Previously known as 'Windows CE', Microsoft changed the naming of the operating system starting with version 7.0.
Questions tagged [windows-embedded-compact]
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Getting Mouse Events on a ComboBox
I am working on WINCE platform, developing windows form app in C#, I need to implement a mouse click event for DROP DOWN BOX, but compact framework doesn't have a support for mouse click events.
Can anyone suggest me any alternative way to implement…

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Need to Check running app has admin privileges or not in C#.Net Compact Framework
Is there any way to check the admin privileges in C#.Net Compact Framework??
I have the source code from MSDN in C++.
and
This will check if user is in the local Administrators group (assuming you're not checking for domain admin…

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NETCF 3.9 Released?
I was trying to open one of my old projects build with VS2008 and it has a class library targeted for Windows Mobile 6 devices (.NET Compact Framework 3.5). Since the good old VS2008, there is no support for mobile devices in VS, AFAK. Now i can…

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How to port a MFC application to Windows Embedded Compact 7?
I'm trying to port a MFC application to windows embedded embedded 7. I added the MFC application as a sub project to the OS design I created by using platform builder in Visual Studio 2008. But i got the following errors.
Fatal Error: C:\Program…

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USB idproduct and idvendor
I am very new to USB interfacing and i am trying to build an application for WINCE 2013 device. In my device, one vendor's (let suppose 'X') VID and PID are using for USB mass storage device class.
Now, i have specific use case where communication…

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Convert .Net Compact Framework 3.5 to .Net Core
Is there a way I can easily see what portions of my .Net Compact Framework codebase are tied to things outside of .Net Core in order to assist a move over the .Net Core Framework?
I'm trying to move off of Windows CE and onto Linux with only writing…

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Is it possible to have our windows Handheld application as a USB receiver?
apologies if the question is quite basic, I am inexperienced in USB programming and I might be missing some conceptual detail here.
For our industrial solution we are supposed to provide communication between our PC wpf application and windows…

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WinCE7 0xc0000005 Native exception on Execute reader
I am developing a simple application for Motorola MC32N0 on WinCE7.0 using VS2008 SP1 having .net Compact Framework 3.5 and SQL Server CE 3.5SP1.
Whenever I try to read from database I get this error.
A native exception has occurred in…

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Visual Studio 2013 Designer Support for Windows Embedded Compact 2013
This is a cross-post from social.msdn.microsoft.com. There was no answer there, so I'm trying here.
In Visual Studio 2008, we were able to generate Visual Studio designer support for Windows CE projects by adding .xmta files to our project. The…

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Cannot connect my windows mobile 6.5 app to sqlserver after wifi drop
I have developed a tiny app in vb.net cf that connects to sqlserver 2008 via wifi.
Testing it, I turned off wifi switch, app exits correctly.
Turned wifi on, started the app.
However, it says that sqlserver cannot be reached.
cnn.open() failed…

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Marshalling C Struct with array of structures in it
I referred the similar questions in this forum but didn't get the solution for my problem.
I have been struggling with marshaling problem for a while. I have a structure that contains an array of another structure, The platform is Win CE. I am using…

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Issues in structure conversion from C++ to C# .Net Compact Framework
I am converting c/c++ structures into C# standards.
C/C++ Structures:
typedef struct _sta_conn_info{
STA_CONNECT_STATE connect_state;//Enum
STA_ASSOC_STATE assoc_state;//Enum
unsigned char …

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Is it possible to use OpenCL in Windows EC7?
We have a system with computation devices that support openCL (ARM CPU with NEON, GPU, DSP, FPGA).
Is it possible to use OpenCL when running Windows EC7?
What OpenCL SDK could be used? Can anyone provide a link to a successful project or any…

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Embedded Development (Embedded Compact) with Visual Studio
I want to develop for the Windows Embedded Compact real-time platform using .NET Compact Framework 3.5. But I cannot find any information about the integration within Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Studio 2012. For the latter one, there exist a plenty…

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COM executable; how to create the Proxy / Stub DLL
I am developing a COM object for Windows Embedded Compact 7 on an iMX28 Armv5 board.
I have built the OSDesign through Platform Builder and generated the SDK. When creating the ATL Smart Device COM project against my SDK, when I select to create it…

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