New WM5 Pocket PC's will have 2 soft-keys, under the display, mapped to the
functions displayed in the blue bar at the bottom of the display.
Most Pocket PC's will use the Portrait as their Native orientation, i.e. the
2 soft-keys will be under the display when in Portrait ...

It's great that we now have a common camera API in Windows Mobile 5. However,
I can't find any way to determine if a Windows Mobile 5 device has a camera
or not. SHCaptureCamera appears to return E_INVALIDARG if a camera isn't
present (at least in the emulator) but I'd prefer to ...

How do I get started creating PPC Help files?  Is there an IDE like MS HTML
Help Workshop?  Also, is there a way to turn on the file extension display in
PPC File Explorer?  I hate not being able to tell the difference between
abc.txt and abc.jpg.

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Loox (PocketPC 2003) and use WLAN to send UDP
packages to a Windows XP computer.
My problem is, that the UDP packages are buffered somewhere. When I
call sendto most times the package is not really sent. Instead it is

I am facing a problem while using dialogbox() api. In my application's
message upon WM_COMMAND say, WM_MYDLG, the dialogbox is called and I also
check the message loop of the launched dialog; everything is fine , the
dialog is displayed(it has a text bos in it) and upo hitting OK ...

I launch a this program in Pocket PC 2003.
Period have value 20 minutes.
But this program is not running after 50 - 60 times.
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I had made a Application for Pocket PC. Now I want to show my Pocket
Application on the Emulator. But this Emulator should run on a PC where
Visual Studio .Net is not installed.
How can I make the Emulator on an other PC?

When I cmpile with optimization (i.e. for Release config), my app dies
mysteriously on the emulator, without giving me ANY useful info to figure
out what's happening.
The only message I get in the output window is:

I need help about my slow c# code.
I must work with c# I can't chage to em C++ 4.0
I'm working with 5 forms accesing a SQL-Server database.
Who can I increase velocoty of my code?

I need for an application in pocket pc 2003 to get a signature in the screen
and then save it to a database. Is there a control like Ink for TabletPC I
can use? How do I save the image to a database?
Any help is appreciated.

I am new developer for Pocket Pc.
I need answers for some question
1-Which is better for creating app. on Pocket PC?
   a-Application by VS.NET .NETcf

It seems as it's ok to compile a dll/exe for WM 2003 and use it both on WM
2003 and WM 5 devices. Right?
Is it OK to sign the dll/exe (with signtool in VS2005 smartdevice SDK) and
then use it on WM 2003?

Does anyone know how I can script or programmatically create a connection
and RAS phone book entry for a GPRS enabled Pocket PC ?...
We have a number of devices (1500+) to connect to our corporate network and
doint them manually is a real pain.

Is there any way in eVC++ to read objects or even raw data from the SIM card
in a PPC phone?

I'm trying to make the IM's on my PDA floating.
SaveDWORD(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, TEXT("ControlPanel\\Sip"), TEXT("DragStyle"),
1);
This works well for my custom IM, but all the standard IM's gets their lower