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LAP Plugin freezes at startup on Windows Mobile 6 Classic

SDK Sample LAP for Pocket PC is meant to work on Windows Mobile 6 Professional only: here you can see how to modify it so that it can work on a Classic device as well.   Have you ever tried to use the SDK Pocket PC's Sample for LAP on a Windows Mobile Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 2:56 PM by raffael | 0 Comments

MAPI on Windows Mobile 6: Programmatically retrieve mail BODY (sample code)

Summary: this post contains a sample code showing a way to use MAPI to log and count the mails of a Windows Mobile 6's Outlook Mobile's Inbox folder into a file (sender, recipients, subject, date-time, BODY).   Recently I've been involved in another Read More...
Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 6:25 PM by raffael | 1 Comments
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Provisioning the UnInstall Configuration Service Provider fails if invoked through CAB or CPF

Imagine you want to uninstall an application on a Windows Mobile device, and you want to do that through a CAB file. There are other means, yes, (see doc ) however in this particular case a CAB was required because IT admins were using SCCM ( System Center Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:45 PM by raffael | 1 Comments
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Pocket Outlook: Empty Deleted Items folder on SERVER's Mailbox

- MAPI: the wrong approach (yet interesting sample code) - WebDAV: DELETE command via HTTP - Customize Pocket Outlook menu items   One of the features that Windows Mobile users frequently asked to the Product Group had always been the native ability Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:56 PM by raffael | 0 Comments
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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

LAP plugin hangs the device at startup

I handled a couple of cases related to this and therefore I think it's worth mentioning it here, to help other developers with the same issue. Basically this is precisely what this blog is all about, isn't it?   Imagine you’re developing a Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 12:02 AM by raffael | 1 Comments
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SetWindowsHookEx on Windows Mobile

"supported"?? An interesting API: GetForegroundKeyboardTarget Sometimes cases arrive to my desk with issues regarding the usage of SetWindowsHookEx () API on Windows Mobile. As per Kiosk-applications , we should simply reject such requests, Read More...
Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 9:32 AM by raffael | 0 Comments
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Arabic Support on Windows Mobile

[- subtitle: languages natively supported on Windows Mobile] Sometimes colleagues and customers posed this question... so maybe it's worth writing its answer here: " Is Arabic language supported on Windows Mobile and CE?? ". Looking at the documentation Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:13 AM by raffael | 0 Comments
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Programming the Connection Manager: how do I debug my code?

This post is somehow related to a previous one ( Establishing GPRS Connection on Windows CE and Windows Mobile: Sample Codes ), at least for the Windows Mobile-part. On Windows Mobile, Connection Manager is smart enough to the use the less expensive network Read More...
Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 8:43 AM by raffael | 1 Comments
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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

Encrypting\Decrypting Data through PFX certificate on Windows Mobile

Some time ago I worked with a colleague of mine, a proud member of the CSS for Developers ( Alejandro Campos Magencio ) on a case where the developer wanted to encrypt and decrypt data on Windows Mobile 5.0 devices by using PFX certificates enrolled on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:28 AM by raffael | 1 Comments
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GPS Programming Tips for Windows Mobile - Part 1

- Introducing GPS Intermediate Driver Scenario: jogging in a park with a friend. You wouldn't like to carry on a Pocket PC with you, even if with integrated GPS Antenna (ok, you may prefer it...). So I chose a Smartphone in a pocket and the Bluetooth Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:38 AM by raffael | 3 Comments
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x.inf contains DirIDs, which are not supported

Since looking around over the web I didn't find any reference to this particular case, I think it's worth writing it here. I tracked down this issue recently together with a developer that wanted to package "many" files within a single .CAB (1000+). He Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:48 PM by raffael | 1 Comments
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GPS Programming Tips for Windows Mobile - Presentation

Do you love SportsDo ? I do. " SportsDo is a GPS sports tracking system for your mobile phone which enables you to record your sporting activities while broadcasting live tracking stats to friends and family via the SportsDo web portal. " [cit.] SportsDo Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:22 PM by raffael | 1 Comments
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