I wrote a desktop application with a SQL Server 2000 database and a mobile
application for PocketPc with a SQL Server CE Database and I realized a
replication mechanism that when the user presses a button on the PocketPc
application the data will be synchronized via WLAN and the ...

I am going for the Microsoft Certified testing for my app, the problem
is that during uninstall the only Registry settings that are deleted
are those that are specifically done during install.
If during install i make a registry key

I am creating a shortcut to an application that runs on the Storage Card
(\Storage Card\2577\Autorun.exe - The program I wrote to install the CAB
files on the Storage Card when the card is inserted).  I create a shortcut
in the \Windows\StartUp folder using SHCreateShortcut and the ...

i have two quick questions:
1. does anyone know if the next CF.NET version will support any type of
parallel printer connection programming?
2. Does OpenNetCF support connection to LPT1 and if so, quick example would

I have my app working mostly the way I want it, working on the PPC 2002
Emulator. I would like to get it working on a device next. I don't even
have a real device myself, can someone recommend a simple, low-end PPC
I could buy off Ebay to test with?

I'm trying to add a splash screen to my app, to be displayed while I
load forms. I got the basic idea and code from the Splash screen sample
on MSDN, but am having a couple issues.
The action of my splash screen is to simply display a growing number of

I try to use SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0xF2, 0) in a
today plugin.
This to change programmatically the theme.
But it totally freezes my PDA whereas in a exe program it works perfect...

 Hello, i'm a beginner in Windows Mobile OS development.
I have a Wince4.2 BSP suitable for my SDB, i want to migrate
it to Wince5.0. Unfortunately, the old BSP is create and build
with command-line, i'can follow the step describing in document

im embedding html on evc++ application and loading the page with
case WM_LAUNCHBROWSER:
 // the only function call required to create a browser control instance
 if (TRUE == InitHTMLControl(g_hInst))

when i do this code on .NET framework, it prints directly to my LPT
printer...:
Io.File.Copy("c:\test.txt","LPT1")
but when i run it on CF.NET framework on my PDA, it creates a file.

Is it possible to copy a system file located in ROM? I tried CopyFile
function but it failes with error 2 meaning that the specified file is not
found. When I tried CreateFile to open the file it returns a handle with
0xffffffff value.

I'm trying to read PNG file on my PPC.
I've found a library named libpng, but it's too big.
I just want to decode PNG to HBITMAP format.
Does anyone know how to do it?

I'm using a windows function CreateDialog(...) to start a dialog before I go
into a while loop. While I'm in the loop I'd like the user to be able to hit
a cancel button on the dialog I've just created. However, the dialog's
message procedure never gets any messages in the while ...

 I'm using this function to check if the device can connect to the internet:
bool IsAvailable( LPCTSTR pszPath=NULL, BOOL bProxy=FALSE )
   {     
      bool connection;

I have a question about subclassing.  I'm trying to subclass all the
edit boxes system wide. So in my application, I have a timer that
enumerates all the windows in the system peridically and obtains a
handle to each edit box window and subclass it using SetWindowLong. It