Does anyone have any information why the simple Platform Builder DirectDraw
samples (i.e. ddex1-4.exe and donuts.exe) fail to run on CE devices running
DirectDraw 4.2?
The debug output states that "DirectDrawCreate FAILED" when attempting to

I would like to write an application in CE which reads data from and writes
data to a memory mapped IO device form RAM (I want to access RAM directly). I
would really appreciate if someone can give me a head start. In particular I
would like to know the API's for:

All
I am trying to test the following piece of code on x86 emulator.
I am basically just trying to write some data to memory and read it. That's
all.

does anyone have an idea how to create a JPG file from within a c# App (Compact framework does not support jpg functionality).
It would be great to get something like a screenshot utility, which creates a jpg file from the visible App screen.
Target system is a PXA255 design ...

I'm stepping over with my winCe application. New target is run in winCe
black box my main control application [Dlls] and for end user application use
a connection by ethernet port. Now end user program is a Vs cSharp Compact
Framework stand alone application: communication with ...

I start working with windows CE 4.2 and eMbedded Visual C++, and from
Platform Builder I can generate a Console Application, but from eMbedded
Visual C++ no.
Is It possible to create cosole application from eMbedded Visual C++?.

How do I programmatically set the user name, password and domain on the
'Network ID' tab of the 'Owner Properties' control panel?

I need to get the available free space on a CF card on my
dev. platform. I'm using GetDiskFreeSpaceEx and pass it the
root directory of the card - _T("\\storage card"). The function
returns 1 (success), but all 3 of the out params return 0. I've

I have a embedded VC++ 4.0 application.  In the application I open a modal
dialog box.  When I close the dialog box it minimizes my application!  
Sometimes, it even opens the dialog box behind my application.  I googled for
answers but didn't find anything on this.  Help?

I need to have some file management on a PDA device and use RAPI functiond
to do that. The problem is that the RAPI functions are so slow, maybe 800 ms
to read or write a 20 byte file. Is there a problem on my machine, or are
these functions so slow? I use the USB to connect.

I'm trying to get the ATL axsample that is provided with Pocket PC
2003 SDK to work.  Once I build the app (in evc++ 4.0) and try to
execute it, I'm asked to specify the remote executable path and file
name.  This would be Pocket IE, correct?  What do I need to type here?

Ok, now my project compiles and links under eVC++ 4.0, and after some
modifications the VS .NET 2005 Beta 1 compiler accepts it, too. But its
linker does not: It does not find the implementation of the class "Lockit".
I found one reference to this topic using Google, where someone ...

I'm trying to port a project to Windows CE, that makes extensive use of
threads, semaphores and sockets. I managed to port the sockets and threads
part, but eVC++ 4.0 keeps complaining that OpenMutex and CreateMutex are
unknown. The help does not know anything about these ...

I've read several messages asking if it were possible to emulate RS232/USB
on a standard PC.  I want to do the same... Here's the statement of my
problem:
1)I have a embedded device that only communicates over RS-232.

When I create a window. then create a lisview as the child window. I want to
get the WM_LBUTTONUP message from the listview's parent window. But it only
can get the NM_CLICK message, If use setcapture to the parent window, then
the listview can not work.