Pocket PC Programming

Ask me your codesigning questions
I'm seeing a lot of questions and confusion about the code signing and code execution security model in WM2005. Reply to this post with questions, and I'll see if I can clear up the most common issues with a post on the Windows Mobile team blog. -- Scott Yost Software Development Engineer/Test Microsoft Co... 1 Nov 2005 12:39

RFCOMM issues
I'm trying to add a bit of Bluetooth support to a program that already does serial printing, using the CreateFile/WriteFile/CloseHandle routine, and it works... the first time. The second time, though, everything appears to succeed according to the function calls, but the data apparently doesn't get to the pri... 25 Oct 2005 17:05

Welcome.not is not working
After a hard reset I don't want to have the Welcome wizard to show up. Therefore I added a welcome.not file to an SD card (the root) and also in the iPAQ File Storage root (it's an HP hx2410). But none of it seems to work. It still comes up with the wizard after a hard reset. Am I doing something wrong? ... 14 Oct 2005 13:05

Services and Messages
Hi, i've deloped a service for my ppc. I load the settings at the startup of the service, i would know how is possible send a message to the service to reload the settings. I've tried to create an hidden window but this hangs the device on startup and i've to perform an hard-reset!? Any clue?? Thanx in advance... 12 Oct 2005 15:01

CEMAPI Memeroy Crash
hi,ALL I have write a project to Parse Inbox mail. Everything works pretty good, if all the mail information is right. However,If mail information is not right.when Application do Syncnization with mail server.And when I do mail server connect, from callback message: I can see message:Connecting...,Loging on...... 5 Oct 2005 15:06

Opennetcf signature control
Hi, I am using VB.NET 2003 with the Opennetcf signature control. Code is listed below: Dim signatureBytes As Byte() = Signature1.GetSignatureEx Signature1.Clear() Signature1.LoadSignatureEx(signatureBytes) Dim fs As New System.IO.FileStream("signature1.bmp", IO.FileMode.Create) Dim writer As New System.IO... 5 Oct 2005 10:55

HardwareID
Hello, I am searching for any kind of pocket pc harware identifier for our license generator. My question is. Does the microsoft pocket pc operating systems support any hardware id's ? If yes with which apis can I access them ? ... 6 Oct 2005 17:57

SIP Issues
I was wondering if anyone has any insights as to nature of the SIP in ToolBars under .NET CF and how to have the ToolBar without the SIP. I have used SHFullScreen to try and remove the SIP Button, but it still persists. If I could disble the SIP so it would not enable, that would be a good solution also. I'v... 1 Oct 2005 01:28

Device application deployment (Visual studio 2005)
Ginney, Thanks for your help. I was able to deploy my application directly to my Pocket PC device through Debug -> start deugging. i understand that Visual Studio 2005 then creates an msi file which invokes all the needed .CABs, first the .NT Compact Framework 2.0, then the 2 SQL CE ..CABs and finally the app... 27 Sep 2005 00:26

VS2005 smart device MFC project _CE_ACTIVEX was not defined
Hi all, using VS2005 rc1 I created a simple smart device MFC app (shared lib mode). without any modification to the project I get these warnings: stdafx.cpp _CE_ACTIVEX was not defined because this Windows CE SDK does not have DCOM. _CE_ACTIVEX could be caused to be defined by defining _CE_ALLOW_SINGLE_T... 23 Sep 2005 17:40