connect to emulator thorugh ActiveSync, database path on emulator not recognised by OCS, because no support from OCS. so, I should use some connectivity tech. (like RAPI). Please suggest me the best way to get it done. I would appreciate your help. Thanks, Your question seams to be answerd here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1187971&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• tochaitüs Making something like Msn messenger?

  Hi, Im trying to make a program that is like msn messenger, but I dont understand that much. I read http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=620650&SiteId=1 But didnt understand, so i Tried copy the code and paste in Visual basic, but I got errors like: MessengerClient is not declared IncomingMessage is not declared outcomingMessage is not declared and more errors, can anyone help me What Where is the addins I cant find them you should check out the docs on http://dev.live.com on addins and that should help you. But you probably just need to add the reference to the managed dll. ...Show All

• billb59 Slow Tab Control

  I have a tab control with 8 pages each with a good amount of labels, textboxes, and comboboxes. When I create the form that contains this tab control, it takes several seconds to load. I'm a novice when it comes to programming but is any suggestions for the UI design that will speed up the load time I know that PPC is limited in resources and I was reading an article that says that Tab control in the Compact Framework isn't very good. Even when I take out all but 1 page, the form still takes 2 seconds to load. Thanks for any help. Thank you so much. I will give it try and see if it is faster with a little bit of threading, you could present the initial tab and a ...Show All

• MattFletcher MAPI

  With a Imapifolder, how can i access each message and get its content Thanks Here is some sample code that should help you to get started: HRESULT SearchMessagesInFolder(IMAPIFolder* pmfParent) { IMAPITable* pmtContent; SRowSet* psrsMessages; SRow* psrMessage; ULONG i; HRESULT hr; ULONG rgulContentPropTags[] = { 5, PR_ENTRYID, PR_PARENT_ENTRYID, PR_SUBJECT, PR_SENDER_EMAIL_ADDRESS, PR_MESSAGE_CLASS }; hr = E_FAIL; pmtContent = NULL; if (pmfParent) { // Get the ta ...Show All

• rxg Contacts Control in Dutch?

  I saw the contacts control is available in french now, that's great!! Would there be any chance for a Dutch version I'd like to see that, there are a lot of Dutch Messenger users so... I am even willing to translate it if you like Thanks! Haha you should indeed read your own homepage before replying . I saw the post on the site so I decided to ask. I understand the point about volunteers that are translating. Btw, I know there were a lot of Dutch people on TechEd, a couple of my friends did lunch with you (guess who ) and I would have been there too if I wouldn't have more important things to do... Danny Thorpe MSFT wrote: Well, Fr ...Show All