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• barkingdog Creating a new project using the Smart Device template fails !!

  Hi, I'm running VS2005 pro and Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK on an XP machine and when I try to create a New Project and select the Win32 Smart Device project template the system thinks for a while and then dumps me back at the New Project screen. It does allow me to create new projects for DLL's or Active Control but not for the MFC or Win32 Smart Devices. I've tried the same process selecting C# as the language and it works fine. In fact, in C# I can write a small test program and deploy it to the emulator and my device itself (an iPAQ) and it works. So, what could the problem be with C++ Any hints, tips or suggestions Thanks, - Paul. Hey, I fixed it.....now it works !!!!!!!  ...Show All

• Jay McKinney Large images for scrolling on device - common technqiues used.

  Hi all, our dev team have an issue where we need to handle images (of quite some size) on the device. They are actually plans of office buildings. Now after recent experiences, I know that when the CF deals with images they get converted to Bitmap objects, whose size in memory depends on the width and height of the file/image. Now our application is going to need to be able to load a whole floor/plan and then the user should be able to drag with the pen on the screen so that they can navigate up, down, left, and right on the plan. (Obviously the plan will be bigger than the display screen allows) What I want to know is what is/are the best techniques for handling these large images (i.e., how does TomTom get to work with large map images ...Show All

• davros51 composite ui application block

  In order to make CAB thread safe, is this handled using dependency injection, singleton with services, or by some other methods I need someone to give me some info on this, or point me in the right direction. The Composite UI Application Block stuff is owned by the PAG group. Not sure if they have a newsgroup or forum. The only other post I found about CAB is here . ...Show All

• Iamscott 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 Can you quantify what's meant by "a lot of traffic" (i.e. daily use of address resolution, maps, routes, etc.) Is this still evolving Thanks, Jeff 5,000 transactions isn't very many. Especially if 1 transaction is 8 tiles - a couple of hundred page views a day with a bit of scrolling around would soon use all that up. No such limitation on Google maps (only that it must be available for free to consumers). Does anybody fr ...Show All

• Paul Rob Error while deploying to device

  Hi, I am getting the following error while I am trying to deploying my application. what may be the solution for this. "Unable to start Program '%CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\TestApp\TestApp.exe'. Unable to load the CLR. the target device doesn't have a compatible version of the CLR installed for the application you are attempting to debug. Verify That your device supports the appropriate CLR version and has that CLR installed. some devices do not support automatic CLR upgrade." hope you can help me. Thanks in advance Hi Ilya Tumanov Thank You very much for you response. As you installed I have installed VS2 Sp1. But the same erro ...Show All

• Roberto Gr Robot Invaders Contest - Who did you vote for?

  The robot invaders contest ( www.robotinvaders.com ) is closed for new entries, so all bots are in. A total of 51. With $40.000 in prizes, everybody of course wants to win. But which bot do you think will make a good chance The prizes: Grand prize (1): AlienwareR MJ-12 7550 Workstation First Prize (1): BoseR LifestyleR 48 DVD Home Entertainment System Second prize (5): AlienwareR Sentia M3200 System Third prize (10): GarminR nuvi 360 User's choice: 80 GB USB Portable Drive / DX1 Input System / LED Binary Watch The bot with the most votes on September 15th gets the user's choice award. It looks like that would be " samplebot@hotmail.com " with a total of 412855 votes! Amazing. Last time I talked to that bot though it could ...Show All

• Jerry West generate a beep in CF 2.0 VS2005 C#

  how can I generate a beep in CF 2.0 using C# Thanks so what aliase codes should i use for a beep http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=280640&SiteID=1 I think I kinda get it how the process work to play a sound. I got this codes from VS2005 help. but when i passed my stream as a parameter a the button level, it doesn't find it. how do i get the right directory of the sounds sample public class Sound { [DllImport("CoreDll.DLL", EntryPoint = "PlaySound", SetLastError = true)] private extern static int WCE_PlaySoundBytes(byte[] szSound, IntPtr hMod, int flags); private byte[] m_soundBytes; private enum Fla ...Show All

• Mix from Latvia Remove Webbrowser Control

  I'm developing a CF 2.0 device application. After the user interacts with the app for a bit, I add a webbrowser control to the UI (thanks to a response in another thread) and navigate to a website. After the user is done there, I intend that a menu key event would remove browser and return the user to my app. After trying to remove the webbrowser control Controls.Remove(webBrowser1); The app hangs with a dead browser still in the display. I verified the statement is hit with a debug breakpoint. What is the correct technique for removing the browser control and restoring the app interface Thanks, Best way probably would be not to add/remove the control, but show and hide it instead. Hide/s ...Show All

• Steve - B3 WM 5.0 Pocket PC Emulator Device, Windows CE Remote Process Viewer Hangs pc

  I am using Windows Mobile 5.0 and building a CF 2.0 SDK application in VS 2005. When I run the application and/or the Windows CE Remote Process viewer to test the emulation device using the WM 5.0 Pocket PC VGA emulator or any other WM 5.0 emulator the pc hangs and i have to reboot my pc.  I can't see anything wrong with the installs of WM 5.0.  Why would my pc lock-up when I test the device emulator using Windows CE Remote Process viewer Should i not get an error first Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.   Barry, Here is what the debugger shows prior to the Remote Process Viewer hanging the pc up when connecting to the WM5 Pocket PC VGA Emulator. ModLoad: 01490000 0149e000 C:\Program ...Show All

• Rafael Leonhardt Behavior of the emulator

  Hi, I haven't too much clear the behavior of the emulator in the next situation: If i have my application running and press the home, back, or hang up keys... What does the emulator Minimizes the application, closes it, leaves it in the background. So, I can handle device events in this situation How can I return to my application without restart the debugging Thanks in advance, Alvaro Penarrubia The emulator behavior is consistent with the behavior of a device. Your application should be aware of these buttons if you want to take advantage of this. Please see this article for more details on these buttons http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/win_ce/html/pwc_TheBackButtonandOtherInt ...Show All

• Will Sullivan The oncontextmenu event isnt fired when im in 3d mode

  The oncontextmenu event isnt fired when im in 3d mode. helphelphelp... The issue is it you need set the background of an iframe to transparent. From Romania - You have to resolve 2 (two) things: First, in the main page, where you have the <iframe> tag, add this simple attribute: allowtransparency="true" Example: <iframe name="info" src="main.html" width="561" height="479" scrolling="auto" align="top" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" allowtransparency="true"> // some code for browsers who are not able to view the <iframe> tag </iframe> Second, you have to put the transparency ...Show All

• Han Qiao Has msn search addressed these issues?

  1. While I'm using google in one country, the ads shown is from U.S. If I'm looking for a product locally, that ads has no relevance to me. For the point of view of technology, this will be hard to address because it will require a huge amount of computer processing to filter this locally unless search engine company will maintain server per country and analyze the same per country. 2. There is still a gap in the user's experience between desktop interface and web interface. The availability of Ajax tries to close the gap but still not enough to bring the same user's experience. On the other hand, Desktop Program can now be updated online. Meaning the advantages of Web over desktop in terms of updated information is close ...Show All

• widd Problem debugging CE5 app with VS2005 (no activesync)

  Hello all,  After much searching I have been able to get the deploy feature running with my c++ App from Vs2005 to my CE 5 device.  Unfortunately, I am unable to debug.  I get a "Unable to start debugging" error message from Visual Studio and not much else. The exe makes it to the device and I can run the exe from the device.  I just can't debug it.  I still have eVC++4 on my machine so I tried that and I am able to debug the same application using  eVC++4.  The app is just a simple dialog based windows app created by the wizard.   I have done tons of searching on the net and the closest thing I came to a solution was an issue with certificates for the debugger on VS2005.  Has anyone els ...Show All

• boulderbum how to make the list box control alignment to right

  Hi, i'm developing a CF 1.0 application, and i'm using other RTL languages, and i want to display a listbox items right aligned, but i didn't find any property or other way to do this... if any one got ideas please reply me .. thanks, Ahmed Waly Hi Mrs. Dina, Thanks for your reply, but in the post they were talking about arabizing at general, Well, I’m currently deploying the applications to my i-mate device and it supports Arabic, and displays it very well, but the listbox and listview controls are still displaying items left aligned, even when changing the regional settings of the device to the Arabic language! By the way, i admire your work since i attended some of MS seminars and you were the ...Show All

• JaceKiwi favorites api

  Is there a Web Service API available to retrieve Windows Live Favorites i expect it too ...Show All