Any way of detecting if .NET CF is already installed?

Hi group,
I have some data (mainly sql scripts) to synchronise from my PocketPC2003 to
my Computer (unidrectional).
My goal is to have an checkbox for my app, as calendar, contacts, or tasks

Annoying designer problem
Visual studio .Net still flips on form inheritance.
When you write your own form base class, and you inherit from it, you are no
longer enable to use the graphical opportunities. The whole form has gone

Hi, I've got a question regarding the .NET CF; Why does MarshalAs compile & work in a PocketPC project, and does not for a Windows CE.NET project? Surely they both use the same Framework
I'm using VS.NET 2003, .NET v1.1 (CF v1.0)

Iv made some tests with the CAB file generated by the Visual Studio,
and noticed that it always install the files inside Program Files.
So i changed the project properties to build inside an specific directory...
Anyway it havn't worked....

I'd like to draw a string in vertical format but I cann't use the
StrinFormat class when creating a font because seems not to be in the
Compact Framework. How could I draw vertical text?

i try to call InvokeMember on a type for a property. This works fine
for .Net Framwork 1.1 but generates an exception
"NotSupportedException" for Compact Framework. It works also fine when
invoking a method (instead of a property) on the Compact Framework.

I have one TextBox control which contains some string, and I add one
ContextMenu to it
I have the problem about the ContextMenu.
When I hilight some text and press for ContextMenu, the selected text is

my treeview has no horizontal scollbar
the nodetext is longer as the control so there should appear the scollbar
is this a bug, in CF or hoe to enable it ?
regards

From one of my worker threads I want to update the UI so I
use myControl.Invoke but I want the worker thread to continue work after
that but with Invoke the worker thread blocks until the method returns.
I know of BeginInvoke but that isn't available in .NET CF.

I am trying to setup a GPRS connection, which needs several AT commands
GSM engine specific.
In Pocket PC connection settings ("Extra dial-string modem commands"
)there is not enough space to include all of them.

FontDialog :
Why don't I have FontDialog in my PocketPC application.
In system.windows.forms, there is no FontDialog.
How can I do?

MSDN Doc. tells me to use this command :
       textBox1.Copy()
But it doesn't work.
I'm not sure whether it is the command for pc or for ppc.

Does anybody have any advice regarding deploying an application
to about 400 PDA's.
Since no-touch is out, is it possible to download the msi from the web to the
pda and install in-situ??

I'm trying to connect to server via TcpClient, but gets the following error:
"This is usually a temporary error during hostname resolution and means that
the local server did not receive a response from an authorative server."
The code has been tested in a Windows Application and ...