I finally am able to draw a bitmap to a UserDrawn Button using BitBlt,
but I have a couple of issues that maybe somebody can help me out
with. I'm not able to figure out how to determine whether the button
has focus or not correctly. Also, the button doesn't repaint when

Hi I am trying to Display a Bubble (Ballloon) in WM 5.0 that has the
Style of PPC 2003 by that I mean that the Bubble (Balloon)  pops up
from the top and has no soft key Menu.
does anyone  manage to make it  - a balloon from the top in WM50 - ???

I try to code a thread based on System.Threading.Timer.
That thread periodically calls a web service.
I've tried to code that, but I often have an "ObjectDisposedException".
Any help would be very appreciated Smile Smile Smile Thanks.

On one form I have on datetimepicker control. The selected data is
stored into an XML file as "Monday, July 19, 1982" for example - this
is the exact format I use for storing the data.
When I try loading the data from the XML file in my form I cand set the

Hello after lots of questions about how to make an app for real time
video management in an iPAQ with WM 2003 and after realizing that's too
difficult I have decided to write my app for WM 5.0.
My app has to manage real time video of the video camera that the iPAQ

I am trying really hard to have a CPlApplet working with MFC but I
didn't manage. Is it possible?
If so could you send me a sample code.
Thanks

I am doing a connection from PocketPC 2003 application to a SQL Server 2000
instance hosted at an ISP.  I'm not sure if this is a PocketPC 2003 error or
if it's some other connectivity error, but the ONLY place this fails is in my
Pocket PC 2003 SE Emulator.

Sorry to ask such a simple question but can
anyone give me help on reading/writing text
files in Mobile 5.0?  I have cut and pasted
the examples from MSN and have no

I have an application that has about a dozen forms.  I am trying to come up
with a strategy to transition between the forms with two effects:
1) I want the transition to be "smooth".  That is, I don't want the user to
see the main Pocket PC screen inbetween the closing of one form ...

Hi!  I have been having the most obnoxious time trying to do some
simple serial IO development with a Pocket PC and VS 2005/.NET 2.0/the
Emulator.
I just want to do some basic IO work, and I can't even figure out how

Is it possible to create a invisible child window from my application
with parent window of another application. I would like to get
notification on when that application has come to foreground or gone to
background, if I can create a child window I guess I will be getting

I was trying to install a theme programatically in a setup.dll. But for some
reason this doesn't work on my WM5 device. After a reset the old skin is
still acitve. What's wrong with the following code?
codeINSTALL_EXIT Install_Exit(HWND hwndParent, LPCTSTR pszInstallDir, WORD

I have two issues :
I am using IPAQ PDA with windows 2003 second edition.
I want to open the file explorer from my application.
Can some body  tell me how to do this?

How can I change the "OK" at the top right of a full screen dialog to an
"X"?

I am developping application in C++ on Pocket PC 2003 under eVc4 or
Visual Studio 2005 and I have a question regarding dialog size.
I have some devices with different resolution, one is 240x240 and the
other is 240x320. So when I developp in MFC and create my resource