Read the transcript of yesterday's chat here:
http://opennetcf.com/chats/2007-08-29.html
Thanks to Fabien, Mark and Peter for helping out with hosting the chat.
--Neil

I've used a web service for years with my device app and recently recreated
it in VS2005 - it works cept for one method that i'd like to debug but I'm
grabbing a dataset from the local SDF database on the device and using a web
method call to pass the dataset......i need to debug ...

I’m writing an application in compact framework 2.0. I need to support
Arabic menus and for that I need to have access to customize the menus to
render strings from right to left and to display Arabic characters.
Now the menus displays only boxes even I have installed Arabic fonts ...

I have a dateTimePicker with a ValueChanged event handler attached.
But I only want to execute the event handling code if the USER has
changed the value of the picker and not if my own application code
ajusts the value of the dateTimePicker. How can I discriminate where

Hello Group,
When I place a breakpoint, let's say on line 10, and I start the solution,
the breakpoint jumps to line 13. In this zone, it seems like the debugger is
skipping lines in the code too.

I've successfully used OpenNETCF to create an ad-hoc wireless connection
on a WM5 PDA (with the intention of talking to another PDA).  The IP
address is assigned automatically by APIPA (Automatic Private IP
Addressing) and in the range 169.254.x.y with subnet mask 255.255.0.0.

I'm trying to develop a WM5 PDA application (using .NET CF2 and
OpenNETCF 2.1) which makes use of WiFi, however I've noticed that a lot
of the time, when the PDA is cradled and connected to the PC (Vista
using WMDC) the WiFi gets disabled.  I fetch the list of current network

Hi guys,
Really struggling with this.
When my PDA's (WM5) regional settings are United States my application will
happily show me exception messages, however as soon as i set it to United

I want to check to for the availability of an access point and if the access
point is available, then I want to connect to an access point programatically.
I am new to wifi, so can some one tell me where to start?
Thanks,

I have a Windows CE 5.0 based device.  We have a touchscreen, joystick, and
hardware buttons.  The joystick and hardware buttons are mapped to mouse
event and keyboard events respectively, using a custom driver.
We sometimes have a USB Keyboard attached and need to detect that ...

I know Chris Tacke posted about making standard WinForms into non-full
screen, and I see that now CF.NET 2.0 supports this.  However, in
terms of dialog boxes, shown by calling ShowDialog, this functionality
does not exist.  I am trying to port a Windows CE CF.NET application

how can I force my app to send messages from Outbox of PocketOutlook (over
GPRS), and to read messages from my ISP into Inbox of PocketOutlook?
Now, I know how to create (write) and 'send' message from my code, but such
message continue to 'sit' in Outbox folder of PocektOutlook, ...

I'm in the process of porting a CF1 app to CF2.
I have designer-generated "InitializeComponent" code to lay out forms. Under
CF1 the forms look fine on VGA devices, but under CF2, the coordinate system
is all wrong. The controls are squeezed together at half the desired

i have been searching all day for the Windows Mobile SAPI SDK to download
but i can not find it.
Microsoft has a website fore it but nowhere to download it from.
Any help would be welcome

I have been trying for hours to get a handle to the controls on my form with
no luck.
I have tried a number of different veriations of FindWindow with no luck. It
seems to only work for top level Forms, I can get the handle to them fine,