I am developping a MFC application on Pocket PC and SmartPhone platforms.
I have declared a menu in my rc2 and I would like to modify this menu at
run-time.
Everything is fine when I only try to modify existing menu items but if

I´ve written an application for WinCE / WM 5.0 and now i would like to
have my own Softkeys when this app is running.
Is there any good document which i can read ?
Or Can you give me an buzzword where I can search for ?

Is there a way to make the ChooseContactDialog to allow multiple selection ?
What if an application wants the user to select a set of contacts to send an
SMS ?
I wonder why Microsoft didn't add this simple and necessary option in this

I am using a WM5 device to test some new code.  Every time I modify my program
and run it, WM5 asks me again if I want to run this untrusted application.  I
guess it keeps a checksum of the EXE to detect changes.  But where are these
checksums stored?  The registry?  The reason I ...

I'm trying to use DeviceIoControl as follows:
DeviceIoControl(hCard, IOCTL_DISK_GET_STORAGEID, (LPVOID)NULL, 0, si,
BBUF_LEN, &dwReturn, NULL);
However, my eVC4 compiler on PocketPC does not like the

System error messages (obtained by FormatMessage) are not localized on
localized WM5 Pocket PCs.
For example, on the Russian-localized WM5 Pocket PC emulator, FormatMessage
will always return english messages, regardless of the value of the

I am not getting the SIP (on-screen keyboard) to show when the
password validation dialog is shown. The password validation dialog,
the one that shows when the device starts up, is part of a custom LAP
that I fashioned of Marcus Perryman's  example at

I've a WM5 PDA mobile phone (IPAQ HW6965). I'll like to write a program to
extract the SMS message test from the SMS inbox based on the sender, do some
formatting of the test and dump it to a file with running number & date
timestamp.

When I run my app in the emulator, it picks up the tab char in a
tab-deliminated text file. But when I transfer it to the iPaq 1950 it doesn't
seem to see it.
I'm using Chr(9) in the emulator. How can I test for the tab in the file on

Hello, I'm reading user default language using GetUserDefaultUILanguage.
That works fine. But how can user set a default language? Is there a setting
for it on PocketPC? I was trying to set user language programatically
(SetUserDefaultUILanguage), but that didn't work ...

Im running into a problem with a locking app im working on. Im using
UnregisterFunc1 along with RegisterHotkey from coredll.dll to disable
softkeys and phone buttons and such. my problem is that when i use them to
lock and then unlock ie close app the buttons still no longer work ...

I have a problem with RAPI functions on windows vista.
I am using this functions (like  CeRegOpenKeyEx, CeFindAllFiles,..) to
detect if CF is present on the device.
I am using the latest WMDC 6.

I was looking for how to read barcodes in background from a wifi reader
using VB6. my barcode scanner is a wifi reader. When reading, does the
incoming data goes to the COM port? even if there is nothing linked to the
COM port??

I've been trying to implement a background image on a form using sample
code from the quicktutorials with no luck. i.e.
http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/CompactFramework/doc/bkgndimage.aspx
I get an exception immediately after the

I don't suppose anyone's got a decent SDP record they're prepared to "lend"
me?
Just a heap of bytes will do me, I don't care what format they're in.
I'm trying to get a BT service advertised (WinXP) and I'm using various SDPs