Hi Peeps,I have wrote an application which has large enough picture boxes to the user can use there finger to select. I also have some text boxes which the user needs to enter numbers in. Is there any control or way to show a large numeric keypad so the user does not have to go back to using the...

I've developed a simple stock tacking application in VS 2005 using SQL Server CE for a MC3000 device running CE 5.0. See here http://www.bar-codenow.com/symcbamoco.htmlThe application works fine but after scanning around 20-30 products the app slows down and eventually you start to see data...

I'm terribly frustrated with my program.I've written it in Visual Basic using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, and it looks fine. It compiles fine. It works fine. Using these ( http://www.dev-archive.com/wireless/Article/31198/0/page/2) instructions, I've made a CAB file usable on...

How can i send sms from pc to a mobile through a mobile. Can any one help me by sending code. actually i want to recognige my mobile to pc. how?<br/>thanks in advance.

What is the difference between these two operating systems?<br/>Windows CE 5.0 & WinMobile 5.0

Hi all,I want to create a pretty data intensive app for storing/searching sports stats and stuff, using VB.NET/SQLCE 3.0. Also since i want it to have a Today plugin i've started learning VC++ wich is, needless to say, pretty more complex than vb.net.My question is: is it worth while learni...

I did a search and couldn't find an answer to this question but it seems like it should be possible to do... I was wondering how to cause a refresh of the Today screen using Visual Basic .NET. I suspect is would be something along the lines of using a coredll call but I just can't fin...

Hello,2005 VS WM 6.0I have a datagrid with columns Quantity Price, and Total.The validating event of the datagrid will fire when the a new quantity is entered into the quantity cell, then the calculation will happen in that event.Is the validating event the best event to use when making a calcul...

Hi All,Hope you are all having a good day. I have an application on a PDA which collects data and basically sends to back to a secure FTP server. My problem is I want to send a new program file, i.e get it to override itself. On the desktop you can do a command prompt command to schedule it just...

i got 2 tables.Table 1 is the picklist. It have 2 column which are item name and quantity.Table 2 is the masterlist. It also have 2 columns which are item name and quantity too.Masterlist is the table that shows how much inventories i have and picklist is the table that shows how much items i ne...

i work with VS2003 - and have two questions<br/>1. do i need some additional software to create an application for WM6 ?<br/>2. does anyone know links to a tutorial "how-to" or "first steps" or "samples" ?<br/>thynk you

Hi Peeps,<br/>I have had to add an Identity column to my sqlce table because it complains of no primary key when doing a delete row. The problem is how do I handle the identity in sqlCE? I know how to do it in OLEDB!<br/>Any ideas please?<br/>Jiggy!

I wrote a program that needs to show a jpeg image in a picture box whenever a new item is selected from a combo box. It works fine most of the time, but sometimes throws the out of memory error. Sometimes I can make it through the whole list of pictures, and sometimes I can only make it halfwa...

Does any one have any good solutions for barcode readers that are built into a pocket pc and can be programed in .net 2.0?

Hello,VS 2005 Windows Mobile 6.0I have an application that get data from a web service. This gets done in the main UI thread, as the application cannot move on until this is finished.However, once the data has been loaded into the dataset, I want to save the contents of the tables in XML on the...

Hello,VS 2005 WM 6.0I am using the following code to hide the grid columns. As I have a lot of grid columns to hide, it is showing a thick bold line where the grid column would be. I wanted to make the columns totally invisble by setting the width to 0. However, I am wondering if there is a bett...

Hi Peeps,I have wrote an application for a PDA using VS2005 CF with Mobile 5 on the PDA. Sometimes the PDA locks up so they have to do a soft reset which solves the problem but it also resets the date and time to a manufacture default I think. Is there any routine I can use whilst I have an inte...

Hi guys,<br/>does anybody know how to deploy the application in the systemCF folder? <br/>I can't find any way to deploy my application to permenent drive. because every time when i reboot the PDA, it will get rid of all things except SystemCF stuff. :(

Hi Peeps,I am writing a very complex piece of software a PDA and was wondering if there was away of altering code as I debug. I can't use the emulator because I use third party tools. At the moment I have to find the problem, stop the program, fix it, and then redeploy it. I am using VS2005...

Hello,I am developing a mobile application. CF 2.0 WM 6.0I am using the datagrid and need a column that has a combo box. The combo box will be used to hold a quantity for up to 20 items. So 1 to 20 for the user to select from.In windows forms you have the datagridview and can easily at a combo b...

Does anyone know if there is any graph/charting components built into the compact .net framework? Anyone know a good way to do graphs on a PPC?

Hi guys, I'm playing around with creating an app for my pocket pc and I need a small database for it.I've already managed to create the database itself on the device, but I need a way to add tables and columns to those tables and establish relationships. Is there a GUI way to do this?...

Hi ppl, I' trying to create an application for a PDA/wifi capable mobile phone, which will allow video streaming from a Mobile phone to a laptop, through WIFI. But i dont have a mobile phone to test it one. Where can i get simulators/emulators? can any one help me out here. All ideas are w...

Hi,I need to write a mobile program where the user can click and drag (with the stylus) a point or dot around in a PictureBox. Has anyone done this? I'm familiar with drawing within a picturebox, etc. I just need to know a good way to go have a user drag around a dot or point. It will b...

I am trying to test and debug my app on my handheld using ActiveSync connected with a USB cable instead of running it on the device's image emulator. It works on my laptop on both the device emulator and when deploying the app to the device itself as well, but when I try installing it on m...

Ok, so I've built a compact framework application that I need to move over to my Pocket PC. This may sound like a dumb question, but how do I do this?

Hello,VS 2005 WM 5.0 & WM 6.0I am creating some software and don't want the software to be installed on any other PDA devices.I can give it to the customer, but how can I avoid the customer from installing it on other PDAs.I think I need to create some license so that the setup I give them...

Hello!!<br/>Exists a free library connect Bluetooth Widcomm for Compact Framework?<br/>Thank you

Just want to know how to view offline html Files stored in Pocket PC in a web control.. i dont know how to locate the html files in my PDAalso where do I put the downloaded html files from the server to my Pocket PC when my application is deployed( I also need the code behind it)Hope you may hel...

Hello!<br/>Some small example how to create an Array of controls with its events and properties, example: TextBox, in runtime?<br/>It is for VB.NET Compact Framework<br/>Thank you :-)

When I made a change in my program and build it again, to test my changes I must wait about 60 seconds and longer.The most of time I spent for programming is lost for waiting. :confused: Is it possible to speed up the building process? Is there a option (debug/final) that I misconfigured? Or is...

Hi,I am reading an xml file into a dataset and then trying to filter the records on a date field.The date in the xml file looks like this:<sdate>2007-19-17T00:00:00+01:00</sdate>Whatever way I try and use the rowfilter method it return 0 items.How do you filter on a date?Thanks.:thum...

Hi Guys<br/>Is there an add in for vb6 to develop for pocket pc. <br/>Regards<br/>Gerald

Hello,WM 5.0VS 2005I have a mobile application that I want to install on a PDA. However all the PDA will not have the CF 2.0 on them.I have looked a many articles and none of them address the situation if the compact frame is not already installed.Doe anyone know of any articles where the setup...

Hello!<br/>I have an application developed in Visual BASIC 6 with the own SDK to use red and recognition of writing but I have a problem, I need know as they are the dll librarys necessary pack the application.<br/>Thank you :p

Hello,<br/>How to find out the PDA is connected with ActiveSync?<br/>Thank you :)

HelloVS 2005 CF 2.0WM5I have created an application that scynchronizes the central database by sending changes to a web service.This normally takes 5 to 10 seconds and the customer wants to have some kind of progress bar to show that something is happening. This is some code that would explain w...

HiI'm using Symbol PDT8100 windows mobile OS and my applications on VB.NET 2003.Whenever I used to softboot the symtem by pressing Func+End+Light.. most of the time it is getting Hardbooted and I'm loosing all the datas.Thatswhy I believe if reset by an application, it won't get h...

Hi.. All<br/>I m completely new to Mobile evelopment...<br/>I m having SonyEricsson W550i cell phone and i want to make a application which can run on that phone...<br/>thnx

Hi guys, i was wondering is their a way of accessing the sim contacts of a mobile device and placing them in a db so i can move them to my pc. I googled this and all i came up with is a third party dll for $1500!!!!The data base part i know its just getting the info from the sim i need, il even...

I am developing an application for a mobile device using VB.NET 2005 and The Compact Framework version 2.0The application reads an xml file into a dataset object.The problem is I cannot get it to work when debugging with an emulator. I get a file not found error (e.g. \program files\appname\file...

I am using vs 2005 compact framework. For the life of me I could not remember what order the form's methods go. I am trying to make an array of forms so that users can move back and forward using shortcut keys...anyways here is the code I ran:Private Sub FrmMain_Activated(ByVal sender As...

Hi All,<br/>Has anyone found away to create a shortcut on the Start menu of the PDA for an application?<br/>Thanks for any help,<br/>Jiggy!

can any one tell me :<br/>is it possible to make program for Pocket PC/ mobile by VB6.0??<br/>if yes then, how can i start??<br/>thnz

I have a smartdevice app written in vb.net 2005 and need to remap the buttons on the front of the device.<br/>Having done this when the app exits the buttons need to be reset to their normal mapping.<br/>Is this possible?

I have a VB 2003 windows app that downloads file from the net thus:- Dim myWebClient As New System.Net.WebClient myWebClient.DownloadFile(Filename)I now have a VB2005 Smartdevice app that needs to do the same thing,but Webclient is not available in system.net namespace for a smartd...

I know how to check the 'single copy only' box for VB2005 apps. However, I can't find that box (under the application tab) for a mobile device. How do I enforce only one copy?

I just cradled my iPaq PPC and the SD Card was not initially found - didn't show in File Explorer.This stinks as my app trys to detect it - and if not found syncs a database to on-board memory instead.Has anyone had this behavior before?Is it a fluke - or should I expect this to happen ofte...

I've got a .BAT file I'm creating to rename a couple of files on my PPC - but doesn't seem you can run a .BAT file on a ppc - is that true??

I have a few VB2005 manuals. I found, while developing my scanner application (Windows CE 5) that the manuals don't really address my situation. Are there any books that specifically target programming for Windows CE 5 using VB2005? As an example, The WROX reference manual talks a lot about...