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Microsoft released a HotFix for NETCF v3.5 on Windows Mobile 6.1.4 onwards, to address basic functionalities of WebBrowser control

Yet another demonstration of the added value provided by the Technical Support A very impressive example of collaboration between Technical Support and Dev Team FIX is public now ( link to KB Article ) A few weeks ago I’ve started handling a Service Request Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:52 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 0 Comments

Remote Desktop Mobile (RDP Client) disconnects after 10 minutes of inactivity

[ UPDATE 10/9/2009: Source-Code and CAB are now available at http://mobilerdpnotimeout.codeplex.com/ ] Error Message: “ The remote session was ended because the idle timeout limit was reached. This limit is set by the server administrator or by network Read More...
Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 5:03 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 0 Comments

Resolution-Aware CAB on Windows Mobile

GetSystemMetrics or GetDeviceCaps inside a CAB’s Setup.dll wceload.exe is not resolution- and DPI-aware RESDLL SDK Sample  Sincerely I haven’t easily found entries about this over the web, so I think it’s worth mentioning it. Maybe many know, but Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:46 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 0 Comments
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The right approach to get a Contact’s last communication (IItem’s PIMPR_SMARTPROP)

I've discussed about the “wrong” approach in a previous post of mine , where I also talked about why using PIMPR_SMARTPROP to retrieve the info about the last way a Windows Mobile-device user communicated with a given contact. Recently 2 MSDN Forums users Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:21 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 1 Comments

MAPI on Windows Mobile: Backup and Restore Mails

Backup\Restore: is there a standard way? How to programmatically mark messages so that they are downloaded at next sync About linked attachments Yet another post about MAPI on Windows Mobile, it seems it became an common topic (not well covered over the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:49 AM by Raffaele Limosani | 4 Comments
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MAPI GetOutgoingQueue not supported on Windows Mobile (so the Outbox?)

Recently I had to work on a sample code based on my previous post around MAPI that shows a possible way to extract the BODY of the mails in the Inbox folder of the ActiveSync account … this time I needed to grab a handle of the Outbox folder, and therefore Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 4:00 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 1 Comments
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The wrong approach to get a Contact’s last communication (EDB)

Have you ever played with EDB? I hadn’t… till the moment when I thought that what I needed was not implemented by the POOM and therefore I had to play with the “Contacts Database” contained in pim.vol... Unfortunately I understood only later that I was Read More...
Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 5:13 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 3 Comments

FindWindowEx on Windows Mobile: not supported…

… so how can I grab the handle of a particular child window, considering that FindWindow retrieves all top-level windows? I worked on this when writing a previous post of mine , and got a wonderful comment from Lionel (thanks again ). Today I had to re-use Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:45 AM by Raffaele Limosani | 1 Comments

Programmatically Discriminate between Upgrade or Uninstall of a CAB on Windows Mobile

Recently I've worked with a developer on an interesting issue I’ve not found any clue on the web about, and the solution is based on one of those details that you can empirically retrieve but that there are not documented anywhere, therefore on future Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:31 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 12 Comments
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Wireless Programming on Windows Mobile: supported or not supported?

I can’t take WZC for granted… but, at least, can I programmatically turn WiFi on and off? ossvcs.dll’s Wireless Device Power Management Functions WiFi driver is a Power Manager-controllable NDIS Miniport Driver Introducing: RIL Driver and IP Helper APIs Read More...
Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 10:33 AM by Raffaele Limosani | 3 Comments

Yet Another Technical Support’s added value: Architectural Guidelines

Advisory Services vs Problem\Resolution Architectures for dynamic forms in NETCF Many developers out there don’t know the full potential provided by the experts at Microsoft Technical Support… and I really want to do some marketing here!! For example, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:44 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 2 Comments

Disable WebBrowser's Context-Menu in NETCF applications

A possible approach valid on WM5\6\6.1, no longer using DTM_BROWSERDISPATCH Appendix: sample code to find child windows (EnumChildWindows not available under Windows CE) Undocumented doesn't mean "not achievable". Undocumented means that on future versions Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 4:50 PM by Raffaele Limosani | 4 Comments

Great tool to diagnose Memory on Windows Mobile

If you know my interest on troubleshooting memory issues on Windows Mobile applications (this was the topic of my very first post !), you'll forgive me if this time I simply link an article on CodeProject...   Visualizing the Windows Mobile Virtual Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:18 AM by Raffaele Limosani | 0 Comments

Troubleshooting Memory Issues on Windows Mobile

Really many mobile developers have often various issues related to memory. This is obviously mainly related to the restrictions Windows CE has (till version 5.0) about memory-management, basically what Doug Boling called "Living within the box" Read More...
Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 9:24 AM by Raffaele Limosani | 1 Comments

Troubleshooting Crashes on Windows Mobile

Crashes happen when the application closes unexpectedly. On Desktops you can leverage on many tools, starting with ADPlus + WinDbg. But this is not the case for us "tiny" programmers… some hints: 1. Start by reading " How the Windows Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:46 AM by Raffaele Limosani | 1 Comments
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