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NETCF

  • Windows CE Services and Compact Framework

    Neither .NETCF v1.0 or v2.0 will support runtime hosting, this means it’s not possible to write a service in managed code which will run within the Services.exe process. However it is often useful to be able to query and manipulate… Continue reading

  • Restricting Pim Item Collections

    This applies equally to WindowsMobile In The Hand and the Windows Mobile 5.0 APIs. On the collection classes there exists a Restrict method which returns a subset of the collection matching your search query. You can use the resulting collection… Continue reading

  • NDoc helper for Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms

    If you’ve tried documenting .NETCF libraries which make use of Compact Framework specific types you’ll know that you have to do all sorts of workarounds and special builds to get an output which can successfully run through NDoc. This is… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Socket Options on Windows XP

    Windows XP supports a much smaller number of socket options for Bluetooth than Windows CE, although it generally provides alternative ways to get/set those properties. The table below shows those that are supported on XP and how they relate to… Continue reading

  • Comparing Windows Mobile APIs

    To illustrate how the WindowsMobile In The Hand is a subset of the Windows Mobile 5.0 APIs I’ve modified this class diagram for the Windows Mobile 5.0 APIs to ghost out those which are not supported in WindowsMobile In The… Continue reading

  • Retrieve IMEI Through TAPI

    Earlier I posted to the newsgroup a description of using Alex Feinman‘s Tapi Wrapper to retrieve the IMEI of the phone device. When I checked again, the specific required method is not included in the wrapper, however as Alex has… Continue reading

  • No KnownColors In NETCF

    A requested feature for NETCF is to retrieve a list of named colors. Fortunately this is easily done using reflection to read all the public statis properties of the Color class:- System.Reflection.PropertyInfo[] colors = typeof(Color).GetProperties(System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static);Color[] allcolors = new… Continue reading

  • Compiled Documentation for OpenNETCF Libraries

    With the release of the Smart Device Framework v1.3 the compiled help documentation was no longer included in the installer. I’ve built a standalone installer to install the full collection of documentation into your Visual Studio help. This release includes:-… Continue reading

  • Using the Clipboard

    This is a very basic sample app to assist a thread in the newsgroup. Basically it shows a couple of approaches to working with the Clipboard, both using SDF v1.3. The first is the TextBoxEx class onto which I’ve added… Continue reading

  • SDF 1.3 Known Issues

    Firstly an apology to recent visitors to our website, we’ve just moved to a new server and are experiencing teething problems, so currently OpenNETCF forums and blogs are not working. This post is designed to highlight a few issues found with… Continue reading