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[**From Alberto**] Socket-based application loses data when finishing communication

Subtitle -- How to implement graceful disconnection in a .NET (and .NET Compact Framework) application Alberto is one of my direct colleagues and works on the same kind of issues and with the same developers, that I work. We'll possibly share this blog Read More...
Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 3:30 PM by raffael | 0 Comments

Weird issue with NETCF v2 SP2? Test 0ut v3.5 then!

I think this comes with experience... when you're facing a very odd issue, chances are that you're watching at a BUG in action. For example, last time it was a WebService call over GPRS which seemed to be processed successfully on the server, but returned Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:52 PM by raffael | 1 Comments

GPS Programming Tips for Windows Mobile - Part 3

- GPS Signal Quality - Error Reduction - Avoid problems with localizations - Data Layer: do NOT use XML files... - Hints about showing itinerary with GPS Data independently on current device resolution\orientation (- links to this project on Codeplex Read More...
Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 9:37 AM by raffael | 0 Comments

GPS Programming Tips for Windows Mobile - Part 2

- Useful samples on the web - Bluetooth Shared Source possible enhancements As I wrote in a previous post , in my case I wanted to play (once in my life!) with NMEA sentences and therefore didn't want to use GPS Intermediate Driver, at least for the first Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:31 PM by raffael | 1 Comments

"Socket Unknown Error" on Windows Mobile

Have you ever got a "Socket Unknown Error" on Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6 devices, while the exact same code worked with no issues on Windows Mobile 2003? Well, it took some time to understand where the problem lied so I think this post may add Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 7:48 AM by raffael | 0 Comments

Supporting Kiosk-Applications on Windows Mobile ("Technically achievable" vs. "supported")

- Why unsupported - Supported examples - System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008   Every now and then we receive requests from ISV Application Developers regarding how to restrict users' access to the device functionality by writing a KIOSK application: Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 01, 2008 4:17 PM by raffael | 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 raffael | 0 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 raffael | 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 raffael | 1 Comments
 
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