Does anybody know how I can enumerate the currently installed serial
ports on a Pocket PC device? I would like to do it in C/C++ and it
should also cover virtual com ports installed by any driver software.
On XP there are several API's of driver manager available. I could

i am all new in developing for pocket pc. I have coded several Years ago in
C++ and that is why I would use 'EMbedded Visual C++ 4.0' and the 'MS Pocket
PC 2003 SDK'.
But the installation fails, while the 'MS Windows CE Platform Manager' tries

Hi at all,
I have a Xml with this structure:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<users>

I have the following problem
under VS2005 beta2 with I 'm working with the PPC2003 SE emulator.
Right now i have the problem that i cannot access my local pc from
inside the emulator. If i connect with another pc it works fine.  (also

i am developing an application for pocket pc's, when i deploy the application
on the 2003 second edition emulator i get the following message:
"the program you have installed may not display properly because it was
designed for a previous version of windows mobile software".

I am new to vs.net and to mobile development, i want to develop a windows
application for pocket pc's that accesses an sql ce database on the device.
To start the project, i create an sda project, then i design the forms which
accesses the database and i use ado.net in the forms ...

Hello, I am developing an application that records and plays sounds
simultaneously for the PPC 2003.
The application works fine while it has the focus, but if you start doing
something else with the device, the app will fail right away, the waveAPI

Will the VS2005 include managed VC++ development environment for developing
application on PPC?
I have a vs2005beta2 on my hand, but there still only can use unmanaged
C++(MFC) for development.

Plz what is the MessageBox class?
And what is its difference with the writeLine( ) method?
Thx.

I just saw an article over on PocketPCThoughts.com saying that ActiveSync 4.0
will not support remote wireless sync.
Is this true?  Is there some kind of alternative that is going to be
included?  If not, why in the world are they eliminating this feature?  Many

Hi, I'm developing using visual studio .net 2003, using rapi to copy
files back and forth between the pc and the pocket pc.  this works fine
if i create a file on the pc then copy it over, i can copy it back no
problem.  but if i create the file with an application (i wrote) on the

I implemented Hash and Salt into a ASP.NET application which works great. Now
I am building NETCF C# PocketPC Application and I am stumped how to use same
methods on to verify them from the databse.
Basically this function needs to create

I want to write a small utility on PocketPC to discover the available
ad-hoc within range. Could anyone please point me to the right direction
as I'm pretty new to this programming paradigm.
Regard,

I'm looking for something on Pocket PC that works like "start" on a
Windows system -- something that will look into the registry and see
how to run the program, and just do it for me. If nothing exists I'll
code one in Ewe, since that's the dev environment I'm using, but I'm

I'm a eMbedde Visual C++ developer, and I'm worried on continue to develop applications for the next versions of the Windows Mobile using EVC. When the EVC 4 Service Pack 4 was released, it promisses that would be possible to develop applications for the new WinCE 5.0, but I ...