Does anybody know of a way to have a C# PPC/WM application receive
notification when a window is brought to the foreground. Catching the
forms Deactivate and LostFocus events are not good enough. I need to
be able to globally catch the event when an window is brought to the

I'll be hosting a .NET Compact Framework chat over in the Skype chatroom on
Wednesday, August 29 from 6pm to 7pm (10am - 11am in Redmond, WA).
I'm hoping get some .NET CF team members to come along to answer any
questions you may have. The usual folks from OpenNETCF will be there ...

In the past when I've p/invoked 'FindWindowW("HHTaskBar", null). The
only reason I knew to do "HHTaskBar" is because of sample code that is
posted everywhere on the Internet. I was wondering if anybody could
give me a list of other standard window names?

I already know the answer to this, I think, but I have a customer who wants
to connect a load of portables to a PC, but they can't install any software.
This includes Active Sync.
Yes, I know this is a rediculous situation, but that's what I've got to work

Sorry for this simple question, but how do I hide a main form when calling Application.Run(frm) (Only version of this function in Compact Framework). It is crucial for my application to start a message pump in main, but I do not want main form to be shown.  Is there some ...

I've been using CF for quite a while but have not goettn into the threading
portion much at all.  I've found some decent articles regarding it. My boss
asked me if I could "Start a timer on a seperate thread" and I really didn't
know what to tell him - i knew we could execute a ...

Is there anyway to automagically open/drop down a combobox?
Thanks

i can not seem to find where to download the Windows Mobile Speech SDK.
All my searches keep ending up at the same place.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa914072.aspx
i can see where to download the SDK so that i can use it.

Is there anyway to automagically open/drop down a combobox?
Thanks

I'm missing the function System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.GetConverter()
in .net CF 2.0 SP 2 German. Neither Intellisense nor the device itself are
able to resolve this function. The API is available under .net 2.0 and
_shall_ be available under .net CF either (concerning the ...

I am getting a Syntax error in the compute method of a datatable. I want to
SUM the qty field based on a
filter expression and the expression contains 3 fields. Non of the MSDN
documentation nor any other

I have created a smart device cab project in VS 2005 and noticed the
cab file only installs on devices with ARM processors, our target
device is going to be an X86 device. I do not see any place to change
the target device in the properties or configuration manager, I do

I need to do something that it's a little dificult to explain....
Please be patient :)
I have a control (my control is a calculator).
This control returns a value (the result).

the user can change the time, in my program. I use:
<DllImport("coredll.dll")> _
   Public Shared Function SetLocalTime(ByRef lpSystemTime As
SYSTEMTIME) As Int32

It seems to be possible to access contacts and appointments in the object
model but doesn't seem to be any way of accesing emails? Does anybody know
how to do this? I want to be able to process the emails in the inbox.
Thanks