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December 2007 - Posts

Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:21 PM

WebBrowser control bug in Compact Framework for WM Standard device

Here's the scenario - You have a form (StartForm) which has a sub-form (subForm) that contains a WebBrowser control. When the sub-form is disposed (not just dismissed), your startform also shuts down. This is a bug ! This occurs because the Web browser
Posted by agujjar | 2 Comments
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:46 PM

VS 2008 renders Windows Mobile Form as a Windows Desktop form !

Ran into a funny problem with Visual Studio, where it got confused and started rendering my Windows Mobile form as a Windows Desktop instead of The problem occurs, in my case, due to a combination of two factors 1. This form is inherited 2. Both the forms
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:19 AM

Determine the Platform in .Net Compact Framework 3.5

.Net CF 3.5 introduces the SystemSettings . Platform property in Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms namespace which provides you the platform of the device the code is executing on. The property is of type WinCEPlatform enumeration which contains the members WinCEGeneric
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Monday, December 17, 2007 4:25 PM

Using unsupported locale in Windows Mobile

Although you can technically change the locale of the device to anything you desire by using the SetUserDefaultLCID , you should only allow it to be set to one of the available locales. Even though your application maybe able to handle the change, this
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Monday, December 17, 2007 8:57 AM

Changing the language programmatically in WM 6.0

Localization in compact framework 2.0 is a rather poor cousin of its counterpart in the full framwork 2.0. One of the most annoying (but understandable once the reasons are understood ) issue is that CurrentThread.CurrentCulture does not exist on the
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