I have written a VB.net program on HP 5555 that communicates with the RS232
port. On the HP6300, the RS232 port is occupied by the detachable key pad.
I tried disabling the key pad but the port is still occupied.
Is there a way I can temporarily delete the keypad  driver so that I ...

I have PocketPC application, which exchange data between PC computer only
via http protocol. My question is how to connect PocketPc to PC. I know I
can use WiFi, but is there any other way to connect to PC, for example
through USB cabel, IrDa etc etc. I mean I'm looking for a way ...

Does anyone know how to keep the pocketpc from auto dimming the backlight.
My program displays a presentation type thing, and don't want the backlight
to go out while the presentation is running.
Thanks

I installed Embedded Visual Tools 3.0 and tried a little program with C++
exception handling:
try {
   throw E_FAIL;

I'm wondering if there exists a reliable way for a "legacy" app
(Subsystem < 4.21 and without HI_RES_AWARE)
to detect if the emulation layer is in use, ie. If it is a VGA device.
(Short of running a separate process :)

In my project I'm including service.h and I would like to use
ActivateService() and DeregisterService().
However these functions are unavailable on my system.
On compiling I'm getting following errors:

a) I have a code that works quite well. It copies a bitmap on screen, and
then two images with some transparency over it :
 // Take a real HDC
 HDC hdc = GetDC(hWnd);

I'm sorry I am begginner in developement for Pocket PC but I created a
"hello world" application and now I would like to display an image, how
should I do that ?
Thanks a lot for any help :-)

I have a problem, where i can?t find te solution for.
Does anyone knows how to save the contents of a textbox on the pda to a file
(eg. c:\text1.txt) on the pc (Throug Embedded Visual Basic)?
Thanks in advance,

I have read several articles/examples of deploying my own apps to the PPC.  
I am still a little confused though.  My program is quite simple - one exe
and two dlls all written in C#.  They all go into the same directory.  I
clicked Build CAB from withing the IDE (VS 2003) and all ...

hiya all,
 I'm new to pocket pc development. I own a Dell Axim5 ppc and I'm also a
VS.NET beginner developer. Can anyone recomend me any ppc beginner site or
guide. I'm really interested in venturing into PPC apps dev.

I have the following problems regarding communication using IrDA RAW: in my
application is there a reader thread which waits for any bytes on IrDA and
another thread which is the writer thread. After wake-up from stand-by mode
the communication does'nt working, I need to close and ...

Hi,
 I am trying to post some data to the server and this is my code, I guess I
am doing everything right but the values are not geting posted on the server
side I am not sure why this happening. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I'm trying to search for bluetooth devices on my iPaq (a newish 2003
model). I'm using the following code to perform the search:
        switch (pThis->m_state)
        {

I need to programmatically control the backlight brightness on one of the
newer model iPAQs. Chris Tacke, et. als postings about setting the backlight
registry settings and then broadcasting a WM_SETTINGCHANGE to do this were
pretty cute, but none of these techniques work on this ...