Windows mobile 6.5 is an operating system for PDAs and smartphones developed by Microsoft.
Questions tagged [windows-mobile-6.5]
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How to connect a Windows Mobile PDA to Windows 10
Does anyone know how I can get a Windows Mobile 6.5 PDA to connect up to a Windows 10 PC?
Before upgrading the PC from Window 8.1 I was able to use Windows Mobile Device Center to link up to the PDA over USB. This allowed me to access files on the…

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What is this version of Visual Studio - ".... 4462 QFE"
Develop a project in VS for Windows Mobile 6.5.
The project was developed on my machine.
When I try to view a form of the project on another machine with a normal VS (2008 SP1) he accuses interface error. The error occurs not only on my machine.
The…

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What is the use for a Mutex if you can't name it?
I am having a hard time figuring out what good a mutex is without naming it. Specifically I want to make my Windows Mobile 6.5 app single-instance.
There are a few questions and answers on this site about how to do that - and the best ones seem to…

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How to save HBITMAP as JPG using Win32 Imaging API (Windows Mobile 6+)?
I have created procedures to save window screenshot to file. It works for PNG and BMP, but not for JPG (and GIF).
Here is code for capturing HBITMAP:
HBITMAP Signature::getScreenHBITMAP() {
// get screen rectangle
RECT windowRect;…

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Disable menu bar in Windows Mobile 6.5
I'm porting .NET application from WM5 to WM6.5. Besides new resolution I noticed different UI behavior for start menu and title bar (caption bar). My application needs to work in kind of kiosk mode where user can't exit application and bypass our…

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Hide the OK button in windows mobile 6.5
I have a winmo application running on win mobile 6.5 using the 2.0 ce framework:
On some forms, I make use of the menu bar to have custom menu items, as seen below
The "More" and "Cancel" buttons have events wired up so that I can actually make the…

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Why does Mobile IE6 use a layout viewport of 974px?
Why does Internet Explorer Mobile 6 use a layout viewport of 974px?
974 seems like a suspiciously precise number.

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What cause WebException when consuming Web Service on Windows Mobile 6.5?
My application consume a web service but always receive the following expception on first try after the application is started: System.Net.WebException with inner exception System.InvalidOperationException and Could not evaluate expression message.…

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Windows Mobile 6.5.3 development with Visual Studio 2015
Does anyone know if there are any ways to allow Windows Mobile / Embedded Handheld 6.5.3 / CE development in Visual Studio 2015?
Seems only Windows Phone (Windows 10) dev is supported?
I am unable to find a copy of VS 2008 anywhere.
Cheers.

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Copy Files with Windows Mobile Device/Windows 7
I have written a very simple Inventory Tracking application for a Motorola MC3190 Mobile Device.
I need to transfer data to and from the device and a Windows 7 PC.
I have scoured the internet for options on how to do this but so far nothing has…

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Close all open forms (WM 6.5/VB.NET)
Is it possible to close all the open forms in a Windows Mobile 6.5 project using VB.NET?
I found some approaches for a desktop solution, something like:
For Each f As Form In My.Application.OpenForms
f.Close()
Next
...which seems not possible…

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How to call a webservice from windows phone 6.5?
I have the following problem, I try to call an web service from
an Windows phone 6.5 while its connected to active sync to my desktop computer,
in development debug environment.
So I dont have wlan connected on the phone, maybe that is the…

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Windows Mobile: How to identify and prevent shared DLLs from occupying address space?
I'm supporting an "old" mobile application on the WM6 platform. We recently had to upgrade to new devices because the old device isn't available anymore. This also meant to upgrade from WM6.1 to WM6.5, and also from .NET CF 2.0 to 3.5.
The main…

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There is a file sharing violation. SQL Server CE 3.5 SP2
I've been getting this random issue in my .NET CF application that uses a SQL Server CE 3.5 SP2 database.
When the CF application starts up it performs database maintenance to verify the .SDF database file to check using the SQL Server CE Engine…

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Is Internet Explorer 6 mobile upgradable on Windows Mobile 6.5 platform?
I have to support Windows Mobile 6.5, and it comes with Internet Explorer Mobile 6.
I did some research and found that Internet Explorer Mobile 6 is essentially Internet Explorer 6 (IE Mobile 6 breakdown).
Is IE Mobile 6 upgradable? Can I upgrade…

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