Questions tagged [windows-mobile]

Windows Mobile is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs. Based on the Windows CE kernel and designed to look and operate similar to desktop versions of Microsoft Windows.

Windows Mobile has largely been supplanted by Windows Phone 7.

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Consuming SSL SOAP Service, could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS

I'm working on a Windows Mobile 6.5 Pro application, using .NET Compact Edition 3.5. I'm able to contact the standard web service (not using SSL), but HTTPS won't go through. I've attempted to add another Web reference ; this one pointing to the…
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How can I implement a Wizard form a Windows Mobile application?

I am a bit new to Windows Mobile (with C# and the compact framework) development, so I am kind of unsure how to do this. The user has to go through several pages of information in a wizard-like manner. At the start there is a login window. How would…
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Is it worth waiting a couple of milliseconds on a TextChanged event?

I have a textfield for a filter customers action on a mobile device. I am wondering if I should wait for a few milliseconds before launching my code when the user typed in less then 3 chars, and only execute the code if the text is longer or equal…
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Windows Mobile Emulator For Linux

I was developing Windows Mobile applications on a Windows machine using C#, just to test the platform, but now I'm back to Linux and now developing for Windows CE on it(CeGCC and FPC), but it's very boring to compile and send the executable to the…
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Async/await for compact framework v3.5 - manual implementation

I have to develop an application for WinCE 5.0 which communicates/synchronizes data with a regular PC application which offers a webservice I can talk to with my mobile (industrial) device. Since it is obvious to result in code which is hard to…
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How can I track indoor locations?

I'm doing a project which needs to track location indoors. It needs to track where someone is inside a building and show them where to go. I've read quite a lot on the subject for all three main smartphone OS's (iOS, Android and Windows Mobile). I…
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Windows Mobile Cab Setup to detect .NET CF 3.5 and Install It

I have developed windows mobile 6 professional application using targeted framework as .NET CF 3.5 and professional 6 SDK. Also created its SmartDeviceCab file. When I install it on device not having CF 3.5 it fails to run my application (because…
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Windows Mobile: using phone's camera with C#

I want to show the image that mobile phone's camera its taking on a control in a WinForm. The idea is that my application works like camera's program. I want to show the image like if the user is going to take a photo. How can I do that? Can I do…
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Fullscreen app in wince 6.0 c#

I have my app and want to make it run in full-screen mode, no task-bar. I found out how to hide the windows bar but when I start my app it doesn't cover the space of the windows task-bar, despite this last is hidden. I found this but it didn't…
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.NET Compact Framework Printing libraries

Can anyone point to libraries that can be used for Printing from Compact .Net Framework 1.0? Criteria: I need to be able to print Text and Bar codes. The library should preferably be upgradable to .Net 2.0 or above with minimal disruption. Can be…
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How do i know if a thread is suspended under Windows CE

Can I get a threads suspend count under Windows CE, using C or Visual C++, without calling resume or suspend functions? The only way I can see of doing it is something like int Count = SuspendThread(ThreadHandle); …
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Windows Mobile Device Emulator - Create Device with custom resolution

I am currently developing an application for a windows ce 6.0 device with Visual Studio 2008 and the Compact Framework 3.5. The device itself has a resolution of 800x480 pixels. Currently I am developing the app on the device itself which works…
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How to get Cell Tower Info on a Windows Mobile CDMA Phone

Tools/Env.: C++, VS2008, WM6.1 I currently only have the HTC Diamond Windows Mobile phone available for testing and try as I may, with all of my hacking prowess, I still cannot accomplish the task of acquiring the remaining details of Cell ID and…
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How can I achieve non-infinite receive and send timeouts on a socket under Compact Framework?

On full .Net Framework I use the following code: socket.SetSocketOption( SocketOptionLevel.Socket, SocketOptionName.ReceiveTimeout, readTimeout); socket.SetSocketOption( SocketOptionLevel.Socket, SocketOptionName.SendTimeout,…
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Write once deploy on Windows Mobile 6, Windows Phone 7, Android and iPhone?

Was just wondering if there were any cross platform development platforms which would run great for corporate type apps on various mobile devices. Would be ideal if the language was C# but feel free to suggest others.
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