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• Scott McKeown Creating controls on the fly is very slow

  Hello there. I've got an application whereby I'm creating a user interface on the fly, creating survey sections with questions, and responses (such as radio buttons, checkboxes, etc) at runtime.  The client is simple, as this survey engine does most of the work. Running this on a laptop/desktop on .net framework 2 has fine performance, running the same code on a PDA running Mobile 5 on Compact Framework 2 has terrible performance.  I believe the creation of controls and positioning/resizing may be the largest issue.  Does anyone have experience in how to properly (and performantly) do this on the Compact Framework   thanks OK, turns out the performance bottleneck was more closely related to a collection (using ...Show All

• bud1024 My email wont sign in

  Msn live has a problem, I had it and installed the msn patch, worked well over a month or so, jsut this day, when i signed in, it wont show my contacts or when it did sign it, it will just say i have no contacts, add them. So i didnt a freah reinstall of it, and same problem pretised, and i used my mates email, and it worked fine, it went on, so i went onto my one and it just says signing in, and nothing on form there. I have not installed any patch or mod anything So..... All feedback welcome..... The purpose of this forum is to discuss MSN and Windows Live application development using the Messenger Activity API, and Windows Live Bots. If you have technical support questions about using MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger ...Show All

• PedroCGD information regarding mobile start status

  hi all, I want to track the boot up of the mobile, i.e. after i switched off the mobile as soon as i start again, i want my appln to run. any help in achieving this i would very greatful. Thanx in advance thanx for the help.But where to include this code Invoking to the api in the console application. Thanx for ur help. Hi, You can place a shortcut to your application in the Startup folder in the device. The VB declaration for the API that I use for creating a shorcuts is... Private Declare Function SHCreateShortcut Lib "coredll" ( ByVal szShortcut As String , ByVal szTarget As String ) As Boolean Documentation for this API ...Show All

• Joannes Vermorel - MSP Problem with Windows CE and an Application

  Hi, other time asking for your help. I have an application developed on Visual Basic .Net to work on a device in Windows CE 5.0. The problem is that when i debug my application works perfectly, but when i put on the exe file on my device and i execute it sends an error of NullReferenceException with many objects-methods of it. So, i debug the application trying to find the exception an other time works good. The worst is that after debugging, I execute other time the exe file and it works perfectly. I dunno what to do, any idea Thanks a lot. Jose Luis Montero,Yoko Mexico Are you debugging the app on the device or you are using the emulator Can you determine where(what line) it throws the NullReferenceException Consi ...Show All

• PublicError Help regarding creating the views in MFC

  Hi, I m new with MFC. I want to create more than 1 view in the main frame. I dnt knw how to do it. And also create custom listbox and display it on the frame window.Plz help. MDI isn't a nice usage model for devices and isn't recommended either. We are restricted to SDI applications. But you may consider using splitter window class that was added with VS2005 SP1. Using it you shall be able to split the screen between multiple views. Property sheets may also be a reasonable option. Hope this helps. Thanks ...Show All

• ZopoStyle More points in routeItinerary?

  Hello people, i ' d really appreciate if someone can help me with this one. I need to get more intermmediate points in a routeItinerary object after querying directions with getRoute() method. Sometimes, when there is a long way on the same route, one step could be several hundreds long. I need to get steps like 25 miles long. Is there any possibility to do this with this control, or work around, or even if not, do you know of some other way to do it Any other service Thanks very much Dario Heres what the Microsoft rep is saying: You can use the VE control for commercial purposes and not pay, as long as your under 5000 transactions. So yeah, just stick with what their saying. When people push ...Show All

• kayers ContextMenu

  Hi all! I've a custom control as a list that I've created myself. Now I want to assign a ContextMenu to this control but the problem is that I am using the OnMouseDown event to handle clicks on the list items and perform some methods based on which item being clicked (calculated by the mouse coordinates). Now as I said I want to show a ContextMenu using the same method, or should I do it that way My question is: how do I assign a ContextMenu to my control in my case Thanks, Martin Martin, If you are using PPC2003 or WM5 the context menu assigned to your control should be displayed automatically by tap-and-hold. This won't work on generic WinCE devices because WinCE doesn't implement tap-and-hold. In this case you could simulate ...Show All

• John Blight Architecture question

  I have a mobile field service app written to run on WM5 CF2 and would like some advice on architecture. For this type of app, the runtime performance is crucial in relation to startup time. I have a Data Access Layer (DAL) with various classes that provide the abstraction between business objects and the persistence layer e.g. SqlCe. One class per business object. On top of that is the Business Logic Layer (BLL) that uses the DAL layer. This is impemented by normal classes. And on top of that the Presentation layer implemented as a number of Forms that use the BLL layer methods only. I have also created a 'MyApplication' class with the singleton pattern. When the class instantiates, it creates all the BLL classes, the database connection ...Show All

• BDev13 How to customize the pushpin popup window

  Im a newb on this stuff I'm trying to convert a VEMaps program from version 2 to the latest. The problem I'm having is trying to manipulate the overall look of the popup window that comes up when you roll your mouse over a pin. In version 2 the developer used the innerHTML parameter of the AddPushpin method to add custom javascript code that would popup a custom window.. is there an easy way to do that in the latest version.. Version 2 AddPushpin method: AddPushpin(id,lat,lon,width,height,className,innerHtml,zIndex) Any help would be great Thanks Kirk I'm having a similar problem getting Javascript inside the popup window to run. for example if I try something like this: var detailsHTML = '<script> ...Show All

• tmiller3 obfuscate CAB files

  Hello, I would like to obfuscate my assembly before deploying it to my PPC. Using Dotfuscator from the VS i created an obfuscated .exe. my question is how can i incorporate this .exe into the CAB setup wizard or what is the sequence for obfuscating the assembly Just add that obfuscated assembly to the CAB project. If you using VS 2003, you would have to edit CAB’s INF file to do that. INF description is on MSDN. I figure out that i can put several .exe (obfuscated or not) into one cab file. however when installing, windows mobile will treat the cab file as one programs even thu there's multiple .exe files. hi Ilya, Im using VS 2005. How can I set the project ou ...Show All

• Kostas Pantos msgrp2p.xml

  This file worked for me on my computer at home but not on my computer at work! Also did not work on a colleagues computer. Tried encoding the URL and also tried the selection from the main actions menu as well as the start an activity menu after selecting a buddy. Even tried several versions of messenger. No luck FYI ... my computer at home has the latest version of messenger 8.xxx, windows XP home edition. Help appreciated Kajal Yes, I put the xml file in the MSN Messenger directory. My current version of windows live is version 8 (build 8.0 .0812 .00). Used the same version of messenger at home. The activity does not show in the menu. Also on my home computer the menu item showed up ...Show All

• JuliusY Retrieving all device icons

  Hi, I need your help. I have developed sample application for listing files and directories like File Explorer. Files and Directories are displayed in the ListView control. For that application, I need all device icons (gif icons, jpeg icon, exe icons, dll icon...) to display in the ListView for files. I think all icons are in dlls like windows (Shell32.dll). How do i get that icons Please send your suggestion or links. Thanx. M. GANESAN Thanx for your response. I think you misunderstood my post. My question is "How many icons are present in the device and how to get those icons and display its in the ListView control . Please send your suggestions or links. Thanx. Is there a reason ...Show All

• Lawrence Parker 1.0 -> 2.0?

  its been a while. In fact I've never converted a .NET CF 1.0 to .NET CF 2.0 project apart from now. Is this possible Sure, the conversion wizard starts and I did change the platform device to Windows Mobile 5 but is there a way of making that project use .NET CF 2.0 than .NET CF 1.0 woops silly me. There is! Project > Upgrade Project ...Show All

• Salman Maredia Bug with Resize() if you remove controls after AddControl()

  I've found a bug if we have added a control using AddControl, then you remove it use the non VE API method posted here by me and then make a call to Resize(). The Resize function looks like it loops through the list of controls to do something with them but since they no longer exist it thows an error. So its not really a VE bug but we do need a DeleteControl() added to the API. That said maybe a try catch to handle this situation would be great. John <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head id="Head1" runat="server"> <title>test& ...Show All

• Baok CListCtrl and italic fonts

  I have a simple dialog that contains a CListCtrl of type "small icon" and I want to display the strings with an italic font. I use small icon because I don't want the window to be scrolled horizontally, and "small icon" takes care of that (the window is scrolled vertically). The problem is that when I set te font as italic, when the items are displayed in the list, a small part of the string is clipped out from the right side. The font is displayed correctly as italic, but that small part is missing when the list is displayed. For example, if I want to display something like "Test (1)", the only half of ')' is displayed. Is there any fix for this How do I set the colu ...Show All