Can I use Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition for Windows Mobile 2003 (SE)
and Windows Mobile 5.0 native C++ development? And for .Net Compact
Framework C# development?
Or do I need a Visual Studio 2005 Professional edition?

First, I have to admit I'm very very "green" in mobile development...
So, in my very beginnings, I tried to create simple application, which
is very simplified benchmark, it tries to compute something for 10
seconds and prints how much iterations it managed to do.

Good Morning.
We bought Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional to develop a new POCKET
PC application that would run Sales Orders, Invoicing, Deliveries, Products,
Clients, Banking and so on ..

please anyone tell me what is wrong with the code... I did everything said
in the memory management section to allocate memory and tried to play the
wave file. but the playfunction always return that not enough memory to
complete the operation (errorcode 14 ).

Need to test some incoming messages & call events.
In order to do it I'm looking for a way to simulate in the emulator thus
events.
Any ideas how do I do it?

Does Pocket PC 2003 has DirectX support ??
If so how can I get a SDK for it with DirectX support ??

Am I more likely to encounter OutOfMemory Exceptions when running in
debugging mode on the device (connected by ActiveSync through USB cable),
than on a release version?
Please correct me if my suspicion is wrong.

What is the typical way to develop a GUI for Windows Mobile? Is there a
Windows Forms package for Windows Mobile? If there is where do I learn
more about it?
Is there a port of GTK for Windows Mobile?

I need to develop an application which zooms the screen in the pocket
PC. I thought of capturing the image of the screen displayed in the
pocket pc and zoom it. Is there any API available to achieve this in
VC++?

I am hoping to develop an open source application for Windows Mobile,
and I was wondering if any other Mobile developers were using free/open
source development tools successfully.
I already use sharpDevelop for regular .NET programming. Is anyone

Hi All-
I have a problem that is driving me crazy. The Pocket PC that I am using is
so old that I am having to develop in eMbedded VB 3.0. The problem that i am
having is getting a bitmap to display in a picturebox (I have also tried

I m trying to get the external battery status from my application. Does
anybody knows how do i achieve it? Any help will be apriciated
regarding this.
Thanks in advance

I have cabs file that I use ActiveSync to put them down to PPC/Smartphone
devices.  When a PPC/Smartphone has a SD card.  I get a pop-up message asking
where do I want to install my cab file "main memory or SD card?".  I only
want the cabs to be installed in Main Memory.  Is ...

I'm trying to read a key register, but allways I get the  
System.NotSupportedException error.
I had been reading for days the new trying to finout the solution, but I
couldn't.

I am looking for a way to power on/off (enable/disable) the Wi-Fi
adapter in Windows Mobile 5.0 (or older) for my university project in
C++. Something like what Comm Manager does, but by my program.
I have searched for this in MSDN, on the web and Usenet, to no avil.