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• Speeding Target sketch(on a transparent image )

  HI , Can anyone teach me how to create a transparent image in a picturebox. so that by placing this transparent image on top of another  picturebox (with image inside) , so that i can sketch on this transparent image i m using VB 2005 thanks. The window transparency is not supported on OS level. You can only manually draw the transparent image in the OnPaint event. oh i c... thanks for your reply ... ...Show All

• Lars Brange Questions on using RIL on Smartphones

  Hello, I am new to developing on the Windows Mobile platform and have just started writing an app for Smartphones running Windows Mobile 5.0. My first task is to get the cell tower ID that the phone is currently registered to. I searched MSDN and other discussion forums and found that I can use the RIL functions to get this information. My first confusion was wether RIL was even supported on Windows Mobile 5.0 since MSDN includes RIL and Cellcore under 'Windows CE Embedded 6.0'. However, judging by some messages on other forums, RIL does seem to be available on Mobile 5.0. So far, so good. I tried to write a simple app using RIL functions but couldn't build it. I can't find any RIL-related files in my SDK install. After some more searchi ...Show All

• Torbjorn Stop Smartphone Display timeout

  Hi. I am using VS2005/VB.Net and CF2 to write an application for Windows Mobile 5 Smartphones. At a point within my application I need to stop the device from timing-out and returning to the Home screen and/or turning off the display. Within a timer (firing every 5 seconds) I P/Invoke SHIdleTimerReset to stop the device returning to the Home screen. This works fine. The device no longer times out and returns to the Home screen. However, my test device (i-Mate SP5 with latest available ROM) still turns off the display after the timeout set on the device in Settings - Power Management - Display time out. To stop the display from timing out, I can P/Invoke SetPowerRequirement on BKL1: with a setting of D0. This als ...Show All

• Tim Mostad Plug-in code issue with CF 2.0

  I'm trying load a plug-in and I'm using CF 2.0 The path is: C:\NewIntel\MCU\Plugin1\bin\Debug Interfaces.dll which does load Interfaces.dll but not Plugin1.dll which is in the same path for the Storage Card running the emulator. Look at FindPlugins function for the code that does Assembly.LoadFrom("Plugin1.dll"). This code works fine for for the Desktop framework 2.0. What can I do to fix it Error... System.IO.IOException was unhandled Message="File or assembly name 'Plugin1.dll', or one of its dependencies, was not found." StackTrace: at System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom() at PluginServices.FindPlugins() at WCEMCU.frmMCU.frmMCU_Load() at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad() at System.Windows.Forms. ...Show All

• rs12345 New Birdseye-view functionality and Minimap

  Well, i just noticed, the local.live site got some nice new features, the Birdseye-view without scrolling restrictions, and the new minimap. for the new birdseye-view, i think its a feature that must be implemented by the api, is it available somehow Would be nice to have the minimap implemented in the v4 dashboard, but i think i can do it myself. To no surprise, this site is ripping off maps.live.com, and not their own developed control. Found this piece of code on their page document.write("<script type='text/javascript' src='http://maps.live.com/veapi.ashx v=1.3.1115150037.31'></script>"); I'd like to know too, although it seemed these new features just got rolled out over the new ye ...Show All

• peg1820 Good Book

  Can anyone suggest a good book to buy to help me develop windows mobile applications I am new to this. Also which programming language is best for mobile applications Which language is best Depends on what you're trying to do. Native C++ is the most powerful, but also the most difficult to learn and use. Any managed .NET language is relatively easy -- the same as regular .NET languages, but only supporting a subset of functions -- but doesn't (yet) give you full access to the capabilities of the device. That said, C# or VB.NET are probably fine to get started -- 80% or more of what you might be looking to do, you can probably do in .NET languages. As you get into more complex operations -- TAPI stu ...Show All

• Eric Kinateder How to hide start menu?

  Hi I need to prevent user acces to system (running another application and system). I can remove minimize box, but system menu is still visible and user can do anything. Can I hide start menu or have you some else ideas how to do it (PDA WIN CE .NET 4.2) thanks Palo. make the form fully fullscreen, and have a timer to close any other apps but your own 1. Make the app. full screen 2. Remove control box and minimize/maximize buttons 3. Hide/show the task bar with this code: private const int SW_HIDE = 0x00 ; private const int SW_SHOW = 0x0001 ; [DllImport( "coredll.dll" , CharSet=CharSet.Auto)] private static extern IntPtr FindWindow( string lpClassName, strin ...Show All

• fscarpa58 Access combobox.selectedindex in code

  I am trying to write a sub to set combobox.selected index to 0 I have tried: Dim ctl as Control For each ctl in me.Controls if TypeOf(ctl) is ComboBox then ctl.selectedindex = 0 endif Next I've searched the combobox in help, but cannot find the answer. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Dennis Lackey If I understand you correctly... once you’ve passed your if statement you know the type of the control, you now just want to access it like a ComboBox and not a control so that you can set the SelectedIndex property... if that is the case, you just need to do a little type casting: The long way: Dim cb As ComboBox cb = CType (ctl, ComboB ...Show All

• Karthick Sukumaran Messenger Live Team Please Help! Error - "Message could not be delivered"

  I need to submit a ticket to the Microsoft Messenger Team.  For some reason the majority of the bots out there are unable to connect to the Microsoft Network. The following message is displayed to the user: The following message could not be delivered to all recipients: It seems that on rare occasions people are able to get through.  This problem started surfacing around the second week in November. Any help in resolving this problem is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.   Isaac Encouragebot v1.0 EncourageBot@hotmail.com   Thanks Issac for starting this thread. My bots have been having the same problem too. Please help!!!!! New attempt but results w ...Show All

• Pawel J Pushpin Layer not updated

  i'm trying to implement geotagging on my website that allow my blog reader to add themself to the map using pushpin. under my map i've several field for the users to key in their details then upon clicking the "add" button... their details will be appended to a georss xml file... and this step works fine as the details can be appended without problem... but when the page refreshes after my user hav clicked the "add" button... the details added are not shown... and even click "refresh" on IE wont help... all i got to do to get the newly added details shown is to close the current IE and re-request the page in a new IE... then all the pushpins(including the last pushpin added) can be shown... y is this problem occuring am i doing a ...Show All

• MGrieb How to retrieve the PushPin ID?

  Hi, I have a listbox with few address. when I select an address from the list and clicks a button, a pushpin will be shown for that location. Think that I have populated three pushpins in the Map. If I select one address and click "remove" button, the pushpin which is shown for that location alone should be removed. Kindly assist me how to do this I used the map.DeletePushpin(id) method. But I do no how to retrieve the pushpinID based on selected address when you populate the list box set for each ListItem the Value = pushpin ID and the Text = place name. If you use data binding then set the DataTexField = id field name and DataValueField = description field name This way you have the ids whever you ...Show All

• Guilherme Cestarolli Seleguim Smartphone C# Applications => Can all PPC applications run on a smartphone?

  What truly is different between smartphone and pocket pc. If we have 2 cellulars (1 smartphone/1pocket pc) aside from the touch screen what is different If the processor potentially different (restricted to arm on PPC) Are libraries provided w/ the OS different What other design considerations need to take place for an application port Thanks again! I know you guys should be all over this question! Cheers! From a .NETCF perspective there are a couple of key differences:- .NETCF v1.0 will run on Windows Mobile 2003 and above on both Smartphone and Pocket PC, v2.0 requires either Windows Mobile 5.0 or Pocket PC 2003 - not Smartphone 2003 .NETCF for Smartphone has only a subset of UI components - if you cre ...Show All

• JDPeckham Find() error message

  hello everyone, when I use Find() to search an address that is not exsit, it will return a pop up error message, does any one know how to get rid of the message box Yuki Hi Yuki chen, If u dont want any of the messages to be popuped. then use < style type ="text/css"> #myMap_vemessagepanel { visibility : hidden ;} </ style > < style type ="text/css"> #myMap_vemessagepanel , #threeDNotification { visibility : hidden ;} </ style > And user your own messagediv to display the results. Where "myMap" is the ID of your map's div. John. ...Show All

• Arius Music Identification

  Hello, I'm new here. I was wondering if anyone knew how the MSN Music Identification process worked. I downloaded the msnMessengerActivityKit SDK and took a look at the 'documentation' but found nothing on the topic, maybe I looked in the wrong place I am curious as to how MSN knows what song is playing in Windows Media Player, is it a registry key Thanks. Ah I see, now the problem will be looking for them, nevermind I guess I can use something like Spy++ or Winspector. Thanks, I'll have to see how to listen to windows messages from C#. No, that's not right, you can actually retrieve the information. Your application should listen to the right windows messages and then capture the right information. I don't know which message ...Show All

• mattdawg UPDATE MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 8

  WHERE AND HOW DO YOU GET A MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 8 UPDATE Do you mean update from previous VS version (e.g. 2003) to VS 2005 That you can purchase from your local reseller. i followed the procedure from msdn and i thought i got all the files this time!!!  i was missing sql server 2005 edition and MSXML 6,0 PARSER. i thought this would work.... i get the same results as described before. i looked at my     tools bar  -> device tools. i get a message "an error occured loading this property page". Also when i enter VB -> smart device, i get the message "the project could not be opened because it refers to a device platform that does not exist in your datastore. i assume that ...Show All