Mobile Development: Move your Form
Although I do not yet know a use case for this, here comes some code to make your smartdevice forms being moveable. As default, Windows forms on mobile devices are created always as maximized forms....
View ArticleMobile Development: Analyze QRcode content on Windows Mobile
QRreaderWH6 You possibly know these QRcodes that make your phone open a web site or add a contact. Unfortunately there is no such function on Windows Mobile and I just wrote a demo of such a...
View ArticleMobile Development: A remote cpu monitor and cpu usage analysis
cpumon2 and cpumonRcv Although this project is not yet finished, the main function works very well: viewing cpu usage remotely and capture data to database for later analysis. Some of the ideas and...
View ArticleRDM_Keepbusy has been updated
I fixed a bug in RDM_KeepBusy. It worked only for the first session and not after close/open another session. Please always use the subversion code. Bookmark It
View ArticleInternet Explorer Mobile – To zoom or not to zoom
With Windows Mobile 6.5.3, sorry, Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5.3 we have the Internet Explorer Mobile 6 engine. Although it may look nice for the one or other, the rendering, especially the zoom in...
View ArticleInternet Explorer Mobile – QVGA web site do not scale well to VGA screen
As described in this post, I was looking for a way to get a proper view of pages designed for QVGA screens on devices with higher resolutions like VGA. 1) SAP ITS mobile screen on VGA Internet Explorer...
View ArticleWindows Mobile: watch the memory footstep of running processes
Some times ago I posted my remote cpu usage monitor. Now here is a similar tool but for logging the memory. You can now watch the memory usage of processes remotely for example when you test an...
View ArticleMobile development: show a small information window using WIN32 API
ShowWin Sometimes you may need to display a small window to inform the user about what is going on. Although the scripting tools MortScript and nScript provide functions to show dialogs they can not...
View ArticleMobile Development: showFullScreen, a tool to change foreign windows attributes
Hello attached is a small tool to alter foreign windows. You can show/hide, enable/disable and resize windows. One example is to disable the taskbar window: showFullScreen -disable -class “HHTASKBAR”...
View ArticleWindows Mobile 6.5: Changed Screen Geometry
Screen layout changes from Windows Mobile 6.1 to Windows Mobile Embedded Handheld 6.5 The Windows Mobile screen geometry changed from Windows Mobile 6.1 and before to the actual Windows Mobile 6.5...
View ArticleMobile Programming – Cmd line tools for automated tests
Recently I had to perform an automated stress test for a compact framework application using the camera. I remembered MortScript (original web site down) and wrote a script to automate the test. Now,...
View ArticleMobile development: pocketHosts-Edit Windows Mobile hosts entries
PocketPC and Windows Mobile does not support a hosts file as desktop windows. As I recently had to add an entry for a virtual machine running Mini SAP (Netweaver 7.01 Trial) I stumbled about how to add...
View ArticleMobile development: Netstat, know your device’s open ports
On desktop PCs you have the nice tool netstat to see which ports are open on the PC. A customer wanted to know, why his devices do not release there internet connection. The only tool I know, that will...
View ArticleWindows Mobile 6 – Internet Explorer Mobile modes
Since IE6 comes as 6.1.4 or higher, Internet Explorer Mobile can work in IE6 or the older PIE mode. IE6 means Internet Explorer 6 desktop compatible mode. Which works more or less with known and...
View ArticleWindows Mobile – Ctlpnl.exe arguments
Did you know you can launch ctlpnl.exe to open a defined applet directly? OK, here we go: ctlpnl.exe cplmain.cpl,26 will open the Wireless Manager. You can use that in a .lnk file if you need a direct...
View ArticleMobile development: rdp_autologin updated to support clipboard redirection
The source code of rdp_autologin has been updated and now default.rdp will now include some more lines: WorkingDir:s:C:\Program Files (x86) AlternateShell:s:C:\Program Files (x86)\notepad.exe...
View ArticleWindows Mobile: Some logging tools
If you ever had a windows mobile device that behaved strange you might need some logging to find the cause. Here is a collection of logging tools I wrote: BatteryLog: logs the status of battery and...
View ArticleMobile Development: BarcodeLib again ported to Compact Framework
I again ported the codeproject BarcodeLib to Compact Framework. So feel free to use that, if you need one of the supported linear barcode type. The VS 2008 / WM5 SDK / Full Framework solution is...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 RDS and Windows Mobile: connection error
For whatever reason MS decided to make Windows 2012 RDS (former Terminal Services, now Remote Desktop Services) not compatible with Windows Mobile 6.x and other Windows CE 5.0 based handheld devices....
View ArticleMobile Development: writing today screen plugins the easy way
today Plugins with compact framework The following today or home screen plugins for Windows Mobile are based on a work of CrisText at codeplex. The codeplex sources provide a framework to create home...
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