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I often see these terms: Windows CE Windows Mobile Pocket PC Windows Mobile Smart Phone I know the difference between the second 2, but I am confused on the first. I thought it was the name of the Mobile OS prior to Windows Mobile 5. But I am seeing it more often in current products. (Here is a current MS Form for developing on it. Here is a current product for creating them.) What is it and how does it relate to the Windows Mobile lines? Windows CE is a modular OS. It is built with a tool called Platform Builder (PB). PB has a Catalog of items that can be included in a give OS image. For

How - or what's the best way - to retrieve the device's current battery level in .NET CF 3.5 on Windows Mobile 5 and 6? Noldorin I think you want to use the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status namepsace (specifically the SystemState class. using Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status; ... BatteryLevel batteryLevel = SystemState.PowerBatteryStrength; BatteryState batteryState = SystemState.PowerBatteryState; See this post for the full code sample. You probably want the State Notification Broker class that Noldorin is recommending. I don't think it gives you very fine grain information. You get information

I use the p/invoke method to play wav sounds. There are ways of calling windows media player to play an mp3 sound, but its slow & cumbersome. Is there an easy way to play a short mp3 file? This is primarily for application prompting and audible cues when you are not looking at the screen and not music. Thanks! CF Framework 3.5 now includes support for playing .WAV files: Namespace System.Media.SoundPlayer Short WAV files for cues and sound-effects might even play faster than MP3s since they're "ready-to-play"... If you are looking for a way to play mp3s: public class Sound { [DllImport(

I really want to upgrade to Visual Studio 2010. But since I do a lot of development for the Pocket PC version of Windows Mobile I cannot. (I develop for a Symbol device that does not support Windows Phone 7, so that is not a option.) Does any one know any kind of time frame of when Microsoft plans to add support for Smart Device Projects into Visual Studio 2010? Update: Since this is looking less and less likely without intervention from the users, Please go here and vote for this feature. Microsoft's current public statement says that, apart from Windows Phone 7 development, there will not be

Say you have a Windows Mobile 6.0 phone that also has a GPS receiver. Does the WinMobile SDK support accessing GPS functionality? If not, what are the options (API) for programming with the GPS i.e write apps that will use the GPS capability. I am mainly interested in Windows Mobile 6.x but please do include generic replies also. I will surely vote for the most helpful answers. Thanks in advance. Two options: There is the intermediate GPS driver, which has a howto article for .Net on MSDN You could connect to the serial port (configurable in UI, of course) and parse the NMEA strings yourself

Hi! I have some PDAs (windows mobile) to test my application. One of them is HTC Touch Dual, and it have some bugs in debugging . There is another ARMv6 device I can use, but it's far far away. So I can't use USB cable, but can use TCP/IP (internet, not intranet). Do you know, how can I connect to remote windows mobile device to debug application on it? We tried different ways and now we know this: ActiveSync is bad. It disables all external connections to device and it's impossible (or just I don't know how) to remotely debug device while it's connected via ActiveSync. We have created VPN,

I am new to Windows CE programming. I have Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005. I have found the following SDK for Windows Mobile http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=06111A3A-A651-4745-88EF-3D48091A390B&displaylang=en Please help me in deciding if this is the correct one, or please feel free to redirect me the correct one Thanks in advance Sujay If you are targetting a Windows CE device (and not Windows Mobile), then each device has it's own specific SDK. If you are not using a device specific functionality, you create a C# for Windows CE 5.0 application and it will

I'm looking to have a simple custom dialog box, like a message box, that has a label and a TextBox. If there's a simple way to do this, sorry! I'm really not well versed in the dialog stuff. Thanks for any help, guys! Here is how to make a small custom dialog box in Windows Mobile that looks like this: alt text http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/b8fb5421d6.jpg Add a form to your project, and set its FormBorderStyle property to None. This allows the form to be resized and positioned, but also means it has no border or titlebar, and there's no way for the user to move it. So you have to