I am completely new to PocketPC and Smartphone development. My background is
on VC++. My question is rather simple, what do I need to start my
development on these PocketPC and Smartphone platform? Can I use my existing
VC++ .net? with some PocketPC SDK download from Microsoft?

On a certain keypress combination, in the text edit mode, a symbol
picker should be display, wherein the user can select symbols (not
present on the keypad).
How should I handle this scenario? Is there and Virtual key for this?

I am trying to load the animation gif, but only the first frame is presented
and the animation is not started.
How to achieve the animation? pls let me know some hints.

I need help about creating setup project for pocket pc application, and i
want to be able to deploy the application from desktop to pocket pc with
activesync. But the problem is now how to create a setup file that
automatically install the application from desktop to the pocket ...

Can an eVC++ 4 dll compiled and built for a Pocket PC be used on a smartphone
without having to be recompiled and rebuilt?  Does the same rule apply to
exe's?
This is assuming that the dll is written completely in plain win32.

I have eVC++4 SP4, trying to use HTML control to display HTML formated text
in my Smartphone2003 App. But I have no luck in creating this control:
LRESULT OnCreate(
   HWND hwnd,

I have an eVC4 application with a listbox. When I cycle through the
listbox I want to change the display text of a pop up menu item based
on the current item in the list box.
For some reason there is no error returned when I attempt to set the

Im developing a keypad driver for smartphone Wince 5.0.
One requirement is to have hot keys which will launch applications
like contacts, email, speaker, camera, etc.
So basically I have to configure the hardware button to launch this applications.

I am writing a keypad driver for one of the smart phones. I have a
dedicated key to launch applications like camera, contacts and
messaging. I am not getting an idea of how to launch theses
applications when I get the corresponding virtual keys. Can any one

I have a samsung i600 running mobile 2003 and many of the programs I try to
install (written for mobile 2003) display the error on my phone "failed to
install on your device because the installation file is not intended for
this device".

I was looking through some earlier posts trying to figure out how to get
notification of a change to the POOM database and found the series of posts
from 10/22/2004 entitled "need to get notification from calendar database"
which was pretty close to what I needed.  However, what ...

We have an application written in EVC v4.0 on Smartphone 2003
We are having a problem writing > 16k to a socket when there is monitoring
software (in this case All Location GPRS Traffic Counter
http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail ...

I intend to make a driver for WinCE based Smartphones.
Current tools available to me include VS,VS.NET 2003 and EVC4.0. Can I
develop using these tools..
Regards,

I'd like to set different font sizes and styles for pieces of text on my
dialog form.
Does this need to be done via code or is there another way than the simple
dialog editor window?

Is it possible to create an app, that dials a phone number and records the
conversation? I am using Smartphone 2003. If there is already software like
this, please let me know. Also, if you have any ideas on where I should look
to start doing this, please let me know