Pocket pc 5/6 VS2005
I need to extract the message body of a text as it arrives
Any code samples please?
The information is as follows:

I need to create  a transparent button on a dialog using win32
programming.Can anyone help me how to create it.
Thanks in advance
SAJ

I am trying to compile some of the Boost C++ library modules to our
PocketPc application. Unfortunately, I hit the problem that some of the
boost modules try to #include <locale>. But on the PocketPC SDK, I do
not find this header.

CB_SETMINVISIBLE is not supported under windows ce. The only way, I
have found is to use CB_GETITEMHEIGHT to get height of combo itself
and item element. However, setting combo box height to comboHeight +
numVisible * itemHeight isn't accurate - sometimes one more item is

I need to load JPEG image from stream built on buffer. I need a CE analog to
OleLoadPicture on PC. There is SHLoadImageFile which loads image from file
and SHLoadImageResource which loads image from resources but there is no API
to load it from stream.

I am trying to read a registry key from a Pocket PC 2003 device.  I wrote a
program in C# to do it and tested on my PC which is .NET Framework 2.0 and
worked fine.  I am now trying to port the code to a Pocket PC 2003 with .NET
1.0 Compact Framework SP3 with no luck.  I keep ...

ActiveSyncStop returns S_OK according to the documentation, which is
fine but ActiveSync may still be synchronizing at the point the
function returns.  Is there a method of detecting when ActiveSync has
actually stopped the synchronization?.

I'm creating a custom textbox for use on a windows form application on
windows mobile pocket pc device. The problem is that no matter what I try,
even the standard double buffering technique, the control renders itself
slower than the form it's on. You can see the effect if you ...

I have created an application using VS2005 which is a pocket pc 2003
mfc exe. I have also created a normal win32 dll (selectingwin32 smart
device project). From my application I call a function exported in the
DLL.

I'm trying to install the embedded runtimes in my pocket pc WM6 but the
installation failed.
Any ideas?
Thank you

     I have installed an USB driver for a device, on O2 Flame (running WM
5). So now when I connect the device to the O2 Flame (OTG mini-A i.e. Flame
as host). The device gets identified and the driver loads fine.
     But there are some problems:

I have a script that I run to convert Windows Media Center videos from
dvr-ms to DivX so I can play them on my T-Mobile Wing Windows Mobile 6
Professional Smartphone.
After the script converts a file I want to be able to copy the

    I created a program using Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Mobile
6.0 SDK.  I am using C++, Win32 and ATL.
    When I try to run it on a Windows Mobile 5.0 device I get an
error which says "The specified program requires a newer version of

Hi experts out there,
I have a c# application written and deployed to my users. there's a form
which is totally filled up with form controls. When my users activate the
keyboard on the PDA, the bottom of my form will be covered and the controls

what's changed in WM6.1. ?
I used MAPI context menu to add and use my own menu, successfully in WM5
WM6.
Now, in WM6.1. it stopped to work.