Has anyone had any luck developing an application that uses Bluetooth
with Pocket PC 2003? (I am looking to use the Audiovox 6601)  I am
concerned about Sprint crippling the Bluetooth capabilities and wanted
to see how much of the pairing/authentication I could hide from the

Hi, when I pass any flags to the wceload, it fails.. all I can pass is the
cab file, no other options.
#include <string>
...

I've just started writing an auto-update facility.  Everytime a Pocket PC
connects to my desktop app I want to check whether a newer version is present
on the desktop, available to be instaleld on the Pocket PC.
I'm using the OpenNetCF framework but searching it and other websites ...

Is there any way to close GPRS internet connection programatically ?
I used following function to create/open internet connection & close the
connection.
I got success in create/open internet connection but closing function is

Hey all,
I am trying to set up our SQL Server and implement RDA for use with mobile
devices, which requires IIS, SQL Server, and SQL Server CE all to work
together.  One of the steps needed is to install the SQL Server CE Server

I am developing a PPC application using VS.Net 2003. I want to smart
minimize a full screen application programaticaly. Anyone who has worked on
this Please tell me how can I solve this problem, if possible please also
send me some links of sample code.

I am developing an PPC application with so many images and forms. And I dont
want to distribute those images to the end users. If I embedd the image, the
size of exe gets more than 2 MB. Can I create a resource file (May be another
assembly) and use images and some other files ...

Is there any code to achieve this. IE the equivalent of clicking send and
receive.
Or any other means of keeping a gprs connection live. I have tried an email
account to send and receive every minute but this is unreliable.

what is entailed in makeing my pocket pc's database syncronize with my pc
server? i know how to program using ado and vb and i am considering creating
a database application on my pocket pc that syncronizes with my sql server
on my server.  does activesync handle the sync or will ...

I've been ignoring all the bad press that CESockets get ('use the APIs'
everyone shouts) and I suspect I'll be doing that quite soon...
meanwhile, my server has crashed and restarted, how does the handheld
computer's socket provide notification that it is no longer connected?

I currently have an addin menu working for the Calendar application and
it is working just fine.  I want to add another addin option to the
same Calendar menu and have it run off of the same dll.  My question
is, is there any way to tell from what is passed to the DLL which of

I have this:
      Dim s as string = "testing the port"
       With SerialPort
           .PortName = "COM6:"

I've been trying to figure out how to have the Compact Framework generate a unique GUID for me.  It seems you can only create a System.Guid type if you already have an existing GUID in mind and want to cast it into a Guid type.  Can anyone tell me how to generate a new GUID?  
PS, ...

How do you determine which version of the .net compact framework is installed
on a device?

I've recently upgraded from eMbedded VC 3 to VC 4, primarily to gain support
for my new iPaq, the 4700.  The application I've been working on builds and
executes fine in eVC3, but fails miserably in eVC4.
I define this redefinition in one of my objects:  static WCHAR *rcsId() {