Does anyone out there know how I can wake up a hibernating device from a
visual studio application on windows mobile 5.0?
Pocket outlook does wake the device up if it has a date/time alert in it. Is
there a simpler way of waking it up without having to do a POOM interface and

I am experimenting with using the IR port for primitive serial communication
with a custom device I am designing.  I was surprised to see what the IR
waveform looks like.  It does not look like usual async that I have seen many
times on a scope.  Instead of Mark and Space pulses ...

yeah, I know ... multiple people have asked multiple times about syncing
data between a desktop/server database and the data on a ppc/pda.
I read all those messages, AND I also did a google search, and I did go to
the MSDN sight to look at sqlcereplication etc.

I have created a simple phone application that does the work similar
to cprog.exe.
Now, when i replace the default cprog.exe with my application, I can
not do all functionality like,

I created an exe which loads resources from a dll like menus. Its
running on WM 5.0 (PocketPC)
With SHCreateMenuBar I dynamically changed the menu bar.
With some Menus it works fine, with some, the function returns NULL.

Can someone point me in the right direction for 'waking a phone up'
from hibernation to run a task (eg, check the internet for updates)?

i'm new to windows mobile development and have a startup question,
it would be great if anybody could give me some hints:
What version of Visual Studio do i need to develop programs
for my brand new Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox with WM 5.0 ?

Hello im working on a locking application (similar to certain oems built in
tool) for windows mobile 5/compact framework
When running, Im able to trap the screen/keyboard input and all 6 hardware
buttons, but if i click the phone buttons or volume button the app loses

Please help to find assemblies for OpenNETCF 1.4
- OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms
- OpenNETCF.Drawing
- OpenNETCF

Can anyone help?  I am trying to read a CF card's serial number using
eMbedded Visual Basic 3.0 and have had no luck finding code examples.
My application is being used on a handheld PC running Windows CE 3.0.
I want to use the s/n of the CompactFlash card to protect my app from

How can I get System Infos of a Device.
I would like to get:
- ROM-Version
- ROM-Date

I know it can sound like a newbie question, but i'm pretty new to
mobiles' world.
Maybe this is a chance to learn something about mobiles' programs'
installations procedures (if there are particular).

        Im new to developing PDA applications.I have a SQl Mobile edition
database running in my PDA and a sql server 2005 database on my Web
Server.Periodically i need to synch the contents between my mobile database
and server database.

This is my first excursion into world of mobile programming.
I am running VS2005 Pro w/Mobile 5.0 SDK. My device is a Samsung i730
PPC/Phone  which I upgraded to Windows Mobile 5.0 I have a 1gb sd card
installed.

I'm testing in my Dell Axim X51v the Managed D3D Mobile samples available at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181014.aspx
In the Matrices sample, which show a triangle rotating over its y-axis, I've
observed that the triangle gets frozen for a very short time (but enough ...