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February 2008 - Posts

Support Boundaries for Windows Mobile Programming (Developing Drivers, for example... Or even WiFi Programming)

Now an "administrative" post... no code here but a clarification about some support boundaries, since sometimes it happens that as Microsoft Technical Support engineers we can't help developers and device end-users and here I'd like to try explaining Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:52 AM by Raffaele Limosani | 2 Comments

Programmatically retrieve the GPRS’ APN configured for a Mobile Operator (XPath on Windows Mobile)

This was a good exercise as it showed how powerful XPath queries are, this time for XML Provisioning... Basically what the developer was interested on was the GPRSInfoAccessPointName of the CM_GPRSEntries Configuration Service Provider. The XML Provisioning Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:26 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 0 Comments

Establishing GPRS Connection on Windows CE and Windows Mobile: Sample Codes

Sometimes developers asking for support have straightforward goals they want to achieve with the minimal amount of code, even if the "application" will work only on very specific scenarios. This was the case for a request I handled, where the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:24 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 12 Comments

Subclassing NETCF Applications

Some time ago I handled a request coming from a developer that wanted to intercept Windows Messages sent to another application, in other terms "subclass" the other application's main window. On Desktop's Win32 you can do that by setting a hook Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:17 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 3 Comments

HOPPER: Start Menu dead, not responding

Hopper is an extremely powerful tool OEMs have always had to test the stability of their PLATFORMs. With WM6 SDK, Hopper has been provided to ISV Application Developers as well, with a customizable FocusApp sample that maintains an application (or a group Read More...
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 11:43 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 0 Comments

MSMQ on Windows Mobile: Troubleshooting Guide

I've handled in the past many requests about installation and configuration issues around MSMQ on Windows Mobile, therefore here it is the "status of the art" of my personal troubleshooting guide... Above all, check if you’re installing the right CAB. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 11:12 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 1 Comments

NETCF: Memory leak... now what??

Subtitles: - OutOfMemoryException (OOM) - SqlCeException: Not enough memory to complete this operation - ...   I'm a Support Engineer at Microsoft CSS ("Customer Service and Support"), and I pretty often handle requests related to NETCF Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:12 AM by Raffaele Limosani | 8 Comments
 
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