compact-framework

I am making a Windows CE application in which the user can change the GUI language at runtime. I have implemented my own translation logic in the Load event of the form. Now, I would like to update all open forms when the user changes the language. Is there a way (in Compact Framework!!) to retrieve all open forms of the application? You can create a FormManager class that you use to instantiate all of your forms. This would give the manager the opportunity to track the lifespan of those forms by listening for their Close event, and to call methods on them en masse if they utilize a common

I have a form that pops up at a specific event. It draws up buttons from an array and sets the Tag value to a specific value. So if you are to press or click this button the function should return the Tag value. How can I do this? And how do I know which button was clicked? At this moment the code returns DialogResult, but I want to return the Tag value from the function. How shall I modify my code so that it can do this? public static DialogResult SelectBox(string title, string[] btnArray, string[] btnValueArray) { Form form = new Form(); Button[] buttonArray; buttonArray = new Button[5];

When during the constructor of a Form I touch specific properties (ie. the Width property), it immediately invokes OnActivated() . I only notice this behavior on my device running Windows Embedded 7 and the .NET 3.5 that comes with it. Here's the code I use to reproduce the issue: static class Program { [MTAThread] static void Main() { new MyForm(); } } public class MyForm : Form { public MyForm() { Width = 100; } protected override void OnActivated(EventArgs e) { MessageBox.Show("Activated!"); } } (Notice that I'm not Show() ing the form nor using Application.Run() ) Running the above code on

I'm trying to serialize a large collection of objects (20,000) objects within the collection. I'm doing this using the following code: XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(deserialized.GetType()); StringWriter sw; using (sw = new StringWriter()) { xs.Serialize(sw, deserialized); // OutOfMemoryException here } string packet = sw.ToString(); return packet; Is there a better way of doing this, or am I doing something blatantly wrong? It looks like it should work, but CF does have unpredictable limitations. Is xml a requirement? I can't remember trying it with 20k records, but another option might

I am working on an SDK that is targeting both the Full/Desktop .Net Framework and the Compact .Net Framework. As such I have a solution that has projects for the Compact Framework and the full framework. The project files contain the same source files, or thay should. Some of the developers that are working on this SDK with me are only working on the full framework side. From time to time they add a file to the full framework projects, but forget to add it to the compact framework project. Eventually some other peice of code (already in both projects) references this new type. Then the build

I have a DataGrid that is using a DataReader as its datasource. I want to hide the first column of the datagrid. I am using the .net compact framework 3.5. I can find examples for windows forms but the api is changed enough that they don't work. NET Experts You can set the column style width to 0 or -1 . DataGridTableStyle ts = new DataGridTableStyle(); ts.MappingName = "Order"; // Order date column style DataGridColumnStyle cust_id = new DataGridTextBoxColumn(); cust_id.MappingName = "cust_id"; cust_id.HeaderText = "ID"; //Hide Customer ID cust_id.Width = -1; ts.GridColumnStyles.Add(cust_id);

I need to implement threading to improve load time in a compact framework app. I want to fire off a background thread to do some calls to an external API, while the main thread caches some forms. When the background thread is done, I need to fire off two more threads to populate a data cache. I need the background thread to be able to execute a callback method so I know it's done and the next two threads can be started, but the BeginInvoke method on a delegate is not supported in the compact framework, so how else can I do this? You can arrange it yourself, simply make sure your thread method