I am developing an application for WM 5.0.
I have a thread that does some operation in background.
In desktop environment I could check by calling IsAlive property to
see if the thread is alive but I couldn't see something similar in

If the user taps an icon while the application is already running, CE (or
CF?) activates the already-running instance.
Has anyone found a way to detect that this has happened? I need my
already-running application to do some extra UI in this case. All I'm seeing

We've had two users report that, when running our application on HTC Mogul,
the "Alt" key on the pull-out hardware keyboard is locked, and cannot be
unlocked.
I sent them a bare-bones, single-form, single-textbox test application, and

Does anyone know of an event logger for Windows Mobile (5 and/or 6)
similar to the Windows event log?  I have an application that I would
like to log errors with.  Even something like log4net mobile.
Thanks for any suggestions!

I am trying to Select an item in a combobox on a form running in a different
application(written in C# CF2.0) and running in a different process using
the windows API.
I am developing with C# CF2.

When the user goes into Regiional Settings and changes the date format, it's
my understanding that the OS sends a WM_SETTINGCHANGE message to top-level
windows.
Does anyone know of a way for a CF application to intercept this message, or

Hi Community,
i am looking for the standalone emulator that was avaible in the time of
VS2005 beta times (89 MB). Did anyone has this piece
of software or an other working Standalone Emulator

Hi,
I put WMP 10 into a form on my device CF 2.0 in a C# project.
I used Feinman AxWindowsMediaPlayer interface and player.ctlcontrol.play().  
I tried to play content on my desktop, but the content doesnot stream. What

I am pulling my hair out trying to get my compact framework 2 app.
running on windows mobile 5 to wake every minute and do some
background processing.
I have read a lot of interesting posts but none seem to match what I'm

Hey gang,
I am working on a gesture recognition library of which will make navigating
the WM UI nicer, more "iPhone" like via the touch screen.
So I am detecting touch screen gestures however for example if you drag your

Is there a Standaloe Emulator for CF2 aviable ?
I mean w/o the Visuak Studio ? . So that my customer
can test a application witout a Pocket PC ?
Bye

Does anyone have any code for reading the contents of the Notification
Queue? Code for editing existing entries or adding new entries would be
great too.
Can anyone get me started on how to do this using the Compact Framework -

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I'd like to catch the click on the x of the form (that closes the form).
In a normal application I would use the Closing event and then ask for
e.CloseReason... this would tell me if I have clicked to close the form,
or if the form was closed programatically... the problem is, in ...

I have created a Smart device CAB project.
It install correctly on my device but when i try to uninstall/remove my app.
i get error
[program name] was not completely removed.